Vétheuil

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Vétheuil
Vétheuil coat of arms
Vétheuil (France)
Vétheuil
region Île-de-France
Department Val d'Oise
Arrondissement Pontoise
Canton Vauréal
Community association Vexin-Val de Seine
Coordinates 49 ° 4 ′  N , 1 ° 42 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′  N , 1 ° 42 ′  E
height 9-150 m
surface 4.30 km 2
Residents 857 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 199 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 95510
INSEE code 95651
Website http://www.mairie-vetheuil.fr/

Site with Church of Notre-Dame

Vétheuil is a small municipality in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France with 857 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), who are called Vétheuillais / es . It belongs to the canton of Vauréal and is about 60 kilometers northwest of Paris in an arch of the Seine .

The place became known through the painter Claude Monet , who created more than 150 works here.

geography

The place is located in the valley of the Seine and is surrounded by chalky rocks and the tree-covered slopes of the forest of Le Chesney . The municipality is located in the Vexin français Regional Nature Park .

history

The origin of the name Vétheuil, previously also Vétheuille and Véteuil , has not been clearly established.

The Normans occupied Vétheuil in the 9th century in order to prepare the further course of their raiding, which led them on the Seine to Paris . After the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte (911) Vetheuil was 912 in the manor of La Roche-Guyon . A castle with three defense towers is mentioned in 1067. The Trinitarian Order , founded in 1198 by Johannes von Matha (1154-1213) and Felix von Valois (1127-1212) in Cerfroid (today Brumetz , Picardy ), founded a hospital in Vétheuil in 1214 . From 1228 there was also a leper home . The castle and the village fell into the hands of the English at the beginning of the Hundred Years War and, after Bertrand du Guesclin's successful siege of the castle defended by Charles II of Navarre in April 1364, remained in the possession of the French crown before they fell in 1422 temporarily - for about twenty years - came under English rule again.

In 1635 the plague claimed numerous victims.

The castle, which was converted into a chateau, whose towers had since been demolished, was inhabited by the Morin de la Sablonnière family in the 18th century. It passed through the hands of different owners before it was acquired by the Margueritte family in 1898 (see personalities).

Number of inhabitants
(source: INSEE)
year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2009
Residents 518 527 687 689 732 858 885
From 1962 official figures excluding residents with a second residence

Attractions

Parish Church of Notre-Dame de Vétheuil

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Vétheuil

  • Parish Church of Notre-Dame (also Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité ): Parish church , in 1906 sarcophagi from the reign of the Merovingians were discovered under the nave of Notre-Dame de Vétheuil ; Notre-Dame presumably occupies the site of an earlier sacred building attested in the 11th century. Construction work began at the end of the 12th century with the choir and the church tower, the west facade was completed in 1540, the south portal in 1551. The church contained a remarkable five-part altarpiece (16th century), whose wings were in 1966 and 1973 were stolen. Two of these items returned to the Church in 2007 after being identified at an antique dealer. Notre-Dame de Vétheuil has been classified as a Monument historique since 1845 and is therefore a listed building .
  • Claude Monet's house: The so-called Claude Monet's house in today's rue Claude-Monet, was rented by the painter from 1878. This private house is not open to the public.
  • The basement of the former castle has been preserved, but not accessible.
  • The lavoir ( wash house ) from 1838 was restored in 1964 and is also worth seeing.
  • A trompe l'œil painting on a house wall on the town hall square shows some of the painters who used to live in Vétheuil.

Personalities

Claude Monet : View of Vétheuil , 1880

People with a relationship to the city

  • Claude Monet (1840–1926), French painter, lived and worked in Vétheuil. During this time he created around 150 paintings. One example is the painting Fin d'apres-midi, Vetheuil . His wife Camille Doncieux died on September 5, 1879 at the age of 32 in Vétheuil and is buried in the local cemetery.
  • Victor Margueritte (1866–1942) and his brother Paul Margueritte (1860–1918), French authors, lived in Vétheuil Castle
  • Joan Mitchell (1925–1992), American abstract expressionist painter, lived, worked and died in Vétheuil, where her Quebec partner, the painter Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923–2002), was also based. The community honored the latter by naming a school after him.

literature

  • Pierre Champion: Vétheuil, un village et son église , Ed. du Valhérmeil, ISBN 2-905684-59-3
  • Frances Fowle: Monet and French landscape - Vétheuil and Normandy , Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland u. a., 2006
  • David Joel: Monet at Vétheuil and on the Norman coast - 1878–1883 , Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club, 2002
  • Monet at Vétheuil - the turning point , Ann Arbor et al. a. 1998

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Origine de Vétheuil on the website of the mayor's office of Vétheuil.
  2. ↑ INSEE: Population figures from 1962
  3. ^ Louis Régnier: L'Eglise de Vétheuil. Retable de la Passion (PDF; 38 kB) on www.culture.gouv.fr, website of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Web links

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