Prasville
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| region | Center-Val de Loire | |
| Department | Eure-et-Loir | |
| Arrondissement | Chartres | |
| Canton | Voves | |
| Community association | Coeur de Beauce | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 17 ' N , 1 ° 43' E | |
| height | 123-148 m | |
| surface | 16.26 km 2 | |
| Residents | 431 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 27 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 28150 | |
| INSEE code | 28304 | |
| Website | http://prasville28.pagesperso-orange.fr/ | |
 Mairie Prasville |
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Prasville is a French municipality with 431 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Eure-et-Loir in the region Center-Val de Loire . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Chartres and the canton of Voves .
geography
Prasville is located in the east of the Eure-et-Loir department at an average altitude of 136 meters above sea level 80 kilometers southwest of Paris and 25 kilometers southeast of Chartres , the seat of the prefecture of the department. The municipality covers an area of 16.26 square kilometers and also includes the hamlet of Mondonville Sainte-Barbe and the homestead Lansainvilliers.
history
Prasville was first mentioned in a document in 979 under the Latin name Probata villa , 'proven estate', when the village was donated to the Abbey of Saint-Père-en-Vallée in Chartres. The Prasville fiefdom was subordinate to the House of Le Puiset . Les Juifs , the residence of Hugo Capet , in which he died on October 24, 996, was located near Prasville . Around 1151 Adam Hareng, the Profos of Janville (Eure-et-Loir) , owned lands in Prasville. In 1232, Prasville appeared in documents as Praesvilla , as Prasville Le Hareng in 1565.
In 1736 the parish was called Saint Lubin de Prasville . On April 30, 1769, almost the entire village burned down. In 1793 Prasville was given the status of a municipality as Praville in the course of the French Revolution (1789-1799) and in 1801 also as Praville through the administrative reform under Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) the right to local self-government. During the Franco-Prussian War , Prasville was occupied by Prussian troops from November 17, 1870 to March 16, 1871 .
During the Second World War (1939-1945), two of the residents were executed by the German occupiers on June 23, 1944 for helping a pilot from the USA . In August 1944, five members of the Prasville Resistance were captured and executed on August 11 in Moutiers (Eure-et-Loir) by members of the SS .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2016 |
| Residents | 335 | 326 | 283 | 261 | 257 | 294 | 324 | 434 |
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Attractions
The Prasville moth dates from the 10th to 12th centuries. It has a diameter of about 40 meters, is shaped like a truncated cone and surrounded by a dry moat that is used as a walkway. It was the seat of the old Prasville Seigneurie .
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Le village de Prasville. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved September 17, 2011 (French).
- ^ Eugène de Lépinois, Lucien Merlet: Notre-Dame de Chartres. Cartulaire de Notre-Dame de Chartres. In: Cartulaires d'Île-de-France. École nationale des chartes, 1862, p. 1138 , accessed on September 28, 2011 (Latin / French).
- ^ Ernest Nègre: Toponymie générale de la France . tape 2 . Librairie Droz, 1996, ISBN 978-2-600-00133-5 , pp. 1001 ( online [accessed September 11, 2011]).
- ^ Prasville - notice communal. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved September 11, 2011 (French).
- ^ Architecture. In: Base Mérimée. Ministère de la culture, accessed September 10, 2011 (French).