Varesnes
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| region | Hauts-de-France | |
| Department | Oise | |
| Arrondissement | Compiègne | |
| Canton | Noyon | |
| Community association | Pays Nyonnais | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 34 ' N , 3 ° 4' E | |
| height | 36-57 m | |
| surface | 9.15 km 2 | |
| Residents | 368 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 40 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 60400 | |
| INSEE code | 60655 | |
| Website | http://www.varesnes.fr.st/ | |
Varesnes is a northern French municipality with 368 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in Oise in the region of Hauts-de-France ; it belongs to the Arrondissement of Compiègne and the canton of Noyon .
geography
Varesnes is located on the Oise at an average altitude of 47 meters above sea level 94 kilometers northeast of Paris , 24 kilometers northeast of Compiègne , the seat of the sub-prefecture of the arrondissement, and 5 kilometers southeast of Noyon , the capital of the canton. The municipality has an area of 9.15 square kilometers.
history
During archaeological excavations, coins, weapons and shards from the Gallo-Roman period (52 BC to 486 AD) were found. The first written mention of Varesnes comes from the year 814. At that time the parish of Varesnes belonged to the diocese of Noyon . The first documented Seigneurie Varesnes was subordinate to Raoul I. Le Flamenc de Canny in 1128, whose principal fief was Canny-sur-Matz . His descendant, Raoul V. Le Flamenc († 1287), was Marshal of France . The Varesnes fief remained in the possession of the le Flamenc family until the 14th century, when it was brought into the Barbançon family by marriage. The latter kept the fief until the French Revolution (1789–1799). Since the then Seigneur had a positive attitude towards Protestantism , there was a small Protestant community in Varesnes from 1531. In 1560 he was suspected of participating in the Amboise conspiracy and of hiding weapons in the castle of Varesnes. He died on November 10, 1567 at the Battle of Saint-Denis . The Seigneurs of Varesnes then became Catholic again , but the Protestant parish remained until 1685. Then it was dissolved under the Edict of Fontainebleau .
| year | Residents |
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| 1793 | 590 |
| 1831 | 698 |
| 1866 | 488 |
| 1881 | 357 |
| 1936 | 290 |
| 1954 | 390 |
| 1962 | 401 |
| 1982 | 342 |
| 1999 | 382 |
| 2008 | 393 |
In 1616 Varesnes was made a marquisate . In 1630 Antoine de Barbançon had the castle rebuilt and received King Louis XIII there from May 28 to June 13, 1640 . of France (1601–1643). From 1746 there was a girls' school in Varesnes, which was run by nuns from Noyon. In his will in 1774, Margrave Antoine Duprat de Barbançon ordered the establishment of a hospital that would receive 2,000 livres a year. The hospital was built in 1776 at the instigation of his son. From 1777 residents of the six surrounding villages, who had received a certificate from the pastor regarding their poverty, were treated there free of charge. The hospital was run by the Sisters of Mercy . In 1776 the pastor of Varesnes handed over the management of the girls' school to the Sisters of Charity.
In 1793, Varesnes received the status of a municipality under the name of Varennes during the French Revolution . The Marquis de Barbançon fled the country and died in exile in Mannheim in 1797. Varesnes Church was sacked in 1794. The castle was sold. The new owner had walls removed and ditches filled in. He sold the stones as building material and finally the remains of the old castle with part of the property to a dealer from Paris. The hospital had to close without the seigneurial support. In 1801 Varesnes received the right to local self-government through the administrative reform under Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) . The marquis had left no heir. In 1802, the remnants of his property, including several forests and the former hospital, were given to a distant relative who sold everything in 1824. The Varesnes forest was sold again in 1837.
The community had the most inhabitants in 1831, in 1936 it only had less than half as many inhabitants (see table).
Culture and sights
The parish church of Saint-Géry is dedicated to the saint and bishop Géry de Cambrai (540–625). It is in the north of Varesnes on the banks of the Oise and on the route départementale D87, which runs as the main road through the village. The original church was built in the 16th century, but was later destroyed. The current church was built in the 18th or 19th century. In the church is the tombstone of the last resting place of Antoinette de Varesnes from 1587.
The new castle, which was built in the 19th century on the ruins of the old castle from the 16th century, was destroyed in the First World War (1914–1918). Despite the destruction in World War I, a few of the 17th, 18th and 19th century houses and farms in Varesnes have survived.
economy
The forest of Louvetain, which was southeast of the town center, was cleared after 1824 and converted into arable land . In 1836 pyrite deposits were discovered there. Ten years later, a factory for iron sulfate and aluminum oxide was built there. In 1851, when production was already declining, 30 workers were still employed, producing 300 tons of melanterite and alums per year. At the same time, the remaining chestnut trees from the Louvetain forest were used to make barrels . There was also a quarry where sandstone was mined until 1940 .
Web links
- Monuments historiques (objects) in Varesnes in the base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture
Individual evidence
- ↑ Le village de Varesnes. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved October 4, 2011 (French).
- ↑ a b c Varesnes - notice communal. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved October 9, 2011 (French).
- ^ Géry (Gaugerich) of Cambrai in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
- ↑ Entry No. 60655 in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Varesnes, Eglise paroissiale et ancien cimetière Saint-Géry. Dalle funéraire d'Antoinette de Varesnes. (No longer available online.) In: Inventaire du Patrimoine Culturel de Picardie. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 9, 2011 (French). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Entry No. 60655 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
