Sixt-on-Aff

Sixt-on-Aff is a common French, located in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine and the area Brittany.

Geography

Located at the south-western end of the department of Ille-et-Vilaine, in extreme cases of the department of Morbihan, Sixt-on-Aff is one of the nine communes of the canton of Pipriac. Its territory is delimited in the east by the communes of Bruc-on-Aff and of Saint-Just. The course of the Aff mark its western limit with the morbihannaises communes of Quelneuc, Carentoir, the Vault-Gaceline and Gacilly. In the south, Cournon (Morbihan), Bath-on-Oust and Renac are.

From average surface, Sixt extends on 4322 hectares.

What surprises the visitor discovering the commune, it is connect it roughness of the timbered reliefs, alternating with the small ones or broad soft and green valleys. What awaits it, they are also the long bands of schists and granites, strewn with villages of character, manors and castles, competing of originality and discrete charms and… of stories! … The aff, delimitation natural with Morbihan, drawing its source in the middle same of Brocéliande, curves often peaceful, sometimes forces through the meadows and in the course of the years, holding company with the old mills with the retirement.

History

On the 4300 hectares of this commune, one finds there the vestiges of the most moved back worships or civilization.

Sixt was already inhabited 2400 years ago! Indeed the commune of Sixt has several monuments megalithic with the Rocks, the Chestnut grove, Villozènes or Pommery. In Trégaret rise a tumulus with destroyed half and a menhir with several remains, in Villeuneuve a menhir of 3,60 meters, and in Trohinat a ground cutting off.

With these people, succeeded the Celts or Gallic, 500 years before Jesus-Christ. And their made stone tools were found daily and at the beginning of this century under the plow shear. Then the Romans came, little before the beginning of our era, who conquered all the country. A Roman way, that which connected Duretie (Rieux) to Condate (Rennes) crosses our territory of the South to North. Moreover wouldn't SIXT draw its name from the site of the 6th military terminal located on this way? The Breton ones replaced the Gallo-Romans and of many villages still evoke in their denomination this Breton-speaking time of the 9th century: Kercabon, Tréabat, Rangervé, Trégaret… The parish of SIXT is quoted as of 832. Indeed the true story of SIXT starts with Saint Conwoïon, to which Ratuili, Macthiern, lord, inhabitant Lisfao (Fau aujoud' today) made gift of the site which allowed the construction of the Monastery of Redon (residence of several Breton kings). And consequently, the radiation of the Abbey on the whole of Machtiernat: radiation economic, policy but so cultural.

In 835, the king Nominoë, demolishes, close to Sixt, to the place “the Battle” the franque army of the small son of Charlemagne says and founds Brittany which we know.

In XIesiècle, one does not see any more Machtierns with Sixt, but the descendants of Ratuili still seem to dominate the parish fortunately. It is the time when half of the villages of Eriginiac (Arguignac) and of Furnel (Fouinel) are given to the Abbey of Saint Saver.

It is not that in XIIequ' lords appear taking the name of Sixt: Mathieu de Sixt (1108) and Guillaume de Sixt (1136). Later, the parish will pass almost entirely under the Seigniory of Renac. It is of it and thanks to it which the manors raised of the Abbey of Mouraud, Boffour, Wood-Orhand, Bray and good of others. With the Middle Ages, the stocks and collars of the lords of Sixt are with the Fountain Sixt Saint close to the borough. The lords have right of justice to the Forgery, and high justice to the manor of Boffour. The common one counts to 29 manors. Several of the old castles still exist. To quote only two of them: that of Plessis of Sixt, built in 1500 per Jean de Porcaro and that of $the Hague of Déron, built in 1600 per Mr. Moreau of Déron.

In 1712, the inhabitant of Sixt on Aff revolt against the rights féodaux.
January 28th 1790, the peasants threaten the manor of Bray, and keeps it Rennes, stationed with Pipriac and directed by the count of Guichen, intervenes. Two peasants are killed and another seriously wounded. March 4th 1790, Sixt is attached to the district of Redon and becomes common with Saint-Just.

History of the name of the commune

IXesiècle 846 : SIZ Cartulaire of the abbey of Redon.
1330 : SIZ.
1427 : SITZ Nomination of solvent fires.
1444 : SITZ inquires.
1464 : SITS Shows of September 8th, 1464.
1481 : SCITZ Shows of September 4th, 1481.
1513 : SITZ Reformation of December 13rd, 1513.
1536 : CIST Reformation.
1700 : SYTZ Chart of Blaeu.
1751 : SIXTZ Chart of Robert.
XVIIIe - XIXe century: SIXT.
August 20th 1920: SIXT ON AFF decree.

in Gallo: IF.
in Breton: SEIZH.

Administration

Demography

Communes bordering

Personalities related to the commune

Yannick Texier

Yannick Texier is a French political personality, member of the UMP group born on May 20th, 1948. Geometrician of profession, he became senator d' Ille-et-Vilaine on August 29th, 2003.

He is Maire of the commune of Sixt-on-Aff since 1995 and is Vice-president of the Community of communes of the canton of Pipriac

See too

Common of Ille-et-Vilaine

Internet site of the commune of Sixt on Aff

External bonds

Sixt-on-Aff on the site of the national geographical Institute
Sixt-on-Aff on the site of INSEE
Sixt-on-Aff on the site of preliminary Quid
Inventory of the DRAC
Localization of Sixt-on-Aff on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Sixt-on-Aff on Mapquest

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