Manzat

Manzat is a common French, chief town of the Canton of Manzat, located in the department of the Puy-de-Dôme and in the area of Auvergne. Located in the solid mass of the Mounts Domes, Manzat is adherent Regional natural park of the volcanos of Auvergne . In 2000 the solid mass of the Monts Domes became Site classified . Since January 2006, Manzat is served by the highway 89 and is with the crossroads of the A89 and A71. Manzat is to 30 km, the North-West of Clermont.

Geography

The commune is located at the north of the Chaîne of Puys. The borough of Manzat is on the Roman Voie which connected Riom to Évaux-the-Baths.

Localities and variations

The commune of Manzat is characterized by a very significant number of villages and hamlets.

Communes bordering

Chapdes-Beaufort, in south-west.
Coal-scuttle-the-Varennes, in south-east.
Coal-scuttle-the-Old women, in the North-East.
Loubeyrat, with the Is.
Pulvérières, with the Southern.
Saint-Angel, with the Northern .
Saint-Georges-of-Mons, with the Western.
Vitrac, in the North-West.

History

Origin of the name

The name of Manzat, probably from very old origin and prélatine, would come from the word “Mannius” then “Mannicius”. In 1163, Manzat is called “Amanziaco” then “Manzac” in 1392.

Antiquity

The museum of Clermont has a Gallo-Roman cylindrical bottle, out of glass, collected in 1880 and which contained calcined bones. In the middle of these bones an average bronze of Domitien was. An anonymous text of the 19th century mentions that a Mr Vallet had a military terminal of Roman epoch. Part of the Roman Voie passer by in Manzat was still visible in the middle of the 20th century, on the level of the locality of the Montel.

The Middle Ages

Guillaume de Manzat, damoiseau and Agnès, his wife, made a sale with the Chartreuse of the Port-Sainte-Marie in 1299.

Modern time

Contemporary time

XXe century

First World War

The war of 1914-1918 made 80 dead, that is to say a number higher than the French average.

Second world war

The Canton of Manzat was a ground of maquis, in particular for ftp under the direction of Jean Bac. Two resistant of the commune was shot by the Germans. Two Stèle S were high in their honor; one at the village of Bessède, the other on the roadside which leads to Châteauneuf-the-Baths. A war memorial commemorates the memory of Manzatois died for the France. A Camp of internment was installed in Manzat during part of the war.

Blasonnement

“Of money to the branch of broom of five branches of gold Sinople, flowered of 30 parts” .

This blazon, adopted by the municipal council in deliberation of March 15th 1959, was composed starting from the Genêt, plant decorative which is not rare on the territory of the commune and which refers in the name of the owner of the parish of Saint-Broom.

Personality born in Manzat

François Delarue, doctor and author of many works on medicine, (° 1788, † 1842).

Administration

Demography

The inhabitants of Manzat are called the Manzatois or the Manzatous.

Culture

Natural heritage

the Chalard or volcano of the Puy de Chalard.
the cheire (or lava flow) of the Puy de Chalard.
the pond of Lachamp and sources of the Morge
the old man oak stalk, last representative of an alley which led to a manor of Style Louis XIII, disappeared today.
the Lime of the hamlet of the Strong dibbers
the brook-heat : tepid source of water where the women washed their linen when the water of the Lavoir was cold. This source is channeled since second half of the 20th century.

Civil inheritance

Two twin fountains in Andésite or Pierre de Volvic, separated from a few tens of meters and which have the characteristic to be similar, until in their decorations, with the reserve close one of both lost two of its elements on the central Fût.
the medieval tower of the Montel, dating from the 12th century.

Religious heritage

The church

The church is of Style Gothic. It was devoted on May 5th 1872 per Mr. the abbot G. Thistle and replaced a church of the 11th century, smaller, was strengthened and of Romance Style, of which he did not arrive any representation but which resembled the church Saint-Leger de Royat before his restoration of the 19th century ( Voir engraving ). The current church contains several remarkable elements:

a statue Notre-Dame of pity (or Piéta) out of wood of drowning 17th century given by the Family of Pontgibaud and coming from the vault known as of Pontgibaud to the Chartreuse of the Port-Sainte-Marie ( See photo )
the chorus of the church is decorated of Stalles out of wood of the 17th century which comes from the conventual church of the Chartreuse of the Port-Sainte-Marie.
the church contains also two Bas-relief S out of wood; one, of the 17th century, represents Saint-Pierre; the other appearing Saint-Paul is dated from the 18th century.

Cave-of-Doors

It was devoted in 1946.

With the surroundings

the lake or Gour de Tazenat.
the manor of Veygoux and its scénomusée on the Revolution.
the Castle of Chazeron.
throats of the Sioule.
the meander of Queuille.
the thermal spa of Châteauneuf-the-Baths
the ruins of Chartreuse of the Port-Sainte-Marie.
the Viaduct of Insipid the.
the medicinal spring of Montoute.

Education

There is with Manzat :

a nursery school.
a elementary school.
a public College.

Sports and Leisures

Twinning

, common near to Nantes.

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