Salonnes

Salonnes is a common French located in the department of the the Moselle.

Geography

Located at two kilometers hardly of the axis Nancy - Sarreguemines, the small village of Salonnes appears however isolated in a poetic and serene world. To loss of extend from immense surfaces of corn fields maturing under the heat sun of July, on the high hills the orchards with the fruit trees collapsing are motionless. Not a breath of wind, nobody in the streets of this small village, only of beautiful residences and the silhouette of a very beautiful church. Salonnes keeps any sound charms antan, more than twelve centuries of history are engraved in the stones of this Lorraine village to trust of its rich person elegant houses rebirth with their high windows with lintels and the surmounted gantries of escutcheons.

Not far from Castle-Saline, this small village was at one moved back time the seat of an important priory while the current sub-prefecture was only one additional dependant. This village indeed has a church which is one of the most beautiful florets of the Lorraine inheritance, although very little known and visitée.

History

Salonnes is a site of the Briquetage of the Pail, it was thus already inhabited during the first millenium before Jesus-Christ.

Salonnes or rather Salone while conforming to the old orthography Salona one of the communes of the department is mentioned in the oldest titles. A diploma of Charlemagne, dated the year 777 and whose original is with the files of the Meurthe-et-Moselle, confirms an agreement reached between Angelramme, bishop of Metz, Vilhare, archbishop of Sens, and Fulrad, chaplain of the palate and abbot of Saint-Denis, about the goods that this last had with the place named Salone, built in the honor of the holy mother of God, the happy martyrs, confessors, and where rest Saint Privat and Saint Hilaire; which agreement carries that neither Angelramme, neither its successors, neither their archdeacons, nor some other officer that it either of church of Metz, will be able to exert in this place no act of jurisdiction, if is when the abbot Saint-Denis invites the bishop to give the orders to it, to bless the chrism and the furnace bridges, as that was practiced in the other churches depending on the abbey of Saint-Denis. In 896, Charles Simple the declares that the monks of Salone lack food and not perceiving more anything of their emoluments, it gave them different goods, among which a Manse and a vine with Montenoy, a manse with Pompey, etc Enfin, in 950, Louis d' Outremer gives the clerks of the abbey of Saint-Denis and Saint-Privat, the inhabitant priory of Salone, a ground in the place of Salone, on the brook of the same name, namely twelve manses with the church of Vertignécourt, etc

The priory of Salone had been given, as of year 815, with the abbey of Saint-Mihiel, who enjoys it until 1602, that the Charles cardinal of Lorraine, abbot of Saint-Mihiel and legal of the Holy See, it links in Primatiale of Nancy after the death of the last holder, Pierre of Saint-Vincent, deceased in 1598. In 1348, the prosecutor of this priory for the cardinal of Boulogne declares that thanks to him made it by the Marie duchess of Blois exempt it right which a tank of the known as priory has the duke of Lorraine to take when it goes to the army you another share, cannot be drawn with consequence have with damage against its right. (T.C. Moyenvic.) In 1379, the duke Jean mande with his advisers to require the conservatives of the treaties of alliance between the bishop of Metz and him, to defend to that the bishop to make an attempt on it salt water fountain of Salone, which belongs to him in straight. (T.C. Castle-Saline.) In 1588, Jean, duke of Lorraine, and Robert, duke of Bar, wanting to compensate the priory for Salone, the city and the inhabitants, of the damage that they had caused them during the war against the bishop of Metz, grant to the priory various heritages located as well on the round of applause of Salone as on that several nearby villages. By an act dated April 28th, 1453, people of justice of Salone agree to follow for laws, in their judgments, - the rights, habits and uses of Amance, as it had been granted between the prior of Salone and the inhabitants of the known as place, by front Simonin Louvion, public prosecutor of Lorraine to the bailliage of Nancy, and of Ilaous Olry, provost of Amance, waited until, by the wars between the duke of Lorraine and count de Bar and the bishop of Metz, Salone had been entirely destroyed and that all the inhabitants had run away themselves, consequently aucuns not being able to ensure by which Salone uses had been formerly governed, the titles which could have proven it all being lost. Several titles of the 16th century mention conflict of jurisdiction raised between the officers of the duke and the prior of Salone, about the seigneuriaux rights which the prince and the prior enjoyed in this place. The rights of this last are thus enumerated in accounts and statements of yearly plaids: The prior is lord high retributive, average and low in High and Low Salone, and by all the round of applause of icelle…. Any inhabitant holding plow owes him, by each one year, three times the drudgeries. He has also right of revêture, which is such as each one sitted heir succeeding buildings known beam and fining to the known as place, is slow to cover and take again of the aforesaid buildings in forty days as from the day of the demise of that which made him échutte; and owes each one heir two setiersde wine, hardly of made heritages for which the aforementioned right must pay… The inhabitants pay each one year with the duke of Lorraine 5 francs to its receipt of Amance, because of the wood of Jurée, that they hold for their affouages. When there is a criminal of the subjects of the prior or other delinquents in his seigniory of known as Salone, it can make it apprehend with the body by its officers and hold it in his prison, and if the fact requires it, can put it are hands of the Master of high works to give him the question and on its confessions to make him make its lawsuit until the inclusively delivered sentence, then to make it deliver with a provost of Amance, out the round of applause of known as Salone, in place named Saulcirup, making separation of the round of applause of the known as place and that of Chambrey; to which place, the aforementioned provost of Amance receives the aforementioned prisoner with his lawsuit in his center, together the sentence, to make some make 'the execution with the expenses of the duke, remaining nevertheless the goods acquired and confiscated with the prior… > (coll S. - G. and P.) By a last act on July 1st, 1605, it is made defense with all inhabitants of Salone go to grind their grains elsewhere than with the communal mill uniting the priory, and with that of Seraincourt, and go to press their marcs and grapes with other presses that to those of the house seigneuriale says priory. A delivered sentence, on August 2nd, 1736, defends with lawyers and prosecutors to make the disputes with the cabaret known as the authorities where they will occupy in the justice of Salone, but at the clerk's office of the aforesaid justice. (Coll St - G. and P.) One named Catherine Dieudonnée, of Salone, had been burned like witch with Amance in 16l5. In addition to its priory, founded by Fulrade, as of the VIIE ème century, Salone had, as it was known as higher, of the saltworks which appear to go back to one extremely distant time: the diploma 1e Louis-the-Débonnaire bearing donation of the priory of Salone to the abbey of Saint-Mihiel, in 815, and recalled by the author of the history of this city, fact mention of the village of Courcelles, which was contiguous in Salone, and of salt water of this place: donamus villam Curcella cum..... aquis salsalis... If it is necessary to believe some historians of them, the priory of Salone would even have been built on the site of old saltworks. At all events, it results from various documents, that factory was exploited in XIIIe and 14th centuries; it fled probably ruined in the current of the next century, because one finds, at dated October 30th, 1484, of the letters patent in which the duke Rene II known as that his general receiver, Antoine Varrin, having made build and draw up new saltworks with Salone, on the grounds of the priory, he assigns with this last, by form of compensation and for perpetuity, ten salt muids to take each year on these saltworks. By other letters patent, of January 10th, 1492, the same prince allows several private individuals to build around the new factory on grounds that he concedes to them. (Coll St - G. and P.) In 1541, the duke Antoine supplements the douaire of Christine of Denmark by an assignment on the saltworks of Salone. (T.C. Blâmont 3.) In 1583, Charles III gives the office of bauchor of these saltworks to Jacques Chastan, wire of Fauquet Chastan, sior of Routte. (L.P. 1583.) It is still mentioned this factory in the account of the general receiver of the saltworks of Lorraine, for the year 1631.

The priory and the church were founded in these peaceful places by Fulrad, abbot of Saint-Denis which lived under Pépin the Brief and Charlemagne. As of this time, the body of Saint-Privat of Mende was going to rest there. The abbey of Saint-Denis will be proriétaire priory until year 815, date on which it yields to the abbot of Healthy-Mihiel. In 896, Charles the simple fact of the donations to the monks of the places then in 950 of the grounds in the place of Salonnes are offered by Louis d' Outre-mer. In 1106 the pope Pascal II will confirm the independence of the priory of Salonnes of jurisdiction of évêché of Metz.

During nearly eight hundred years, the Benedictines will control the priory, until 1602 when it tightened plain in Primatiale of Nancy.

From a restoration carried out at the 16th century, will come to be added to the beautiful building of Lorraine style, a remarkable gate of entry. With the majestic and fine proposals, with the sculptures marvelously laid out, this gate testifies to all perfect the armonie and the elegance of the French Gothic art. The beginning of the 17th century will be a bloody episode for the village because, as all the area will be the cruel mark left by Lea war of the Swedes, bringing destruction, plague and famine. Salonnes will be devastated in 1635 by the troops Swedish and the plundered church. The chief of Saint-Privat preserved with devotion in the sanctuary of then centuries will be thrown in the well of the priory and the invaluable torn books. Thousand five hundreds Switzerland were going to die in these places. Didier Chaumont, then cleaned parish, wrote that it was to oblige to make bring ground in all the church to cover deaths.

More than one century later, in 1749, an agreement will be made between the chapter of Primatial of Nancy and the populations of the village to repair the sanctuary which reté in ruin. A baptistry octagonal dated 1549 and one from the wonders of this small church. It has beautiful ornamentation whose blazons, one with three flowers liys, underline contours of this stone masterpiece of one meter fifty top and broad one meter.

Since twelve centuries, this small village énorgueillit of its church which knew, in spite of the vicissitudes of the history, to arrive to us with all his purté and its beauty.

Administration

Mayors

First name (S) NAME	Mandate	Observations
CESAR	1914	-
LARUE	1914	-
Célestin BRULFER	1915 to 1920	-
Emile NEPHEWS	1920 to 1939	-
LENEL	1939 to 1945	Under German mode
METZ-NATIVE Gaston	Of at the end of 1945 to 1977	-
METZ-NATIVE Robert	Juillet 1977 to date	-

Demography

Places and monuments

Castle of Burthecourt

The current residence was built between 1812 and 1830 for Viviant Thouvenel, police chief with the powders and salpetres. Composed of two projecting houses framing the frontage, it is pilot important architecture of the XIXe century. It sheltered a private college of the father of Picpus until 1990.

Personalities related to the commune

External bonds

Photographs and history of Salonnes per Jean Kreischer
Salonnes on Geneawiki

Salonnes on the site of the national geographical Institute
Salonnes on the site of INSEE
Salonnes on the site of Quid
Localization of Salonnes on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Salonnes on Mapquest

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