Lyons-la-Forêt
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| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Your | |
| Arrondissement | Les Andelys | |
| Canton | Romilly-sur-Andelle | |
| Community association | Lyons Andelle | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 24 ' N , 1 ° 29' E | |
| height | 67-178 m | |
| surface | 26.99 km 2 | |
| Residents | 723 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 27 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 27480 | |
| INSEE code | 27377 | |
 Market hall from the 17th century |
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Lyons-la-Forêt is a municipality with 723 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the north of France in the Eure in the region of Normandy . It is classified as one of the most beautiful villages in France .
geography
Lyons-la-Forêt is located in northern France in the Vexin countryside in the Forêt domaniale de Lyons state forest on the Lieure river , about 34 kilometers east of Rouen .
history
The Celtic coin treasure of Lyons-la-Forêt consists of coins of the Haeduer , which were dated around the year 80 BC. Were buried. The community is located on the former territory of the Celtic tribe of the Veliocasses .
Lyons-la-Forêt was first mentioned in a document between 1015 and 1026 as loco qui dicitur Leons , other names were nemus de Leonibus (1032), saltus Leonis (1050), sylvam Leonum (between 1051 and 1066), foresta de Lyons (1204 ). François de Beaurepaire suspects a connection between the forest name Leons and the brook Loiris (1032) (today the Lieure, which flows through Lyons) and ascribes the origin of the place name to a water-related Celtic root lic or lig , with the Gallic ending -ontium / -ontio / -ontia , which can also be identified in place names such as Ressons-sur-Matz (Oise, Rosonto around 679, Resontium 658), Besançon ( Vesontio ) and Mainz ( Mogonti-acum , Magontia ). Marie-Thérèse Morlet gives a different explanation. She suspects that the place name was derived from the Roman name Leoncius (compare Leontios ).
William the Conqueror had a castle built in Lyons-la-Forêt. His sons enlarged the place and the youngest, Heinrich I , died in the castle in 1135. In the 16th century the castle and the city wall were destroyed. Some of the remains have been preserved.
After an official Reformed Church was established in Rouen in 1557 and in Évreux in 1559 , Lyons-la-Forêt followed suit. The Protestant Church in Lyons-la-Forêt existed until the Edict of Nantes was repealed with the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685.
During the Second World War , the village was spared, no house was damaged.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 749 | 880 | 772 | 734 | 701 | 795 | 759 | 723 |
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Culture and sights
Lyons-la-Forêt is represented with four flowers in the Conseil national des villes et villages fleuris (for example, “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 regional jury decides which municipalities can apply for the fourth flower, which is awarded by the national jury.
The Lyons State Forest is one of the most beautiful beech forests in France and is home to many trees that are several centuries old. In the Middle Ages it was one of the favorite hunting spots of the Dukes of Normandy . To the west the forest is bordered by the Andelle , on which timber was transported across the Seine to Paris in the 18th century . Unfortunately, the forest was badly damaged by Hurricane Lothar in December 1999.
Claude Chabrol made the film Madame Bovary in Lyons-la-Forêt.
Saint-Denis church
Row of houses in Lyons
Part of the former city fortifications
economy
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 .
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the church
- Enguerrand de Marigny (1260-1315), chamberlain to King Philip IV.
- Isaac de Benserade (1612 / 1613–1691), poet at the court of Louis XIV.
Personalities who have worked in the place
- Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), French composer who lived here from 1917 to 1920
Parish partnership
- Grafrath Germany since January 13, 2018 http://dfvg.grafrath-staedtepartner.de/?m=201801/ Deutsch-Französischer-Verein Grafrath
Web links
- Lyons-la-Forêt in the Base Mémoire des Ministère de la culture (French)
References and comments
- ↑ Lyons-la-Forêt on Les plus Beaux Villages de France (French)
- ^ 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 , p. 44 (French).
- ^ Ernest Nègre : Toponymie générale de la France . tape 1 . Librairie Droz, 1990, ISBN 2-600-02883-8 , pp. 13 f., 661 (French, online ). Nègre refers in the entry to François de Beaurepaire: Les noms des communes et anciennes paroisses de l'Eure . Paris 1981 (French). and Marie-Thérèse Morlet: Les noms latins ou transmis par le latin . In: Les noms de personne sur le territoire de l'ancienne Gaule du VIe au XIIe siècle . tape 2 . Paris 1972 (French).
- ↑ 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. 248 f . (French).
- ↑ Palmarès des villes et villages fleuris. (No longer available online.) Conseil National des Villes et Villages Fleuris, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; 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.
- ↑ A. Blanchard, M. Delafenêtre, Lisa Pascual: Jardins de Normandie . Your. Connaissance des Jardins, Caen 2001, ISBN 2-912454-07-7 , pp. 123 (French).
- ↑ Le village de Lyons-la-Forêt. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved July 21, 2012 (French).
