Baronville

Commune in Grand Est, France

Coat of arms

Location of Baronville

(2020–2026) Bernard Jacquot^[1]Area

6.18 km² (2.39 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

372 • Density60/km² (160/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

57051 /57340

Elevation251–322 m (823–1,056 ft)
(avg. 290 m or 950 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Baronville (French pronunciation: [baʁɔ̃vil]; German: Baronweiler, 1941–44 Barenweiler) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in northeastern France.^[3]

History

Previous names: Barunvilla (896), Barandorf (1361), Barendorff (1383, 1461).
In 2007 a group of three University of York students attempted to get the fictitious town of 'BaronVille' onto the new UK version of the board game Monopoly. The news media thought that this was a French plot and reported, without sources, that the people of Baronville itself were behind it.^[4]^[5]

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	320	—
1975	352	+1.37%
1982	372	+0.79%
1990	361	−0.37%
1999	346	−0.47%
2009	404	+1.56%
2014	385	−0.96%
2020	370	−0.66%
Source: INSEE^[6]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ INSEE commune file
^ A new monopoly bid by the French
^ England has Monopoly monopoly
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE