Souvigny
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Allier | |
| Arrondissement | Moulins | |
| Canton | Souvigny | |
| Community association | Moulins Community | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 32 ' N , 3 ° 12' E | |
| height | 224-357 m | |
| surface | 44.35 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,828 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 41 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 03210 | |
| INSEE code | 03275 | |
| Website | www.ville-souvigny.com | |
_Mairie.jpg) Mairie Souvigny |
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Souvigny is a commune with 1,828 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in Allier in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Moulins .
geography
The municipality of Souvigny is located on the Queune River , about twelve kilometers southwest of Moulins .
The districts and hamlets of Les Vergers, Chéry, La Varenne, Les Noix, La Forge and La Vivayre belong to the 44.35 km² municipality of Souvigny .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2016 |
| Residents | 2.165 | 2.212 | 2.119 | 1.929 | 2,024 | 1.952 | 1,958 | 1,866 |
Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Souvigny
Souvigny has some buildings or objects that are classified as Monument historique in the Base Mérimée , the database of the French Ministry of Culture, or are entered in its additional directory. The protected structures include:
- Monastery and monastery church of Souvigny ( Prieuré clunisien de Souvigny )
- Former Saint-Marc church, originally from the 12th century
The monastery and its church
In 915 the Bourbon Aymard I donated the church of St-Pierre in Souvigny to the monastery of Cluny . So monks also settled here. The place became the first capital of the Bourbonnais before the ducal seat was moved to Moulins. In 994 St. Majolus , 4th Grand Abbot of Cluny, died in Souvigny; the grave of the very famous person of his time became a magnet for many pilgrims, for whom the first three-aisled Romanesque church was built. In 1008 a priory was established, one of the "Five Daughters" of Cluny. In 1049 St. Odilo also died here . As a result, the number of pilgrims to the grave of the two saints increased, especially since Souvigny was on the route of the German Jakobus pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela . Two more naves were added. When the Bourbons made Souvigny their burial place, a chapel, the Chapelle Neuve, was added in 1448.
The monastery had had the right to mint since the 11th century ; a capital of the monastery church, known as "Les monnayeurs", shows monks how they beat money, weigh it and fill it into sacks.
In 1792 the monks left Souvigny and the middle tower was destroyed. During the French Revolution , most of the church's statues were badly damaged and anything that indicated the Bourbons as rulers was removed. However, the church was preserved as a building because it was raised to a parish church instead of the Saint-Marc church, which was abandoned.
Of the Romanesque church building, only the choir and parts of the nave are externally visible today. When the priory church was redesigned into a five-aisled church in the Gothic Flamboyant style , the west facade was also raised. The sacristy and three wings of the cloister are creations of the 18th and 19th centuries; a cloister wing dates back to the 15th century and has a Gothic groin vault .
Audio sample
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- Jean-Luc Perrot plays Romance l'Art du facteur d'orgues , Dom Bedos de Celles organ François-Henri Clicquot , Souvigny
Today the St. John Community (La communauté Saint Jean) owns the monastery.
West facade of Souvigny Abbey
Chapelle Neuve
Saint-Marc church
Couvent des Cordeliers de Champaigue
The Couvent des Cordeliers de Champaigue , founded in 1245 and located about a kilometer outside Souvigny, was one of the necropolises of the Lords of Bourbon ; it was destroyed during the directorate and replaced by a farm. The tomb of Duke Ludwig I's wife was rediscovered in a field by a farmer at the beginning of the 20th century and is now in the Musée du Pays de Souvigny in Souvigny.
Personalities
- Maiolus and Odilo , abbots of Cluny, buried in Souvigny (the graves were rediscovered in 2001)
- Jean-Baptiste Chardon , member of the Paris Commune (1871), born in Souvigny in 1839
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de l'Allier. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-053-1 , pp. 1001-1011.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monastery and monastery church in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ^ Church of Saint-Marc in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
