This small, two-storey house, with its street-facing gable and sunken bread oven, served as the town hall after the French Revolution. The house is unusual in that it has a cellar entrance in the basement courtyard, which bears witness to its use as a former winegrower's house. Vineyards were once a very important part of the local economy in Orcevaux, accounting for up to 35.2 hectares of the territory in 1773, with vineyards being the main source of income alongside livestock and crafts under the Ancien Régime. Winegrowers still accounted for almost 18% of the village's population in 1881, just before the arrival of phylloxera, which destroyed the entire local vineyard. Today, vines have all but disappeared from the village, replaced by orchards, which have been the reason for the village's "Cherry Festival" for nearly thirty years.
Ancienne mairie d'Orcevaux
