Flixecourt

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

Geography

Located at semi way between Abbeville and Amiens on the RN1, Flixecourt is a city-street built on the two slopes of Nievre, tributary of the Somme.

History

The seigniory of Flixecourt was in XIIe century a stronghold of the châtellenie of Amiens. In 1205, a maladrery is opened in Flixecourt to allow leprous, on the way for the old people's home of the Brothers of the Valley, to spend the night. By alliance, the stronghold of Flixecourt was then shared between the family of Louvencourt, then (1276) the family of Fieffes. The latter made there build a priory, of which he entrusted management, as he was of use, with the Vidame of Picquigny The village which is established at this place counted 140 fires at the dawn of the Guerre One hundred Year old, but this figure was not any more but of 40 in 1548. In 1545, Charles d' Ailly obtains from the king the creation of a weekly market; privilege renewed for the benefit of its successor, Louis d' Ailly, in 1567. One found the vestiges of a castle close to the current site of the church: the fact that in 1603, a serious fire could destroy half of the village gives rise to think that the houses were to be joint and tight inside the fortifications. This castle is mentioned in a notarial act of 1618, by which the lord, Philibert-Emmanuel d' Ailly, grant the building in life annuity to a certain Louis of Massonière, with load for him to finance repairs. The church, which one can see today, was built in 1721. The day before the Revolution, the castle belongs to Croquoison of the court of Fieffes.

About this time, an proto-industry exists: one exploits the Tourbe, and one works with the combing of wool. Moreover, in 1815, one counts two two windmill and water mills.

But it is the discovery of a new fiber, the Jute, which changes the destiny of the city and across, of all the area. About 1840, the Saint, traders in fabric of packing established in Rouen, discover this imported fabric of the Indies, and carry out tests of mechanical weaving (1855-56). The machine, once developped at the point, is installed in Flixecourt, and the owners make come from the workmen Scot to start the exploitation. In a few decades, the numbers of employees, a few tens at the beginning, explodes.

The factory is electrified since 1907. The city belongs in the facts to the Saint family, which organizes the habitat of the employees (first allotments about 1870), installs running water, proposes electricity with the inhabitants, and sets up co-operative trade ( the Precaution ), a “industrial school” and social services (pharmacy, crib in 1935, maternity in 1938). The factories will know various social movements, particularly at the time of the crisis of 1934-36, but preserve a competitiveness until 1952. This year, the industrial fabric undergoes a crisis of outlets with the development of polymer packing, which makes crumble in a few years the demand for Europe. The Saint put the working residences on sale. The compensatory payments granted by the government successive will not allow a reconversion of employment, and resales (acquisition by the Willot family in 1969, repurchase again by Boussac-Saint Brothers in 1982) in voluntary liquidations (bankruptcy of Agache-Willot in June 1981), industry continues its decline until today.

Administration

Demography

The installation of textile industry with Flixecourt, with HOLY Ets Brothers, marked the town of indelible way, and demography translates the growth and the decline of this activity.

Places and monuments

The city has a remarkable, typical architectural heritage first industrial revolution. Unfortunately, the maintenance of all the buildings is not with the height of public finances and degradations are inevitable. Some constructions could be preserved by converting them into public edifices.

the castle ( Madness ) of the family Saint
buildings of the Precaution, close to the railway (transformed into store of electro sparing)
the church, whose bell-tower, rebuilt in 1940, was designed in an exogenic style (“bell-tower with comb”)
the station goes back to 1875 (destroyed by a fire beginning 21 century)

Personalities related to the commune

Teddy Bertin, born in Flixecourt

Reading recommended

R. Collier, D. Clerentin “a fiber, men - Valleys of Nievre and Somme” (2000) - ED. François Paillart, Abbeville.

See too

Common of the Sum
List of French churches to campenard

External bonds

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

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