Jouarre

Jouarre is a common French, located in the department of Seine-et-Marne and the area Île-de-France.

Its inhabitants is called Jotranciens.

Geography

Surface: 4500 hectares. Many inhabitants: 3442. Area: Ile de France. Department: 77 the Seine and Marne. District: Meaux.

Located at the north of the department of the Seine and Marne, at the end of the plate briard, in the meander describes by Small Morin before throwing itself in the Marne, is the borough of Jouarre.

Site crowned since very old times. The village with the past in charge of history proposes to you to discover with the liking of your sensitivity, the richness of its medieval and religious inheritance.

Surface: The communal territory of Jouarre, is widest of the Seine and Marne after Fontainebleau, with a surface of almost 4500 hectares under Jouarre.

History

Economy

Famous characters

Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, botanist (1748-1836), decorated with the legion of honor in 1802. In 1817, it buys the field of Venteuil, which becomes a true intellectual center where Antoine-Laurent receives his friends, of which Andre-Marie Ampère, celebrates mathematician and physicist. The field is also a place of family festivals, since each year the family of Jussieu celebrated the Saint-Anthony there on October 15th. Very attached to this place, Antoine-Laurent chooses to finish his days with the castle of Venteuil and died there in 1836.
Hippolyte Fizeau, physicist (1819-1896), raises François Arago. After great work, calculation speed of light, it accepted many prices such as the triennial price of the Institute of France in 1856, it entered the physical section of the Academy of Science to become about it the vice-president in 1877 then president the following year.

Tourist monuments and places

Crypt S Mérovingienne S: the crypts mérovingiennes of Jouarre gone back to 660, remain a single unit because they are oldest of Europe. The Saint-Paul crypt rests on two lines of three Gallo-Roman columns surmounted by capitals mérovingiens out of marble of the the Pyrenees. With the Saint-Ebrégésile crypt, they accommodate the tombs of the saints founders of the Abbaye Our-Lady-to-Jouarre as well as the first abbesses. A Sarcophage represents a Tétramorphe 7th century of Byzantine inspiration.
Benedictine abbey: the founded Benedictine abbey at the 7th century by saint Colomban de Luxeuil, still inhabited by a community bénédictine: to see Abbey Our-Lady-with-Jouarre.
the Romance Tower, which shelters the store of the sisters, was built at the 11th century. One discovers an exposure there on the history of the abbey and it is possible to witness a audio-visual projection on the monastic life.
Museum of country Civilization: two rooms of collections given by the abbey, and families of Jouarre are presented there; agricultural tools in all kinds, traditional shawls, caps as well as rural furniture.
Saint-Pierre-and-Saint-Paul Church: built at the 16th century which shelters like jewels, the Châsse S of the abbesses of Jouarre.
the aqueduct of Dhuis

Events

At the time of the National Days of the Inheritance September 15th and 16th 2007 the Tourist bureau of Jouarre organizes Historical animations and Reconstitutions. With the program: - Visits of the cellars of the royal Abbey Notre Dame (open only for the occasion). - Night Visits of the Mérovingiennes Crypts with our guide. - Visits of the museum of Country Civilization. - Opening of teaching workshops to facilitate the appropriation by the children of the contents of the museum of Country Civilization. - Visit of the church St Pierre St Paul - Visit of the Romance Tower - course on the monastic life yesterday and today.

Culture

Sports

In accompanied excursions, in family our circuits of hiking will enable you to walk along Small Morin, to cross the fields and forests, to discover our manors the pond of Perreuse, the bench Napoleon, the aqueduct of Dhuys….

See too

In the Romance Tower of XIIe century, exposure-sale of manufacture of the community, religious bookstore, cartery, religious articles, monastic products, Free entry.

External bonds

Official site of the town hall
Site of the tourist office
Site of the Abbey of Jouarre

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