Chessy-the-mines

Chessy-the-Mines is a common French, located in the department of the the Rhone and the area the Rhone-Alps, more exactly in the south of the Beaujolais.

Its inhabitants is called Cassissiens.

Geography

The commune of Chessy-the-Mines is in the valley of the Azergues and belonged to the communes of the area of the gilded Pierres.

History

The history of Chessy-the-Mines is marked by the presence of mines of Cuivre. These mines would have been worked at the time Roman then given up, before the resumption of the extraction at the 15th century. The mines are then priopriété of Jacques Cœur. Several seams (black mine, yellow mine, etc) were successively exploited, each one producing a different Minerai from which the Cuivre was extracted. One of these ores, a variety of azurite, is named chessylite because he was discovered in Chessy (blue mine). At the end of the 19th century, the exhaustion of this last seam involves the permanent closure of the mines.

Administration

Jean-Baptiste Perret, friend of Victor Hugo, was senator-mayor of Chessy at the 19th century.

Demography

Places and monuments

The village preserves remainders of fortifications of the Middle Ages (enclosing wall, carries), its strong castle of the 12th-15th centuries, as well as a Gothic church of style of which the oldest parts go back to the 12th century. A statue of virgin (the Madonna) overhangs the village.

Personalities related to the commune

  • Jacques Heart, whose armorial bearings (heart and shell) are found on those of the commune. Two stained glasses color of the church show Jacques Coeur and his wife.

See too

  • Common of the Rhone

Practical

  • Line of bus FOR THE THIRD TIME
  • a rural family home
  • 2 elementary schools

External bonds

  • Chessy-the-Mines on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Chessy-the-Mines on the site of INSEE
  • Chessy-the-Mines on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Chessy-the-Mines on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Chessy-the-Mines on Mapquest
  • copper mines of Chessy

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