Conty

Conty is a common French, located in the department of the Somme and the area Picardy.

The common one absorbed in 1973 that of Wailly.

Geography

Conty is a Picardy borough of the south of the Sum (to 20 km of Amiens), located in the valley of the Selle at the confluence of Évoissons and other small brooks.

The basin of the river Selle is formed various small junctions which meet all, either upstream, or in the medium even of Conty. The river of Évoissons, true river to only enlarge the Saddle, receives the river of Poix and the brook of the Parquets .

The commune is served by the exit of the highway A16.

Hamlets

Village of Wailly
Village of Luzières

Economic activities and tourism

the Workshops of the Valley of Saddle , created in 1970, are a center of assistance by the work which constitutes a place of formation and major craft industry related on the horse and the attachment. They organized the Championship of France of draft horses all categories in 2002. They profit from many labels, such as " French school of Labéllisée Horsemanship, Equestrian Tourist center (4 irons), Establishment approved Youth and Sports. Riding school, school of attachment, fly.

(Industrial society of Conty), created SIC in 1928, is specialized in the foundry of nonferrous ore, aluminum alloys, brass alloys, or bronze alloys, for blanks or finished ready with employment. It diversifies its activity towards urban furniture or the accessories of outdoor for gardens.

Sawmill of the Saddle

the green casting is a way of walk which borrows the influence of an old railway line, which connected Beauvais to Amiens. On seventeen kilometers, it connects along the valley of the Saddle Crèvecœur-the-Large to Bacouel-on-Saddle. It is the origin of 156 km paths and offers many possibilities of pleasant excursions accessible to the walkers, the vetetists and the riders.

Conty preserved a commercial fabric and of service which consolidates its statute of borough centers.

History

The Saddle, the wood and the headland (dominating all the valley and where later will draw up the castle) are factors which encouraged the man to settle there. The history of Conty seems of a great richness but few documents arrived to us of the period concerning the first millenium of our era.

Concerning the oldest times, recent excavations (carried out at the time of the withdrawal of a career), close to the Saddle, put at the day of the bones and the remainders of community life dating from the prehistoric men.

Conty is located on the old Roman way leading to Beauvais, which will be called, later, Chaussée Brunehaut. The Romans being accustomed to burying their deaths on the edges of the ways, two coffins dating from the Gallo-Roman time were discovered close to the Saint Martin's day cemetery, during earthworks, on September 21st, 1848. The vicinity of the cemetery of Conty would have been, in moved back times, a place devoted to the burials.

Conty owes its fame with the source of Saint-Anthony which would have virtues, and which spouts out, says one, under the furnace bridge of the church of the same name.

In the middle of Ve century, towards 450, Attila and his hordes of Huns destroyed Conty, as they ransacked Amiens and shaved Grandvilliers.

During IXe century, the Normands plundered the places. Their plunderings and brutalities led the populations to meet in a company organized hierarchically better and contributed to the installation of the Féodalité.

It is with Xe century that the first feudal organization with Conty is established. The very first lord, named Oger de Conty , is quoted in 1044.

The moyenâgeuses wars, like elsewhere, considerably narrowed the surface of the borough, much more important formerly (at time when there was less to fear apart from walls).

The châtellenie of Conty laid out of the strongholds of River, Hamel, Luzières, Moienbus, of Noyenne and Rivery, the Field Saint-Miser.

Conty then counted many streets now disappeared or renamed: street Moyart , street of Lombardy (following the installation of Lombards (usurers) in Amiens), street of Thilloy , street of Mesnil , street of Pecquerine , street of the Roadway or street with Water (thus called because the source of St-Antoine ran there and a public laundrette was established there), street known as Ouin , street Verte , street of City. There were also mills with cloth, paper and tan, driven by the current of the Selle river.

In 1589, the castle was taken by the Ligueurs of the town of Amiens.

In 1691, on April 3rd, over the 6 hours of the morning, a fire was declared in main street, close to the church, at Charles Englart who perishes with his wife while wanting to save some pieces of furniture. Seven houses burned. Many other fires (in years 1709,1734,1809,1812,1825,1827) brought desolation in the borough.

In 1758, there was a considerable flood, in consequence of the snow melt.

In 1790, because of riots, a group of gendarmes and national Gardes was called to restore the order in the borough.

In 1832, Conty underwent the devastations of the Choléra - morbus. The appearance of this disease would be explained by the many surrounding marshes.

About 1850, the market of formerly, rather vast, built frames some with sides and tile, was replaced by a heavy construction out of bricks, covered out of slates. It is the architect Firmin Lombard who was the project superintendent. It comprised a commercial market, a market with the grains, a court, a cabinet for the Mayor and a room of assembly for the Municipal council.

The borough had a station of railroad on the Ligne Beauvais - Amiens which transported the travellers of 1876 to 1939. The platform of this line at summer transformed into way of walk, the green Casting, which connects Crèvecœur-the-Large to Towards-on-Saddles.

Origin of the name

Conty would come from cond (confluent) of the Saddle and Évoissons.

Administration

Demography

Conty is a borough centers which knew to develop its population during the long phase of rural migration which struck Picardy with XIXe and with the XXe century. The acceleration of this growth is related to the periurbanisation generated by the attractivity of Amiens, which still will increase with the creation of an exchanger of a16 highway in the vicinity immediate of the commune.

Places and monuments

the castle

The initial castle, built after the destructive passage of Attila and Huns towards 450, was shaved by the Norman ones come to plunder the area. Colart de Mailly rebuilt a castle towards 1430 which was taken on October 23rd, 1589 by the Ligueurs of the town of Amiens which decided to destroy it. Inhabitants of Conty refusing to take part in the demolition, Jehan de Morlencourt, alderman, and the Midsummer's Day captain transfer himself in charge of this mission by deliberation of the échevinage of Amiens dated October 31st, 1589. This demolition required eight days of a harassing work.

Nowadays, it thus does not remain any more that the eminence on which were drawn up the " feudal mound " then the superb fortress. One can reach on the left this hillock (the place of the castle) by a way of the church which also leads to the “Wood of Conty” (more than 50 hectares).

According to the chronicle of the time, this castle would have had 4 Pont-levis but, according to the topography of the neighborhoods, it is probable that there was to be of them one which led outside, the three others were to be inside the enclosure of the fortifications. The walls had 180 feet (approximately 58 meters) length on each face, which gives a length of approximately 58,30 meters. It appears that their height was also of 180 feet! The walls were thick of 2,60 meters, broadsides of ditches almost on all the circumference.

The castle had moreover many cellars and undergrounds which one can find the entries or the exits in the wood of the surroundings. The well, which was on the peak of the Donjon, was built up to 16 meters of depth, which is completely remarkable for the time. Moreover it was dug low in the rock, until a 30 meters depth.

the church Saint-Anthony

The Saint-Anthony church, dating from XVe and XVIe centuries, is stone vast and beautiful building, of Gothic style blazing classified " Historique" monument;. It is about one of the most remarkable monuments of Picardy. The statue of the owner of the church decorates his Clocher of XIVe century, splendid 33 height meters square tower, supported on the right chorus. The church is built in the shape of cross, it is approximately 30 m length on 21 m of width.

The keystone carry the pendentive ones carved and the Gargouille S of the bell-tower are worthy of interest. On one of them (left transept), one can see the weapons princes of Bourbon-Conti which had the seigniory of “ Conti ” of 1551 to 1622.

Four beautiful statues of the XVIIIe century, out of wood, decorate the sanctuary.

the castle of Wailly

Below the village, after having borrowed a large alley, one approaches the remainders out of brick and out of stone of the castle of Style Louis XIII builds in hemicycle. Their integration in the greenery in fact a romantic place, even melancholic person. In September 1944, the Général Montgomery established its general headquarter there.

There exists very little of files reporting the history of the construction of the castle of Wailly which, having begun about 1640, continued in 1690 with the construction of the commun runs, to finish about 1785 by the houses of angle and the hemicycle.

the castle of Luzières .

In the hamlet of Luzières, which is located at the south of Conty, in a small valley towards Belleuse is the Castle of Luzières, going back to 1770-1793, and its commun runs (of 1715) which is reflected in a water part supplied with sources of a place says “Fontainieux”, collected and which pass under the course of the Selle.

The castle, of neo-classic style, is built in Torchis, on a stone base limestones, and brick pinions, like many Picardy constructions.

Fairs and events

Conty is a city of the horse and attachment. The championship of the world of attachment to a horse was held there in 2002, and the city will organize in 2009 the championship of the world of the draft horses.

Other major contests of attachment are regularly organized, the such international contests of attachment of April 2007.

Personalities related to the commune

the seigniory of Conty gave its name to the princes de Conti, connects junior by the Bourbon-Cop.

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