Joncherey () is a commune in the

Territoire de Belfort The Territoire de Belfort () is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, eastern France. It had a population of 141,318 in 2019.department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

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in northeastern

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History

Start of World War I

The first fatalities on the Western Front of

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occurred in this village on 2 August 1914 at 9:59 am, one day before the formal declaration of war between Germany and France. French corporal Jules André Peugeot was stationed in the village of Joncherey, southeast of

Belfort Belfort (; archaic german: Beffert/Beffort) is a city in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in Northeastern France, situated between Lyon and Strasbourg, approximately from the France–Switzerland border. It is the prefecture of the Terr ...

, when he challenged a

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army patrol, which had crossed the border few hours earlier. Peugeot commanded the Germans to stop and declared them under arrest. In response, the

officer commanding the patrol, Albert Mayer, pulled out his revolver and fired, hitting Peugeot in the shoulder. Despite his wound, Peugeot fired with his pistol at Mayer but missed. Peugeot's comrades then fired repeatedly at Mayer, shooting him first in the stomach and then in the head, killing him. Peugeot, severely wounded, returned to his billet, where he died from his injuries at 10:37 am.

Geography

Climate

Joncherey has a

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(

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''Cfb''). The average annual temperature in Joncherey is . The average annual rainfall is with December as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around , and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Joncherey was on 7 August 2015; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 7 January 1985.

References

External links

Official website
Communes of the Territoire de Belfort {{Belfort-geo-stub