Asnières-lès-Dijon
Commune
Fort Brûlé, an old fort in Asnières-lès-Dijon commune
Coat of arms
Location of Asnières-lès-Dijon
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Coordinates: 47°23′09″N 5°02′44″E / 47.3858°N 5.0456°E / 47.3858; 5.0456
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Côte-d'Or
Arrondissement	Dijon
Canton	Fontaine-lès-Dijon
Intercommunality	CC Norge Tille
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Patricia Gourmand[1]
Area 1	4.55 km2 (1.76 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	1,317
• Density	290/km2 (750/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	21027 /21380
Elevation	274–352 m (899–1,155 ft) (avg. 331 m or 1,086 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Asnières-lès-Dijon (French pronunciation: [ɑnjɛʁ lɛ diʒɔ̃]; literally "Asnières near Dijon") is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France.

Asnières-lès-Dijon is located just 8 km north of Dijon. The commune lies between the D903 road which follows its western border from Dijon to Savigny-le-Sec and the D974 which follows the eastern border from Dijon and continues to Til-Châtel. The D104 links the two roads through the village and also continues east to Bellefond. The commune is mixed forest and farmland with a substantial urban area covering some 20% of the commune.^[3]

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After the defeat of France in 1870-1871, Dijon was chosen with Langres, Besançon, Reims, Laon, and La Fère to be a "second line" of the Séré de Rivières system of defence (the first line being focused on Verdun, Toul, Epinal, and Belfort). A series of forts and military redoubts centred on Dijon city were built from 1875 to 1883: la Motte-Giron, Mont-Afrique, Hauteville, Asnières, Norges, Var, Saint-Apollinaire, and Sennecey-lès-Dijon.

Built between 1876 and 1877, Fort Brûlé had the honour of suffering the first armed clash with Prussia.

Fort Brûlé did not defend Dijon during the two world wars. It was the Germans who used it as a storehouse for ammunition during the Second World War. These caused considerable damage in 1944 when the Germans blew up ammunition in the fort: so much so that with the exception of the protruding buttress on Saliant II, there is virtually nothing left of the left half of the fort.

The fort is now the property of a private owner.

The commune has had a very high level of population growth since the 1970s when it was a peaceful farming village. Many employees from the CEA at Valduc came to live there. The population of the commune increased six times in 40 years.

Blazon: Azure, an ear of wheat and a bunch of grapes, stalked and leaved all in Or, isuuant from a crescent of Argent; in chief Gules charged with a crosslet bottony of Or.

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List of Successive Mayors^[4]

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Asniérois or Asniéroises in French.^[5]

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 111 —     1800 119 +1.00% 1806 111 −1.15% 1821 121 +0.58% 1831 150 +2.17% 1836 156 +0.79% 1841 141 −2.00% 1846 149 +1.11% 1851 137 −1.67% 1856 134 −0.44% 1861 126 −1.22% 1866 129 +0.47% 1872 128 −0.13% 1876 262 +19.61% 1881 326 +4.47% 1886 162 −13.05% 1891 390 +19.21% 1896 329 −3.34%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 149 −14.65% 1906 150 +0.13% 1911 130 −2.82% 1921 126 −0.31% 1926 130 +0.63% 1931 143 +1.92% 1936 143 +0.00% 1946 149 +0.41% 1954 143 −0.51% 1962 157 +1.17% 1968 376 +15.67% 1975 750 +10.37% 1982 753 +0.06% 1990 829 +1.21% 1999 798 −0.42% 2007 1,191 +5.13% 2012 1,192 +0.02% 2017 1,184 −0.13%
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Source: EHESS[6] and INSEE[7]

The commune is part of the community of communes Norge et Tille.

The commune has two sites which are registered as historical monuments. These are:

• Fort Brûlé (1876)^[8]
• The Cemetery (1402)^[9]

• The Parish Church of Saint-Alban contains one item registered as a historical object:
  • Eucharistic tower (14th century)^[10]
• The Parish Church of the Nativity contains several items which have been registered as historical objects:
  • Painting: Sainte-Famille and his family (17th century)^[11]
  • Statue: Saint Claude (17th century)^[12]
  • Statue: Saint Abdon (17th century)^[13]
  • Group sculpture: Virgin of pity (16th century)^[14]
  • Retable: Apostolic cortege (15th century)^[15]
  • Statue: Virgin and child (15th century)^[16]

Asnières has shops (bakery, butcher, a small hall, and a petting zoo) and various facilities including a hall and sports grounds (tennis, football, basketball, rugby). The town also has a nursery and primary school.

It also has a Judo club - the Entente Judo Messigny-et-Vantoux - Val de Norge (Ejmn)^[17]

• Communes of the Côte-d'Or department

• Asnières-les-Dijon on the Val-de-Norge website (in French)
• Asnières-lès-Dijon on the old IGN website (in French)
• Asnières-lès-Dijon on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
• Asnieres on the 1750 Cassini Map

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