Saint-Léonard (Were worth) - SpeedyLook encyclopedia

Geological curiosity

the village has largest underground Lac natural of Europe: the underground Lake of St-Léonard.

History

The first mention of Saint-Léonard dates from the 11th century. Nevertheless the site is inhabited since the Antiquité: a stone monument in the vineyard of Arsal, a ring of bronze close to the church like several tombs of the first and the second iron age and the Roman epoch were discovered on the communal territory.

The name of Saint Léonard Abbot, who became the owner of the parish, is read in the nécrologe Barns. At the beginning of the 12th century, Benedictines of Aynai had the two priories of Ayent and Barns. These Benedictines obtained Chapter of Sion of the rights to the Mount of Lens and probably also in Saint-Léonard. They built houses and vault there. It is that which explains the belief of a priory attested by the tradition.

Métralie, then châtellenie, finally commune, Saint-Léonard forms part, with the soldier, of the Large Banner of Sierre. Various noble families had goods there. The community goes back to 1300. The lord chaired the plaid where one treated interests of the locality and businesses of the brotherhood of the Holy Spirit.

On the bridge of the Lienne, which separates still today Saint-Léonard from Uvrier, was installed a episcopal toll. This point knew two bloody battles: in 1375, the defeat of Antoine of the Tower which had just assassinated Guichard Tavelli, bishop of Sion; in April 1840, after a few days of engagements, the column of Low-Were worth, representing the current reformist, ordered by Alexis Joris, put at it in rout the Top-Valaisans, placed under the orders of Louis de Courten. It was the end of the first civil war caused by the constitutional revision of 1839.

External bond

Official site of the commune of Saint-Léonard

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