Montrichard

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Montrichard
Montrichard coat of arms
Montrichard (France)
Montrichard
local community Montrichard Val de Cher
region Center-Val de Loire
Department Loir-et-Cher
Arrondissement Blois
Coordinates 47 ° 21 '  N , 1 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '  N , 1 ° 11'  E
Post Code 41400
Former INSEE code 41151
Incorporation January 1, 2016
status Commune déléguée

View over the Cher to the city

Montrichard (pronounced [mɔtʁiʃaʁ] ) is a village and a former French commune with 3,156 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in Loir-et-Cher in the region Center-Val de Loire . It belonged to the Arrondissement of Blois and the Canton of Montrichard .

With effect from January 1, 2016, the previously independent municipalities of Montrichard and Bourré were merged to form a Commune nouvelle with the name Montrichard Val de Cher and have the status of a Commune déléguée in the new municipality . The administrative headquarters are in Montrichard.

location

Montrichard is located on the Cher River between Tours and Vierzon .

View of the Rue Porte aux Rois in the city center
Montrichard, aerial photo (2016)

history

Montrichard is a medieval city ​​and a former Angevin fortress . Its rectangular donjon is the remains of a castle from the 11th / 12th centuries. Century, originally from Count Fulko Nerra . The stone donjon was built by one of his successors as lord of Montrichard, Hugues I d'Amboise . The wine-growing town used to have an important strategic importance, because two important trade routes crossed here, namely the one from Bourges to Tours and the one from Paris to Spain . Until the 15th century Montrichard belonged to the Lords of Amboise . In 1461 Louis XI bought , a frequent admirer of the miraculous image around the suburb of Nanteuil, castle and town, but sold the property again. This then changed hands several times. In the 17th century the castle was finally uninhabitable.

Population development

  • 1962: 3020
  • 1968: 3313
  • 1975: 3857
  • 1982: 3783
  • 1990: 3786
  • 1999: 3624

Attractions

  • Notre-Dame de Nanteuil pilgrimage church, essentially from the 12th century, predominantly Gothic
  • Donjon, structured by pillars, consisted of three floors until 1589; with a history and local museum
  • the ruins of Montrichard Castle
  • Saint-Croix church at the foot of the Donjon, 16th to 19th centuries; It was here that the Duke Louis d'Orléans, who later became King Louis XII , married in 1476 . , Jeanne de Valois , daughter of Louis XI.
  • old houses, some in half-timbered construction

Movie

The city of Montrichard is known from Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can as the hometown of Frank W. Abagnale Jr.'s mother , where the wanted check fraudster Abagnale is caught in a print shop by the FBI.

Town twinning

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Decree 41-2015-12-02-003 of the Prefecture on the formation of the Commune nouvelle Montrichard Val de Cher ( Memento of the original of December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.loir-et-cher.gouv.fr
  2. Ivo Vynckier: arrest of the Escape Artist Frank Abagnale | Spielberg, Abagnale and OCR . In: Catch the Truth If You Can | Spielberg, Abagnale and OCR . ( spielberg-ocr.com [accessed May 31, 2018]).