- Département
- Marne (Grand Est region)
- Site
- Right bank of the Marne, where the Canal latéral à la Marne meets the Canal de l'Aisne à la Marne, between Aÿ and Châlons-en-Champagne
- Inhabitants
- 747 (as of 1 January 2023)
- Source
- Wikipedia, eigene Zusammenfassung
Condé-sur-Marne is a village on the Marne in the Marne département, where two canals meet. It lies not far from Bouzy and Ambonnay, but is itself neither Grand Cru nor Premier Cru.
A village at the meeting of the waters
Condé-sur-Marne lies on the right bank of the Marne in the Marne département. The village is a true crossing point: here the Canal de l'Aisne à la Marne flows into the Canal latéral à la Marne, and several small streams, such as the Isse and the Tarnauds, run into the Marne. The roads cross here too, with routes leading to Aÿ, Châlons-en-Champagne, Louvois, Ambonnay and Isse.
The lateral canal is 67 kilometres long and runs from Vitry-le-François to Mardeuil. The Aisne-Marne canal links Berry-au-Bac with Condé-sur-Marne and gives Reims access to the Marne. Together with the Marne-Rhine canal, it created a continuous waterway from Strasbourg to Lille.
Champagne and the surrounding area
Condé-sur-Marne is classified neither as Grand Cru nor as Premier Cru. The commune is strongly agricultural in character: in 2018, 92.4 per cent of its area was farmland, most of it arable fields. For visitors to Champagne, the village is above all a good base, since Bouzy, with its weather station, is only five kilometres away, and Ambonnay and Aÿ are quickly reached by the departmental roads.
The commune is strongly agricultural in character: in 2018, 92.4 per cent of its area was farmland, most of it arable fields.
The climate is classed as temperate oceanic with cool summers. The station at Bouzy records an annual mean of 11.5 °C and around 687 millimetres of rainfall for the period 1991 to 2020.
Name and history
The name goes back to the Gaulish condate, meaning "confluence". It still fits today. Excavations show settlement since the Middle Stone Age, and traces from Gallo-Roman times and the Middle Ages have also come to light. The village first appears in written records around 850, in the orbit of the Abbey of Saint-Remi in Reims.
Its history has often been rough:
- In 1380 the village burned down during the Hundred Years' War.
- In 1652 soldiers of Charles IV of Lorraine set it alight again.
- During the Revolution it was briefly called Montagne-sur-Marne, from 1794 to 1795.
- In 1814 a Russian general moved in with his Cossacks for 50 days, and the village lost livestock and hay.
- Between 1837 and 1869 the two canals were built, turning Condé into a hub of waterways.
- An air raid on 2 May 1917 destroyed large parts of the church and the girls' school.
In 1904 the village was connected to the CBR light railway between Reims, Châlons-en-Champagne and Épernay. Condé was the only place on the line with two stops.
What to see
Worth seeing is the Romanesque church of Saint-Remi from the 11th century, which has an unusual bell tower. Those with a technical bent will also find the aqueduct that supplies the Canal de l'Aisne à la Marne with water. If you are travelling along the canals by bike or on foot, you can easily combine both with a visit to the winegrowers in the neighbouring villages.
Today Condé-sur-Marne has 747 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2023).
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