Mirebeau

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Mirebeau
Coat of arms of Mirebeau
Mirebeau (France)
Mirebeau
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Vienne
Arrondissement Poitiers
Canton Migné auxances
Community association Haut-Poitou
Coordinates 46 ° 47 '  N , 0 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 47 '  N , 0 ° 11'  E
height 89-158 m
surface 13.84 km 2
Residents 2,218 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 160 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 86110
INSEE code 86160
Website http://www.mairie-mirebeau.fr/

Mirebeau is a French village with 2,218 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Vienne in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine ; it belongs to the Arrondissement of Poitiers and the canton of Migné-Auxances .

history

Count Fulko Nerra of Anjou conquered Mirebeau and had a castle built here. His son Geoffroy II held the defeated Duke Wilhelm VI here after his victory in the Battle of Moncontour (1033) . of Aquitaine for five years. From then until the revolution , Mirebeau was part of the Anjou .

In mid-July 1202, Eleanor of Aquitaine was besieged by the French army in Mirebeau. Only the arrival of her son, the English King Johann Ohneland , on August 1st saved her.

In the 14th century Mirebeau was raised to a barony, to which 114 fiefs belonged. In 1789 Mirebeau and Moncontour were separated from the Sénéchaussée de Saumur and assigned to the new Vienne department.

Population development

  • 1962: 2.072
  • 1968: 2.142
  • 1975: 2.270
  • 1982: 2,379
  • 1990: 2,299
  • 1999: 2,254

coat of arms

Description : In the embroidered coat of arms a silver pole in red and a red bar in silver .

Attractions

  • Castle ruins (11th century, destroyed in 1621)
  • Remains of the walls of the citadel ( Monument historique )
  • Castle in the Rochefort district (built from 1475 to replace an older building that had burned down)
  • Grange aux Dîmes (Zehntscheuer, 13th century)
  • Aumônerie Saint-Jean (1185)
  • Notre-Dame de Mirebeau church (12th and 16th centuries)
  • Priory Saint-André (founded in 1051/53, Monument historique)
  • Poor Clares Convention (15th century, Monument historique)
  • Church ruins Saint-Pierre (12th century)
  • Bournezeau Church (16th century, Monument historique)
  • Parish Church of Notre-Dame in Seuilly (12th century)
  • Remains of the Saint-Hilaire church (12th century) within the Mairie

Personalities

  • Paul-Marie Coûteaux (* 1956), MEP and writer, lives in Mirebeau
  • Maurice Aguillon, resistance fighter, born in Mirebeau

Town twinning

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edmond-René Labande, Pour une image véridique d'Aliénor d'Aquitaine , new edition 2005. ISBN 2-84561-224-9 , p. 116