Montbellet
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| region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Department | Saône-et-Loire | |
| Arrondissement | Mâcon | |
| Canton | Hurigny | |
| Community association | Mâconnais Tournugeois | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 29 ′ N , 4 ° 52 ′ E | |
| height | 169-340 m | |
| surface | 19.78 km 2 | |
| Residents | 800 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 40 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 71260 | |
| INSEE code | 71305 | |
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Montbellet is a French commune in the Saône-et-Loire in the region of Bourgogne Franche-Comté . It belongs to the canton of Hurigny in the Mâcon arrondissement .
geography
The scattered settlement with 800 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) is located on the last foothills of the Haut-Mâconnais hills, right on the border with the eastern Ain department, around seven kilometers north of Mâcon . The place is traversed by the Bourbonne, which flows from the west in the municipality in the hamlet of Saint-Oyen into the Saône .
Montbellet is on the A6 autoroute ; the village center can be reached from this motorway via the départementale route D410. The 250 meter long Saône bridge Pont de Fleurville has been connecting Montbellet with the municipality of Pont-de-Vaux in the Ain department since 1899 . Other neighboring municipalities of Montbellet are Uchizy in the north, Saint-Bénigne in the east, Pont-de-Vaux in the southeast (both in the Ain department), Viré and Fleurville in the south, and Lugny and Burgy in the west.
history
The area was already highly civilized in Gallo-Roman times, as evidenced by the discovery of five star needles by Montbellet made of bronze, copper and silver inlays, dated to the year 100 and exhibited in the Musée Greuze in Tournus . This surgical instrument was used in ancient times to perform the so-called star stitch .
In the Middle Ages , Montbellet was the seat of one of the four baronies of the Mâconnais and in the 12th century the House of Montbellet built a castle there. This fortress was demolished around 1274 at the behest of the Parlement de Paris after Alard de la Tour , Baron de Bellet, was charged with atrocities against his vassals and travelers who crossed the domain. In the 15th century a new castle was built in the hamlet of Buffières . The order for this was possibly given by a direct representative of the Montbellet family or Louis de Montregnard , who inherited the barony through marriage to Jeanne de Chandié . In the 16th century the fief was acquired by the Maugiron family. The latter sold it to local farmers in 1685 - divided into several pieces of land. In the 18th century the barony was acquired by Jean-Baptiste Giraud , descendant of an old Lyon family. The estate remained in the family until the Giraud family died out in the 19th century.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 |
| Residents | 532 | 612 | 545 | 615 | 621 | 654 | 771 |
Viticulture
Montbellet is one of the four municipalities (the others are: Clessé , Laizé and Viré ) that produce the white wine made from the Chardonnay grape, marketed under the Denomination of Origin Viré-Clessé AOC . In addition, the regionally widespread Burgundy wines Aligoté , Bourgogne Grand Ordinaire , Crémant de Bourgogne and Passetoutgrain are grown in Montbellet .
Attractions
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Templar Chapel
In the hamlet Mercey are one dating from the 13th century Chapel of the Knights Templar and the ruins of associated Coming . The nave consists of three yokes together by a buttress are supported. An apse is missing; the choir ends directly with the vertical facade wall ( chevet plat ). The strongly pointed ribbed vault forms an ogive . The interior of the church is incomplete, which is particularly true of the painting. One recognizes, among other things, the design of a gallery of saints, with the construction lines still visible. It is obvious that the work was stopped when King Philip the Fair violently dissolved the Knights Templar at the beginning of the 14th century, but this thesis is not certain.
Buffières Castle
The 15th century Château de Buffières stands on a small hill in the hamlet of Buffières and is surrounded by a park. Only a few remains of the old rectangular fastening belt can be seen. A corner tower and the massive donjon , which is connected to a pentagonal stair tower , are better preserved . The castle, which has been a listed building since 1992, is now privately owned and cannot be visited.
Mercey Castle
The 15th century Château de Mercey stands in the hamlet of Mercey by a brook called Gravaise . The main part of the building has a simple rectangular floor plan and is covered with a stately hipped roof. A round tower rises up at each of the two western corners. The ruins of a fortified house can also be seen in the west and an annex at each of the two eastern corners that is the same height as the fortified house in the west. A gate in the center of the east facade opens towards a pond. This portal is flanked by pilasters in Tuscan order that support a horizontal beam . Today the castle is privately owned and cannot be visited.
The building is first mentioned in writing in the 15th century as a castle in the Barony of Montbellet; The Saint-André family is given as the owner . In the following three centuries the domain fell first to François Bureteau , councilor of Tournus, later by marriage to Pierre Chesnard , administrator of the Mâcon salt warehouse, and finally, as the dowry of Chesnard's granddaughter, to Émilian Noly , treasurer of Mâconnais. In 1808 the Noly family sold the estate to Charles-Étienne Legrand .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michel Künzl, Ernst Weisser and Ursula Weisser: Les aiguilles à cataracte de Montbellet (Saône-et-Loire) . Feugère, Leipzig, 1919.
- ^ Françoise Vignier: Dictionnaire des châteaux de France - Nivernais - Côte-d'Or, Nièvre, Saône-et-Loire, Yonne , p. 208. Éditions Hermé, Paris, 1986.
- ^ Raymond Oursel: Un conflit de tendances - les églises des templiers . In: Archéologia (specialist journal) No. 27, March / April 1969, p. 35.
- ↑ entry no. PA00113561 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ↑ Château de Mercey in the French language Wikipedia
