Montceau-les-Mines

Montceau-les-Mines
Town hall
Montceau-les-Mines
Location within Burgundy region  Montceau-les-Mines
Administration
Country	France
Region	Burgundy
Department	Saône-et-Loire
Arrondissement	Chalon-sur-Saône
Canton	Montceau-les-Mines-Nord and Montceau-les-Mines-Sud
Intercommunality	Creusot-Montceau
Mayor	Didier Mathus (1995–2008)
Statistics
Elevation	274–326 m (899–1,070 ft) (avg. 287 m/942 ft)
Land area1	16.62 km2 (6.42 sq mi)
Population2	20,033  (2006)
- Density	1,205 /km2 (3,120 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	71306/ 71300
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.

Coordinates: 46°40′04″N 4°22′11″E / 46.6677777778°N 4.36972222222°E / 46.6677777778; 4.36972222222

Montceau-les-Mines is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France.

It is the second-largest commune of the metropolitan Communauté urbaine Creusot-Montceau, which lies southwest of the city of Dijon.

Montceau-les-mines is an ancient mining city. Some coal was discovered in the XVIth Century. The hamlet called "Le Montceau" developed from this discovery.

"Le Montceau" definitively became a city after the building of the channel of the centre in 1791 and after a company called "compagnie des mines" started to extract coals. A graveyard and a church was built by the company, a sign of paternalism of mining industry.

The coal made the city presperous until 1918. During the War, the production reached 2786000 tons. There were about 30 000 inhabitants. After the war, the production started to decrease and stopped in 1992.

Geography

The Bourbince flows northward through the commune and crosses the town.

See also

• Communes of the Saône-et-Loire department

References

• INSEE

External links

• Official website