Lagny

Lagny is a common French, located in the department of the Oise and the area Picardy.

Geography

History

Lagny-the-Chestnuts , such was the old name, located on the Canton of Lassigny (60), does not have to be confused with Lagny-the-dryness (60) or Lagny-sur-Marne (77).

The origin of the name of the village which extends on a street from approximately two kilometers, with semi-slope on the southern side of a hill of 160 meters can come from the assembly of the word lanon (seen extended on a plain) and of gny, derived from the latin" ignis" (hearth, fire, forging mills, place of iron ore extraction).

The village is in light overhang of a Romaine way, with a few kilometers in the north of Boundary-line which conferred a strategic position to him.

It is not rare to find there stones cut, where polished, in particular close to the marshes (rosy and Marais of the stone), which tend to prove that the site is inhabited since very moved back times.

The slope is hill (close to the water tower) mask an old cemetery containing of stone the sarcophagi known as of the time of Templiers.

On the hill, in the western part, one can discover “Ch' Catelet”, ridges ground of a few meters in height which dominates all the area. Towards the end Is close to the geodetic point was “Ch' mill of heu” of which there remains only the cistern. A second mill was with the site of the farm known as “Of the mill of bottom” that lon finds on the charts of XVIIIéme.

This village had a castle which was shaven about 1792, it remains some vestiges (close to the church).

Certain places had relatively significant names, Ch' Carcan, Ch' ju of Beaters, the lane of yô or ieu (water into Picardy) which led to the many sources flowing in " Ch' Marais".

The village had a traditional agricultural activity, with breeding and many trades related to the exploitation of wood. In particular the châtaigner was used for the manufacture of the scales intended for the gathering of the fruits. One manufactured there also Barrels, Shoes, and charcoal: vestiges of the furnaces remain on the North-eastern slope of the hill to the locality " ché fours"

Village being on the face of the First World War, it was, dice the beginning of the hostilities, occupied by a regiment of Hulants. During this occupation, on September 19th, 1914, with the right-hand side of the Town hall, the Germans shot: Picart Paul, mayor; Denis flamingo, cleaned; Lavacquery Fernand; Lavacquery Octave; Leclerc Jules. Taken as hostages, were obliged to dig their tomb before dying shot in reprisals of an imaginary attack.

A Guard German panicked would have drawn following a suspect noise.

A commemorative plaque in the name of the torture victims is affixed with the wall of the town hall. The commander with fact of gathering all the women on the place of the village in order to make " its choix" but one of them, whose name was always pronounced with low voice went voluntary.

At the end of the war in 1918 the village was practically completely in ruin.

To date some " ruines" still remain.

A network of cagnas sheltered the troops German in the west of the hill which dominates the village has 160 meters. The entries are still visible nowadays.

In the Sixties the village had two schools, a post office, two bakeries, two grocers, an automobile garage, a shoeing marshal, a fishmonger, two grainetiers, three bars, a carpenter, a plasterer, a company of plumbing cover, a building firm and many sluice-gate trusses.

At this same time a market with the red fruits was held on the place of the village around at the end of June and in July. Hundreds of kilos of cherries were charged in trucks each evening.

About 1964 the Village has counted more than 600 inhabitants, primarily workmen of the Company Bundle employed with the completion of the channel of North to the abandonment for more than 50 years.

To date there remains only one baker, a bar and some farms. The red market with the fruits does not exist any more, the fruits, for a great part are used as food with the starlings which can plunder an adult cherry tree in a few minutes.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Oise

External bonds

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

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