Issoire

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Issoire
Issoire coat of arms
Issoire (France)
Issoire
region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department Puy-de-Dôme
Arrondissement Issoire
Canton Issoire (main town)
Community association Agglo Pays d'Issoire
Coordinates 45 ° 33 '  N , 3 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 33 '  N , 3 ° 15'  E
height 360-560 m
surface 19.69 km 2
Residents 14,822 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 753 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 63500
INSEE code 63178
Website www.issoire.fr

View from the clock tower to Issoire

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Issoire is a French city with 14,822 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Puy-de-Dôme in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It is the seat of the sub-prefecture (French Sous-préfecture ) of the Arrondissement Issoire and the capital (French: chef-lieu ) of the Canton of Issoire .

geography

The city is located on the River Allier , at the confluence of its tributary Couze Pavin , around 37 km south of Clermont-Ferrand on the Cevennes Railway and the A75 autoroute .

history

The place name is likely to be of Celtic origin. Finds suggest a Roman settlement. Austremoine, missionary and first bishop of Auvergne, founded a monastery here at the end of the 3rd century, the nucleus of today's city. Since the 19th century it has become the economic and industrial center in the Allier Valley, dominated by aluminum production and the aviation industry. The aviation group Pechiney-Rhénalu is the largest employer for Issoire and the region. The city center around the Romanesque church Saint-Austremoine has retained its historical flair.

Attractions

Saint-Austremoine
  • The Saint-Austremoine church was built between 1130 and 1150 and is the largest building from the Auvergnat Romanesque period. It is an example of the cross-shaped floor plan and the pyramidal structure. In the religious wars in 1575 badly damaged the church in the 19th century, was thoroughly restored and again has the two opposing East and West ties with the clamped therebetween 65-meter-long nave and the eastern building with choir colloquial and it radiating chapels . The two towers were also rebuilt. Noteworthy are the decorations - mosaics and sculptures - on the outside of the choir head and the capitals in the choir and transept . The restoration of the 19th century by Anatole Dauvergne endeavored to let the color come into its own in the interior. This decoration with ornaments in strong colors was carried out without special consideration of Romanesque style principles and gives the room an oriental look. In the contrasting simple crypt there is a filigree statue of the Virgin Mary . The church patron, whose relics are there, is also honored with a statue.
  • Hauterive Castle , classicist Baroque castle from the 17th century, with a French garden
  • Clock Tower Tour de l'Horloge Museum of the Renaissance , in the studio of Jean le Fier, which deals with the problem of time measurement employed
  • Center Culturel Nicolas Pomel , former Benedictine abbey , since 1975 municipal culture and exhibition center, built from 1702 to 1724 in place of a medieval monastery , from 1792 town hall, from 1802 imperial college
  • Center d'Art Roman Georges Duby , Museum of Romanesque Art with chapter house of the former monastery
  • Place de la République with the Renaissance buildings Maison à Arcades and Maison du Chancelier Duprat
  • Chapel Sévigné Saint-Louis, neo-Gothic chapel of a boarding school (19th century)
  • The dolmen L'Usteau du Loup is the only gallery tomb in the region. It lies northwest of the hamlet of Unsac near Issoire.

Festivals

  • Festival d'Art Romain , medieval folklore spectacle in the old town every year in the last week of August

Town twinning

Personalities

literature

  • Ernst Adam: Pre-Romanesque and Romanesque. Frankfurt 1968, p. 136
  • Marcel Durliat : Romanesque Art. Freiburg-Basel-Vienna 1983, p. 483
  • Hermann Fillitz : The Middle Ages I. (= Propylaea Art History Vol. 5. Frankfurt am Main - Berlin [1969] 1990), Fig. 169
  • Hervé Kergall: Gothic cathedrals and art treasures in France. Eltville 1990. Fig. 81
  • Marie-Claire Ricard: The Abbey Church of Issoire. Lyon 1988
  • Ulrich Rosenbaum: Auvergne and Massif Central. Cologne [1981] 1989, p. 95, fig. 34,35,39, color plate 15
  • Rolf Toman (ed.): The art of the Romanesque. Architecture - sculpture - painting. Cologne 1996, p. 150
  • Sylvie Jolivet: Issoire: Restoration of the décors de l'abbatiale . In: Le Moniteur des Travaux Publics et du Bâtiment , December 10, 2004

Web links

Commons : Issoire  - collection of images, videos and audio files

proof

  1. ^ Website Issoire - Jumelage , viewed on January 7, 2017