Montainville (Yvelines)

Geography

Montainville is a small rural district which is in the center of Yvelines, with 19 kilometers in the south-east of Mantes-the-Pretty and with 27 kilometers in the west of Versailles, in the prolongation of the Plaine of Versailles.

The communes bordering are Mareil-on-Mauldre in the east, Beynes in the south, Marcq in south-west, Andelu in the west and Maule in the North-West.

The territory of the commune is relatively not very wide (479 hectares against 872 on average for the communes of Yvelines) and extends in extreme cases is plate of the Mantois and on the western slope of the valley of the Mauldre. The unevenness is relatively important between the plate, which are between 120 and 130 meters of altitude, and the bottom of the valley, with approximately 40 meters. The village is on the edge of the plate, around the coast 100 meters, which corresponds to a line of sources. The site of the village forms a headland limited by two small valleys named according to the name of sources, the small valley of the Bill hook in north, that of the Elm in the south, which forms the southern limit of the commune.

Occupation of the territory

The territory of the commune is primarily rural (91%), urban space builds accounting for only 5% of the total, that is to say 25 hectares.

Inhabited space is grouped in the village, except for some dwellings in edge of Mauldre. The village of Montainville is built mainly out of stone. Large rustic residences were built there, in particular at the XIXe century. Were added there to the XXe century some Lotissement S residential.

The plate in the east is entirely dedicated to the cereal field crop, in a landscape of Openfield. The wooded areas, mainly in the valley, hardly exceed 3% of the total surface area

Communications

On the road level, the commune is served by the secondary road n° 191 which connects Mantes-the-Pretty and Rambouillet and passes in the content of the valley. The communal roadway system connects this road to the village and this one with the common neighbor of Andelu on the plate.

A project of road link North-South express train between the Highway of Normandy in north and the Trunk road 12 in the south, known under the name of new Way of the valley of Mauldre (VNVM), could cross, in the unspecified term, the communal territory in its part is (on the plate). The municipality of Montainville belongs to the opponents to this project, which is the subject in addition of a debate between the general advice of Yvelines and the district council of Ile-de-France.

The station nearest is that of Mareil-on-Mauldre, to 2,5 km of the village approximately, on the Ligne of the valley of Mauldre, which ensures of the direct connections with the Gare Montparnasse Paris on the one hand, and with Mantes-the-Pretty on the other hand.

History

One found in Montainville, as well on the plate as in the valley, of the prehistoric flint tools and the remainders of potteries showing as the territory was inhabited since the paleolithic one until the Neolithic . At the time Celt, Montainville was in the territory of the Carnutes which extended between the Loire and the Seine with two important cities, Autriacum (Chartres) and Genabum (Orleans). The northern part of this territory, centered on the basin of Mauldre formed thereafter the pagus pinciacus (Pincerais). After the conquest of Gaulle by the Romans, this territory is attached to the Lyons Provincia lugdunencia or Gaulle. Several Gallo-Roman sites were discovered and excavated in Montainville during the XXe century, in particular on the plate in extreme cases of Andelu.

The village of Montainville is attached to the baronnie of Maule to XIe century.

Towards 1670, the fauconnery of the Cabinet of the king settles in Montainville.

From the XVIIIe century, a mill on Mauldre is devoted to the manufacture of the Papier.

Culture

Events

Festival of the music in June.
Concerts and spectacles in the village hall and the church.
Olympiads of the Saint Lubin in September.

Inheritance

Church of the Assumption-of-the-Virgin: church out of stone of the 12th century, whose Nef was rebuilt with the 16th century and the chorus at the 19th century. It is registered with the inventory of the historic buildings since 1983.
Laundrette of the XIXe century, road of Mareil-on-Mauldre.
square Tower, vestige of a castle.
Fauconnerie of the king, ordered by Louis XIV, is a rural lodging today.
Oratorical, near to the church, representing the Virgin Mary.

the old basin of the Bill hook, in the fields, shelters some families of salamander S. It was probably a laundrette.

Personalities related to the commune

Bourvil ( Andre Raimbourg ) is buried in the communal cemetery of Montainville. Its country house always belongs to the family.
old residence of Patrick Bruel.
old residence of Pierre Bellemare.
old residence of Sophie, Evelyne of Rochefoucault and mother
old residence of Mrs Bréguet widow
old residence of Marc Simenon (wire of the writer)
the descendants of the Korsakov family also had there a property (years 1965-1970)

Films made in the commune

the seventh company with the moonlight of Robert Lamoureux (1977)

the thirteen episodes of the serial Cécilia, country doctor were turned in the commune in the years 1964 or 1965.

Economy

Agriculture (cereals).
Common residential.

Demography

Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Demographic trends

At the end of the XVIIIe century, Montainville was over-populated with a density of 123 inhabitants ² /km in 1800 (against 82 on average on the Ile-de-France). The population of Montainville appreciably decreased throughout the XIXe century, passing from 585 inhabitants in 1800 to 274 in 1881, that is to say a fall of 53,2%. This evolution, clear under the Second Empire, is explained by the emigration, in particular towards Paris, concomitant of the improvement of the transportation routes, and 1860 by a negative demographic balance, the deaths overriding the births.

During the XXe century one notes, after the absolute mimimum of 205 inhabitants noted in 1946, a clear resumption of demography since the Second world war and in particular during the last time, the commune having gained 88 inhabitants, is + 21%, between the censuses of 1990 and 1999. This increase corresponds to the construction of new dwellings, which it is about main home or secondary, giving a residential character on the commune.

Population pyramid

The population pyramid of the commune in 1999 fact of appearing a hollow at the teenagers and young adult (section 15-29 years), who account for 11,4% of the total population, rate definitely lower than the regional average and in fall compared to 1990 (15,0%). The young children (section from 0 to 14 years) account for 27,5% of the population, marking a certain demographic dynamism, and slices it 30-44 years is also, with 25,1%, stronger than on average regional.

One notes between 1990 and 1999 a certain renovation of the population, less than 45 years passing 60,4 to 64,9% of the total and the 45 years and more than 39,6 to 35,1%.

Housing

In 1999, Montainville counted 222 residences, in increase of 9,4% compared to 1990, including 174 main homes (78,4%) and 33 second home. The Middle Age of the park Immobilier is relatively high, nearly 70% of the residences having been built before 1975 and more than 45% before 1949 (against 33,7% for the regional average francilienne). One however notes a certain renewal of the park with 13,8% of residences built after 1990 (against 9,1% in Île-de-France).

They are primarily houses (209 residences, is 94,1%), only 13 residences were in 1999 in apartment building (these proportions differ completely from the regional average which is of 26,9% into individual and 73,1% in collective).

The great majority of the inhabitants (81,6%) were owners of their housing, against 12,1% tenants (respectively 44,3% and 51,1% in the area).

Montainville did not count in 1999 any housing HLM. The great residences are very majority: the majority of the dwellings have four parts and more (72,4%), then three (21,8%) and two parts (5,7%). No housing of a part was listed in 1999.

Administration

The commune is adherent since 2006 with the patrimonial association of the plain of Versailles and the plate of Alluets (APPVPA). This association which includes/understands three colleges, elected officials, farmers and associations, aims to draw up a durable development project in the Plaine of Versailles and to control the urbanization in particular by preserving the agricultural activities.

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