Quierzy

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Quierzy
Quierzy coat of arms
Quierzy (France)
Quierzy
region Hauts-de-France
Department Aisne
Arrondissement Laon
Canton Vic-sur-Aisne
Community association Chauny Tergnier la Fère
Coordinates 49 ° 34 '  N , 3 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 34 '  N , 3 ° 9'  E
height 38-73 m
surface 8.09 km 2
Residents 420 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 52 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 02300
INSEE code 02631

Quierzy (formerly Cariciacum, Carisiacum, Charisagum, Karisiacum ) is a French municipality with 420 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Aisne and the region Hauts-de-France .

geography

The municipality of Quierzy is located on the banks of the Oise between Noyon and Chauny , on the border with the Oise department .

Neighboring communities of Quierzy are Marest-Dampcourt in the north, Manicamp in the east, Bourguignon-sous-Coucy and Camelin in the south and Brétigny in the west.

history

After the Gallic War , Laeten were settled in the area , including on the manor of Charisius . 236 the place is mentioned for the first time as Charisilittae (Laeten des Charisius) .

Quierzy is mentioned for the first time as "Cariciacum" in 605, when Protadius, house master of King Theuderich II from the house of the Merovingians and favorite of the queen widow Brunichild , was killed here in the field camp by members of the army.

Pope Stephen II receives Pippin's deed of donation issued in Quierzy from Abbot Fulrad of Saint-Denis .

A hundred years later it belongs to the Carolingian family . Her royal palace, Quierzy , was located here , one of her most important residences in the western Franconian empire, of which nothing can be seen today. Here died in 741 , Charles Martel , the main residence was Pippin the Younger and the decisions were made that the establishment of the Papal States led ( Pippinsche donation ) In 877 finally adopted Karl the Bald here the Kapitular of Quierzy . Presumably, the Palatinate was largely destroyed by the Normans a few years later, in 890/891 .

The area around Quierzy remained the kingdom of the king, only Philip I transferred it to the Bishop of Noyon , who continued to use the Palatinate and only gave it up in the 16th century in favor of the Château de Quierzy on the banks of the Oise . Until the French Revolution, the country successively fell into the hands of the Chérisy, Montmorency , Roye, Halluin, Brûlart and Bussy-Rabutin families .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007
Residents 340 335 312 342 362 334 425

Attractions

  • The Königspfalz Quierzy , which presumably stood east of the town on the road to Manicamp , and of which there is no building structure left above ground
  • Remains of the castle of Quierzy on the right bank of the Oise, which was built in the 16th century in place of a fortress of the bishops of Noyon and of which part of a tower still exists (private property, monument historique )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Remnants of Quierzy Castle in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Web links

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