Tillières-sur-Avre

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Tillières-sur-Avre
Coat of arms of Tillières-sur-Avre
Tillières-sur-Avre (France)
Tillières-sur-Avre
region Normandy
Department Your
Arrondissement Bernay
Canton Verneuil-sur-Avre
Community association Interco Normandie Sud Eure
Coordinates 48 ° 45 '  N , 1 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 45 '  N , 1 ° 3'  E
height 128-179 m
surface 16.76 km 2
Residents 1,081 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 64 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 27570
INSEE code 27643

Medieval city gate

Tillières-sur-Avre is a French commune with 1,081 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Eure in the region of Normandy .

history

On aerial photographs traces can be seen of a building. The surrounding trench was straight on one side and otherwise semicircular. The building can not be dated without prospecting . Such finds mostly come from Gallo-Roman times, but they can also come from the Iron Age or the Middle Ages.

In the place on the historical border between France and Normandy on the river Avre , there is evidence of a castle built by Richard the Good (other sources mention Richard III ) as early as 1017 . Numerous renovations over the centuries led to the renaissance castle from 1546.

In 1070 the seigneur of the place, Gislebert II. Crespin, donated the church of Saint-Hilaire and the tithe to the abbey of Le Bec . Gislebert IV. Crespin called himself Gilbert de Tillières. In 1370, Gilbert VII and Charles V exchanged the barony of Tillières for Longchamps . In 1376 Charles VI gave away . Tillières to Guy le Baveux for his services in the Battle of Cocherel . Guy's grandson Jean got caught up in the turmoil of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). He served the English king in 1414 but later fought again for the French king and was hanged in Dreux in 1420 . His sister Agnes inherited Tillières, she was the widow of Jean Le Veneur, who died in 1415 at the Battle of Azincourt . Charles VII had given Agnes the title of her husband. Tillières was raised to Comté in 1505 . The Comté remained in the hands of the Le Veneur family until the French Revolution (1789–1799).

During the Second World War (1939-1945) Tillières-sur-Avre was bombed by the Allied Air Force in the summer of 1944 during Operation Overlord .

Population development

year 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2009 2017
Residents 1163 1267 1174 1185 1179 1226 1081
Source: INSEE , for 2009

Town twinning

The community has maintained a partnership with the Wendehausen district of the Südeichsfeld community in Thuringia for many years .

Culture and sights

The Saint-Hilaire church

The Saint-Hilaire church was built from 1535 to 1546. It has Romanesque elements on the outside , which have been visible again since a renovation in 1969. The interior of the church was designed in the Renaissance style by Jean Goujon . The church was classified as a monument historique in 1862 . In the church, a piece of the black ribbon of the liter funéraire (mourning ribbon) has been preserved in two places . The remains of a coat of arms can be seen on one piece, but it is too blurred to be able to assign it.

Protected Geographical Indications (IGP) apply to pork (Porc de Normandie) , poultry (Volailles de Normandie) and cider (Cidre de Normandie and Cidre normand) in the municipality .

Personalities

literature

  • A. Mouton: Histoire de Tillières-sur-Avre. RES UNIVERSIS 1990. (Reprint of the first edition from 1926)

Web links

Commons : Tillières-sur-Avre  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-Noël Le Borgne, Véronique Le Borgne, Pascale Eudier, Annie Etienne: Archeologie Aérienne dans l'Eure . Ed .: Association Archéo 27. Page de Garde, Caudebec-les-Elbeuf 2002, ISBN 2-84340-230-1 , p. 26 + 29 .
  2. ^ Communauté de Communes du Pays de Verneuil-sur-Avre. ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ 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 2 . Auguste Herissey, Évreux 1864, p. 327 (French, books.google.fr ).
  4. ↑ Excursion in the Pays Drouais . In: Société historique et archéologique de l'Orne (ed.): Bulletin . No. 54 . Alençon 1935, p. 68 (French, gallica.bnf.fr ).
  5. ↑ a b Pierre Bodin: Les liters seigneuriales des églises de l'Eure . Ed .: Amis des Monuments et Sites de l'Eure, Amis de Bernay, Conseil général de l'Eure, Direction, Régionale des Affaires Culturelles [DRAC]. Corlet, Condé-sur-Noireau May 2005, pp. 165 f . (French).
  6. ↑ A.-V. de Walle: Évreux et l'Eure pendant la guerre . Charles Herissey, Évreux 2000, ISBN 2-914417-05-5 , pp. 176 (French, first edition: 1946).
  7. ↑ List of the municipalities of Eure. (No longer available online.) In: eure.pref.gouv.fr. Préfecture of Eure, archived from the original on April 27, 2013 ; Retrieved on August 14, 2011 (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.eure.pref.gouv.fr
  8. ↑ Église Saint-Hilaire in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  9. ↑ Le village de Tillières-sur-Avre. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved July 22, 2012 (French).