Entremont (Haute-Savoie)

Entremont is a common French, located in the department of the Haute-Savoie and the area the Rhone-Alps.

Its inhabitants are called Entremontains and Entremontaines.

Geography

Toponymy

It would seem that the commune holds its name of its topographic situation: blotti between the solid mass of Aravis and that of the Terminals, the village is located on the leaning inferior of the mount of the Troughs (1822 m), “Intramontis”, between the mounts thus.

Localities located on the commune

Beauregard, the Boxwood, the Bus, Cellaz, Chambaudian, the Coal-scuttles, Chief town, the Coasts, Crot with the Wolf, Denets, Back, the Back of the Glance, Virginal, Epotet, the New Barns, the Fats, Lachat, Lille, Skirted, Lortier, Malatrait, Malvoisin, Montessuit, Damping, Norcière, Feeds it, the Lime pits, the Plan Above, the Northern Bridge, the Southern Bridge, the Pre one with give, Raffours, Raty, the River, On the place, On the tanks, the Coppices.

Communes bordering

In the canton of Bonneville: Small Bornand-les-Glières

In the canton of Thônes: Large Bornand, Saint-Jean-with-Sixt, Them Villards-on-Thônes, Thônes, Balme-with-Thuy

In the canton of Thorens-Glières: Thorens-Glières

History

Heraldic

The common one chose to be represented by the weapons of one of its more famous inhabitants, the abbot Marc Antoine de Granery. The blazon “of azure to the accompanied face, as a chief, by three turns, is surmounted crown of Count, stick and miter, the whole open and built mouths, at a peak of three ears of corn, seizures the whole of the currency: C seres metes , “As you sow, you harvests”.

History of the village

Tourist monuments and places

Religious heritage

  • Abbey of Entremont, abbey Augustine of the 13th century
  • our-Lady-of-All-the-Saint church of the 17th century, presents on its frontage of the mural frescos. The interior shelters a double Retable and a treasure of remarkable relics.
  • Vault of the River (1850)
  • Vault of the Glance (1842)
  • Oratorical Notre-Dame de Lourdes, hamlet of Feeds
  • Oratoire Notre-Dame of the travellers, throats of Narrow the
  • Oratoire Saint Jean-Baptiste, hamlet of Lortier

civil Inheritance

  • Stele Tom Morel, military and resistant man. Chief of the Maquis of Glières
  • Hotel of France, commemorative plaque
  • Hamlet of the Glance, traditional habitat
  • Plate of the Troughs, habitat of mountain pastures

Point of view of

  • Plate of the Troughs
  • Collar of Buffaz
  • Martyrdom, road of the Glance
  • Montessuit

Museums and exposures

  • House of Nature
  • Priory and the treasure of the abbey

Administration

Economy

  • Activities agropastorale
  • Country holidays

Events

Characters related to the commune

Those only remained in Entremont. The history of the commune is related to their passage.
  • Holy François Dirty, 1607.
  • Abbot Marc-Antoine de Granery, 1645-1703.
  • Tom Morel, 1944, one of the chiefs of the resistance of the Plate of Glières, died with the combat.

References

See too

Related articles

  • Common of Haute-Savoie

External bonds

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