Mazangé

Mazangé
region	Center-Val de Loire
Department	Loir-et-Cher
Arrondissement	Vendôme
Canton	Vendôme
Community association	Territoires Vendômois
Coordinates	47 ° 49 ′ N , 0 ° 57 ′ E Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ N , 0 ° 57 ′ E
height	71-156 m
surface	24.26 km 2
Residents	855 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	35 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	41100
INSEE code	41131
Website	http://www.mazange.fr/
	; Mazangé town hall

Mazangé is a French municipality with 855 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Loir-et-Cher in the region Center-Val de Loire ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Vendôme and the canton of Vendôme (until 2015: canton of Vendôme ). The inhabitants are called Mazangéens .

geography

Mazangé is located about nine kilometers north-west of Vendôme on the Loir , where the Boulon River with its tributary Bourboule joins here. Mazangé is surrounded by the neighboring municipalities of Épuisay in the north, Azé in the east, Villiers-sur-Loir in the south-east, Thoré-la-Rochette in the south, Lunay in the west and south-west, henceforth in the west and Savigny-sur-Braye in the north-west.

history

In the Middle Ages, Mazangé was a provost and a benefice of the cathedral chapter of Notre-Dame de Chartres .

In the Franco-Prussian War, troops of the Prussian III. Army Corps on January 6, 1871 battle of Mazangé (Combat de Mazangé) the 36e régiment d'infantry of the French II Armée de la Loire , the 46e régiment d'infantry and the 70th Regiment of the Mobile Guard . As a result, the III. Army Corps advance on Le Mans , so that from 10 to 12 January 1871 there was the decisive battle at Le Mans , in which the Armée de la Loire was lost.

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2013
Residents	771	715	624	695	758	838	910	910
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

Saint-Lubin Church

The Saint-Lubin church is dedicated to Saint Leobinus . It was built in the 12th century. The nave was expanded and rebuilt in the 15th century. It has been recognized as a Monument historique since 1994 .

Web links

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

Footnotes

^ A. Dupré: De la double suzeraineté prétendue par les comtes d'Anjou et les évêques de Chartres . In: Société française d'archéologie (ed.): Congrès archéologique de France. XXXIX session. Séances Générales tenue à Vendôme en juin 1872 . Derache, Paris 1873, pp. 145–155, here p. 150.
^ Antoine-Eugène-Alfred Chanzy : La deuxième armée de la Loire. Campagne de 1870-1871 . E. Plon, Paris, 7th ed. 1876, pp. 272-273: Combat de Mazangé .
↑ Eglise Saint-Lubin , Base Mérimée in the Plate-forme ouverte du Patrimoine (POP), accessed on January 13, 2019.

[1] A. Dupré: De la double suzeraineté prétendue par les comtes d'Anjou et les évêques de Chartres . In: Société française d'archéologie (ed.): Congrès archéologique de France. XXXIX session. Séances Générales tenue à Vendôme en juin 1872 . Derache, Paris 1873, pp. 145–155, here p. 150.

[2] Antoine-Eugène-Alfred Chanzy : La deuxième armée de la Loire. Campagne de 1870-1871 . E. Plon, Paris, 7th ed. 1876, pp. 272-273: Combat de Mazangé .

[3] Eglise Saint-Lubin , Base Mérimée in the Plate-forme ouverte du Patrimoine (POP), accessed on January 13, 2019.