Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds

Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds is a common French, located in the department of the the Loire and the area the Rhone-Alps.

Geography

Saint Jean Bonnefonds has a surface of 1161 ha, located at 15 mn of the downtown area of Saint-Etienne and Saint-Chamond and with 58 km of Lyon.

History

Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds, in Latin Sanctus Johannes de Bono Cast iron (Good Fountain), car its name of a source, now dried up, which ran in the retaining wall of the church.

  • In the middle of the 19th century, Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds represents one of the most extended communes of France. It extends from Rochetaillée with Sorbiers on 2800 hectares and account more than 8800 inhabitants. The economic development and demographic of common rests mainly on the mine and passementerie. The passage of a new railway connecting Lyon to Saint-Etienne and the establishment of a railway station result in developing the iron and steel industry of the blast furnaces installed with Terrenoire. This development involves migrations of important populations. Demographic imbalance and the pressure of the ironmasters lead in 1866 to the creation of the commune of Terrenoire. In 1872, Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds (with Sorbs) is cut down once again by his territory, after the creation of the commune of the Talaudière, where an important mining activity concentrates.
  • At the beginning of the 20th century, the population as well as the traditional economic activity decline: mine, ribbon, agriculture. The activities diversify then.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

The parish church

The parish church comprises a chorus with the Romance vaults of the 12th century, with installation rebirth. Inside, a large stone stoup and a retable of the 16th century are. The last enlarging of the church goes back to 1772.

The castle of the Borough

The castle of the Borough, of the 14th century, whose site was near the church, was demolished in 1894. On the coat of a chimney was read this currency, borrowed from the Latin poet Horace: " Nulla palescere culpa " : To have to fade of no fault.

The castle of Nantas

With one kilometer in the North-East of the Borough the castle of Nantas rose, property since 1662 of Bernou de Rochetaillée. The castle was destroyed by a fire in 1894. Excavations undertaken since 1966 on the site of the hospital made it possible to find with the locality " the Walls " , ruins of a former feudal castle au15e century, and which would be the first and the oldest castle of Nantas. Research makes it possible to estimate that this feudal castle former to the 15th century itself was " built on the substructures of an antique Roman military construction " castrum murorum " : from where denomination of " Castle of the Walls ".

The castle of Fay

With approximately three kilometers of the borough of Midsummer's Day Bonnefonds, on the Northern slope of the mountain of Nantas, the district of Fay is. The word Fay comes from the word beech or beech. A group of houses called " the castle " there part of the site occupies where rose formerly the strong Château and the vault of Fay. This castle was a stake of the power of the Counts of Drill on the area. White Etienne, a Lyons middle-class man, accepted it in stronghold of the count of Drill in 1273. He strengthened it in spite of the agreement made between the count of Drill and the archbishop of Lyon at the time of the treaty of 1173 which delimited their respective possessions. Begun again in hand by the count of Drill, then royal possession as from the 16th century, the castle made it possible to store a garrison ready to defend the border with the Lyonese and represented a walk of access to Drill.

The Poyeton Field

The Poyeton field is close to the Large-Cemetery. This house belonged, at the 16th century, in Jean Baraillon, lord of Nantas, adviser in Présidial of Lyon. Firm old, it includes/understands three comprising bodies of given buildings and stables. The first body of building goes back to approximately 1750. The second and third body of buildings are oldest and constituted a strong house. With the pediment of the door of the vestiges of the vault, one can read a date: 1100. In a niche, above the furnace bridge, was a virgin black, transported to the 19th siècleà the church Saint-stone of Saint-Chamond and honoured under the name of Notre-Dame with Any capacity.

The mine

See also: Carboniferous of the Loire

The extraction of coal marked the life Saint-jeandaire durably. It a long time provided work to the population, as it modified the landscape and the basement of our commune. Million tons of coal is extracted by several generations from minors. The most important layers come from the mines of Chazotte and the Lacroix Well. As from the years 1960, the production of coal falls, the last ton of coal is extracted from the bottom in 1968. The mining waste lands were refitted, as from the years 1970, in artisanal zones. Today, only the Terril of Fay recalls, under its coat of greenery, the mining past of Midsummer's Day Bonnefonds.

House of the Hand braid maker

At the beginning of, 20th century a hundred saint-jeandaires families worked in the Passementerie. This sector then in full expansion deeply marked the landscape of the commune, as the high windows testify some to many dwellings. The hand braid makers were going to seek their work with Saint-Etienne in the manufacturer and returned to weave the ribbon in their residence. A practice which allowed the development of a specific culture. The House of the Hand braid maker exposes the life and the work of these workmen in the years 1910 - 1930.

Métrotech

In 2004 the hospital of Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds closes and all the patients looked after for psychiatric disorders move on the site of the northern hospital of Saint-Etienne. This hospital (initially CHS) had opened in the years 1970 and had been directed towards the psychiatric care. It was attached thereafter to the CHU of Saint-Étienne.
The ground accommodates from now on a technological park of 30 hectares dedicated firstly to the biomedical sector, advanced mechanics, optics vision and the tertiary higher.

Personalities related to the commune

Municipal council 2006

  • Jacques FRECENON ; mayor of St Jean Bonnefonds
  • Jean GILLIER ; Roadway system, networks, material
  • François REYNARD ; Town planning, housing, transport
  • POULARD Sylviane ; Schools, early childhood
  • Marc CHAVANNE ; Environment, buildings
  • Pierre Michel BORDAGARAY ; Communication, new technologies, inheritance
  • Josette MARTINEZ ; Culture, community life, followed Committee of animation
  • Gaston ROBERT ; Sports, public demonstrations
  • Annick MASSED ; Youth, spare time, social action. It also deals with the young municipal council of the commune.

See too

  • Common of the Loire

External bonds

  • Ville of St Jean bonnefonds
  • Parc the Amazon of Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds
  • TL Chains of TV by Internet being on the commune.
  • Home of Nantas

  • Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds on the site of the national geographical Institute

  • Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds on the site of INSEE
  • Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds on Mapquest

Simple: Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds

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