Fabric committee

The manufactures , within a parochial community, indicates a whole of “decision makers” (clerks and laic) named to ensure the responsibility for the collection and the administration of the funds and incomes necessary to construction then the maintenance of the religious buildings and furniture of the Paroisse: church (S), vault (S), martyrdom (S), silverware, luminary (S), ornament (S), etc…

The members of the “fabric committee” are thus administrators appointed more specifically by the terms of Marguillier S and fabricians.

The incomes of the factory came, it is what is known the most, of the searches and offerings. But not only: the hiring of the places of benches in the church, for example, was also an regular income (very often perceived annually at date fixes) for the factory.

History

With the Revolution, the factories sink in the storm. Undoubtedly the decree of November 2nd 1789, which placed the ecclesiastical goods at the disposal of the Nation, states not to touch with the goods of the factories. But a little later the decree of brumaire year III (1793) declares property national any credit of the factories, even what is affected with the receipt of the foundations.

When the revolutionary upheaval had passed, the things had to be reconstituted. The Legal settlement, signed by the Pope and the first Consul, and restoring the worship in France, was recognized law of State, on April 8th 1802. The same day were published organic articles. Article 76 carried “ that it will be established Factories, to take care of the maintenance and the conservation of the temples, with the administration of alms ”. To give them an inheritance, the decree of Thermidor 7 year IX (July 26th 1803) decides “ to return to their destination the goods Factories not alienated ”.

The factories then become public corporations of the worship, and this until 1805. The fabric committee then includes/understands the priest, the mayor and five to nine elected members. The factories are again removed by the law of Separation of the Church and the State in 1905. The incomes and goods of the parishes from now on are managed by pertaining to worship associations, except in the three departments of the the Moselle, the the Low-Rhine and the Haut-Rhin where the factories remain like public corporations.

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