Bléneau
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| region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Department | Yonne | |
| Arrondissement | Auxerre | |
| Canton | Coeur de Puisaye | |
| Community association | Puisaye-Forterre | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 42 ' N , 2 ° 57' E | |
| height | 145-209 m | |
| surface | 39.41 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,289 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 33 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 89220 | |
| INSEE code | 89046 | |
| Website | http://www.bleneau.fr/ | |
 The train station around 1900 |
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Bléneau is a French village with 1,289 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Yonne department in the region of Bourgogne Franche-Comté ; it belongs to the Arrondissement of Auxerre and the canton of Cœur de Puisaye .
geography
Bléneau is located on the southwestern edge of the Yonne department in the Puisaye , 24 kilometers northeast of Gien , surrounded by the neighboring communities of Saint-Privé , Champcevrais and Breteau . The Loing and Trézée rivers pass through the municipality.
history
In the hamlet Hautefeuille, between Bléneau and Saint-Privé stone tools from the Paleolithic found.
Since the time of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) Bléneau had a city wall, which was demolished in 1791 to build the bridge over the Loing.
In the course of the Huguenot Wars , parts of the Protestant troops of Henri I de Bourbon, prince de Condé (1552–1588) marched through Bléneau in 1570 . In 1587 Heinrich III. the fortified Bléneau. Gaspard de Courtenay refused entry to the king, who then plundered the surrounding villages. On October 24, 1587, the besiegers set fire to a city gate and the residents surrendered after fruitless negotiations. The city was then ransacked for three days. The army of Henri I de Lorraine, duc de Guise , drove the Huguenots out of Champcevrais. At Vimory there was a battle in which 900 Huguenots died. The defeated soldiers fled to the Puisaye . On the outskirts of Bléneau in the direction of Rogny-les-Sept-Écluses there is a field called the Champ des Huguenots ("Huguenot Field "), and an adjacent property is called the Cimetière des Huguenots ("Huguenot Cemetery").
Bléneau became particularly famous during the Fronde through the battle at Bléneau. On the evening of April 6, 1652, Louis II. De Bourbon, prince de Condé attacked the royal army that had spread out in the Puisaye. The vanguard of the royal infantry fled to Bléneau. When Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne noticed this, he rushed to the aid of his troops. Southwest of Bléneau, he set a trap for Condé in the forest (Bois de Dreux) . Condé lost 250 men in a short time, including his Maréchal de camp, and then moved on to Châtillon-Coligny . The way to Auxerre was clear for the king , he passed through Bléneau and stayed in Saint-Fargeau .
| year | Residents |
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| 1793 | 999 |
| 1851 | 1709 |
| 1881 | 2143 |
| 1931 | 1717 |
| 1962 | 1354 |
| 1982 | 1686 |
| 2008 | 1454 |
In 1793 Bléneau received in the course of the French Revolution (1789-1799) under the name Bleneau the status of a municipality and became the capital of a canton . In 1801, through the administrative reform under Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) , the municipality was given the right to municipal self-government as Blenau .
Culture and sights
Bléneau is represented with a flower in the Conseil national des villes et villages fleuris (National Council of Flowered Cities and Villages). The "flowers" are awarded in the course of a regional competition, whereby a maximum of three flowers can be achieved.
The water garden Les Jardins d'eau was established in 1994. It is located southeast of the town center. It is home to numerous plant species including maples , bald cypresses , Chinese poplars , bamboo , dogwood , tulip trees and sweetgum trees . In the gardens there is a lake with an island overgrown with flowers.
Personalities
- Gaston Fleischel (* 1885 in Reichshoffen ; † 1965), industrialist, inventor of the automatic transmission , maintained a factory in Bléneau on the banks of the Loing after the First World War (1914–1918)
Economy and Infrastructure
Tourism is an important industry . Bléneau is a station verte (green vacation spot). Station verte is a name given to vacation spots that have fewer than 10,000 inhabitants, offer year-round leisure activities, have a tourist office, have at least 200 guest beds, have sufficient shopping opportunities in the village and are close to nature.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Le village de Bléneau. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved August 21, 2011 (French).
- ↑ a b Bléneau - notice communal. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved October 12, 2011 (French).
- ↑ Palmarès des villes et villages fleuris. (No longer available online.) Conseil National des Villes et Villages Fleuris, formerly the original ; Retrieved on August 21, 2011 (French). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Les Jardins d'eau. (No longer available online.) In: 1001fleurs.com. Florajet, archived from the original on August 25, 2011 ; Retrieved on August 21, 2011 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ L'histoire de la ville de Reichshoffen. Retrieved August 21, 2011 (French).
- ↑ Bléneau. (No longer available online.) In: stations vertes. Archived from the original on July 27, 2009 ; Retrieved on August 21, 2011 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
