Saint-Prest is a common French, located in the department of Eure-et-Loir and the area Center.

The inhabitants of the commune are the Saint-Prestois and Saint-Prestoises .

Known for its paleontological site, in which Fossiles of prehistoric animals carrying of the traces of human work were found, this village of the valley of the the Eure, located at the North-East of Chartres, is integrated gradually in the residential suburbs of the prefecture eurélienne.

Geography

Saint-Prest, commune of the Canton of Chartres-North-Is, is located in the valley of the the Eure, with seven kilometers approximately of this city. Its territory is entirely crossed by the course of this river, over a length of about 5,200 km including approximately 800 m like separative limit with the commune of Champhol. On this course, the the Eure receives on the right, an affluent of little importance, drainage of the large plain of Beauce, which takes its source with Sours and come to be lost in the river, opposite the village of Saint-Prest below the Mill Plate. This small river is known in Saint-Prest under the name of river of Oisème or Souriette, it bears also indifferently the name of Raguenette or Roguenette, because of a mill destroys for a long time, which was at the end of the commune.

The territory of Saint-Prest includes/understands several hamlets, whose principal ones are: the Villette, Gorget, the Strong-House, theNew ones, the Rock, Cliffs and the Pierre-Opening. The village is bordering on seven communes which are: Champhol, Raise, Poisvilliers, Berchères-la-Maingot, Jouy, Coltainville and Gasville-Oisème.

On the extent of the commune, the landscapes vary plain of Beauce covered with cultures to the valley timbered while passing by stony slopes. In this landscape, the culminating point is reached close to Poisvilliers with 165 m of altitude. The grounds of the village, mainly made up of Calcareous, Clay and Silex allowed a natural erosion where the Eure dug its bed and created the valley whose bottom is covered with Sédiment S.

Demography

Resources and productions

• Careers,

• Mushroom beds,
• Cereals,
• Canning facility.

History

Prehistoric inheritance

September 1st, 1848, Mr. de Boisvillette, addresses to the Geological Société of France a letter making state of discovered few fossil fragments of mammals in a sand pit open on a slope of the the Eure. It signs, thanks to this document, the discovery of the first Fossiles of Saint-Prest. Later, at the end of the 19th century, during the creation of the Paris-Chartres railway, of many remainders of Mammoth S, of Hippopotamus S, Rhinoceros and various deer tribe are discovered. This work, puts at the day a particularly rich paleontological layer, which testifies to a hot climate, close to the current intertropical climate.

The career which existed close to the village gave its name on the geological floor Quaternaire called Saint-Prestien. The collection of the fossils is exposed to the Natural history museum of Natural history of Chartres.

Origins

The site of the valley of the the Eure where the village is currently located is occupied by the men since long years. The prehistoric lucky finds of tools of various times are there to testify some. The vestiges of a cemetery of very the high the Middle Ages or end of the time Gallo-Roman excavated at the 19th century show the establishment of the men on the village.

Before being known under the term of Saint-Prest martyr, of which the Reliques are preserved in its church, the Paroisse appears to have borne the name of its second owner, Saint Jean-Baptiste, and to be themselves called holy the Jean-on-Eure, but this fact rests only on one tradition, because no contemporary historical document comes to confirm it. Later Saint-Prest was as called small Jouarre, because of the important possessions as this abbey had with the villages of Jouy and Coltainville. Finally the revolution gave the name of the Prest-on-Eure.

Places and monuments

Civil architecture

• Castle of Saint-Prest .

• Mill of the Rock .
• Mill of the Strong House : certain writings of the files of the Diocèse of Chartres mention the existence of this mill in the former years with 1598. At that time, the grounds and the mill belonged to the abbey of Saint Father. Later, it was yielded to the Count of Andragues, Chartrain lord. It was then the only property of this kind protected by Remparts from where its name " Strong Maison". It summer crossed by the single way suitable for motor vehicles of the valley of the the Eure and any person wishing to borrow this last was to discharge a tax of passage. It was until in 1950, a large mill with Farine (Blé, Orge, oats) but also a large farm with several buildings intended for the pig and cattle breeding. Its activity was then suspended during more than ten years before being restored by Jacques Colombier, craftsman decorator having to work on several films of Jean Gabin. Today, the mill was reconverted to accommodate tourists.

Structure crowned

• Church : the Romance part includes/understands the chorus and the nave; under the chorus exists a crypt (old church) restored at the beginning of the 20th century; the nave opens by a gate in gothic arch and with surmounted posts of capitals, at the entry of the chorus the pillars and capitals are 12th century; downwards, in the south of the nave a vault of the 13th century is; the low stage of the tower of the bell-tower is arched on intersecting ribs and dates from the 16th century; one also finds the sarcophagus of saint Prest, a Virgin with the stone Child of the 16th century, statues, a Retable and woodworks of the 18th century, furniture dating from the 19th century and a epitaph.

Administration

Local life

• employers' Festival: 2nd Sunday of October.

• local Fair: 1st Sunday of July.

Public equipment

• Public services:

• Town hall;
• Station, Chartres line - Paris;
• Station.
• Education:
• College Soutine;
• Elementary school Jacques-Yves Cousteau;
• Nursery school Calypso;
• 2 school restaurants.
• Culture:
• Public library.

See too

• Common of Eure-et-Loir

External bonds

• Saint-Prest on the site of the national geographical Institute
• Saint-Prest on the site of INSEE
• Saint-Prest on the site of Quid
• Localization of Saint-Prest on a chart of France and communes bordering
• Holy Prest on Google Maps:
• Situation and plan
• Seen satellite

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