Herment

Herment is a common French, located in the department of the Puy-de-Dôme and the area Auvergne.

Geography

Site

The borough of Herment is located on a basaltic platform.

Situation

Herment is located in the Combrailles.

History

Antiquity

According to Valley of Saunade, the existence of one village to the site of the current borough of Herment would go up at the time Celtic, the name of Herment would come from Herm : desert. There do not exist however historical documents proving the existence of Herment before 1145. On the other hand, on the site of Beauclair (see Places and monuments Ci below), an archeological site was updated at the 19th century by Ambroise Tardieu. The vestiges date from the Roman epoch, and according to Val of Saunade, Beauclair was destroyed at the 3rd century.

The Middle Ages

In 1140, the construction of an imposing castle-extremely is undertaken by Robert III, Count d' Auvergne. Its geographical location conferring all its strategic power to him, around this castle develops a small town whose importance goes growing to the wire of the centuries.

Because of its situation in the West of the Auvergne, and in the vicinity immediate of the Guyenne, it F be, during the War One hundred Year old, conquered and occupied during 2 years, of 1367 to 1369, by the road with the pay of the English.

At the beginning of the 15th century, and an unknown date, the city was defended by walls whose maintenance and guard were the responsibility of the inhabitants. Those exchanges some, were exempted ford with the castle seigneurial. But this enclosure being badly maintained, and about 1434-1435, the inhabitants undertook the construction of a more reduced enclosure to protect the only inhabited districts.

Modern time

During the wars of religion, the city was taken by the Protestants in 1578, then taken again by the catholics and finally set fire to by the Ligueurs. At the end of the Old Mode, Herment loses of its importance, for lack of work, much of men emigrate seasonally towards Lyon or Bordeaux.

Contemporary time

With XIXe, century, the emigration is accentuated, the migrations lose their seasonal character and become final. The city, without big business and big industry, cannot contain its population which reaches its demographic maximum about 1850.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

It is equipped with a Romance church in flattened plan, probably built on the initiative of Robert III, Count d' Auvergne, in the honor of the Croisade which he undertook out of Holy Land. This church was the subject thereafter of a gift in 1232 in the chapter cathédral of Clermont, which founded in its turn an assembly of 8 canons. She was the seat of an archpriest from which the jurisdiction extended as far as the Limousin.
classified panoramic Walk, called " the walk of the walls " , in the borough. Ambroise Tardieu, quotes it in its work Histoire of the city, the Country and Baronnie d' Herment in these terms: " I want to speak to you about the beautiful walk of the walls, thus named because it occupies the way of the walls of the city. You who like the emotions, which seek beautiful nature, you will contemplate the delicious sight whose town of Herment is privileged. You will utter more than one cry of admiration to the spectacle of this immense horizon where thousand and one merge objects. Five department will be offered to your eyes: the Puy-de-Dôme, the To combine, the Digs, the Corrèze and the Cantal. What has there you it moreover moving that these mountains with the sides plowed by the torrents and separated from/to each other by deep tears? Does Y have to you it a plate of city more seizing that of Herment, at the top of this volcanic pyramid? "
Archeological site of Beauclair , Gallo-Roman city located on the way of Augustonemetum at Augustoritum, more than 5 km of Herment. Tardieu excavated this site, and revealed there a temple with beautiful murals, a large aqueduct, an amphitheater, a necropolis, vases… According to Valley of Saunade, Beauclair was destroyed at the 3rd century.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Puy-de-Dôme

External bonds

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

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