Acon
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| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Your | |
| Arrondissement | Evreux | |
| Canton | Verneuil-sur-Avre | |
| Community association | Evreux Portes de Normandie | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 46 ' N , 1 ° 5' E | |
| height | 115-179 m | |
| surface | 916 km 2 | |
| Residents | 468 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 1 inhabitant / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 27570 | |
| INSEE code | 27002 | |
 Saint-Denis church |
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Acon is a commune with 468 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Eure in the region of Normandy . A necropolis from the early Neolithic period , which is unique to the Paris basin, was found in Acon .
geography
Acon is located in northern France on the southern edge of the Eure department on the Avre river , 92 kilometers west of Paris , about 29 kilometers southwest of Évreux , the seat of the sub-prefecture of the arrondissement , and 7.5 kilometers west of Nonancourt , the capital of the canton on a middle Height of 147 meters above sea level . The Mairie stands at a height of 171 meters. Neighboring municipalities of Acon are L'Hosmes in the northwest, Droisy in the northeast, Dampierre-sur-Avre in the east and Breux-sur-Avre in the west. The municipality has an area of 916 hectares.
The municipality is assigned to a type Cfb (according to Köppen and Geiger ) climate zone : warm, moderate rainy climate (C), fully humid (f), warmest month below 22 ° C, at least four months above 10 ° C (b). There is a maritime climate with a moderate summer.
history
In 1993, Cyrille Billard discovered a necropolis consisting of six large stone graves . Using the radiocarbon method , the complex could be dated to the early Neolithic (4200 to around 3500 BC). It is located in the Prés d'Acon area, between the church and the Avre.
The place name was first mentioned in a document as Acum at the beginning of the 12th century . Other spellings were Acun (12th century), Agon (1230) and Achon (1234). According to Auguste Le Prévost , the place name is of Celtic origin and means 'stone' or 'rock'. He assumed that the place name has the same origin as Agaunum (also Acaunum ). Other authors assume that the place name is derived from the Germanic name Acco .
The first Seigneurs were mentioned in a document in the 12th century . Simon d'Anet confirmed in the copy book of the Abbey of Le Bec a donation from his father Simon to the abbey. He donated the church of Saint-Denis and the tithe of Acon to the monastery . In 1242 the family renounced the church patronage . The Acon fief remained in the possession of the Anet family until 1648, who called themselves d'Acon or Dacon from the 13th century.
In the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) the parish church was damaged. Therefore, in the 16th century, the church of Acon moved to the remote valley of the lieu-dit les Corvées . 1514 was Dionysius of Paris (Denis) ordained . The church patronage was held by the Abbey of Le Bec .
In 1648 Acon came into the possession of the Tilly family through marriage. In 1784 Henri François Adjutor de Guénet received the fief.
| year | Residents |
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| 1821 | 717 |
| 1866 | 614 |
| 1876 | 524 |
| 1901 | 407 |
| 1962 | 341 |
| 1975 | 250 |
| 1990 | 356 |
| 2010 | 473 |
| 2016 | 473 |
In 1793 Acon received the status of a municipality in the course of the French Revolution (1789–1799) and in 1801 the right to local self-government as Açon through the administrative reform under Napoleon Bonaparte .
Culture and sights
The megalithic necropolis of Acon was entered in the additional directory of the Monuments historiques in 1998 and is therefore listed . Four of the graves still bear the horizontal stone slabs, two are in poorer condition.
Parish Church of Saint-Denis
Acon belongs to the Roman Catholic community of Saint Hilaire , which is part of the parish Avre et Iton of the diocese of Évreux . The Saint-Denis church was built in two stages. The nave was built in 1514 and the choir around 1540. The building consists of a simple nave , which is closed by a three-sided apse . In 1998 the church was entered in the supplementary register of the Monuments historiques .
In the choir and nave there are remains of wall paintings from the end of the 16th century. There are three coats of arms preserved on a liter funéraire . On the north wall is the coat of arms of Henri-François Adjutor de Guénets with the crown of a marquis . The coat of arms of Henri II. De Tilly († 1746) can be seen on the south wall. The coat of arms also contains the crown of a marquis. The third coat of arms is in too bad a condition to be identified.
In the church there are various works of art and other items from the 15th to 19th centuries. A painting from the 16th century depicts the Virgin and Child . It is a copy of a lost painting by Rogier van der Weyden (1399 / 1400–1464), which was classified as a Monument historique in 1907. Parts of the church windows also date from the 16th century and were entered in the additional directory of the Monuments historiques in 1991. Various ritual clothing and processional banners from the 19th century are kept in the church. The clothes are sashes from a Confrérie de charité and two cope .
Economy and Infrastructure
In 2009, 14.6 percent of the workforce were employed in the municipality, the rest were commuters . 8.7 percent of the employees were unemployed .
The nearest train station is in Tillières-sur-Avre and is 3 kilometers away. The nearest airport is Rouen Airport in Boos (Seine-Maritime), 68.3 kilometers away .
Protected Geographical Indications (IGP) apply to pork (Porc de Normandie) , poultry (Volailles de Normandie) and cider (Cidre de Normandie and Cidre normand) in the municipality .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Entry No. 27002 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ a b Le village d'Acon. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved May 27, 2013 (French).
- ↑ Un camp de hauteur du Neolithique au cap Blanc-Nez. In: Inrap.fr. Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives, July 10, 2012, accessed on May 31, 2013 (French, Néolithique moyen II does not cover the same period as the Middle Neolithic ).
- ↑ Bernard Bodinier (ed.): L'Eure de la Préhistoire à nos jours . Jean-Michel Bordessoules, Saint-Jean-d'Angély 2001, ISBN 2-913471-28-5 , pp. 36-39 (French).
- ^ A b Auguste Le Prevost : Mémoires et notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost pour servir à l'histoire du département de l'Eure . Ed .: Léopold Delisle, Louis Paulin Passy. tape 1 . Auguste Herissey, Évreux 1862, p. 88 (French, gallica.bnf.fr ).
- ↑ Agaunum . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classical antiquity on Wikisource
- ^ Ernest Nègre : Toponymie générale de la France . tape 2 . Librairie Droz, 1996, ISBN 2-600-00133-6 , pp. 825 (French, limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ a b Pierre Bodin: Les liters seigneuriales des églises de l'Eure . Ed .: Amis des Monuments et Sites de l'Eure, Amis de Bernay, Conseil général de l'Eure, Direction, Régionale des Affaires Culturelles [DRAC]. Corlet, Condé-sur-Noireau May 2005, pp. 21-23 (French).
- ↑ a b Acon - notice communal. In: Cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved June 2, 2013 (French).
- ↑ Avre et Iton. (No longer available online.) Diocèse d'Évreux, archived from the original on February 21, 2015 ; Retrieved May 31, 2013 (French).
- ↑ Entry No. 27002 in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ^ Commune: Acon (27002). Theme: Tous les thèmes. Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques , accessed on May 27, 2013 (French).
Remarks
The works of Billard are literature on Acon that was not used directly for the creation of the article and should therefore not be cited as a reference according to the criteria of the German-language Wikipedia. The works are also cited in the above-mentioned individual references.
The works of Beaurepaire and Morlet are cited by Ernest Nègre in Toponymie générale de la France . Nègre only uses abbreviations, which requires further explanation.
- ^ Cyrille Billard: La Nécropole mégalithique d'Acon - Les Prés d'Acon . Note concerning the sites visited on the day of the excursion on October 29, 1993. In: Actes du 20e colloque interrégional sur le Neolithique . Revue Archéologique de l'Ouest. Évreux 1993 (French, Appendix 7).
- ^ Cyrille Billard, Patrick Lebret, Alain Hollier-Larousse, Alain Kermorvant: La nécropole mégalithique d'Acon (Eure): premières prospections . Actes de la Journée d'information du 14 November 1998. In: Société préhistorique française (ed.): Internéo . No. 2 . Paris 1998, p. 139-164 (French).
- ^ François de Beaurepaire: Les noms des communes et anciennes paroisses de l'Eure . Paris 1981 (French).
- ^ Marie-Thérèse Morlet: Les noms issus du germanique continental et les créations gallo-germaniques . In: Les noms de personne sur le territoire de l'ancienne Gaule du VIe au XIIe siècle . tape 1 . Paris 1968 (French).