Saint-Pierre-on-Erve

Saint-Pierre-on-Erve is a common French, located in the department of the Mayenne and the area Pays of the Loire.

Etymology

Parrochia Sancti $petri super Arvam , 1226;
Holy Father of Erve , 1361;
Sanctus Petrus E Arva , 1413;
the borough of Saint Father of Arve , 1466;
Sanctus Petrus de Arva , 15th century;
the borough of Erve , 1511;
the parish of Erve , 1575;
Erve , 1582;
Saint Pierre of Erve ;
Saint Pierre on Erve .

Geology and geography

With the northern limit of the commune, Schist S and quarzites of the base of the Dévonien, which succeed the base of the sandstone Orthis Monnieri , passing to the north of the borough and supporting the schists and Calcaire S dévoniens which crosses this one. These various bases succeed, while going towards the south, of the schists and limestones carboniferous.

The territory, located on Right Bank of the Erve, which forms its limit Is, is, in the vicinity of the river and especially close to the borough, montueux and escarpé, the valley being tightened enough there. According to Alphonse-Victor Angot, Pierre-François Davelu writes that one sees with the borough, “very small, some remains of old fortifications” , but these traces are not known Abbé Angot.

The road of Laval to the Mans passed by Saint-Pierre-on-Erve in 1513. Hubert Jaillot indicates it with bridge (which exist still) and ford; but the new layout by Saint-Jean-on-Erve is indicated by Cassini. The current roads lead to Thorigné-in-Charnie (3.5 km Are), Saulges (3.7 km Southern), Vaiges (7.5 km North-western) and Saint-Jean-on-Erve (3.8 km North-western).

The registered surface of the commune is of 974 ha.

In 1558, one will seek in Saint-Pierre 3 Muid S of lime for the church of Thorn-bush-the-Seguin. Careers of Castine S are exploited at the 18th century by the Forges of Moncor. An old limestone quarry is located close to Saumellière .

Prehistory

The caves decorated and engraved present on the territory of Saint-Pierre-on-Erve attest presence of the man since prehistoric times.

History

Under the reign of Judicaël (632 - 636), the Breton ones, in war with Dagobert Ier king of the Francs, made incursions on the grounds of the Francs. On this topic, Corvaisier embroidered the account of a bloody battle between Budic , count de Cornouailles, and the count de Chartres which ordered the 6000 men of the army of Dagobert. This count, brought in an obstacle, after an obstinate defense and a fight body with body with a Breton lord named of the Pont-l'Abbé , was obliged to make itself captive, and as the combat had taken place enters Saint-Pierre-on-Erve and Vaiges, one buried deaths in these two villages. But this raises more of the legend history.
Parish mentioned as of 1226.
Stronghold of the Templiers.
War One hundred Year old : in 1368, one complains about the “devastations of the war, of the sterility of the goods and fortunes of the enemies” . A parishioner named Jean , taken along captive by the English, “was reduced to the begging” .
One again interpreted in the direction of a battle delivered to Saint-Pierre-on-Erve the account of Froissard which indicates only the passage in 1380 of an English army, started from Noyen and going to Brittany, “while the power of François was with the Mans” . The English passed to Saint-Pierre 4 days after the death of Charles V, i.e. the September 20th 1380, and gained Mayenne by the way Renais to carry on their road by Cossé.
According to the historian Rene de Quatrebarbes, the parochial seigniory, dependant on the ground of Chantepie, would have been acquired, the December 8th 1503, as exchange, of Jean Possard , sior of the Sionnière , by Émard de Quatrebarbes .
the report of the intendant of Turns, in 1696, designates also Mr. de Quatrebarbes like lord of the parish, where it had, but by an alliance of the 17th century with the family of Cibel , ground of the Pins .
Urbain de Cibel , rider, enjoyed in 1588 the “meson seigneuriale the paroess Erve” .
In addition, Jean de Thévalle , knight, is lord, in 1434, of the féages of Saint-Pierre-in Arve which also the lord of Thévalle in 1532 has.
At the 18th century the family of Thévalle says, without question, founder of Saint-Pierre-on-Erve.

Epidemic in January 1637.
In consequence of the thaw and of the flood of 1784, the bridge on the Erve, very necessary, is largely degraded.
Chouannerie : June 4th 1793, disarmament of the suspects; August 30th 1794, installation of a detachment of 25 men. December 1797, gathering of royalists under the control of Joseph Deshaies , ex-captain of the company of Thorny, remaining with the Mill-with-Monks ; he is issued of arrest, as well as a refractory priest named Jacques , hidden in Saint-Pierre. The 3 vendémiaire Year VII, the tree of freedom is cut down. In January 1799, the commune is put in state of siege in consequence of the murder of the gendarme Michelet ; two individuals, stopped like accomplices of the murder, are killed by the soldiers who had seized them.
War of 1870: The January 16th 1871, the shortly after the combat of Saint-Jean-on-Erve, with 7:00, passage of a battalion of Prussian infantry, which takes the road of Vaiges; with 4:00. evening, arrival of 3 regiments (dragons, uhlans, infantrymen) and artillery. The horses are placed in the church, which one violates the gate vault, in the houses, in the schools. There were 4000 men in the borough during 8 days. A tax of 10.500 F. claimed by the enemy was not paid.

the parish depended in the past on archidiaconé on Sablé and the deanery of Brûlon; election of the Arrow, legal spring and Attic with salt of Holy-Suzanne; district of Évron and canton of Vaiges in 1790. By decree of the August 8th 1792, the department removes the parish by linking it with Thorigné; owing to lack of constitutional priest, the bells are dismounted the May 3rd 1793. The parish depends on the mission of Évron in 1797; set up in branch by decree of the 5 nivose Year XIII; again joined together with Thorigné in 1808; again set up in parish by decree of the March 16th 1820; of the archpriest of the Saint-Vénérand Church of Laval and deanery of Holy-Suzanne.
old the presbytery close to the church, alienated during the Revolution, rebuilt in 1848 per Mr. Launay, contractor with Balled, recently was rehabilitated by the Commune and was tranformé in room of hosts. The cemetery , originally around the church, was transferred on April 1st 1785 on the road from Vaiges, in a patch of land called the large-cemetery , where one buried formerly.

Today, Saint-Pierre-on-Erve fact part of the parish of Saint-Barnabe-in-Charnie ; the commune, as for it, belongs to the canton of Holy-Suzanne and the Communauté of communes of Erve and Charnie.

Places and monuments

The common one received fine 2006 the label Petite city of character .

Installed close to a ford which allowed the crossing of the Erve, crossed by the Roman way Corseul - Mans, then by the road Laval - Mans with the Moyen-âge, Saint-Pierre-on-Erve has a beautiful architectural unit.

Civil architecture :

Bridge Pedestrians - 13th century on the Erve.
Castle of Auvers : house 15th flanked century of a tower, ogival porch.
Court-in Erve : Manor; group old houses dominating the valley.
Manor of the Pines of Erve , with 1.2km in the North-East of the borough: home 15th century beginning, ruins of the vault, commun runs (IMH).

crowned Architecture :

Church Saint Pierre of Romance origin. One announces a furnace bridge of Saint Julien in 1559. At the entry of the chorus are currently - (either at the time of the Abbé Angot: beginning of the 20th century) - that of saint Joseph and that of the Virgin , whose rather good statue, out of stone, was in the garden of the presbytery in 1888. At the bottom of the chorus, a group of the Martyrdom and, with the lower part, in a medallion, the bronze snake, stone statues of Holy Catherine 16th century, Holy Marguerite, holy Évroul , which one calls upon for the children " noués" , rachitics. To also mention fall it from Huet Courtin (14th century); that of its wife Alix, brought back vault Saint-Sylvain ; a portable stoup in Potin, of the same kind, but without inscription, that those of Dovecotes and Hercé, and a dish to be searched in tin, divided into 4 compartments, with statuette in the medium and ornament Style Louis XV. Bell-tower-porch with the roof in Bâtière, Gothic fenestration.
the Chapelle Saint-Sylvain , whose construction is former to the 14th century, bears the name of a hermit who would have taken refuge on this site with; it is built at the top of an abrupt hill from where one enjoys a superb panorama on the valley of the Erve and the city. This small oratory, nonclosed, crowned of a bell-tower, with a window in semicircular arch, was in a wood whose Jean de Thévalles returned consent to Cropte in 1431, and of which there remains nothing any more but one small coppice. In 1748 the possession of the stronghold of Saint-Sylvain was in litigation between Mr. de Montfraud , lord of the Room, and Miss de Charolais, rams Thévalle and of Saint-Pierre, who was based on the consent of 1431. In 1658, Jeanne Leduc , woman of Antoine Aveneau , completed the vault, where one had placed like hones furnace bridge a beautiful tumulary flagstone now embedded in the wall of the tower of the parish church.
Old presbytery of the 19th century, restored in 2002 and arranged in rural lodging 4 ears .

Administration

Demography

Average of the births: 13/an of 1600 with 1610; 14 of 1700 with 1710; 75 fires in 1696; from 200 to 250 communicants in 1778. One counted 27 farms in 1843. In 1902 one counted 330 inhabitants, including 183 agglomerates in the borough, and the remainder disseminated in 28 hamlets, farms, small estates or variations.

Twinning

, to see. The twinning of the canton of Holy-Suzanne/the Community of Communes of Erve and Charnie, with Sulzheim (the Rhineland-Palatinat) was initiated in 1966 by Victor Julien general adviser, mayor of Thorigné-in-Charnie, and Adam Becker , in the family of which Victor Julien had been prisoner of war of 1940 with 1945.

To see

Caves known as of Saulges located on the commune of Saint-Pierre-on-Erve:

Cave of the Attic window

Rochefort cave

The Rochefort Cave is a prehistoric site which delivered vestiges of various times but is especially known for the presence of Solutréen (Paléolithique superior).

Cave of the goat

The cave of the goat is a prehistoric site which delivered in particular vestiges of the Paléolithique superior but also of the Paléolithique means and faunal vestiges of average Pleistocene.

Activities

excursions and walks in the valley of the Erve
On the spot: climbing, fishing in the Erve
local Festivals : Saint-Sylvain owner of the parish, celebrated the February 17th; each year the August 15th, at the fallen night, the borough is illuminated several thousands of candles.
with Saint-Céneré (4 km): nautical activities, tennis
with Holy-Suzanne (11 km): horsemanship, tennis, miniature golf, swimming pool