Brassac-the-Mines

Denomination

The current denomination was officialized on an unknown date (supposed between 1882 and 1943). Previously, the commune was called Brassac (see the common homonyms).

Geography

Localities and variations

Bayard

Communes bordering

in the Canton of Twins (District of Issoire, Department of the Puy-de-Dôme):

Twin Auzat-la-Combelle and ;

in the Canton of Saint-Germain-Lembron (District of Issoire, Department of the Puy-de-Dôme):

Beaulieu and Coalman-the-Mines;

in the Canton of Auzon (District of Brioude, department of the Haute-Loire):

Holy-Florine and Vézézoux.

History

The head-frame of the Bayard well testifies to the mining past of Brassac. Exploited since XVIIe, the mine S of coal closed definitively in 1978. The Bayard well was the exploited last. Coal was transported by boat on Combining it. The opening of the channel of Briare, in the years 1640, made it possible to connect To combine it in the Seine and supported transport to Paris. From 1855, with the opening of the line of Issoire, it is by the train that coal is transported. On the score of head-frames present in the field (Brassac, Coalman, Frugères-the-mines), only those of Bayard and Combelle were preserved.

Administration

Demography

Religious heritage

Civil inheritance

Twinnings

Museums

Museum of the Mine, created by former minors.
Peynet Museum, around the work of Raymond Peynet (1908 - 1999), in which the mother was originating in Brassac. There exists also a Peynet Museum and humorous Dessin with Antibes.

See too

Common of the Puy-de-Dôme

External bonds

Official site of the commune
Site of Antr@site Association Without Fil This association seeks to set up a Wi-Fi network on the community of communes of the Field and its neighborhoods, and thus to create a data-processing network free, without wire and independent

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