Pont-sur-Yonne

Pont-sur-Yonne is a common French, located in the department of the Yonne and the area Burgundy.

Its inhabitants is called the Pontois .

Geography

This small town is located at a hundred kilometers in the south of Paris, on the Trunk road 6, between the towns of Montereau and Sens. The locality owes its name with the bridge connecting the banks left and right-hand side of Yonne, characteristic which was worth in this small city an animated past.

History

In the beginning, the city was only one dependence of Villemanoche, city close in which were a Monastère. Thus, according to a chartre gone back to 833, it was noted villemanoche and the adjacent bridge . One knows however that in 613 the city was called Pontus Syriacus , that is to say Syrian Pont; the city, then, was perhaps inhabited by Syriens, principal traders of France at the time.

In IXe century, the Liber sacramentorum of the archbishops of Sens calls the city Pontum - Bridge, quite simply. A little later, that will be Pontes .

In 1213, the city was set fire to by the Foudre.

March 18th, 1815, the Emperor, from return of the isle of Elba, spent the night there.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Placed under the term of Notre-Dame, the church parroissale is a building whose architecture dates from the primitive Gothique. Having the plan of a Latin cross, this building is capped with a bell-tower of twenty-six meters of rise in overcome masonry of a slate arrow with pinnacles of angles.
Devastated by a fire in May 2004, the station of Pont-sur-Yonne - whose architecture is inspired by the station of Deauville - will be rebuilt with the identical one. The labor costs are of approximately a million euros (source: Life of the Rail, September 26th, 2007, n° 3122, page 41).

Personalities related to the commune

Culture

Saint Edme was very popular a long time in Pont-sur-Yonne. In 1242, whereas the body of the saint was transported to Pontigny, Marie, of Pont-sur-Yonne, blind man for a long time, led by her parents to Vertilly on the passage of the saint, miraculeusement would miraculeusement have recovered the sight.

Twinnings

. This twinning was done within the framework of the bringing together between the Burgundy and the the Rhineland-Palatinat, which began in 1953 on a proposal from Mr. Albert Petitjean. The purpose of it was to prepare the reconciliation enter the France and the still ravaged Germany by the Guerre which had opposed them.

See too

Common of Yonne

External bonds

Official site of the town of Pont-sur-Yonne

Small Pontois: Personal site containing of the old postcards and the document concerning to the history of the town of Pont-sur-Yonne

Official site of the Union for the BURGUNDY Co-operation/RHENANIE-PALATINAT

Pont-sur-Yonne on the site of the national geographical Institute

Pont-sur-Yonne on the site of INSEE

Pont-sur-Yonne on the site of Quid

Common closest to Pont-sur-Yonne

Localization of Pont-sur-Yonne on a chart of France

Plane of Pont-sur-Yonne on Mapquest

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