Brueil-in-Vexin

Brueil-in-Vexin is a common department of the Yvelines, in the area Île-de-France, in France.

The commune of Brueil-in-Vexin is located in the perimeter of the Regional natural park of French Vexin.

The name of Brueil would be derived from a Gallic word, brugilum , meaning “glazing bar closed by a hedge”.

The common one was authorized to be called Brueil-in-Vexin by decree of June 14th 1890.

The inhabitants are called Brueillois.

Geography

The commune of Brueil-in-Vexin is located in the south of the French Vexin and in the north of the Yvelines, to approximately 10 km in the North-East of Mantes-the-Pretty.

The communal, rural territory with more than 90%, occupies the bottom of the valley of the Montcient, affluent of Right Bank of the the Seine, between 70 and 100 meters of altitude, framed slopes in north and the south, more raised towards the south, up to 188 meters with the locality the Large Oak. It is wooded on approximately 25% of entire surface, primarily in its southern fringe (wood of Malmaison).

It is bordering on Montalet-the-Wood in the North-East, of Oinville-on-Montcient in the east, Juziers in south-east, Gargenville in the south, Guitrancourt in south-west, Fontenay-Saint-Father in the west, Sailly in the North-West and Lainville-in-Vexin in north.

The habitat is concentrated in the principal borough located in the content the valley and secondarily with the hamlet of Chartre, to 1,5 km in the south of the village.

The communications are assured mainly by the secondary road D 913, directed East-West, which follows the course of Montcient and by the secondary road D 130, directed North-South, which merges with the preceding one between Brueil-in-Vexin and Sailly.

A Path of great excursion, the GR. 2 follows the southern limit of the commune.

History

The site is occupied since the prehistoric time as testifies some the walk shady to the cellar to the fairies discovered in the commune at the XVIIe century.

To XIIIe century, the village belongs to the knight Hugues de Brueil, and depends on the Comté of Meulan. To the XVIIe century, the seigniory of Brueil is attached to the deanery of Magny-in-Vexin.

Set up in commune under the Revolution, Brueil is attached to the Canton of Limay since 1803.

Culture

Inheritance

Gone covered with the Cellar to the Fairies: it is about a covered Allée megalithic half-sunken, collective burial dating from the end of the Neolithic (2220 before Jesus-Christ). The site, excavated in 1870, then in 1889, was classified historic building in 1957. The flagstones of cover disappeared; one can see only the funerary room delimited by large vertical stones consolidated by dry stone low walls, as well as part of the flagstone of entry notched of an opening to rabbet. One estimates at 150 the number of buried bodies whose remainders were found. On one of the flagstones, abstract engravings are visible.

Saint-Denis Church: church hones some and Meulière Romance style dating from the 12th century. Only the bell-tower, crowned of a stone arrow with eight sides supported by an octagonal stage, dates from the primitive church. The nave and the gate of origin were destroyed at the beginning of the XXe century following badly carried out work of restoration.

Fountain Saint-Left-handed person: located in the hamlet of Chartre below the road D 130, it shelters a statue of Saint Left-handed person which was high as a nurse in the hamlet at the beginning of XIe century. The statue is actually a copy, the original preserved in town hall, having been stolen into 1881 before being found in 2003 in Juziers. The water of the fountain was formerly famous to have a capacity against the epilepsy.

Personalities

the professional singer Mady Mesplé resided in the commune. A communal wood bears its name since 2005.

Economy

Agriculture
Forests
Storage of ultimate waste: by order of the prefect of February 24th, 2004, the company Sita (group Suez) was authorized to take again the exploitation of a career of fine sand and to establish a center of storage of Déchet S of class I with the locality “the wood of Obligeois”. This project raises protests of the surrounding communes.

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