La Riche
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| region | Center-Val de Loire | |
| Department | Indre-et-Loire | |
| Arrondissement | Tours | |
| Canton | Ballan-Miré | |
| Community association | Tours Métropole Val de Loire | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 23 ′ N , 0 ° 40 ′ E | |
| height | 43-51 m | |
| surface | 8.17 km 2 | |
| Residents | 10,448 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 1,279 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 37520 | |
| INSEE code | 37195 | |
| Website | http://www.ville-lariche.fr/ | |
La Riche , formerly La Varenne de la Riche , then Sainte-Anne is a French municipality with 10,448 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in Indre-et-Loire in the region of Center-Val de Loire ; it belongs to the Arrondissement of Tours and the canton of Ballan-Miré .
The name goes back to the former parish of Notre-Dame-La-Riche, which was divided into two halves by the construction of a city wall: the core was incorporated into Tours, while the area outside the city limits was raised to an independent municipality in 1793. La Riche is the location of the castle Plessis-lès-Tours (Montils-lez-Tours).
history
In 1092, the chapter of the Saint-Martin cathedral of Tours founded the Saint-Cosme priory in what is now the municipality of La Riche .
King Louis XI. made the Plessis-lès-Tours castle his favorite place to stay around 1463/68. In April 1483 he had Pope Sixtus IV. Franz von Paola , the founder of the Order of the Minor Brothers ( Paulaner Order ), summoned him to his sick bed with the reputation of performing miraculous healings. As a confessor, he stood by the king until the hour of his death on August 30, 1483 in the castle of Plessis.
Franz von Paola founded with the help of Charles VIII , son of Louis XI. in 1489 at Plessis-les-Tours a new community of the least brothers, the "Couvent des Grands Minimes du Plessis", in which the pious founder of the order died on April 2, 1507 and was also buried.
Closely connected with Plessis-les-Tour is the name of the writer Pierre de Ronsard , who from 1565 became Commendatar prior of Saint-Cosme for the next 20 years until his death . Financially independent thanks to the benefice of his office, he was able to devote himself to his writings and the publication of his entire works undisturbed.
Attractions
Among the buildings worth seeing are:
- Plessis-lez-Tours Castle, also Plessis-les-Tours or Plessis-lès-Tours , formerly Montils-lez-Tours Castle (15th century), residence of several French kings, especially Louis XI.
- the remains of the Convent of the Mines Brothers or Couvent des Grands Minimes du Plessis with the grave of Franz von Paola in a neighboring neo-Gothic chapel (1877, unfinished)
- the remains of the Saint-Cosme priory where Ronsard worked: ruins of the church (12th / 15th century), house of the prior (15th / 17th century), refectory (12th century), museum (art the Romanesque and the Renaissance )
- the chapel of the Sainte-Anne priory (16th century)
- the Manoir de La Rabaterie (15th / 16th century) and Manoir des Pavilion (17th century)
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Personalities
- Louis XI. (1423–1483), King of France
- Franz von Paola (1436–1507), founder of the Paulaner Order
- Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585), poet
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes d'Indre-et-Loire. Volume 1. Flohic Editions, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-115-5 , pp. 177-183.
