Brix

Brix (to pronounce /bi: /) is a common French, located in the department of the Manche and the area Basse-Normandie. Its inhabitants is called Brions.

Geography

History

See excel it work of Claude Pithois: BRIX, CRADLE OF the KINGS Of SCOTLAND (1980, Editions Charles Corlet, Condé-sur-Noireau).

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

The Château Adam is the oldest monument of the commune of Brix. It draws its name from Adam de Bruis or Brix, lord of the place, living in XIe century.

It is about an enclosure formed by an important lifting of ground with its ditch, and interior court, the whole placed at the top of a barred spur. This principal enclosure is accompanied towards the west by a low court itself protected by a hillock and its ditch. This last enclosure is nothing any more but partially visible.

Until 1204, stone constructions existed in the enclosure located at the end of the barred spur. A round tower seems to have ordered the place. There remain nothing any more but not easily readable substuctions about it.

The site was repurchased at the XIXe century by another family of Brix . In 1912, a new castle was built on part of the old low court, in the style of the XVIIIe French century. The war of 1914-1918 did not allow completion of it, which saved destruction a house presbytérale XVIIe century

Personalities related to the commune

  • Family Bruce, kings of Scotland.

  • Herve Dannemont, wire junior by a Glass Master of Brix, it leaves the Normandy for the island Bourbon, where it arrives on July 9th, 1665 aboard ship the Bull. It is one of the first 20 colonists of the Island of Bourbon. Today about thirty families live with the Meeting under a little modified patronym of Dennemont. The Dannemont family disappears with the XVIII eme century by transforming into Dalmont…

Events

The first weekend of October sees proceeding in this commune the fair St Denis, one of the large traditional fairs of the Cotentin.

See too

External bonds

  • Brix on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Brix on the site of INSEE
  • Brix on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Brix on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Brix on Mapquest

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