Brétigny (Eure)
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region | Normandy | |
Department | Your | |
Arrondissement | Bernay | |
Canton | Brionne | |
Community association | Intercom Bernay Terres de Normandie | |
Coordinates | 49 ° 13 ′ N , 0 ° 41 ′ E | |
height | 70-147 m | |
surface | 5.40 km 2 | |
Residents | 134 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 25 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 27800 | |
INSEE code | 27113 | |
![]() Saint-Cyr-Sainte-Juliette church |
Brétigny is a commune with 134 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Eure in the region of Normandy .
geography
Brétigny is located on the eastern edge of the Lieuvin , 3.7 kilometers northwest of Brionne and 15 kilometers northeast of Bernay between the neighboring communities of Saint-Pierre-de-Salerne and Livet-sur-Authou . The hamlets of L'Orme and La Vasserie are part of the municipality.
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.
Brétigny is one of the municipalities in the Eure department where there is a risk of landslides suddenly forming holes several meters deep . The so-called Marnières are old marl pits that can open, for example, after heavy rain, when the debris is washed into the side passages. These holes are often 1.5 to 2 meters in diameter and can be several meters deep. There are around 16,000 of these marl pits in the entire Eure department.
history
A Roman road led through Brétigny and the hamlet of La Vasserie on the eastern edge of the municipality . The name of the place means Britanicus , place of the Bretons , and is of Celtic origin .
In the 13th century the place was a fiefdom of the de Brétigny family. In the 14th century a branch of the du Bosc family received the fief. Guéroudin du Bosc was one of the twenty envoys from Rouen sent to Henry V of England to declare the surrender of Rouen. Jacques du Bosc sold the fiefdom in 1520 to Jean de Quintanadoine (1511–1550). His grandson Jean de Quintanadoine (1556–1634) became a priest and was better known under the name of Monsieur de Brétigny . He was one of the founders of the Carmel of Rouen. After his death, Brétigny remained in the family until the French Revolution (1789–1799).
Brétigny has had its own municipal administration since 1793 during the French Revolution. At that time it was still called Bretigny.
During the Second World War (1939-1945) Brétigny was bombed and large parts of the castle were destroyed in 1944. Only a large pavilion remained.
year | 1861 | 1891 | 1921 | 1954 | 1975 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2016 |
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Residents | 274 | 206 | 103 | 159 | 126 | 174 | 159 | 170 | 139 |
Brétigny had the most inhabitants in 1821 (375) and the least in 1921 (103).
Culture and sights
17th century pavilion in the classicist baroque style . The windows are separated by Tuscan pilasters .
The Saint-Cyr-Sainte-Juliette church was built in the 12th century. It is dedicated to the martyr Cyrus of Tarsus († 304) and his mother . The masonry from the 12th century was reworked in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the bell tower also dates from this period. The church is listed in the supplementary directory of the Monuments historiques . On the outer west wall of the church there are remains of a liter funéraire (mourning ribbon). A faded coat of arms is drawn in a 40 centimeter square. Inside, the liter is better preserved. There are two coats of arms on the north wall of the nave and one on the south wall. The identical coats of arms are 50 centimeters high and 70 centimeters wide, they are provided with an oval shield over which the crown of a duc is drawn. It is the coat of arms of Louis-Charles de Guise-Lorraine (1725–1761), Prince of Lambesc and Comte of Brionne.
In the church there is a grave plate from the 13th century with the bas-relief of a woman's face, a wooden statue of St. Anthony of Padua from the 17th century and a silver christening with two punches of the Paris Guild of Goldsmiths . One of the stamps dates from July 15, 1775, the other from November 18, 1774, they are assigned to the masters Jean-Baptiste Fouache and Dominique Compant.
The Château de la Houssaye is now part of the municipality of Brétigny. In the Middle Ages it was a fiefdom that belonged to the de Pommereuil family. Nicolas de Pommereuil sold the fief together with manor and dovecote in 1569 to Guillaume Foucques. In 1637, however, it came into the possession of Marc-Antoine de Brévedent, whose son had the castle de la Houssaye built. The castle stairs are dated 1666 and bear the Brévedent coat of arms. In 1770 Marie-Catherine de Brévedent sold the Seigneurie . Around 1891 the owner at the time, Jean Guéroult, had the castle rebuilt and enlarged.
economy
At the Ferme de La Houssaye , mainly cider and calvados are produced. Regional products are sold on the farm. In the municipality, there are controlled designations of origin (AOC) for Calvados and Pommeau (Pommeau de Normandie) and Protected Geographical Indications (IGP) for pork (Porc de Normandie) , poultry (Volailles de Normandie) and cider ( Cidre de Normandie and Cidre normand ).
Web links
- Brétigny on cartesfrance.fr in French
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Brétigny on annuaire-mairie.fr (French).
- ↑ List of the municipalities of Eure. (No longer available online.) In: eure.pref.gouv.fr. Préfecture of Eure, archived from the original on April 27, 2013 ; Retrieved on August 14, 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.
- ^ Dominique Cliquet: L'Eure . 27. In: Michel Provost, Academie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Ministere de la culture (ed.): Carte Archéologique de la Gaule . Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-87754-018-9 , chap. 154 , p. 99 . (French).
- ↑ a b c Pierre Bodin: Les liters seigneuriales des églises de l'Eure . Amis des Monuments et Sites de l'Eure, Amis de Bernay, Condé-sur-Noireau 2005, p. 53-55 . (French).
- ^ Huguenots-france.org , accessed May 5, 2009.
- ↑ a b Brétigny on cassini.ehess.fr , accessed on May 19, 2009 (French)
- ^ A b c Franck Beaumont, Philippe Seydoux: Gentilhommières des pays de l'Eure. Editions de la Morande, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-902091-31-2 , pp. 292 + 296.
- ↑ Entry No. 27113 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Entry No. 27113 in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ^ Website of the Ferme de la Houssaye in French.