Aubigny-on-Nère

Demography

Administration

Heraldic

Mouths, with the gold fermaillets| Malta-Brown |illustrated France (1882)

History

Almost six centuries ago, Charles VII gives the town of Aubigny to Jean Stuart de Darnley the (1423), most prestigious of the chiefs of the Scottish army which allowed him to put a term at the Guerre One hundred Year old in the name of the Auld Alliance (treated of mutual assistance between France and the Scotland concluded in XIIIe century). Interwiki: '' Lien towards the page devoted to the Dukes of Aubigny on English Wikipédia ''

Bérault and Robert Stuart, comrades in arms of the knight Bayard and contemporaries of Léonard de Vinci, made build the castles of Aubigny and the Verrerie. In 1512, a gigantic fire ruins the City of the Stuarts, nickname of Aubigny. Robert the changing, it will cost him three forests from where beautiful houses with wood sides which one sees today. Interwiki: '' Lien towards the page devoted to Bérault Stuart on English Wikipédia ''

Impelled by Stuarts and regulated by Colbert, the industry and the trade of cloth made the reputation of Albiniens.

Louise de Kéroualle, Duchesse of Portsmouth accepted Louis XIV the Duchy-Peerage of Aubigny. It embellishes the castles of Stuarts and bequeathed splendid gardens inspired by Ours.

Inheritance

The city constitutes today an exceptional whole of houses with Colombage S of the Renaissance time which have the characteristic all to be built in one or two generations.

Among these houses, most remarkable is that known as of François 1st. One can also quote that of Bailly, that known as of Jeanne d' Arc, the old inn known as Maison Midsummer's Day.

Aubigny counts also vestiges of its fortifications, three turns of duty are thus visible in the north of the city.

But the city was especially marked by the dynasty of Stuarts which there built the Castle (today town hall) and that of the Verrerie to Oizon (10 km, village belonging to the châtellenie of Aubigny).

Other buildings:

Church Saint Martin's day (the Gothic main thing building of Haut-Berry, stained glasses of XVIe S.)
Cloister of Augustins (old old people's home)
permanent Exposure > Memorial old free-Scottish alliance “Auld Alliance”
Museum Marguerite Audoux, writer, Price Fémina 1910 with Marie-Claire
Memorial Pierre Rake, companion of the Release

Events

Aubigny was Scottish during the 400 years of presence of the family of Stuarts. Also since 1990, it celebrates this identity by organizing free-Scottish Festivals each weekend of July 14th. With the program: historical spectacle sound and light, medieval market, pipe-bands, dressed up procession. To note that the first edition of the festivals took place in 1931 but which they became annual that since 1990.

Economy

Mecachrome (precision mechanics for aeronautics (Airbus) and development, machining and assembly of engines of Formula 1 (Renault Sport). Employ approximately 600-650 people

''' Wilo Intec ''' (in the past Driving WSC and Drouard): study and realization of pumps and ventilators, subsidiary of the German group Wilo AG, equipment supplier leader for the industry of the boilers of central heating. Employment approximately 400 people

Interwiki: '' Lien towards the page devoted to Wilo AG on German Wikipédia ''

Sotomob : located which occurred of the hippodrome Antoine of Vogue, creation and realization of pieces of furniture in agglomerate. Employ approximately 40 people

Butagaz : located which occurred Eugene Casella, undertaken filling of bottles of gas.

International twinnings

Haddington, Scotland
Vlotho, Germany - '' Lien on Vlotho towards German Wikipédia ''
Oxford, the Mississippi, the United States - '' Lien on Oxford towards English Wikipédia ''
Plopana, Romania

Others

the Cyclo-line inspection car S are pedal carriers installed on rails which make it possible to discover the the Sologne between Aubigny and the pond of the Well (water level with nautical activities: beach, ski…)

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