Taizé-Aizie

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Taizé-Aizie
Taizé-Aizie (France)
Taizé-Aizie
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Charente
Arrondissement Confolens
Canton Charente North
Community association Val de Charente
Coordinates 46 ° 4 ′  N , 0 ° 14 ′  E Coordinates: 46 ° 4 ′  N , 0 ° 14 ′  E
height 83-163 m
surface 14.81 km 2
Residents 577 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 39 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 16700
INSEE code 16378

Parish hall ( Marie )

Taizé-Aizie is a French commune in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine in the department of Charente . It is assigned to the canton of Charente-Nord and the Arrondissement Confolens .

geography

The Charente at Taizé-Aizie

The place with 577 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) is located in a bend of the Charente river that extends to the southeast, 5 km northeast of Ruffec and 58 kilometers south of Poitiers in the north of the Charente department. The municipality borders the Vienne department and the Deux-Sèvres department is only five kilometers away.

history

Aerial photographs have revealed that the village was near a Roman road . It was the ancient traffic route that led from Saintes to Charroux and crossed the road from Angoulême to Poitiers near Ruffec.

In 1731 a blast furnace and two metal refineries were built on the site that was given the field name Les Forges . In 1762 Charles-François de Broglie bought the business from the Duke of Saint-Simon , but the complex was secularized during the French Revolution . Also under the republic were u. a. Cast cannonballs . At the beginning of the 19th century the forge was sold several times, first in 1809 to Adélaïde-Charlotte de Broglio and around 1830 to the family company Marsat Fils , which had a second blast furnace and a third metal refinery built. In 1840 the company employed forty workers and produced 800 tons of cast iron a year. In 1860, Pierre-Émile Martin took over the foundry and supplied the arms factory Manufacture Nationale d'Armes de Châtellerault . In 1879 operations were stopped and in 1884 the blast furnaces were demolished. In 1889 the metal refinery was also given up. Today there is a flour mill in Les Forges .

The old mill Moulin de l'Isle , which processed grain, was converted into the then modern grain mill Minoterie Bernard at the end of the 19th century .

Population development

year 1936 1946 1954 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2008 2015
Residents 521 514 568 458 408 412 485 544 564 581 590

Attractions

Saint-Pierre church
  • The Romanesque church of the parish of Saint-Pierre originally belonged to the priory of Sainte-Radegonde d'Aizie de Yissia , an offshoot of the Abbey of Notre-Dame de la Réau (in today's parish of Saint-Martin-l'Ars , Vienne department). The striking bronze bell is dated to 1666. The church, which was renovated in the 19th century, has been a listed building since 1943.
  • 19th century flour mill
  • Foundry dating back to 1731

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Taizé-Aizie on www.culture.gouv.fr
  2. ^ Société archéologique et historique de la Charente: Bulletins de la Charente , p. 334. F. Goumard, Angoulême, 1860.
  3. ↑ The bell bears the following Latin inscription in addition to an unidentifiable coat of arms: JESUS ​​MARIA JOSEPH. SANCTE PETRE ORA PRO NOBIS. FRANÇOIS TOUZALIN, PRIEUR DE CEANS. DAMOISELLE MARIE POISSON, MARINE, FILLE DE FRANÇOIS ESCUYER, SEIGNEUR DE OISIOLLE.

Web links

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