Montgermont

Montgermont is a common French, located in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine and the area Brittany.

Geography

Montgermont is located on the axis Rennes - Saint-Malo at approximately 1 km at the north of Rennes. The commune of Montgermont, one of smallest of the department, in surface (467 ha), is located on a plate of about fifty meters of altitude, the culminating point (61m) being located at the limit of the commune on the road of the Vault of Fougeretz. This plate is notched by the valleys of the two brooks of small and large Marsh of Olivet, separated by a croup on which the borough is built. The essential component of the landscapes of Montgermont is consisted these two broad valleys whose marshy bottom constitutes an ecological factor of a great interest. The valley of the brook of the large marsh of Olivet, in particular, offers ecological sites, in the plan of the flora, of a departmental interest, even regional and for this reason it is registered with the ecological inheritance to protect.

History

Montgermont is quoted since 1152 like truce of the parish of Pacé, depend like this parish on the abbey of Melaine Saint. It is probable that Montgermont was set up in parish at the beginning of XIIIe century. At that time indeed the abbey of Melaine Saint had in Montgermont a smallholding whose incomes were plain with the chaplaincy of the monastery. However, in 1218 Geffroy, abbot of Melaine Saint, the assent of the chaplain, leased this smallholding with Raoul, priest of Montgermont and with the clerk Bernard, his nephew.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the church of Montgermont is quoted since 1152 like truce of the parish of Pacé, depend like this parish on the abbey of Melaine Saint of Rennes. It seems to be set up in parish at the beginning of XIIIe century. It was truce of Gregoire Saint of 1814 to 1820. The church is dedicated to Saint Martin's day de Tours. It is composed of a simple nave to which two vaults were added successively: that of midday pertaining to the lords of Galisson (announced since 1621) and that of the north which goes back only to 1848. At this last time one disorientated the church by transferring the high altar to the west, and by building in the east the small bell-tower under which opens the current porch. The old ogival window of the bedside, with the top of this large door, contains the weapons of the lords of Montgermont, who carried rhombus of gold and mouths to the hooped face of money azure.

La Motte feudal: Located at the Center Borough, the " Mound of Montgermont" , announced as of 416, its safeguarding must with its imposing dimensions of origin: thirty meters diameter on five meters height. It was surrounded by a ditch. A farmyard extended to the foot from the Mound and included the vault seigneuriale quoted since 1152 like truce of Pacé. The castle of Montgermont belonged to the lords of this name since 1086. A consent of 1678 learns that new the bride of the year owed " to say their song on the aforementioned " Motte" , and the vice-chancellor had with the seigniory, the Whit Sunday, 5 sums of money of the oblations made with the large furnace bridge.

Manors: the Field 14th/15th, Galisson (or of Aulnais), Thébaudière 16th, Boussardière (woodworks and chimneys 18th). House of Verdière

Way of the Duchess Anne: Montgermont also offers an interesting site, the way known as of the Duchess Anne. This way - hollow on part of its route - and bordered of old trees, follows what was probably a Roman way connecting Rennes to Corseul.

Personalities related to the commune

Michel Gerard: April 18th, 1789 an inhabitant of Montgermont, Michel GERALD, farmer in Tuel, was elected appointed with the General states. He went there out of clothes of peasant and pointed out himself by Louis XVI. " Hello my Bonhomme" he says him one day to Versailles. Man of good sense " The Gérard" Father; , as everyone called it, assembled several times to the platform and its interventions did not miss interest. Two of them which indicate its honesty entered the history. They milked one and the other with the parliamentary treatment. The " Gérard" father; stated not to want to touch a penny during its absences, then it deposited a motion under the terms of which the treatment of 1790 would not be allocated because the deputies had not worked enough with the Constitution. At the end of the parliamentary session it returned in her farm of Tuel where it died on December 7th, 1815. The life and the political career of Michel Gerard were the subject of a work of Charles Tillon: The Plowman and the Republic. This book is at your disposal with the Public library of the commune.

See too

Common of Ille-et-Vilaine

External bonds

Official site of the commune
Montgermont on the site of the national geographical Institute
Montgermont on the site of INSEE
Montgermont on the site of preliminary Quid
Inventory of the DRAC
Localization of Montgermont on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Montgermont on Mapquest
Satellite photo of Montgermont on Google

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