Molay-Littry

Molay-Littry is a common French, located in the department of the Calvados and the area Basse-Normandie.

Geography

The borough is located at the doors of the forest of Cerisy, 13 kilometers in the west of Bayeux and 20 kilometers in the North-East of Saint-Lo.

History

Molay means the place where there are grinding stones or mills. Until 1968, Molay and Littry were two independent communes.

A peasant discovered by chance, in 1741, close to the forest of Cerisy, an outcrop of coal that the marquis of Balleroy decided to exploit to supply his hearths, with the agreement of Louis XV. The open first puit in 1473 was called " Pit Sauvage". A group of financial Parisian, the Company of the mines of Littry, bought in 1747 the 62 32 kilometers kilometers long and broad concession. They made dig seventeen wells of which one a 117 meters depth. The coal of Littry, recognized for its quality, fed from many gas works, the glass furnaces or the boats of the National marine. Little by little the borough thrived and developed. In 1864, one counted eight hundred minors. Three thousand people lived around the mining square. However, competed with by British coal and of the north of France, the mine périclita and in 1880 closed. Given in service in 1940 by the German troops of occupation, it knew a second breath. Starting from 1946, " mouths noires" 1000 tons extract from coal per month. Charbonnages de France which had nationalized in 1947 the colliery of Littry, decided two years later, to stop the exploitation, considered to be of it nonprofitable.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the Museum of the Mine was created around a " machine with fire " Périer brothers. True masterpiece of the industrial art. Built in 1792, this pump with fire unique in France, was a powerful machine being used to evacuate the water and the increase of coal. The gallery of 65 meters reconstituted on the surface testifies to all the types of casing and the techniques of extraction implemented since the 18th century until the Fifties. The visitor can discover the equipment of the minors there: helmets, carbide lamps, peaks, power picks, lighters… The enormous animated model of a mining square built with the 1/10ème in 1893 by the pupils of the school of the apprentices of the mines of Bruay-in-Artois was offered by the national Academy of arts and trades. It illustrates an activity today completely disappeared in Basse-Normandie.
the Museum of Flour-milling (Mill of Marcy). Until the beginning of the 20th century, three kinds of grains were still crushed there: the corn, barley and buckwheat.
the Saint-Clearly church of Molay, devoted on October 29th, 1865, built starting from March 19th, 1862 to replace the old Saint Nicolas's Day church, converted into vault.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Apple-brandy

External bonds

http://ville-molay-littry.fr/
Molay-Littry on the site of the national geographical Institute
Molay-Littry on the site of INSEE
Molay-Littry on the site of Quid
Localization of Molay-Littry on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Molay-Littry on Mapquest

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