Jumeauville

Jumeauville is small a common agricultural French of the Yvelines (district of Mantes-the-Pretty, area Île-de-France).

Its inhabitants are called Jumeauvillois.

Geography

The commune of Jumeauville is on the plate of the Mantois halfway between Épône and Thoiry, to 6 km in the west of Maule and to approximately 15 kilometers in the south-east of Mantes-the-Pretty. The communal territory extends primarily on a plate (altitude of approximately 125 m) dedicated to the field crop. It is crossed by a relatively boxed valley (altitude 90 m) directed south-eastern - the North-West in which the village is blotti and whose only the bell-tower of the church emerges. This small valley continues towards the North-West towards Senneville where the Ru of the same name occurs.

The communes bordering are Épône in the North-East, Maule in the east, Andelu in south-east, Goupillières in the south, Hargeville in south-west, Goussonville in the west and the Wall-on-Seine in north.

The territory is primarily rural (94%) and not very wooded (approximately 10% of wood surface, in the northern point of the commune. The habitat is entirely grouped in the borough, except for the farm of the home located on the agricultural plate at the south of the village.

Located at the variation ds main roads, the commune is served by the secondary road 158 which connects it to the valley of Mauldre towards the east and Mantes-the-Pretty towards the North-West.

A Path of great excursion, the GR. 26, passes in wood in the north of the commune.

History

In the past Jumevilla .
Quoted for the first time in an act of 1103 and concerning a donation with the monks of Maule.
a castle, for a long time disappeared, would have been built there in 1106 by William the Conqueror which would have left there, according to the legend, to conquer England. This castle would have been located on the northern slope, in the north of the church.
With the Middle Ages, Jumeauville was the seat of a Maladrerie of which there remains trace only in toponymy (locality “Maladrerie” in the North-East of the village) as well as the laundrette in the rectangular shape of basin
Propriété of the Maroilles cheeses in XIIIe, of Massu in XVe, Cochin with XVIIIe.

Culture

Inheritance

Church Saint-Pierre-be-Bonds: the church was rebuilt hones of it Meulière at the 16th century, after being set fire to by the calvinists the July 15th 1585. It is equipped with a massive bell-tower of square form.
Saint-Pierre Fountain: together picturesque dating from the 19th century including/understanding a laundrette with several basins, of which some sheltered, a fountain and a feeding trough, supplied with a source. It is located at the foot of the church.
Firm of the home: vestige of an old castle, where the public gathering of the fruit and vegetables is practiced.
original Wind vane out of wrought iron, 81 Main street.

Others

Jumeauville is on the course of the pedestrian test Paris-Mantes, 54 kilometers with the Marche, which is held the every years at the beginning of February since 1954. A test short, 12 kilometers of walk between Jumeauville and Mantes-the-Pretty, were added in 2002.

This village was used as place of turning for the televised series of the summer 1989 “ Orages of summer ” with Annie Girardot, for the scenes of the cemetery and the laundrette.

Economy

Agricultural commune primarily : field crop of cereals (corn, corn) and protéagineux (sunflower, pea, colza), horticulture.

To note, “the farm of the Home”, whose bodies of buildings laid out around a square court date from the XVIIe century, practices in season the sale-gathering of fruit and vegetables. It is the first to have launched this fashion in the Yvelines in 1977.

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