Lisors

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Lisors
Coat of arms of Lisors
Lisors (France)
Lisors
region Normandy
Department Your
Arrondissement Les Andelys
Canton Romilly-sur-Andelle
Community association Lyons Andelle
Coordinates 49 ° 21 ′  N , 1 ° 28 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 21 ′  N , 1 ° 28 ′  E
height 62-178 m
surface 10.75 km 2
Residents 350 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 33 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 27440
INSEE code
Website lisors.free.fr

Saint Martin Church

Lisors is a commune of 350 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Eure in the region of Normandy . The Mortemer Monastery , which was built in 1138 and consecrated in 1209, is located in the municipality .

geography

Lisors is located in northern France in the Vexin countryside , 83 kilometers northwest of Paris , about 12 kilometers northeast of Les Andelys , the seat of the sub-prefecture of the arrondissement , and 5.2 kilometers southwest of Lyons-la-Forêt , the capital of the canton , on a mean height of 120 meters above sea ​​level . The Mairie stands at a height of 74 meters. The neighboring municipalities of Lisors are Rosay-sur-Lieure in the northwest, Lyons-la-Forêt in the northeast, Coudray in the southeast and Touffreville in the west. The municipality has an area of ​​1075 hectares. The village is located on the Fouillebroc, a tributary of the Lieure. The monastery is in the hamlet of Mortemer northeast of the town center.

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

Not far from the train station, stone-age stone utensils made of flint were found on the orographic left bank of the Fouillebroc . A spout ax from the Late Bronze Age (1300-800 BC) from Lisors is now on display in the Museum of Évreux .

Sarcophagi from the Merovingian period (486–751) were found in the hamlet of Mortemer in 1870 .

The place name was first documented in 1190.

For the period from 1480 to 1497 there is documentary confirmation that Thomas Sureau was Seigneur of Lisors and Farceaux . He also had a seat in the Parliament of Normandy in Rouen. His son was the main clerk at the Parlement, he died in 1514. After that, the Seigneurie changed hands several times. In the 17th century there was a manor house in Lisors, which around 1728 also had a seigneurial chapel . Around 1758 the mansion and the lands were sold again. The new owner had a castle built in place of the manor house. Despite the French Revolution (1789–1799), the castle remained in the possession of his descendants until the end of the 19th century.

year Residents
1793 525
1800 470
1821 586
1851 495
1881 396
1936 271
1962 243
1968 250
1982 264
1999 332
2017 350

In 1793 Lisors received the status of a municipality in the course of the French Revolution and in 1801 through the administrative reform in the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) under the name Lizors the right to local self-government .

The community had the most inhabitants in 1821 (586), then the number of inhabitants decreased until 1962.

Culture and sights

Lisors 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. You will then be shown on the entrance sign.

Fountain of Saint Catherine in Mortemer Monastery

The pilgrimage sites of Saint Catherine of Alexandria are in the Mortemer monastery and at an oratory on Fouillebroc . On November 25th, statues of Saint Catherine are still wreathed there today .

The patron saint of the Church of Saint-Martin is Saint Martin of Tours . The church was built in the 11th century, but only a few traces of the original building remain. The nave was renewed in 1492. The church tower and the sacristy were restored in the 19th century. In the Ancien Régime , the seigneur of the village held the church patronage. In 1935 the church was listed as a Site Inscrit .

A statue of the Virgin and Child , which was made around 1340, is of particularly high artistic quality. The statue was lost during the Revolution and was rediscovered in 1936 under the foundations of the old rectory. It was listed as a monument historique in 1936 .

The church's ornate confessional comes from the Mortemer monastery and was made in the 18th century. It is made of oak.

The church also has a 15th century statue of the local saint Chaud, which used to stand on a side altar dedicated to him. On the front of the statue is Saint Chaud on the back, Saint Canoald . It used to be the custom to scratch the statue and mix the resulting dust with a drink or baby food to give to infants suffering from colic.

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2009, 9.1 percent of the workforce was employed in the municipality, the rest were commuters . 14.5 percent of the employees were unemployed .

There is a public primary school and a butcher shop in Lisors. The nearest train station is 19.7 kilometers away in Val-de-Reuil . The nearest airport is Rouen Airport, 21.7 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

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

Individual evidence

  1. 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. 158 (French).
  2. Fouillebroc at SANDRE (French)
  3. a b Le village de Lisors. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved February 10, 2013 (French).
  4. ^ Léon Coutil : Bulletin de la Société normande d'études préhistoriques . Récerches Néolithiques in the Bassin de L'Andelle. Ed .: Société normande d'études préhistoriques. tape 8 , 1900, ISSN  1269-1879 , p. 69 (French, online ).
  5. 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. 41 (French).
  6. ^ 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. 422 , p. 198 f . (French).
  7. Ernst Gamillscheg (Romanist) : On the oldest contacts between Romans and Teutons, The Franks . In: Grundriß der Germanischen Philologie . Romania Germanica. 2nd Edition. tape 1 , no. 11 . De Gruyter , Berlin 1970, ISBN 3-11-084287-4 , pp. 128 ( online ).
  8. ^ Franck Beaumont, Philippe Seydoux: Gentilhommières des pays de l'Eure . Editions de la Morande, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-902091-31-2  ( formally incorrect ) , p. 190 (French).
  9. a b Lisors - notice communal. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved February 17, 2013 (French).
  10. Un label au service de votre qualité de vie. (No longer available online.) Conseil National des Villes et Villages Fleuris, archived from the original on July 30, 2013 ; Retrieved February 18, 2013 (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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cnvvf.fr
  11. Entry No. 27370 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  12. 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. 162 + 269 (French).
  13. Entry No. 27370 in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  14. Bernard Verwaerde: A quels saints se vouer? ... dans l'Eure . les saints protecteurs et guérisseurs. Editions Page de Garde, Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf 2001, ISBN 2-84340-191-7 , p. 58 f . (French).
  15. Commune: Lisors (27370). Theme: Tous les thèmes. In: Insee.fr. Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques , accessed on February 10, 2013 (French).