Yerres
| Yerres | ||
|---|---|---|
|
|
|
| region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Essonne | |
| Arrondissement | Evry | |
| Canton | Yerres ( chief lieu ) | |
| Community association | Val d'Yerres Val de Seine | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 43 ' N , 2 ° 29' E | |
| height | 32-116 m | |
| surface | 9.84 km 2 | |
| Residents | 29,029 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 2,950 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 91330 | |
| INSEE code | 91691 | |
| Website | http://www.yerres.fr/ | |
Yerres [jɛʁ] is a French town with 29,029 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the northeast of the Essonne department (on the border with the Val-de-Marne department ) and is located on the Yerres river of the same name , into which the Réveillon flows here.
geography
The city is bordered by Crosne (to the east), Montgeron (to the southwest), Brunoy (to the south), Villecresnes ( Val-de-Marne department , to the east) and Limeil-Brévannes (to the north). Yerres is part of the greater Paris area and can be reached from the capital using the RER D public transport line .
Yerres is located on a plateau that is divided by the Yerres Valley. The lowest point is 32 m above sea level, the highest 116 m. Wine used to be grown on the slopes, which is recorded in street names and in the city arms.
history
The history of Yerres is mentioned in tourist guides as early as the 18th century. The Abbé Leboeuf provided the most important basis with his history of the Diocese of Paris in 1883 , but no comprehensive work on the history of Yerre is available yet. The city has a lot to offer with monuments (the earliest from the 12th century) and park landscapes (19th century).
The history of the village begins with the founding of the Notre-Dame d'Yerres Abbey (between 1120 and 1132) at the point where the Réveillon stream flows into the Yerres. Up to the revolution, 44 Benedictine abbesses headed the abbey. In 1130 Guillaume de Hierra settled in a castle in Yerres, the towers of which can still be seen today at place du 11 novembre. There were often arguments about jurisdiction and mill rights between the secular lord and the abbess.
Personalities
In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Budé family became masters of Yerres. The famous scholar Guillaume Budé was the brother of the Lord of Yerres and owned a house not far from the castle.
In 1642 the Duke of Angoulème, Lord von Grosbois and Yerres, gave Italian monks a piece of land on which they built a monastery, les Camaldules. They lived according to the Rule of Saint Benedict and received guests to improve their finances. The most famous guest was Franz II Rákóczi (French François Rákoczy, Hungarian Rákóczi Ferenc, Slovak František Rákoci), hero of the Hungarian anti-Habsburg uprisings. He lived there and wrote his memoirs (in French) from 1715 to 1717. At his request, his heart was kept in a gold urn after his death, which was to be buried in the monks' cemetery. There is evidence that this happened, but the urn was never discovered later. After the French Revolution , the monastery overtook all religious institutions. The lightly built buildings fell into disrepair and left hardly any traces.
Pierre Larousse , author of an important encyclopedia, owned a house in 1866 on the grounds of the Concy monastery. It is said that he came to Yerres daily from Paris to complete his great universal dictionary of the 19th century ( Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle ).
In 1860 Gustave Caillebotte's father bought an estate on the banks of the Yerres, in which the artist painted around 80 pictures before the estate was sold in 1879. The most famous works by the impressionist from Yerres are portraits à la campagne, Baigneurs, Bords de l'Yerres, Canotiers ramant sur l'Yerres, Les orangers . The picturesque manor from the 19th century is open to the public as a municipal museum and park (noteworthy, in addition to its location on the river, are the many small fabriques buildings that line the park).
Attractions
See also: List of the Monuments historiques in Yerres
Saint-Honest church
The first parish in Yerres probably dates from the 12th century, originally a wooden church stood on the site of the current church. It has been dedicated to various saints over time: Saint Loup, Saint Vincent (patron saint of winemakers, there used to be many vineyards in Yerres), Saint Fiacre and finally Saint Honest. According to Abbé Martin (1883), the present church was built in the 13th century and changed in the following century. It contains a very beautiful gilded wooden pulpit and some religious art objects.
Town twinning
Yerres has had a town partnership with the German town of Mendig in Rhineland-Palatinate since 1966 .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de l'Essonne. Flohic Éditions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-126-0 , pp. 1009-1021.
