Saint-Girder

Saint-Girder is a common French, located in the department of the the Sarthe and the area Pays of the Loire.

Its inhabitants is called Longoniennes and Longoniens.

Geography

Localities and variations

  • Marquoie (which it is advisable to pronounce " Marcoué" in accordance with the local speech). Julien Rémy Pesche even thus spelled it in his topographic dictionary.
  • the rutin

Communes bordering

The communes bordering are:

History

  • the commune would owe its name with Lonégisile , hermit who would have, about the middle of the 7th century, destroyed the temple dedicated to Mars located on the current town of Mamers.
  • the old Sarthe-native expression “being a Saint-Girder” does not have anything to have with the commune. It means “lambiner” and is declined “to be long”, i.e. to be slow, be long in carrying out a work: It is long to arrive!

Administration

Demography

Religious heritage

  • Saint-Pierre Church and Saint-Girder of - S. The chorus is turned about midday and not towards the east, it is built on a crypt filled in 1851.

Economy

Famous characters

Tourist monuments and places

  • Old Foussard mill of the 19th century, stopped in 1929.
  • Valley of the rutin: natural zone of ecological, faunistic, and floristic interest

Events

Twinnings

References

External bonds

  • Saint-Girder on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Saint-Girder on the site of INSEE

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