Cerizay

Cerizay is a common French, located in the department of the Two-Sevres and the area Poitou-Charentes.

The inhabitants of Cerizay are called Cerizéens.

Geography

The town of Cerizay in the Two-Sevres extends on green banks from small a Ruisseau which, East-West sliding ring, throws to a few kilometers in the Nantes Sèvre.

History

The origin of the name would be Gallo-Roman. The center of the city was, with the Moyen-âge, located at the foot of the Château Féodal. The two last towers of this castle as its old Romance Chapelle of the 12th century were demolished during construction, in 1890, of the current church. The chorus of the vault contained the tombs of the Seigneur S of the 17th century, of which that of the marshal of With a grid-Brezé. One realized during the construction of the news church of the existence of a Cimetière mérovingien close to the vault, of the Sarcophage S out of shelly stone having been put at the day.

August 25th, 1944, a German column ghost of the coast, bombards and grapeshot the city making 5 victims among the population and destroying 172 houses.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Economy

Cerizay shelters the head office and the principal production unit of the Group Heuliez, fourth French car manufacturer.

Personalities related to the commune

Philippe Duplessis-Mornay

See too

Common of Two-Sevres

External bonds

site of the town hall of Cerizay
Cerizay on the site of the national geographical Institute
Cerizay on the site of INSEE
Cerizay on the site of Quid
Localization of Cerizay on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Cerizay on Mapquest

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