Saint-Grégoire-du-Vièvre

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Saint-Grégoire-du-Vièvre
Saint-Grégoire-du-Vièvre (France)
Saint-Grégoire-du-Vièvre
region Normandy
Department Your
Arrondissement Bernay
Canton Beuzeville
Community association Lieuvin Pays d'Auge
Coordinates 49 ° 15 ′  N , 0 ° 38 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 15 ′  N , 0 ° 38 ′  E
height 67-167 m
surface 8.97 km 2
Residents 318 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 35 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 27450
INSEE code 27550

View of the valley

Saint-Grégoire-du-Vièvre is a commune with 318 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Eure in the region of Normandy . The parish is best known for depicting attacks by wolves and a dark flint picture puzzle on the south facade of the Saint-Grégoire church.

geography

Saint-Grégoire-du-Vièvre is located in northern France in the Lieuvin countryside , 44 kilometers southeast of Le Havre , about 18 kilometers north of Bernay , the seat of the sub-prefecture of the Arrondissements , and 3.6 kilometers east of Saint-Georges-du-Vièvre , the capital of the canton at an average altitude of 117 meters above sea ​​level . The Mairie stands at a height of 155 meters. Neighboring municipalities of Saint-Grégoire-du-Vièvre are Saint-Georges-du-Vièvre in the west, Freneuse-sur-Risle in the northeast, Livet-sur-Authou in the southeast, Saint-Benoît-des-Ombres in the south and Saint-Victor- d'Épine in the southwest. The municipality has an area of ​​897 hectares. The Croix Blanche ('white cross') stream passes through the municipality. It is called Authou by the locals (compare Authou ).

The municipality is assigned to a type Cfb (according to Köppen and Geiger ) climate zone : 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

When Rollo (860–931 / 932) divided Neustria among his followers, he kept the Vièvre forest to himself. The forest reached in the 11th century from Saint-Étienne-l'Allier (4 kilometers northwest of Saint-Georges-du-Vièvre) to the Risle. Saint-Grégoire was a quart-fief de Haubert , roughly 'quartered fiefdom of the ring armor '. This form of subdivision of fiefs was common in feudalism only in Normandy and Brittany . The owner of the fiefdom automatically became a knight when he inherited the fiefdom and was 21 years old and had to serve in his master's rural army. The ring armor was the symbol of chivalry in this context. When these fiefs were inherited, they could be divided into up to eight parts. In the 13th century the fiefs of Saint-Grégoire-du-Vièvre were subordinate to the Duchy of Vendôme , from the 14th to the 16th century to the House of Bourbon , most recently King Henry IV. The fief of Saint-Grégoire was subordinate to the respective from the 16th century Bishop of Avranches or his barony of Saint-Philbert . Three other fiefdoms in Saint-Grégoire-du-Vièvre were Salle, Loges and La Noe. Salle was also a Quart-fief de Haubert and from the 16th century was also under the bishops of Avranches. The seigneur of Saint-Grégoire and Salle had the right to Low jurisdiction and the banalité on water mills . The Seigneur of Saint-Grégoire was allowed to determine the pastor of the place.

In the Ancien Régime (1589–1789) there were occasional deaths from attacks by wolves .

1793 received Saint-Grégoire-du-Vièvre in the course of the French Revolution (1789-1799) as Saint Gregoire the status of a municipality and 1801 as Saint-Grégoire through the administrative reform under Napoleon Bonaparte the right to local self-government .

In the 19th century a mairie and a school were built. Today these buildings are used as residential buildings. A new Mairie was built in the 1950s when the village center shifted to Départementsstrasse .

Population development

year 1793 1800 1846 1851 1866 1872 1886 1896 1962 1968 1982 2011
Residents 1,026 1,035 914 853 739 647 501 435 311 280 301 348

Culture and sights

“The world is corrupt”, the picture puzzle from the 16th century
The knight and his horse, flint inlay from the 16th century
Wolf attack, depiction from the 16th century.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, 157 half-timbered houses were built in Saint-Grégoire-du-Vièvre, 32 of which are still standing. The houses and farms are thatched with slate or thatch .

In 1902 the Cormeilles  - Glos  - Montfort railway line was set up. It ran on the southern edge of the municipality. The transportation of passengers and goods ended in the 1930s. The remains of the rails and the stop can be seen on the signposted Chemin des Ponts et Gués ('Path of Bridges and Fords ') trail .

The “Valley of the Authou” (actually the valley of the Croix Blanche) is protected as a site classé (“natural monument”) in Saint-Grégoire-du-Vièvre, Freneuse-sur-Risle and Livet-sur-Authou .

The Saint-Grégoire church

Saint-Grégoire-du-Vièvre belongs to the Roman Catholic community Communauté de Saint Georges du Vièvre , which is part of the Montgeoly parish of the Diocese of Évreux .

The Saint-Grégoire church was built in the 13th century. It is dedicated to Pope Gregory the Great . After the Hundred Years War (1337-1453), extensive repairs were carried out in the 16th century. There is religious graffiti on the south wall of the nave . Such graffiti was scratched into churches by pilgrims in the Ancien Régime in Lieuvin . There are also images made of dark flint from the 16th century at a height of about three meters. It is the representation of attacks by wolves, a horse, its rider and a picture puzzle. The solution to the picture riddle is le monde est corrompu et faux sal , in German something like 'the world is corrupt and wrong'. The addition sal is incomprehensible. The picture puzzle was analyzed by Arthur Join-Lambert and Fulcanelli , but never completely solved. Both saw the entire representations on the church facade in context.

In the 19th century the north wall of the nave was repaired and a sacristy was built. The church tower was built in 1886 and the church windows were made between 1895 and 1910. The church was entered in the supplementary directory of the Monuments historiques in 2008 . In the 19th century, the remains of the liter funéraire could still be seen on the facade .

There are works of art from the 15th to 20th centuries in the church. The 16th century baptismal font was classified as a monument historique in 1907. Two statues of the Virgin and Child from the 15th and 16th centuries were also classified as historical monuments in 1907 and 1908. A side altar is dedicated to Saint Ursinus of Bourges . There is a statue of Ursinus from the 16th century, which is still used today as a pilgrimage site. According to popular belief, Ursinus heals abdominal pain.

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2009, 16.2 percent of the workforce were employed in the municipality, the rest were commuters . 8.5 percent of the employees were unemployed .

The nearest stop is the Glos - Montfort train station in Glos-sur-Risle, 4.9 kilometers away . The nearest airport is Deauville Airport in Saint-Gatien-des-Bois, 23 miles away .

In the municipality there are controlled designations of origin (AOC) for Calvados and Pommeau (Pommeau de Normandie) as well as Protected Geographical Indications (IGP) for pork (Porc de Normandie) , poultry (Volailles de Normandie) and cider (Cidre de Normandie and Cidre normand) .

Web links

Commons : Saint-Grégoire-du-Vièvre  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Saint-Grégoire du Vievre où la construction du premier édifice a été estimée au 21 août 1100. (No longer available online.) In: tourisme-vievre-lieuvin.fr. Office de Tourisme Vièvre Lieuvin, archived from the original on June 29, 2013 ; Retrieved June 16, 2013 (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.tourisme-vievre-lieuvin.fr
  2. ↑ a b c Bernard Bodinier (ed.): L'Eure de la Préhistoire à nos jours . Jean-Michel Bordessoules, Saint-Jean-d'Angély 2001, ISBN 2-913471-28-5 , pp. 212 (French).
  3. ↑ a b c d Entry No. 27550 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  4. ↑ Yves Montron: A La Decouverte De L'Eure . Editions Charles Corlet, Condé-sur-Noireau 1997, ISBN 2-85480-616-6 , pp. 82 (French).
  5. ↑ a b c d Arthur Join-Lambert: Les Inscriptions (Rébus et Énigmes) de l'Église de Saint-Grégoire-du-Vièvre . In: Jean De Witte, François Lenormant, Robert de Lasteyrie (eds.): Gazette archéologique: recueil de monuments pour servir à la connaissance et à l'histoire de l'art antique . No. 13 . A. Levy, 1888, ISSN  2022-4788 , pp. 233-244 (French, online ).
  6. ↑ a b l'église de saint Grégoire-du-Vièvre. In: herre.delboy.perso.sfr.fr. Epistola, October 4, 2004, accessed June 16, 2013 (French).
  7. ↑ La Croix Blanche at SANDRE (French)
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  9. ^ Fief de Chevalier, ou Fief de Haubert. In: Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Ed .: Denis Diderot , Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert . Volume 6. Paris 1756, pp. 700 f.
  10. ^ François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chenaye-Desbois (1699–1784): Dictionnaire historique des moeurs, usages et coutumes des François . tape 2 . Vincent, Paris 1767, p. 169 (French, online historical dictionary).
  11. ↑ Auguste Le Prevost : Mémoires et notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost pour servir à l'histoire du département de l'Eure . Ed .: Léopold Delisle , Louis Paulin Passy. tape 3 . Auguste Herissey, Évreux 1869, p. 117, 130 f . (French, in Archive.org ).
  12. ↑ a b Saint-Grégoire-du-Vièvre - notice communal. In: Cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved June 16, 2013 (French).
  13. ↑ Image JO du 05/03/1993, text: 3438. In: legifrance.gouv.fr. Secrétariat général du Gouvernement, accessed on July 2, 2013 (French).
  14. ↑ Montgeoly. (No longer available online.) Diocèse d'Évreux, archived from the original on September 22, 2015 ; Retrieved June 16, 2013 (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
  15. ↑ Entry No. 27550 in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  16. ^ Commune: Saint-Grégoire-du-Vièvre (27550). Theme: Tous les thèmes. In: Insee.fr. Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques , accessed on June 16, 2013 (French).