Lamorlaye

Lamorlaye is a Commune Frenchwoman, located in the department of the Oise and the area Picardy.

Its inhabitants is called the Morlacuméens and the Morlacuméennes .

Geography

Lamorlaye, first city of Oise while coming from Paris by RN 16, is with the junction between the areas Île-de-France and Picardy.

Lamorlaye, located at 35 km in the north of Paris, is accessible from the capital in less than one hour by car and into 30 mn by the train, thanks to a dense and diversified communication network. The poles of economic development consisted the Airport Roissy-Charles-of-Gaulle and the zone of the Plaine Saint-Denis, with the Stade de France, are with less than 30 mn by the road.

The commune of Lamorlaye is located in the middle of the Forêt S of Chantilly, Halatte and Ermenonville, forest space occupying 80 % of the 1 533 hectares of the commune.

History

As almost everywhere in France, one finds traces of activity dating from the Préhistoire (of the cut flints discovered during the construction of the building the Mountain, a polished axe Plein Sun…). It is of Mérovingiens that date the name of the city, Morlacca and the memory of a first castle, on the coast towards Chantilly.

It is then necessary to await Philippe Auguste so that after one period of great misery, Morlacca, become Morleia sees a fortress setting up on the site of the current castle. A little later, the peasants worked much for the Abbaye of Royaumont, founded by holy Louis.

In the middle of the 15th century the city knows one period ostentation with a new lord, Antoine de Gallaix, who builds a new castle of which there remain only the ditches (street of the Old man-Castle) and restore the church.

Starting from second half of the 17th century, Chantilly intervenes in the history: in remainder the “forest of the Lily”, planted at the beginning of the 18th century by Louis Henri de Bourbon, seventh prince de Condé.

February 23rd, 1790, the seigniory of Morlaye becomes common of Morlaye. In the middle of the 19th century, the development of the races, which brings closer Lamorlaye and Chantilly again, is the striking fact in the life of the commune: today Lamorlaye, whose name is fixed definitively at that time, is proud of its nickname of " paradise of the cheval". The current castle, rebuilt in 1820, was bought and increased by the count Vigier in 1872. It was of 1960 to 2002 the property of the European biblical Institut which made a religious training center of it. The municipality acquired it at the beginning of 2005 and one reflection is in hand for its becoming.

Lamorlaye lodged a Lebensborn (in French: " Fountains of vie"), institution developed under the Third Reich by the mode Nazi and particularly by Heinrich Himmler where were to procreate subjects of pure Aryan Race (in particular of the Soldat S S) in order to constitute " the elite of the nation".

Today Lamorlaye belongs to the Communauté of communes of the surface cantilienne (CCAC, gathering nearly 36.000 inhabitants divided into seven communes) and signed the charter of the regional National park Oise-Country of France (PNR).

Demography

The social fabric as for him evolves/moves quickly, with more and more of main homes, taking into account the easy access to Paris by the Train.

Administration

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Places and monuments

Saint Nicolas's Day Church: rebuilt in 1739, after the Foudre set fire to that built with the S in 1738.

Castle: modern building builds in 1870 to replace that which the Prussians had destroyed. In 1960, settled there the European biblical Institute. Today, it is property of the city.

Saint-Vaast Vault, with the hamlet of the Lily: this vault shelters the tomb stone of the lords of the Lily.

The horse world

Lamorlaye, city of the horse par excellence, has a world famous by the prestige of its center of drive.

Indeed, 900 horses there are indexed, pulled by 40 trainers and 10 licenses to involve.

The tracks are spread out over 60 hectares including 15 in grass and offer all the security guarantees and of calm necessary to the blooming of the dispach riders. Is necessary it to point out the winners of the price of the Triumphal arch like All Along, Sagace, Helissio, Prince Royal II… And prizes winner of the Great Steeplechase of Paris like Brodi Dancer, Al Capone II, Ubu III, Uccello II, The Fellow, Katko… which completed their preparation in our commune.

Lamorlaye is proud to be the only European commune to have a track of the American type, baptized " track All Along" , certified copy of the dirt trac of Santa Anita in California. This particular course was offered by Mister Daniel Wildenstein.

Lamorlaye can be besides described as multi-field city of the horse. The racehorses of gallop and the racehorses of trot come to furrow the tracks of drive.

It shelters also two riding schools of owner and two riding schools very snuffed in the south of Picardy and the north of the Ile-de-France, this dynamism makes it possible young people to discover and love the horse. The city awakes and falls asleep with the noise of the shoes hammering the ground.

Moreover, Lamorlaye shelters riding crops of international repute: famous the Yves Saint Martin's day which had showed the ways of glory with Olivier Peslier, gold riding crop in France and uncontested high-speed motorboat in Japan.

Dominique Ox, Dany Bonilla, Thierry Waistcoat and well of others are also present there.

The recordman of the gold riding crops of the obstacle, Christophe Pieux, left his dear town of Pau to settle in Lamorlaye.

Thus, in this environment, the municipality offers each year, with all the classes of CM1, of the lessons of horsemanship.

The municipal action also tends to improve the existing infrastructures to allow a better integration of the horse in the city.

Lastly, each year the city sponsors a test of jumping of Chantilly and the price of the Town of Lamorlaye, race which disputes on the hippodrome of Chantilly and on this occasion there is invited all the children of the elementary schools.

While taking part in these events, the town of Lamorlaye marks its attachment with the horse and the horse world, indissociable of the history of the city.

To see the Center of drive France Gallop of Lamorlaye/Coye.

Economic activities, associative, sporting and cultural

Strong of more than 8.300 inhabitants, Lamorlaye is thus indissociable world Hippique since it accommodates more than 900 horses of race, distributed in an about sixty stable S animated by trainers and Jockey S of world reputation.

Its commercial fabric particularly active and is consequently diversified.

The great richness of the historic sites around Lamorlaye are also an asset:

the Field of Chantilly with its castle and its hippodrome, to 3 km
the royal city of Senlis, to 10 km
the Abbey S of Royaumont to 2 km, of Fountain Chaâlis to 20 km and of the Moncel to 20 km.

The vitality of the 60 clubs and associations also contributes to the radiation of Lamorlaye.

Personalities related to the commune

Twinning

Ballynahinch, in Ireland

See too

Common of Oise

External bonds

official Gate of information of the town of Lamorlaye
Lamorlaye on the site of the national geographical Institute
Lamorlaye on the site of INSEE
Lamorlaye on the site of Quid
Localization of Lamorlaye on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Lamorlaye on Mapquest

Local associations

the club of Table tennis of Lamorlaye. : Ping Pong Lamorlaye
the football club of Lamorlaye.
http://membres.lycos.fr/lamorlayealma: association Lamorlaye Report & Reception: ALMA

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