Mehun-sur-Yèvre
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| region | Center-Val de Loire | |
| Department | Cher | |
| Arrondissement | Vierzon | |
| Canton | Mehun-sur-Yèvre | |
| Community association | Coeur de Berry | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 9 ' N , 2 ° 13' E | |
| height | 107-137 m | |
| surface | 24.45 km 2 | |
| Residents | 6,562 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 268 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 18500 | |
| INSEE code | 18141 | |
| Website | Mehun-sur-Yèvre | |
Mehun-sur-Yèvre is a French municipality with 6562 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Cher in the region Center-Val de Loire ; it belongs to the Arrondissement Vierzon . The place is also called the city of Charles VII .
geography
Mehun-sur-Yèvre lies between Bourges and Vierzon on the banks of the River Yèvre and the abandoned Canal de Berry .
history
Mehun was a rule that is attested as early as the 11th century and was then under the suzerainty of the Archbishop of Bourges .
Philipp von Mehun's heir Matilde († 1240) married Robert von Courtenay († 1239) in 1216/18, whereby Mehun came into the possession of the House of France-Courtenay . Already the couple's son, Peter von Courtenay († 1250) had no male descendants, his daughter Amicia married Count Robert II of Artois , whereby Mehun passed into his hands.
Count Robert III. Mehun was taken away, the rule passed to John of Luxembourg , the king of Bohemia , whose daughter Jutta was married to the French king John II . Mehun thereby became part of the appanage of Duke Jean de Valois, duc de Berry .
Between 1367 and 1390, with the help of André Beauneveu and Jean de Cambrai, he had the castle converted into Mehun-sur-Yèvre Castle . However, other artists such as Jean de Beaumetz and Claus Sluter came to learn about the construction work in the service of the Duke of Burgundy .
Johann von Berry gave Mehun to his nephew, the Dauphin Jean ; after his death in 1417, Mehun returned to the Domaine royal . King Charles VII died here on July 22, 1461.
The castle was badly damaged by fire in 1550 and completely destroyed during the French Revolution . Its appearance is partly known from a miniature of the Limburg brothers in the Très Riches Heures . Only a few remains of the wall and also remains of the decor of the chapel survived the destruction.
Attractions
Collégiale Notre-Dame
The Romanesque church was built in the middle of the 11th century. The architecture impresses with its great purity of style. Several choirs are connected to the ambulatory. The choir opens to a large nave, which dates from around 1100 and at the end of which a vestibule tower was added in the 12th century. It rests on the remains of the city fortifications and overlooks the Yèvre valley. Regnaud Thierry (first name also spelled Regnault, Renaud or Reginald), King Charles VII's surgeon , had a large Gothic chapel built on the choir side in 1466. The flamboyant window created by Bruno de Pirey opens its interior far to the south.
Porte de l'Horloge
In 1219 the Lady Mehun and her husband, Lord Courtenay, declared part of the place a free zone . The main entrance to this district was the current "Porte de l'Horloge", the city gate with the clock. This gate has three types of coverings: wooden shingles for the towers; Tiles for the central part; Slate panels for the roof turret , which houses a bell from 1399.
Monument to Joan of Arc
In December 1429 Joan of Arc received her letter of nobility in the chapel of the castle. She stayed in Mehun for the entire winter of 1429/30 and lived in what was then the "Hotel Karl V".
In 1901 a committee was formed in Mehun to erect a bronze statue on the palace square in memory of this stay. This statue did not survive the Second World War and was replaced by the present stone monument.
Town twinning
In 1982, Mehun signed a town partnership with Murg am Hochrhein in Baden-Württemberg .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Cher. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-088-4 , pp. 678-686.
