Saint-Marien

Saint-Marien is a common French, located in the department of the Creuse and the area the Limousin.

Geography

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Church of the 11th century and 12th century.
Old station with marchioness and lamp-making.
the commune owes its name with Saint Marien which, born in Bourges, lived as a recluse in the wood of the combraille after having spent 6 years in the monastery of Pressigny.

A church existed already at the end of the 9th century. Raoul de Déolz, Odo his son and Gerard Litort of the Rock-Villebat gave this Church to Sureil about the year 1080. The files of High Vienna have a " Safeguard granted by O of Dolis to the inhabitants of Saint marien, in consideration of the church of the place, towards 1091". The current church dates from the 13th century. It has a nave of three spans, the last one forming the chorus, like two vaults (north and south). The nave was arched warheads with vein of tonic profile of which there remain some vestiges. In the heart a credence double in broken layout, framed of a torus and decorated of a cord with hooks with height of the springing of the arches, imitates a device of gate. The bell-tower, located on the first span of the nave, lodges the bell which goes back to 1506.

The fountain of Arnon, close to the village of Jurigny is located not far from the sources of Arnon flow of Expensive. A pilgrimage was organized there on October 10th (the last would go back to 1892). The new illustrated dictionary of Hollow published into 1892 with the editions of the Tower gives us interesting additional details:

In the wood of Breuil there remain the vestiges of the " Breton" castle;. In the Band of Foulet, traces of an old Roman way and a beautiful Dolmen called the " Pierre Folle". In 1892, here how the population was distributed by village in the commune:

Holy Marien: 181 inhabitants, 35 houses
Nervaud: 18 inhabitants, 2 houses
the Moor: 11 inhabitants, 3 houses
the Small Coal merchant: 37 inhabitants, 9 houses
Lardoinat: 10 inhabitants, 3 houses
the Red House: 21 inhabitants, 4 houses
Coussières: 19 inhabitants, 3 houses
the Large Coal merchant: 48 inhabitants, 7 houses
the Mill of the forging mill: 13 inhabitants, 4 houses
the Forging mill: 40 inhabitants, 6 houses
Landon: 6 inhabitants, 2 houses
the Mount: 32 inhabitants, 5 houses
Planchat: 11 inhabitants, 2 houses
Darot: 8 inhabitants, 1 house
Jurigny: 27 inhabitants, 6 houses

With the last census (1999), the commune counted 196 inhabitants for a surface of 1278 hectares. The many ways of the commune are very favourable with the walk or the excursion.

A rando named card " The way of the héron" was recently published by the IGN. This pleasant course will enable you thanks to an effective beaconing to discover some interesting, panoramic points of view or secrecies of our commune. You can get information with the Town hall or the tourist office of Boussac. You can also find information on the site of the IGN.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Hollow the

External bonds

Saint-Marien on the site of the national geographical Institute
Saint-Marien on the site of INSEE
Saint-Marien seen of the sky
Saint-Marien on the site of Quid
the station of Saint-Marien
the line Champillet-Urciers - Lavaufranche which passes through Saint Marien

Localization of Saint-Marien on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Saint-Marien on Mapquest
Useful informations on the telephone center of Saint Marien
demographic and statistical Information on Saint Marien
Weather into Hollow
Forecast of cover of SaintMarien in ADSL
Site to know some more on Saint-Marien

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