Holy-Enimie

Holy-Enimie is a common French, located in the department of the Lozere and the area Languedoc-Roussillon. Its inhabitants is called the Santrimiols .

High tourist place because located in full heart of the Gorges of the Tarn, vacation resort perfect for the country holidays, sportsman or cultural, the village of Holy-Enimie is regarded as one of the more beautiful villages of France from its medieval side and its adaptation to the throats which surround it.

History

The legend of holy Énimie

See also: Holy Énimie

The village developed around the hermitage of Sainte Énimie and the monastery which it had founded. Girl of Clotaire II and thus sister of Dagobert Ier, having thus lived in the 6th century, Énimie would have cured Lèpre of which it reached, thanks to spring waters of Burle.

Short history of the village

The small medieval village of Holy-Enimie develops around the monastery founded Benedictine in 951 per Etienne, bishop of Mende. The establishment of a community of monks Benedictines marks one period of economic prosperity for this high spiritual place. The construction of the new monastery finishes at the 11th century. Historical research then authenticates the history of happy Énimie and a worship is devoted to him. In 1060, a monk finds the tomb of Énimie. At the 13th century, the Prieur of the village orders with the Troubadour Bertran de Massilha, the rewriting of a Latin poem reporting the life of Énimie. This poem, which praises the merits of the holy one, is déclamé in all the area. Again, the pilgrims flow.

By the means of equipments, the goods of the monastery increase. The inhabitants of the throats work the cleared slopes of causses of Sauveterre and Méjean. They build tilted terraces (faïsses), plant vines, almond trees, fruit trees. The Causses, traditionally dedicated to the ovine breeding, get milk and its derivatives as well as wool (woven in the valley). Transverse exchanges between the throats and causses allow the survival of all.

The situation of the village on ancestral transportation routes (Draille of Aubrac, river, Camin Romieu or Camin Ferrat) constitutes a major asset for the circulation of the pilgrims and the goods. The construction of a bridge about the 13th century facilitates the Transhumance S and the transport of the goods. With the French revolution, the capacity of the Église declines, the monks leave the village, which unrelentingly involves the ruin of the monastery of Holy-Enimie. At the 20th century, the Mechanization and the Phylloxéra make disappear gradually the vineyards in terraces.

In 1905, the opening of the current road of the Gorges of the Tarn brings a partial opening-up to the area. The conflicts of the beginning of the 20th century and the Industrialization empty the country of the active population. After the devaluation of wool, the caussenards restructure the ovine breeding, with the profit of the races with milk and meat. Towards 1950, Holy-Enimie and the throats are directed towards a new economic era based on tourism. The A75, which connects Clermont-Ferrand to Montpellier, disencloses today the area in its totality.

Today, 250 people live the village of Holy-Enimie at the year. The commune, as for it, account 500 inhabitants: it includes/understands 25 hamlets and villages (Sauveterre, Champerboux, Saint-Chély-of-Tarn, Pougnadoires, etc)

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Buildings and places to visit

  • the church dating from the 14th century when one will be able to appreciate the various stone and wood statues of 12th and 15th century, without forgetting ceramics recalling the life of Holy-Énimie.
  • an abbey of which there remain only three rooms today namely the entry, the crypt and the chapter house.
  • the source of Burle (of vauclusien type).

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