Brooms

Genêts is a common French, located in the department of the Manche and the area Basse-Normandie.

Geography

Brooms (of Latin Genitium) is a very old locality. This village is located on northern bank of bay of the Mount-Saint-Michel. There is a beautiful sight on bay, Tombelaine (reserve of birds) and the Mount-Saint-Michel. In the north of the village the nozzle of Andaine is, who was formerly the very attended port of Brooms. Ensablée since strong a long time, it remains only one wide beach from where one can go for walks guided towards the Mount-Saint-Michel while passing by Tombelaine.

Economy and infrastructure

Brooms is marked by individual tourism. There are several rooms deprived to rent. The camp-site is located between the village and the sand beach.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

The church of Brooms, placed under the term of Notre-Dame and also under that of Sebastien Saint. Brooms was the point of result of many Mons ways borrowed by the pilgrims. With the Middle Ages, the population rose until approximately 3000 hearts at the 14th century, the church was then surrounded by seven vaults of which the vault Sainte destroyed Anne then rebuilt. The Notre-Dame church is the only monument which remains us of this time. There are not precise data on the first church of Brooms whose certain elements still remain in the current transept. At the 12th century, the large abbot of the Mount, Robert de Thorigny " the church concerned which fell from vétusté" and made it devote in 1157. From this time go back the transept and the robust square tower then surmounted to a stone arrow.

After the passage of the English who burned the church, the Abbot-barons Nicolas the Glazier and Geoffroy de Servon " who held the trowel with the hand and the sword of the autre" rebuilt. At the time of the wars of religion, the church was plundered by the troops of Montgomery. At the end of the 17th century, the state of the buildings was lamentable with perforated roofs, collapsing furnace bridges. At the next century, an effort appears. Today, this inheritance is the object of conservative measures and an attentive follow-up. The church and the cemetery were classified in 1959. Inside, of the statues of the furnace bridges and other elements were classified or registered. at the inventory, these last years. The statue of the Virgin of XIVe S. profited from a measurement of classification since 1908. The transept with its four massive pillars and the tower established with crossed this one belong to the Romance period. Certain older elements were included in this construction. The tower which includes/understands two stages, formerly surmounted by an arrow, was altered in XVIe by the abbot Guillaume de Lamps who capped it with a roof as a bâtière. The bells of origin melted with the Revolution replaced with XIXe S. were also used to guide the people mislaid in bay per time of fog. On the benches of the charming southern porch whose construction is allotted to Guillaume de Lamps, in XVIè S., the businesses of the parish treated formerly. The chorus with flat bedside, is divided into three spans. It could be built about the middle of XIIIe S. the bay of the bedside is decorated with a stained glass restored with XIXe S. whose certain elements are of XIIIe century. The nave very difficult to date was extremely altered with XVIIIe S. a recent carried out restoration made it possible to discover a frame of XVe S. to punch and tie-beams which was restored. In addition to the large canopy of the bedside, the church conceals interesting objects, statues, furnace bridges…

Personalities related to the commune

Louis Auguste Adrian 1859-1933 creator of the helmet of hairy (war 1914-18) buried in Genêts

See too

Common of the English Channel
List of towns of fiction

External bonds

History of the commune
Brooms on the site of the national geographical Institute
Brooms on the site of INSEE
Brooms on the site of Quid
Localization of Brooms on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Brooms on Mapquest

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