Pontpoint

Pontpoint is a common French.

It is located at the South of the area Picardy, in the department of the Oise.

Geography

Delimited in north by the Oise, in the south by the Forest of Halatte, in the west by the Abbey of Moncel and in the east by a1 highway, Pontpoint belongs Bridge-Holy-Maxence to the canton of , of the Community of communes of the Countries of Oise and Halatte and of the district of Senlis.

Located at 55 km from Paris, 20 of Compiegne, 13 of Creil and 14 of Senlis, this commune is bordering on Houdancourt, Longueil-Holy-Marie, Rhuis, Roberval, Villeneuve-on-Verberie, Villers-Saint-Frambourg and Bridge-Holy-Maxence.

Its surface is of 1910 ha divided into 727 timbered, 850 cultivated, 250 urbanized and 83 various. She is located at coast 30 on the level of the valley of Oise and 218 at the culminating point of the Pagnotte mount.

5,4 km length the village is composed of the old hamlets of Moncel, Saint-Benevolent, SaintGervais, Saint-Pierre and Moru. Passed of 1400 inhabitants in 1962 to 2850 today what was a village-street is becoming a true village, a center borough being under development.

Hamlets

the hamlet of Moru

The hamlet of Moru or Mauru was called before " Montru". It depended with the S on the parish the Roberval one. During the extraction of the sand pits one found there bones of mammoth as well as sarcophagi mérovingiens.

This hamlet belonged a long time to the seigniories of Pontpoint had by the abbesses of the Abbaye of Moncel.

Its inhabitants asked into 1791 their fastening Pontpoint. Initially refused, that Ci became effective only in 1833 following the cadastral operations begun under Napoleon. The judgment concerning final fastening was handed down by the Council of Ministers on September 2nd, 1848.

History

Pontpoint in some dates:

721 : Childéric II king of the francs from 715 to 721 is assassinated in forest of Halatte on the territory of Pontpoint.

800 : Charlemagne has a residence there.

842 : signature of a charter by Charles the Bald person.

1200/1364 : commune independent under the authority of the tales of Artois, then kings of France.

1309 : Philippe the Beautiful one decides the construction of an old people's home and an abbey of clarisses.

1364 : installation of the clarisses until the revolution.

1418 : an epidemic of Black Death carries half of the population.

1709 : Louis XIV fact gift of the castle of Fécamp to the clarisses.

1790 : election of the first republican mayor of Pontpoint (L Welsh).

1814 : 106.000 men (Austrian, Prussian, Russian) there form a camp after the battles of Champaubert and Montmirail.

1832 : the cholera decimates 300 people on the commune.

1848 : the hamlet of Moru is definitively attached to Pontpoint.

1915/1917 : the village is used as a basis back during the battle of the Marne.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

The royal abbey of Moncel

The Abbaye Saint-Jean-Baptist of Moncel was founded in 1309 per Philippe the Beautiful one. The abbey was directed by the clarisses of. Through the centuries she will know many plunderings, fires, destruction, she was sold with the revolution, was used as religious school before being entrusted to the “club of the old manor” which will give again the life to him.

The manor of Saint-Symphorien

The construction probably goes back to the beginning of the 14th century, a tough assertion wants that it was built by Templiers. Although not documented one can think that it was used as chancellery in Philippe the Beautiful one. It was set up in stronghold in 1659.

With the Revolution sold as quite national it was transformed into farm. Repurchased in 1920, its last three owners proceeded to a remarkable work of rehabilitation. One visits it only at the time of the days of the inheritance.

The Saint-Gervais church

It was built between; the oldest part is the bell-tower of Romance style. One can admire the accuracy of the proportions and the simplicity of materials. The nave is 12th century, as well as the chorus, the church in its current form was finished at the 15th century, five tomb stones belong to the paving of the chorus. The baptismal font is 12th century.

The Saint-Pierre church

Today in ruins, this church is oldest of the village. Its proximity of the forest made it possible to the inhabitants to take refuge there in the event of invasion. There exists besides of many undergrounds in this sector. Remarkable building, one officiated there until the Revolution, it contained a reliquary of holy Barbe. It was sold in 1835 to a private individual.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Oise
Regional natural park Oise-Country of France

External bonds

the site of the town hall of Pontpoint
Association for the Safeguard of the Communal Inheritance of Pontpoint
the Community of communes of the Countries of Oise and Halatte
Pontpoint on the site of the national geographical Institute
Pontpoint on the site of INSEE
Pontpoint on the site of Quid
Localization of Pontpoint on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Pontpoint on Mapquest

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