Pierrefeu-of-VAr

Geography

It is located at 150 meters of altitude and its surface is of 5836 hectares, it dominates a vast wine plain where the green banks of Réal Martin are stretched. This single soil produces red wines and the rosy exceptional ones, their noble type of vines: Grenache, Cinsault, Syrah, Mourvèdre. Many famous fields and a famous wine co-operative surround the village.

The west of the commune is a vast plain, pertaining to the Permian Depression which extends from Toulon to Fréjus, by circumventing the Massif Moors, who occupies more than 50% of his territory. Caught up with by the urbanization these last years, the city is an important agricultural production center, thanks to its area under vines. The principal tops are: Castellas (445 meters), Peyrol (350 meters) and Barry (149 meters). The downtown area is built at the same time on the first buttress of the Solid mass of the Moors and on the valley which extends has its feet.

Localities and variations

Hamlet of Bauvais, in the plain, near the Aerodrome
Hamlets Plane trees and Vidaux, Road of Pignans 13
Hamlets Portanière and Rouves, in the small valley of Sauvecanne; Midsummer's Day, Tuilière, Davids, the Country house of Cogolins, in the small valley of Maraval.

Other localities:

Plantiers
Joselette
Joliette
Beautiful-Blade
Sarreiris
the Home
the Liking
Short Jean
Beaussenas
Chaumadou
Issemble
the Step of the Stag
the Garenne No
the Iron Bridge
Sigou
Saint-Rene

Communes bordering

Cuers (7 kilometers)
Puget-city (8 kilometers)
Crau (11 kilometers)
Collobrières (15 kilometers)
Hyères-the-Palm trees (18 kilometers)
the Londe-the-Moors (20 kilometers)

History

Old medieval village, of which the first appearances in the writings go back to the 11th century. Petrafoci, Petrafog, Rochafog and finally Pierrefeu-of-VAr, such are the names of the commune, with the wire of time. With belonged to various seigniories and counties, before being set up in Marquisat (17th century).

The name would come from the “stones to fires” or even the x-ray one, in the direction of hearths or families known as fires, with the census of the " feux" from 1471 then 69.

One does not find a flint in the Moors, but of the quarzites in abundance, white rocks which shocked one against the other, give a spark, therefore an effect of stone with fires, from where probably the name of the commune. Armorial bearings

Armorial bearings of Pierrefeu

The armorial bearings of Pierrefeu represent five flames spouting out of a stone. They are well “stones with Latin fires” in other words at the 8th century: will pietra foci , then at the 10th century, one finds name petrafoe meaning stone with fires.

History of Pierrefeu

Highest antiquity left traces on its territory where one can still see vestiges of several protohistoric enclosures: Castellas (342m), Peyrol (431m), the Four Terms (415m), become later a priory Benedictine and finally the David.

It seems that the territory of Pierrefeu extended on the site from the hill from Peigros, hill which culminates to 244 m, located in the north of the hill of Holy-Cross. Vestiges of occupation were found in the plain with the locality Chapelle Holy-Anne, between the current cities of Cuers and Pierrefeu.

It is following the wars of religion which devastated the village that this one is installed on the hill of Holy Cross.

Historically, the first origins of the commune date from the 11th century " Petrafoc" whose grounds belonged to the seigniory of the Viscounts of Marseilles. Until the revolution, the seigniory or ground of Pierrefeu was the property various families, noble or not, of Provence. Sometimes, several divided it simultaneously.

The ground of Pierrefeu was set up in marquisat by letters patent of November 1682, and recorded the next on December 1st with the Room of the accounts of Montpellier, in favor of Pierre Dedons, adviser at the Parliament.

In 1859, the heirs and descendants of the last seigneuriales families, brought a lawsuit against the population of the commune of Pïerrefeu. Indeed, they introduced to being “recognized exclusive owners of the grounds, gastes, ploughings, vines and olive-trees, wood, gasolines of fir trees, oaks lièges, oaks white, chestnuts… ”.

The applicants saw themselves déboutés and condemned at the expense by decision of the civil Court of Toulon dated April 2nd, 1859, decision confirmed in call, on August 9th, 1862, by a judgment of the imperial Court of Aix.

Lastly, one quotes the existence of the Savage of Pierrefeu, which lived six years in the forest, by nourishing plants.

courses of love in Pierrefeu

In many castles of Provence, of the year 1150 at the year 1200, the Great ladies and the Troubadours met to hand down judgments on the extreme questions of the love.

A true code of love was worked out, with which the rules, arrived to us, were full with smoothness, psychology, mischievousness too. The castle of Pierrefeu has the memory of two of these ladies which animated its Court of Love: Rostangue rams of Pierrefeu, Mabille de Fos rams of Hyères. One can add Bertrane to it rams Signs.

During the 20th century, Pierrefeu is affected by the two world wars, and accommodates the commercial airport and military, then the psychotherapy center which made the fame of the village in the neighborhoods.

Ground of traditions, proud of its past, but resolutely turned towards the future, Pierrefeu is also universally known for the quality of its wines A.O.C. Today, Pierrefeu is a tourist village, appreciated for its calm, far from the tumult of the great seaside resorts. The summer, from many festivities come to punctuate the evenings of June, July and August. Finally the traditional festivals of the village (release, soil, grape harvest, harvest festival and local festival) are the occasion to discover or redécouvrir the history and the traditions of the village, become today peaceful small town, whose reputation is not any more to make, so much on the level of the products of the soil than of its quality of life.

Since May 15th, 2007, the commune accommodates the national police (transfer of the units of CUERS and CARNOULES). Telephone: 04.94.28.60 .27. a new quartering is established. One discovers in the hall of reception a rich person collection devoted to the history of gendarmerie (uniforms, documents, materials, etc) having for topic “ of the constabulary, with the gendarmerie ”, whose gendarme Nicolas Moulin, Officier of the Public Encouragement, is the conservative (visible also on Internet with the address " collection gend" . The official unveiling of the unit was carried out on Thursday, September 13, 2007, in the presence of many authorities, elected officials, reprocessed weapon, and invited.

Administration

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Demography

Religious heritage

Downtown area:

Vault Holy-Cross (11th century), old vault seigneuriale: ex-votos 18th century, two flares and carved wood of the 17th century.

Parish Saint-Jacques-the-Major (17th century), restored with the S: square bell-tower with bell-tower. The visitors will be able to see there the very beautiful ones and old statues out of stones or carton pierre gilded with the sheet, as well as ex-votos coming from the vault Co.-Cross.

Localities and variations: Church Midsummer's Day (10th century), located at the hamlet of the same name.

Civil inheritance

Monument of Dixmude (1923), ruins of the medieval castle, fountains (Patti, places Wilson, public garden Duplessis de Grenedan, street General-Sarrail, Saint-Rene, Gambetta place), old mill with oil, old stopper factory, war memorials.

the village of formerly

Cork generated a true industry with Pierrefeu, a new corporation of trades and it inspired by the creators in any kind: poets, sculptors or writers.

Bouchonnerie was created in 1899. It annually produced, between 1915-1920, 200 million stoppers but also manufactured cork products. It occupied from 150 to 200 workers and workmen. The lièges came the area but also from Algeria, then of Portugal. In 1968, the dark factory in a deep crisis and manufacture stop in 1971.

This old factory becomes communal inheritance, names today " Space Bouchonnerie" and shelters two splendid rooms: room Malraux and the room of the Barrels.

Cork must undergo many operations (bouillage, boarding…) and to pass by many machines (printer, cork-cutting machine, tourneuse…), before becoming stopper. To know cork, its origins, its transformations, its uses last or present to address itself to the tourist office.

Famous people

See too

Museum of Santon, field of Aumérade, road of Puget-City 12
wine fields
the Pierrefin cellar, district of the Liking.
the cooperative wine cave, which occurred Leon-Blum
Arboretum Andre-Luglia, road of the Moors 14
the District Holy-Cross, where one can observe the vault, the parish, and the vestiges of the castle
the wine field of the Tower of the Bishop, road of Cuers 14 (site of the first village of Pierrefeu, with the Middle Ages)
the valley of Sauvebonne, his hamlet, and his church, road of Hyères 12
the hamlets typically provençaux
the breedings of ostriches (road of the Moors 14, route de la Crau 29)
the protohistoric enclosures, in Castellas, Peyrol, the Four Terms and Davids.

Internal bonds

External bond

Tourist bureau of Pierrefeu
Official site of the City
Site of the Intercommunity association of tourism of Provence d' Azur
Site of the vine growers of Pierrefeu-of-VAr

Collection of the Gendarme MILL, on the Gendarmerie with the Brigade of PIERREFEU

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