Morsan

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Morsan
Morsan (France)
Morsan
region Normandy
Department Your
Arrondissement Bernay
Canton Brionne
Community association Intercom Bernay Terres de Normandie
Coordinates 49 ° 11 ′  N , 0 ° 36 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′  N , 0 ° 36 ′  E
height 155-175 m
surface 4.83 km 2
Residents 108 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 22 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 27800
INSEE code 27418

Mairie (Mayor's Office)

Morsan is a French municipality with 108 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Eure in the region of Normandy .

geography

Morsan is located 10 kilometers north of Bernay , 10 kilometers west of Brionne , between the neighboring communities of Giverville in the north-west, Boissy-Lamberville in the south and Notre-Dame-d'Épine in the north-east. on the eastern edge of the Lieuvin .

Morsan is one of the municipalities in the Eure department in which there is a risk of holes being suddenly formed meters deep. The so-called Marnières are old marl pits that can open, for example, after heavy rain, when the debris is washed into the side passages. These holes usually have a diameter of 1.5 to 2 meters. There are around 16,000 of these marl pits in the entire Eure department.

Morsan is assigned to a type Cfb climate zone (according to Köppen and Geiger) : warm, moderate rainy climate (C), fully humid (f), warmest month below 22 ° C, at least four months above 10 ° C (b). There is a maritime climate with a moderate summer.

history

Old spellings for Morsan were Morçan (see Cassini map), Morchent (1050-1066), Murcench (11th century), Morceng (13th century), Morsent or Morseng . The place name was derived from the Latin words muro cinctus , which means "wall belt". It belonged to the Abbey of Le Bec until Jean de Morsent refused to pay tithing in 1276 because he needed the money for his followers in times of war.

Morsan was the ancestral home of the Morsan branch of the Le Sens family (also reading or de Sens ). Chevalier Philémon Le Sens, was the first baron of Morsan. He belonged to the court ( Maison du Roi ) of Henry IV of France and was governor of Bernay. He had a hunting lodge built in Morsan. At the time of Abdon-Thomas-François Le Sens (1724–1800), the squire of Louis XV. was before he became Marquis of Morsan, the hunting lodge was redesigned by Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698–1782).

In 1793 Morsan received in the course of the French Revolution (1789–1799) the status of a municipality and in 1801 through the administrative reform under Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) the right to local self-government.

Abdon-Thomas Le Sens, Marquis de Morsan, was arrested in 1793 and imprisoned in Bernay. He later managed to get his plundered lands back. He died in Paris in 1800. His grandson Joseph-Philemon lived in Morsan in the partially restored castle from 1845. In 1871, during the Franco-Prussian War , it was looted again by the Prussian army. His son Florian-Gaston was the last Marquis de Morsan, he died in 1929.

Number of inhabitants
(source:)
year 1793 1806 1856 1881 1926 1936 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006
Residents 423 478 321 222 125 111 130 93 70 92 106

From 1806 to 1936 the population steadily decreased. Morsan had the fewest inhabitants in 1990 (70).

Culture and sights

The castle of Morsan
The choir of the church de la sainte Trinité

The church de la sainte Trinité (Holy Trinity) dates from the 13th century, from that time only the nave has been preserved. Larger windows were used in the 17th century. The choir dates from the end of the 17th century. In the church there are several objects classified as Monument historique (historical monument): a large altarpiece from the second half of the 17th century with Corinthian columns , which contains a tabernacle . On the right, in a niche, there is a group of sculptures made of wood, one of which shows the Archangel Gabriel . To the left is a wooden statue depicting Germanus of Auxerre . In the center is a 19th century painting depicting the Holy Family . There are also five 18th century prayer chairs in the Louis-seize style and an eagle lectern from the end of the 17th century in the Louis-quatorze style .

Morsan belongs to the Roman Catholic Community of Giverville , which is part of the Montgeoly parish of the diocese of Évreux .

The castle is called Le Château Blanc ('the white castle') by the population because of its color . The original castle was built at the end of the 16th or the beginning of the 17th century but rebuilt in the 18th century and changed a lot. The staircase was renewed in the 19th century. The originally double-winged staircase was replaced by a spiral staircase. The parquet in the large salon and the wall paneling in the "library" were also replaced. The wall paneling in the large salon dates from the 18th century. The road leads from the village directly to the main courtyard , which today serves as a pasture. Then the path continues between two towers from the 16th century to the forecourt of the castle. However, the entrance is not on this side, but in the south. In front of the entrance there is a statue of Pan by a pool. The south and east sides of the building are richly decorated; in the west, the wind from the sea has worn away the soft Loire sandstone. The south side shows various motifs from Greek mythology. The foundations of the castle are made of flint and brick and date from the 16th century. The south tower has not been restored, it has a fireplace on each of the three floors. The castle is privately owned and was decorated by its owners in the Rococo style.

economy

Dew roast in a field in Morsan

Important occupations of the Morsanais are agriculture ( agriculture and livestock) and trade. Above all, cereals, fodder beets and apples are grown and domestic cattle are raised. In the municipality, there are controlled designations of origin (AOC) for Pont-l'Évêque cheese , calvados and pommeau (Pommeau de Normandie) as well as Protected Geographical Indications (IGP) for pork (Porc de Normandie) , poultry (Volailles de Normandie) and cider ( Cider de Normandie and Cider normand) .

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Morsan  - collection of images
  • Morsan on cartesfrance.fr (French)

References

  1. ↑ a b c Morsan on annuaire-mairie.fr (French).
  2. ↑ List of the municipalities of Eure. (No longer available online.) In: eure.pref.gouv.fr. Préfecture of Eure, archived from the original on April 27, 2013 ; Retrieved on August 14, 2011 (French). Info: The archive link was 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.eure.pref.gouv.fr
  3. ^ Ernest Nègre: Toponymie générale de la France . tape 1 . Librairie Droz, 1990, ISBN 2-600-02884-6 , pp. 393 (French, books.google.com ).
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  5. ^ A b Edouard de Magny: Nobiliaire de Normandie . tape 2 . Paris 1863, p. 475 f . (French, visualizeur.bnf.fr ).
  6. ↑ Bruno Brismontier: Brionne, une douce folie normande. Normandy, to original Splendor . In: Dominique Guiou (ed.): Le Figaro . No. 114 , September 2008, p. 32 f . (English France).
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  8. ^ A b Franck Beaumont, Philippe Seydoux: Gentilhommières des pays de l'Eure . Editions de la Morande, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-902091-31-2  ( formally incorrect ) , p. 297-299 (French).
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  11. ↑ Montgeoly. (No longer available online.) Diocèse d'Évreux, archived from the original on September 22, 2015 ; Retrieved November 27, 2011 (French). Info: The archive link was 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 / evreux.catholique.fr
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  15. ↑ Morsan - Culture de céréales on annuaire-mairie.fr (French), accessed on March 29, 2015.
  16. ↑ Morsan on aoc-igp.fr in French, accessed March 29, 2015.
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