Montsauche-les-Settons

Montsauche-les-Settons is a common French, located in the department of the Nievre and the area Burgundy.

Geography

The commune of Montsauche them Settons is located at the center of Burgundy, in the middle of its most preserved natural zone: the Regional natural park of Morvan. Chief town of canton in the department of Nievre, Montsauche them Settons is in full rural area, the commune is composed of a borough, half of the lake of Settons and some dispersed hamlets that and there. The hamlets live mainly of the bovine breeding and of the culture of the Christmas trees, the turn of the lake is primarily turned towards tourism. The borough is located at 3 km of the lake, it gathers all the trade and local services necessary. Located in the Morvan

The existing variations and localities or having existed are:

  • Meat offals or Habattées
  • Argoulois or Argoulais (1512)
  • Avonnières or Avoignières
  • Wood-Stopped
  • Wood Large Fields
  • Wood the Abbess
  • Bonnin or Bonin
  • Book (destroyed mill)
  • the Brush
  • Field of the Bridge
  • Champgazon or Field-Grass
  • Champigneux
  • the Cross of Chazelles
    • Hollow
  • of Fonteny or Crots de Fonteny
  • Dettrapy or Détrapis (Détrapés) or Trapis
  • Faye or the Burden (1618)
  • the Fountain of the Forging mills
  • the Insane one of the Forging mills
  • Shook Them
  • Gadreys
  • Large-Wood
  • the Ford
  • Watches for It or Gaitte (1407)
  • the Door Gaumont
  • the Door Grillot (destroyed hamlet)
  • Mallerin
  • Montélesmes or Montelême (1608)
  • Montgirault
  • Moulin of Nataloup (X)
  • Nataloup (X) or Nathaloup (1605)
  • In addition to Cure or Oultre-Cure (1607)
  • Palmarou (X) or Pallemarou (1638)
  • Pré Gaumont
  • Roche
  • Rue of Garenne (brook)
  • the Lanes or Round slices
  • Settons
  • the Glassmaking

History

  • Called Montsauches as of 1285, the Fief of Saulce depended on the Comté of Castle-Chinon. Baillage Saint-Pierre it Moûtier.

As for the Parish, St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, it depended on the Abbaye of Saulieu. In the beginning, it was divided in two collections of which one depended on the Election of Castle-Chinon and the other of the Election of Nevers (Généralité of Mill). They were joined together in 1776 only one with the Election of Castle-Chinon.

  • the village was mainly destroyed on June 25th 1944 by the German troops which were withdrawn, then rebuilt. During this terrible tragedy the communal collection of the parochial registers (held in town hall since the French revolution) disappeared in smoke. 40 years later, on June 25th 1984, President François Mitterrand paid homage to the ravaged village, by revealing a commemorative plaque.

Administration

Demography

Economy

Tourism belongs to the marketing activity of the commune thanks to the Lake of settons.

Tourist monuments and places

  • Château of Nataloup 16th century

  • Barrage of the Lac of Settons builds in 1858 to retain the Cure and to allow " lâchers of eau" and thus the Floatation of wood towards Paris.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

  • Common of Nievre

External bonds

  • Official site of the commune
  • Montsauche-les-Settons on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Montsauche-les-Settons on the site of INSEE
  • Montsauche-les-Settons on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Montsauche-les-Settons on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Montsauche-les-Settons on Mapquest

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