Agencourt

This article is about the French commune. For the biotech company, see Agencourt Bioscience. For other uses, see Agincourt (disambiguation).

Agencourt
Agencourt Church
Coat of arms
Agencourt
Location within Burgundy region Agencourt
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Côte-d'Or
Arrondissement	Beaune
Canton	Nuits-Saint-Georges
Intercommunality	Pays de Nuits-Saint-Georges
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Gilles Seguin
Area1	4.2 km2 (1.6 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	386
• Density	92/km2 (240/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	21001 / 21700
Elevation	209–237 m (686–778 ft) (avg. 228 m or 748 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Agencourt is a French commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Burgundy region of eastern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Agencourtois or Agencourtoises.

Geography

Agencourt is located some 20 km south of Dijon on the A31 autoroute (E17) with Exit 1 in the commune. The motorway forms the western border of the commune with Nuits-Saint-Georges on the opposite side of the motorway. Access to the commune is on the D8 road (Rue du Village) from west to east from Nuits-Saint-Georges which continues east to Saint-Nicolas-les-Citeaux. Agencourt town is spread along the Highway D8 and is the only built-up area in the commune which consists entirely of farmland except for the Bois de Charbonniere on the eastern side of the commune.

Heraldry

Blazon: Vairé, of four rows tierced per pale in gules charged with pales of Or and surcharged by a clocheton of two bells of Argent masoned in sable.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors of Agencourt

From	To	Name	Party	Position
2001	2008	Jean Detain
2008	2014	Alain Courteaux
2014	2020	Gilles Seguin

(Not all data is known)

Population

In 2009, the commune had 386 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses conducted in the town since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of municipalities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
150	192	203	167		174	167	173	172

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
156	176	207	202	243	281	286	292	269

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
300	273	257	245	232	224	231	224	229

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2009	-	-
181	183	236	268	361	419	386	-	-

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Population of Agencourt

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage

The commune has one building that is registered as an historical monument:

• Agencourt Fortified House (1643) with the remains of a moat: the main building from the 17th century, stables from 1643.

Religious heritage

The commune has one religious building that is registered as an historical monument:

• The Parish Church of Notre-Dame (12th century). The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects:
  • A Monumental Painting: Cherubs (17th century)
  • A Monumental Painting: Centaur (16th century)
  • A Consecrational Cross (14th century)
  • A Monumental Painting: Education of the Virgin and St. Margaret (15th century)
  • A Monumental Painting: Saint Georges (16th century)
  • A Monumental Painting: Saint Michel and Saint Blaise (15th century)
• The Parish Church of the Assumption contains one item that is registered as an historical object:
  • A Heraldic Stained glass window for the Vichy family (1500)

See also

• Communes of the Côte-d'Or department

External links

• Agencourt on Lion 1906
• Agencourt on Google Maps
• Agencourt on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
• Agencour on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Agencourt on the INSEE website (French)
• INSEE (French)