Saint-Jean-of-Moirans

Saint-Jean-with-Moirans is a common French, located in the department of the Isere and the area the Rhone-Alps.

Its inhabitants is the Saint-Jeannais .

Geography

Cohabitation of plains and hills, located on average at 200 m of altitude, approximately 23 km in the north of Grenoble.

The commune is divided into 42 hamlets and localities.

Communes bordering

Voiron, Moirans, Voreppe, Buisse, Coublevie

History

The Pouillé of the diocese of Grenoble drawn up in 1110, does not mention Saint-Jean-of-Moirans. The parish was the seat of an establishment of the Ordre of Jean Saint of Jerusalem which had probably replaced an establishment of the destroyed Templiers.

The July 14th 1313 “in the fields above the House of the hospital of St Jean, supra Moyrencum” of conventions had passed between Edouard of Savoy and the Jean Dolphin, in order to observe a one year and three months truce, and to obtain a reciprocal release of the prisoners made during the wars between from the Dauphine ones and the Savoyard ones.

It is the January 5th 1355, by the Treaty of Paris and mandement of the bishop to his diocesans that Voiron and Saint-Jean-of-Voyron were attached to the Dauphiné and thus to the France, with whom Humbert II had yielded her field in 1349.

Before 1789, Saint-Jean-of-Moirans existed only like parish depending on Châtelleries de Moirans, Voiron and Buisse.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the Manor of Colombinière: hunting lodge of the Duke François de Bonne of Lesdiguières. It is in this residence that it installed Marie Vignon known as the “Lady of Moirans”.

the Vault of the commandery of the Hospital of Midsummer's Day: formerly on the territory of the parish of Buisse, the oldest mention is in 1260 in the constitutive instrument by Béatrix of Savoy of Commanderie of the Scales. Of the whole of the buildings which composed in the beginning the monastery remains only the vault amputated by its apse.

the Church: the mechanical organ Silbermann inaugurated in 1978, raised sculptures. The recovered baptismal font of the old church of Saint-Cassien, is former to 1523.

baker's ovens, fountains, paths…: approximately thirteen furnaces decorate the streets of the village. Some are lit at the time of the festival of the village. Many others exist at private individuals and constitute an inheritance characteristic of Jean Saint. Many fountains run in the streets and ways, witnesses of a rural past… and St Jean is crossed by the mule track which connected Saint-Quentin in the Aisne to Rome. There remains the “way of the smugglers about it”!

the paddle wheel: present on a house on the side of Buisse (way of Nugues), it attracts many glances. Today, it turns always but only for " décorer" , its role being other time to feed from the machines to manufacture tools.

Personalities related to the commune

Mr Abel Rossignol, craftsman Carpenter and creator of the Ski S Rossignol lived with Saint-Jean-of-Moirans with the district of Commanderie. To pay homage to this pioneer of French industry, the Municipal council, dated September 18th, 2003, the RN75 which crosses the commune and in edge of its house which occurred named Abel Rossignol.

Events

February/ March: pedestrian turn.
weekend of the June 21st: Saint John's day, with craft industry and gastronomy turning around the cherry (clafoutis), of which Saint-Jean-of-Moirans is the capital, and use of the traditional baker's ovens, as well as a large fire and a torchlight procession the evening. Photographic meetings.
August/ September: hours of organ.

Twinning

Saint-Jean-of-Moirans is twinned with the village of Frossasco, in the Piedmont in Italy, since 1998.

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