Molesme
For the homonymous village in the department Yonne to see it Molesmes.
Molesme is a common French, located in the department of the Coast-with Or and the area Burgundy.
Geography
The village of Molesme is located at crossed of three departments: the Coast-with Or, where is established the commune, the Yonne, with 12km with the west and the Aube with 9km in the east. The village was built around the Benedictine abbey, with hillside, and overhangs part of the valley of the Laignes, between the old Gallo-Roman site of Vertillium and the first vines of Champagne.
History
Administration
Demography
Places and monuments
- Remainders of the Benedictine abbey, founded about 1075 per saint Robert
- Ruins of an old Gallo-Roman city, located at Vertault (with 1km of Molesme), of its antique name Vertillium.
Personalities related to the commune
- Robert de Molesme (v.1029-1111), saint, founder of the abbey, which founded after, in 1098, the abbey of Cîteaux, cradle of the order cistercian.
-
Gélis Family since the end of the 18° century.
See too
- Common of Coast-in Or
External bonds
- Molesme on the site of the national geographical Institute
- Molesme on the site of INSEE
- Molesme on the site of Quid
- Localization of Molesme on a chart of France and communes bordering
- Plane on Molesme on Mapquest