Pierrefitte-on-Sauldre

Pierrefitte-on-Sauldre is a common French, located in the department of Loir-et-Cher and the area Center.

Geography

Pierrefitte-on-Sauldre belongs to the the Sologne, area wet miserable a long time, with the population formerly decimated by paludism. It was cleansed in second half of the XIXe century.

History

the old name of Pierrefitte ( will petra ficta , or " hone fichée") evoke a Menhir drawn up on the current territory of the commune.
historical Geography: under the Old Mode, the Paroisse of Pierrefitte belonged to the Généralité, Subdélégation, and election of Orleans. It depended on the Grenier to salt of the Sully-on-Loire. For the royal Justice, it concerned the Bailliage of Orleans. To the religious point of view it belonged to the Diocèse of Orleans and the Archidiaconé of the Sully-on-Loire.
At the XVIIe century, a third of the " feux" (household for tax purposes) of the parish belonged per alternative years (one year out of two) to Pierrefitte on the one hand, and Brinon-on-Sauldre, Nouan-le-Fuzelier and Salbris on the other hand.

Our Village

Mills

On the Beuvron: the Mill of the Brush, Mill of Coudray.
On the Sauldre: the Mill of Villemignon, Mill-Bumblebee, Mill of the Slate.
On the Pares: the Mill Sarrazin, Mill of the Ditches.
the trade of miller or farinier was not without danger: in 1756, a miller of the mill of the Brush perishes by accident, crushed by the wheel of the mill.

The bridge

Until the Revolution Pierrefitte-on-Sauldre profited from special fiscal advantages (right of heavy Octroi on certain animals - right of " foot fourché" - and various goods) related to its statute of " ville" , i.e. of strengthened locality (see below the paragraph relating to the ditches).
One formerly crossed the Sauldre to ford (but because of high waters of the winter one could cross it per annum only four months), and by a wood bridge maintained more or less well according to the times, which could harm circulation and thus the trade. In 1755 the bridge was repaired, but it was so badly maintained thereafter that the day before the Revolution of 1789 the users could not cross it without making run an obvious danger to the crews of horses. Located on the main road from Orleans in Bourges borrowed as of the Antiquity, Pierrefitte had been a very important crossing point until in 1770, especially with the Moyen-âge. Work of improvement of the Road royal Orleans-Vierzon by Salbris, rectified, widened and maintained well by the administration the Highways Departments under the direction Trudaine, made give up the antique quickly sees from Orleans to Bourges by the Ménestreau-in-Villette, Vouzon and Pierrefitte with the profit of the route Ferté-Saint-Aubin, Lamotte-Beuvron and Salbris (then royal road from Paris to Toulouse, and currently trunk road n° 20).

Ditches

the borough was surrounded by ramparts of ground and ditches a 1200 meters length allotted to the Gallic period by old authors, but whose establishment actually does not go up beyond XVIe century. In some endoits, these " fossés" still have from 4 to 6 meters broad and of 1,50 to 3 meters of rise. Formerly, they sometimes served as “refuge” with paupers: in 1668, a passer by discovers a 8 day old there abandoned young girl. But they could also be dangerous, since in 1758, a woman perishes there “drowned by accident”.

Bibliography:

Delétang (Henri), " Neither Gallic oppidum, nor Roman camp, the ground fortifications of the borough of Pierrefitte-on-Sauldre (Loir-et-Cher) were built in the middle of XVIe siècle" , in Bulletin of the Group of archaeological and historical Searchs for the Sologne. The Sologne and its past, 7 , Volume 12, n° 1 January 2nd, th and th - June 1990, p. 1-22.

Houses and the dialect

It has taint (roof) glazes out of thatch. A soumurage, plates (grounds) of the amounts in muds (wood) anvec (with) of cob entére (out of ground) eune (one) carries and eune (one) square crossing of a Li-bill of quantities (half-meter), of cost (of with dimensions) anvec (with) qute (four) pti (small) squares. With taint (roof) D (of) low ceiling and the beam touched you if little that one does not have you (that one was) large, the beams often has taint (roof) rough tortoises (twisted). the carr' lage (the tiling) was often absent and one walked on the hardened ground.

The church

the church Saint-Etienne de Pierrefitte depended formerly on the chapter of the Collégiale Saint-Vrain of Jargeau.
the nave is a construction Romance, but entirely altered in XVIe century.

Outside, the church resembled that of Brinon-on-Sauldre, or the Souvigny-in-Sologne. Some 3 meters broad galleries surrounded it, over a 25 meters length in the west, then were prolonged of 12 meters in the east, to come to be pressed on the vault of the Holy-Virgin built at 15th or the 16th century. A Porch of of the same frame style than the galleries preceded the Romance gate formerly. Galleries and porch were destroyed in 1875, with the great satisfaction of the priest of the time, and in spite of the protest of some notable.

With regard to furniture, the church of Pierrefitte has a Crucifix armorié of XVIe century, a communion table of XVIIIe, and a painting of Cène of XVIIe coming probably from old the Retable.
the vault of the Sacré-coeur was built in 1875 thanks to the gifts of the young ladies Dezellus.

The cemetery

the last burial in the primitive cemetery surrounding the church took place the July 3rd 1838.
the audience (old local court, at the origin seigneurial) and the prison which was associated there were demolished in 1811.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Loir-et-Cher

External bonds

Pierrefitte-on-Sauldre on the site of the national geographical Institute
Pierrefitte-on-Sauldre on the site of INSEE
Pierrefitte-on-Sauldre on the site of Quid
Localization of Pierrefitte-on-Sauldre on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Pierrefitte-on-Sauldre on Mapquest

Source

http://www.coeur-de-france.com + me even

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