Saint-Molf

Saint-Molf is a common Frenchwoman, located in the department of the Loire-Atlantique and the area Pays of the Loire.

This small rural district is located between the Atlantique coast and the natural park of Brière.

It has many salt-water marshes, less known than those of Guérande.

The inhabitants of the commune are called the Mendulphins and Mendulphines .

Geography

Entire surface: 2282 hectares including 1235 hectares of arable lands with 16 Owners 301 hectares of wood/315 hectares of wetlands/140 hectares of salt-water marshes with 14 paludiers. This distribution between arable lands and salt-water marshes reflects the double tradition of the commune: that of the paludiers and that of landais (farmers or stockbreeders). Surfaces hardly changed since the origin but the number of farmers strongly fell, like everywhere in France, and the number of paludiers has been in increase for a few years, because of handing-over in exploitation of marsh to the abandonment since many years.

History

Creation date of the commune: 1790.

One finds traces of the Stone Age (4000 with 3000 av. J-C) to the Ridge-with-stags, close to the hamlet of Trebrezan, which was certainly the center of a rudimentary workshop of arrows, hooks and daggers of flint.

At the age of metals (1800 av. J-C), trimmings of Small Traict became the “industrial park” of the Peninsula: Bronze Age with Trebrezan and Quifistre where were discovered metal corners and axes, age of iron to the locality Forging mills, primitive core of the village, located then close to the first German Saint vault. Are the industrial centers of Saint-Molf, hillocks of Carpadoux and Kervenel, Ridge-with-Stags and ridges of Binguet Celtic or Gallic? The archeologists did not slice yet.

Roman ways furrow the commune: - A small Roman way Saint-Lyphard - Piriac with a junction towards Merquel and another towards Clis. - A great way paved, true artery of the country, connecting the Unpleasant one to the Loire by Assérac and Guérande, passing by Trebrezan, Montpignac, La Motte, Malabri and Kerguenec. (according to the book of P.MERCIER and Y.HOREAU “In the loop of MY, MESQUER, QUIMIAC, SAINT-MOLF”, unfortunately exhausted).

The village of Molf Saint was built around the church Saint Germain, former bishop of Auxerre, which évangélisé the area between 430 and 448 . The tradition does it founder of this church and the parish, which is coherent with the uses of the time.

During the Breton emigration, the parish takes the name of Saint Molf (name attested at the 9th century). A church is built at the 11th century under the term of Saint Maidulphe or Mendulphe (become Saint Molf), the old German Saint church then becomes additional vault surrounded of the cemetery.

Origin of the Name of the Commune

An Irish monk of the name of Maidulf (Latin Maildulphus) had to exile himself in the south-west of England where it founded the monastery of Malmesbury into 638; he died into 676. Thereafter, the memory of this saint man was brought by the Breton emigrants of Great Britain, fleeing the Saxon ones. They were established in the village where, since the 5th century, one honoured already holy Germain; they gave him the name of the saint man and its patronage supplanted that of the Auxerre-native saint. But Maidulf, too difficult to pronounce, was gradually transformed into Molf, was pronounced “Mo” by the population and was Latinized in Medulphus by the Church. It is not very probable that holy Molf was canonized. However, in 1775, the Macé abbot, then vice-chancellor of SAINT-MOLF made come from England a fragment of a bone of the arm of the saint monk as relic and preserved like such in the reliquary current.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Loire-Atlantique

External bonds

Official site of the commune of Saint-Molf
Saint-Molf on the site of the national geographical Institute
Saint-Molf on the site of INSEE
Saint-Molf on the site of Quid
Localization of Saint-Molf on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Saint-Molf on Mapquest

http://www.ej-saintmolf.fr/ site of the service childhood youth of Saint molf

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