Machemont

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

Geography

On a hill in extreme cases of the Wood of Thiescourt, exposed south, the slopes of this village were formerly planted vines. From now on, the territory of the commune is divided between wood and fields. The ground is rich and fatty. One finds very quickly clay there, then of chalk. Moreover the old village in is built with large stones. A brook, the Matz, runs with its feet before going to throw itself in the Oise.

The name of Machemont would be the contraction of " Matz" and of " Mont" ?

History

The Middle Ages

Saint Amand there came into 626 to preach the Christianisme and founded a Monastère with the authorization of the king Childéric.
At the beginning 12th, the Abbé Saint Martin's day de Fournay founded a priory Bénédictin there destroys with the Révolution. Today, there remain some vestiges of the enclosure (a building, a door and a small tower on two levels with spiral staircase coupled and meutrières).

1914-18

Occupied at the time of the German offensive of 14, then released at the time of the Course to the sea, the area of Machemont will be found near the face during all the war. The chalk careers will be often used to confine the troops.
the village and the hamlet of Montigny (in the North-West - of which there remains today only one body of farm and some partly ruined houses) was the sector of quartering of the 86 {{E}} Régiment of Infantry, with supply by a railway of 0,60 m for Decauville.
At the time of the last of the offensives Ludendorff of spring/be 1918, defended by the 72e division of infantry the village will be destroyed during the battle of the Matz (June 18). The commune will be decorated with the Military Cross.

1939-45

the village was released on September 1st, 1945, by 3rd US army of George Patton which went up the trunk road of Compiegne towards Noyon.

Administration

Machemont is in the North-East of the Département of Oise (Arrondissement of Compiegne) between Noyon and Compiegne, in the canton of Ribécourt-Dreslincourt. The communes which are close for him are Thourotte, Cambronne-lès-Ribécourt, Ribécourt-Dreslincourt, Chevincourt and Mélicocq.

The commune joined that of Chevincourt to carry out a school regrouping with transport in the bus between the two villages (morning, midday and evening) and with canteen with Chevincourt.

The common one shares a purification plant with Chevincourt and Mélicocq.

In 1996, the common one joined the Communauté of Communes of the Two Valleys (Oise and Matz) (see site CC-2V) (sixteen communes are associated for 24.000 inhabitants).

Demography

Places and monuments

See the tourist card of the Community of the Two Valleys

ruins of the abbey with the castle of St Amand,
the castle of Roberville,
the mill on the Matz,
chalk careers. They were used as quartering during the First World War (many sculptures of soldiers on the walls).
the Saint-Sulpice church of Machemont is recent (1930, it replaces that destroyed in 1918.
Vis-a-vis the town hall and in front of the church of the village, rises the communal War memorial and a monument dedicated to 86e R.I., 38e R.I., 53e R.A. and 4th Genius. It is registered there " With the memory of the brave men fallen to the field from honor around Machemont, Attichy, Carmoy and Ecouvillon".

With the hamlet of Montigny, a monument was raised there by 86e R.I., 38e R.I., 53e R.A. and the 4th Genius " With the memory of the brave men fallen to the field from honor around Carmoy". This monument carries the inscription " There they fell, mown by death during a burning defense. O passers by, envy their fate: they regenerated France." (source http://www.patrimoinedelagrandeguerre.com/circuit.htm)

With the place known as of the " Bridge of Matz" , a capped terminal commemorative of a Casque Adrian indicates the extreme limit of the advance of the German armies in 1918.

Personalities related to the commune

Events

Activities

the Fire of the Saint Jean,
the Choule,
the local fair the last we of August,
the tourist rally of association " The Savante" Chip; ,
the club of Paint Ball (see its site),
the football club.
natural Site of fishing (Course along the Matz, of the Ru of Saint-Amand and in the communal pond).
Footpaths (loops of 11,13 and 25 km).

Machemont enters the Universe and the Chip

Initiated in 1983 per Mrs. Rina Ziger (already known of young people of the village by its conferences on the Astronomy at the school) and by association Footbridge 2000, Machemont was the subject of a cultural event controls centered on the confrontation of its population (rural) with " The ordinateur" (general information representing the computing world). This event was structured by:

of the formations to data processing (BASIC, Logo, tools office automation…),
the equipment of all the hearths in Minitel,
and each week in evening by scientific conferences, cultural and technological presented by national personalities (of which Mr. Deniélou founder of UTC).

The initiative was concluded after 1 year and half, by " The Lawsuit of the ordinateur". Under a capital drawn up in the course of the school, this lawsuit was informed by certain voluntary inhabitants (charge and defense prepared by two different teams) in front of the remainder of the population present and the press. At the conclusion of the debates and testimonys, the inhabitants came to a conclusion by vote on the culpability of the computer (Yes or not) then about its sorrow (Payment, Mise under democratic control, Destruction). Finally, the computer was considered not culprit but was placed under democratic control.

The event gave place to televised interviews (7 out of 7). The computer material (AppleII, TO7) was bequeathed at an local association created for the occasion (" The Savante" Chip;) in order to continue the training of the inhabitants of the village.

The Logo of machemont

In 1996, the town hall proposes to the inhabitants to take part in a contest whose object is to draw the logo of the village. The prize winner (Wilfrid Bouré) was revealed on January 20th, 1997 at the time of the wishes of the mayor. Its logo represents the bell-tower of the church in stylized and ombrées lines black. This bell-tower is framed in top of a feature curves green, representing the hill of the village covered with forest, and in bottom of a rectilinear blue feature representing the Matz.

For the little story: The church of Machemont was rebuilt after the First World War. However since its bell-tower presents a silhouette curious being connected to that about a capped human head of a conical hat. This effect, known of the inhabitants, does not appear when one walks in the streets close to the church. It is advised to go on the road of Chevincourt to notice it, or to wait misty days. It is thus impossible to fix this mirage by photography. At the time of his studies, the author sought to restore this effect so that the inhabitants adapt the future logo. Afterwards many tests, it is finally the use of a photocopier, regulated to very strongly contrast of the photographs of the bell-tower, which made it possible to reveal the optical illusion.

See too

Common of Oise

External bonds

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

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