Holy-Cecile-in Andorge

Geography

The commune of Holy Cecile d' Andorge, located at the north of the old mining city of Grand' Combe, belongs to " the Longue" valley; , Cevennes valley which starts with the Sources in Lozere and which is completed in the Ale plain: its spinal column is not other than Gardon d' Alès. Two stoppings were built there: stopping of Holy Cecile in 1967 to fight against the natural but judged risings devastators, and in 1957 stopping of Cambous to feed in electricity the thermo plant of Fesc, which supplied it even in energy the wells of the mines of Large-Combe the. Sainte Cécile is bordering with Lozere: it is the river of Andorge of which it borrows the name which delimits the two departments.

History

The commune of Holy Cecile d' Andorge has a long story: it counts some vestiges prehistoric S in the form of tumuli and of engravings (see prehistoric Art), with the hamlet of Ponchets in particular.

Its dispersed habitat dating from the 13th century, its Farmhouse in Schist, make of it a still preserved commune of the Urbanisation. Oddly, this commune located in country protesting remained faithful to Catholicism lasting the Guerre of Camisards (1702 - 1705), which was worth many skirmishes with the close parishes to him. It belongs to the catholic Cévenne.

The bell-tower with turn of its church dates from the 12th century.

During the Industrial revolution, the commune benefits from the vicinity of two important companies carboniferous S, the Company of Doors and sénéchas, and that of Grand' Combe. Several railroads will cross it (and to disenclose it) of which that of Paulin Talabot: the PLM, future line of the Cevennes, pass indeed since 1867 in the commune whose small station accommodates during their Cevennes excursions two in love famous, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre as the first in " tells it; memories of an young girl rangée".

Today the commune which counts nearly 540 inhabitants against 470 twenty years ago, turned resolutely to the Tourisme. It takes part in the restoration partial of another railroad, the old CFD which connected Sainte Cecile d' Andorge to Florac (1909-1968) within an inter-commune association " TAC" (train of Andorge in the Cevennes) and of the future green lane called " Transcévenole". An atypical railroad crosses also the territory of the commune. The tilted plans of Doors and Sénéchas which connected the mines of Vernarède to the terminal of Levade, Grand' Combe, was built in 1859 by the financier Jules Mirès (1809-1871) then owner of the Company of Doors. This mining rolling which functioned of 1859 to 1867 used gravity. In the system " (a) automoteur" conceived and developed by engineer Adrien Bourdaloue in the area of Grand' Combe, the full coaches which go down make reassemble the empty coaches thanks to a system of cables. Thus the difficulties of transport related to the Cevennes relief were partly solved.

The municipality made restore into 2003-2004 the works of art which composed this original system and made hiking trails of them (the tower of the Pine forests and the tower of Simonet).

The tower of Simonet accommodates temporary exhibitions under the name of " ecogalery of art of Simonet".

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Demography

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Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Gard

External bonds

Holy-Cecile-in Andorge on the site of the national geographical Institute
Holy-Cecile-in Andorge on the site of INSEE
Holy-Cecile-in Andorge on the site of Quid
Localization of Holy-Cecile-in Andorge on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Holy-Cecile-in Andorge on Mapquest

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