Bénisson-God

Bénisson-God is a common French, located in the department of the the Loire and the area the Rhone-Alps.

Geography

The prehistoric remainders of Anthracotherium were discovered on the territory of the commune.

History

The canon Jean-Marie of Mure in her Histoire of Drill (1674) brings back the first historical elements. The history of Bénisson-God takes source at the time of the foundation of the Abbey the September 29th, 1138 by Albéric, disciple of Bernard de Clairvaux. The site then shows the traditional characteristics for the foundation of an abbey cistercian. An abbey is set up with its abbey church.

Towards 1500, the abbey is managed in the form of commende and Pierre of the End associates a bell-tower to him strengthened as well as an arrow overhanging the chorus.

The July 3rd, 1612, the abbey of men, ruined by the wars, becomes an abbey of women with at her head Francoise de Nérestang, girl of Philibert de Nérestang former member of a league, rejoined before with the king Henri IV assassinated in 1610. The abbey in ruin then is restored, altered and equipped with a vault baroque completed in 1651.

Under the revolution, the ruined abbey is evacuated. Its buildings are sold and the conventual buildings dismantled to be used as stone quarry. A few years later, the church is repurchased by the inhabitants and becomes the parish church.

The Abbot Dart wrote a very complete history of the abbey. Published in 1880, a republication is available on the spot. See the site.

At the time of the Industrial revolution of the 19th century, the commune develops and obtains an activity of manufacture with bricks and tiles which stops in the middle of the 20th century. The agricultural activity changes then passing from policulture to the bovine breeding.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the Abbaye of Bénisson-God is a Cistercian abbey founded at the 12th century. Abbey church, it does not remain only any more a central nave integrated in the current parish church. It is a typical construction of the transitional period novel-Gothic. It presents frescos, statues, sculptures and old stained glasses in greyness with a pretty rosette. Vault baroque of the 17th century. Guided visits.

the village counts beautiful houses built out of yellow stones in rammed (see the notarial house in the center of the village). Always in the center of the village, some houses show their walls assembled starting from tiles of rebus, memory of the tuilière activity whose another vestige is the chimney of the still visible brickyard in the village.

On the heights and in the south of the borough, the Castle of Montcorbier and the Castle of Montaudry built by the Godinot family at the 19th century.

Economy

Events

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Loire

External bonds

Site of the Abbey of Bénisson-God
the Abbey of Bénisson-God on the site of the abbeys cistercians
Bénisson-God on the site of the national geographical Institute
Bénisson-God on the site of INSEE
Bénisson-God on the site of Quid
Localization of Bénisson-God on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane of Bénisson-God on Mapquest

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