Barjon

Barjon is located on the southern flank of Mont Mercure (469 m) at an altitude of 397 metres at the town hall. It is some 40 km south-west of Langres and 40 km north by north-west of Dijon. Access to the commune is by the D19 road from Salives in the west which passes through the village and continues east to Avot. The D19E goes north from the village to join the D190 on the northern border of the commune.

The commune is forested in the southern arm with the centre of the commune farmland and a band of forest around its borders.

La Tille stream forms the south-western border of the commune as it flows east across the "neck" of the commune then forms part of the eastern border before continuing east to join La Creuse at Avot. La Tille de Barjon rises just east of the commune and flows south near the eastern border to join La Tille. Le Volgrain stream rises north-west of the commune and flows south down the western side of the commune and joins La Tille just south-west of the village.^[5][6]

In 2010, the climate of the commune was of the mountain margin climate type, according to a study by the National Centre for Scientific Research based on a series of data covering the period 1971-2000.^[7] In 2020, Météo-France published a typology of the climates of metropolitan France - the commune is exposed to an altered oceanic climate and is in the Lorraine, Langres plateau, Morvan climatic region, characterized by a harsh winter (1.5° C), moderate winds and frequent fogs in autumn and winter.^[8]

For the period 1971-2000, the average annual temperature was 10° C, with an annual temperature range of 16.9° C. The average annual cumulative precipitation was 1,027  mm, with 13.9 days of precipitation in January and 9.1 days in July.^[9]

Saint Frodulphe de Barjon, the Abbot of Saint Martin, retired as a hermit to Barjon.

Barjon appears as Barjon on the 1750 Cassini Map^[10] and the same on the 1790 version.^[11]

The official status of the blazon remains to be determined. Blazon: Party per pale, at 1 argent a trefoil azure between 3 roundels gules 2 at honour point 1 at nombril point; at 2 azure a griffin of Or.

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List of Successive Mayors^[12]

In 2017 the commune had 41 inhabitants.

The commune has a Cemetery Cross (15th century) which is registered as an historical monument.^[15]

The Church contains several items that are registered as historical objects:

• A Statue: Saint John the Evangelist (17th century)^[16]
• A Statue: Saint Madeleine (16th century)^[17]
• A Group Sculpture: Virgin of Pity (17th century)^[18]
• The Sarcophagus of Saint Frodulphe (8th century)^[19]
• A Statue: Saint Benigne (15th century)^[20]
• A Shrine to Saint Frodulphe (17th century)^[21]
• A Shrine to Saint Frodulphe (17th century)^[22]
• A Statue: Saint Roch (17th century)^[23]
• A Statue: Saint Frodulphe (17th century)^[24]

• Communes of the Côte-d'Or department