Bouxières-with-ladies

Geography

The village is located on the side of a hill, directed south-north, which overhangs the confluence of the the Moselle and the Meurthe to its north-north-west. It is located at the north-north-east of Nancy, along the highway has 31. The village is divided into five parts:

top of the village around the remainders of the abbey and the lawn, on the summit part of the hill.
the heart of the village around the church and the town hall,
the recent district of Neveaux on the northern side of the hill,
the district of the hazel trees in the small valley of the brook of the pond of Merrey,
zones along Meurthe.

History

With the passing of years the village was called Villa Buxarius in pago Calvomontense (770), Buxarie , Buxerie super fluvium Mertuum (932), Bosseria (1070), Bosherie (1164), Bosseres (1188), Boissiers-have-Nonains (1238), Buxières-AD-Ladies (1340), Bourcières-with-Ladies (1471).

The name of Bouxières comes from Latin buxaria (of buxux : Boxwood), with the suffix - aria. It thus indicated a planted place of boxwood.

The abbey

The second part of the name of the commune comes from sound abbey from Chanoinesse S or “ladies”, founded by Saint Gauzelin. Resulting from a noble franque family, he was notary of the royal chancellery when the king Charles Simple the indicated it as bishop of Toul. Following a visit with the Abbaye of Fleury to the Saint-Benoit-on-Loire it founded in Lorraine the male monastery of Saint-Epvre and the abbey of benedictines Bouxières-with-Ladies into 936. He lived in poverty and died into 962. The legend says that a stag appeared to him indicating to him where to found the abbey.

At the 15th century the abbey is transformed into chapter of chanoinesses, which must have several districts of Noblesse

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