Savennières

Savennières is a common French, located in the department of Maine-et-Loire and the area Pays of the Loire.

Geography

Savennières is located at about fifteen kilometers in the west of Angers and in the zone of the Loire Valley registered with the world heritage of UNESCO since November 2000. The city is composed of the boroughs of Savennières, Épiré and Béhuard

The commune was composed up to 1851 of Possonnière and Alleud but those was distracted by a law promulgated by the National Assembly under the seal from the State by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.

After the mouth of the Maine towards the the Loire, in Épiré the vineyard of Savennières starts:

  • Landscapes of scrap-metal and their mills.
  • Landscapes of slopes of the vineyard of Savennières.
  • Landscapes of the Loire, where still pass some Gabare S.

History

The site of Savennières, like much of areas of the edges of the Loire, was inhabited as of prehistory. Then the Celts arrived then, into 50 before Jesus-Christ, the Romans, with whom one owes the name of Savennières. This toponym comes indeed from the Saponaire ( Saponaria in Latin), plant rich in saponin and which produces of foam when one rubs it in water. This plant, which pushes in edge of the Loire, is also at the origin of the word “soap”. The period of Roman occupation brought other names, like Andillé and Epiré, which were at the time of the Gallo-Roman villas.

At the time medieval, Savennières, attached to the county of Anjou was asserted by the county of Nantes and underwent the attacks of the Breton ones. Besides in 852, the count Lambert finds death in one of these engagements, and is buried in the church of Savennières. The village, in cob, was then protected by an enclosure and a castle pertaining to Macé de Savennières.

At the time of the One hundred Year old war, Savennières is the theater of several battles, of which most important was that of the Bataille of the Rock-with-Monks: in 1214, Jean without Ground besieges the castle of the Rock-with-Monks. It does not succeed in taking it and is pushed back by Louis, wire of Philippe Auguste, who becomes then the king Louis VIII, is told to Louis the Lion, father of Louis saint.

The castles of the Rock-with-monks, Possonnière and Saint-Offange, on other bank of the Loire, which locked the area, are shaved by the duke of Mercœur in 1592. The vine takes then a dominant place and becomes the main wealth of Savennières.

After the Revolution the period from construction of the castles all around Savennières comecame. Savennières being located in edge of the Loire within a framework remarkable and close to Angers, the many notable ones settled there.

Copyright Angers the Loire Metropolis

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • communal Hiking trails,
  • Banks of Guillemette,
  • Saint-Pierre Church,
  • Fabrics painted of the presbytery,
  • Plane tree several times centenary,
  • Park of Fresne,
  • Castle of Vaults: park, kitchen garden, landscape of slopes

The vineyard

See also: Vineyard of Savennières

Demonstrations

See too

  • Common of Maine-et-Loire

External bonds

  • Official site
  • Festival Savennières
  • Savennières on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Savennières on the site of INSEE
  • Savennières on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Savennières on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Savennières on Plane Mapquest
  • of Savennières to format pdf

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