Wassy

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Wassy
Wassy coat of arms
Wassy (France)
Wassy
region Grand Est
Department Haute-Marne
Arrondissement Saint-Dizier
Canton Wassy (main town)
Community association Saint-Dizier, Der et Blaise
Coordinates 48 ° 30 '  N , 4 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 30 '  N , 4 ° 57'  E
height 144-232 m
surface 33.82 km 2
Residents 2,905 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 86 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 52130
INSEE code 52550
Website http://villedewassy.fr/

Wassy, ​​Tour du Dôme

Wassy is a French commune with 2905 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haute-Marne department in the Grand Est region . Its inhabitants are called Wasseyens .

geography

Wassy is located on the Blaise , a small tributary of the Marne , and is the capital of the canton of Wassy in the arrondissement of Saint-Dizier .

history

In the year 211 Wassy was burned and looted by the Roman legions Caracallas , who became emperor in the same year.

The Scottish Queen Maria Stuart , lived as the wife of Francis II of France, in the castle at Wassy from 1559 to 1561. Francis II gave her the income from the lands around Wassy, Chaumont and Saint-Dizier for her livelihood .

The Wassy bloodbath happened on March 1st, 1562. When Duke Franz von Guise arrived in Wassy, ​​he heard that 500 to 600 Protestants were celebrating a service in a barn in the city, which was forbidden. The duke was lord of the place and at the same time head of the Catholic party. His men forcefully forced the Protestants to come out. 23 people died and 100 were injured. This incident marked the beginning of the First Huguenot War between French Protestants and Catholics.

Wassy was the seat of a sub-prefecture until the arrondissement was eliminated in 1926 . The arrondissement was restored in 1940, but now with Saint-Dizier as a sub-prefecture, as this city became much larger than Wassy, ​​which only remained the capital of the canton of the same name.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2016
Residents 3152 3286 3228 3316 3291 3294 3229 2891

Attractions

Church of Our Lady
SNCF Y 2200 at the Amis de la Gare de Wassy
  • Church of Our Lady from the late 12th century monument historique since 1875
  • The barn of the Wassy bloodbath, around 1562, reconstructed in the 19th century on the old site
  • Protestant museum established in 1990 in the former Protestant church (temple) from 1889 and dedicated to the history of the bloodbath
  • Old theater
  • Tour du Dôme , Monument historique since 1933
  • Caisse d'Épargne
  • Imprimerie Guillemin (Patrimoine industriel régional)
  • Cross Croix de la Perriere
  • Reservoir Lac des Leschères

Personalities

Born in Wassy on February 10, 1793 as the son of watchmaker Alexandre François Pernot, moved to Paris around 1811 to improve his engraving skills. He died in his hometown on November 3, 1865.
French geographer was born in Wassy in 1758 and died in Paris in 1817. He was a topographical cadastral office attaché. We owe him several commendable works on statistics and geography:
  • Tableau général de la nouvelle division de la France, Paris, 1802
  • Description topographique et statistique de la France, 1810, 2 volumes
  • Atlas de la France en départements (en 86 cartes), 1818
  • Atlas de grandes cartes du théâtre de la guerre en Orient, de l'Égypte, du Rhin et de la Belgique, etc.
  • Camille (1864–1943) and Paul Claudel (1868–1955) lived in Wassy from 1879 to 1881, where Camille's first work, a head of Bismarck, was written.
  • Michel Creton (* 1942), actor, born in Wassy

Town twinning

Web links

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