Mours

Mours is a common French, located in the department of the Val-d'Oise and the area Île-de-France. Its inhabitants are called Moursien () S.

Geography

The commune is located in the valley of the Oise. The village is built at the edge of the Ru of Presles, to a few hundred meters before its confluence with Oise.

The commune is bordering on: Beaumont-on-Oise, Nointel, Presles, Isle-Adam, Champagne-on-Oise and Persan.

It is served by the Gare of Nointel - Mours, located at Nointel.

History

The name comes from Latin murnum , village.

The territory of the commune is occupied as of the Neolithic , as various discoveries indicate it: weapons and tools Neolithic, currencies and ceramic Roman with the Mafa career, as well as a Gallo-Roman chest were found there (currently with the small museum of Parmain).

The grounds are yielded to the 8th century by the king Dagobert with the Abbaye of Saint-Denis. In 1411, a charter of Charles of Orleans indicates that the seigniory always belongs to the abbey. The village thus constitutes one of the oldest possessions of the Benedictines of Saint-Denis.

The village knows few evolutions until the 19th century. It failed to be attached in 1840 to Nointel or Beaumont-on-Oise. The inhabitants opposed it. The construction of the railway opens the locality on outside and contributes to the prosperity of the commune. The installation of some industries, in particular a flour mill and a factory of buttons, bring a progressive increase in population. The village undergoes destruction during the First World War; the French genius blows up the bridge of railroad on the Oise in 1914 in order to delay the progression of the enemy.

With the XXe century, the economic activity of the commune is stimulated by the installation of a cement factory, closed in the Années 1980.

Heraldic

Administration

The common one belongs to the jurisdiction of authority, of great authority as well as trade of Pontoise.

Mayors of Mours

Safety

The rate of criminality of the district of police force of Persan (including Beaumont-on-Oise, Isle-Adam, Presles, Mours and Nointel) is of 86,34 acts for 1000 inhabitants (crimes and offenses, figures 2005) what locates it beyond the national average (83/1000) but in on this side departmental average (88,15/1000). The rate of resolution of the businesses by the police services is of 31,74%, slightly higher than the average of the department of 28,83%.

Demography

Monuments and places of visit

the neo-gothic vault was built in 1860 thanks to a subscription to replace the parish church sold during the Révolution and then destroyed. The Nave and the chorus are bored large picture windows arched of warheads and are finished by a bedside with 3 sides surmounted by a very slim tower. A contemporary concrete church supplements the pallet of the religious buildings of the commune.

the mill (5, rue du port) hones some and bricks of the industrial type replaces another building of the artisanal type. The central building is bored many windows in semicircular arch.

the laundrette (street of the mill) frame at the 19th century is the first built in the commune.

Old farms meet on the communal territory, of which some renovated are used as dwellings. The firm of Mours , of the XIXe century, occupies the site of the old priory of the abbey of Denis saint transformed after the one hundred year old Guerre into manor. The building is sold with the white Pères in 1950. The house Saint Denis as for it is built in 1882 to shelter an orphanage of young girls. It is dedicated to Saint Roch but takes the name of villa Saint Governed at the beginning of last century. She is also entrusted to the White Fathers who install there a convalescent home for old monks and a training center bound for the members of their institution.

The Station of Nointel - Mours, always in service, date completion of the XIXe century and was altered in 1955.

The Leemans family took part much in the XIXe century with the construction the many ones of the patrimonial elements of the commune (firm of holy Mours, house Denis, vault).

See too

Internal bonds

Forest of Isle-Adam
Common of the Val-d'Oise

Notes, sources and references

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