Taizon

Taizon is a village of the Two-Sevres which depends on the commune of Nickle silver-the Church. The inhabitants bear the name of Taizonnais and Taizonnaises. With the Middle Ages the inhabitants of Taizon were known as prone of Commanderie de Prailles .

Located at 3 kilometers of Nickle silver-the Church and 8 kilometers of Thouars, this village is crossed by the Thouet. Approximately a hundred inhabitants live in Taizon including six British families.

Since the Nineties, an important restoration of the dwellings is set up. Many masonries of character are thus restored and the village takes again a new rise gently.

Economic activity

Industrial dairy

This dairy is created before 1900 by Mr. Cotilleau for the manufacture of the Beurre dispatched mainly with Paris. The initial building, of lengthened plan, has part of its stone rise in size with openings to segmentary arcs. Other rises are out of coated or left hardcore apparent. The roof is in curved tile. A Steam engine actuates the mechanisms.

As from 1912, one also manufactures Caséine there.

Establishment, repurchased by the company Maggi which has in particular another dairy with Vihiers in the Maine-et-Loire, firm in 1954.

Later, a building contractor repurchases the buildings and transforms them into deposit by increasing them. The economic activity of these places stops in 2006.

Rabbit and poultry slaughter-house

At the 20th century, a Abattoir settled in the center of the village.

The Volaille S were killed and plucked before being dispatched in all the area.

The Lapin S underwent the same fate but their skin were dried on the spot in important buildings before feeding from the factories of Confection.

The mill

The grounds of Poitou-Charentes are favourable with the cereal culture. Only the corn and the barley were the subject of an industrial transformation in the village.

Mills with Farine are mentioned on the rivers of the area as of the 11th century; thus, the mill of Pont-l'Abbé with Mothe-Saint-Héray is attested at the 12th century like dependence of the Abbaye of Saint-Maixent.

Properties of Lord S or religious communities, they are distributed along the rivers on the whole of the territory. However, one knows that in Taizon, of the monks occupied a building located on the current street of Vau Renard.

The equipment is reduced to a mechanical system simple compound of a waterwheel which involves a pair of grinding stones.

That of Taizon served the Minoterie initially, then the force Hydraulique was used by a Scierie.

Breeding

The breeding was an important activity of the village.

One found there the breeding Bovin and Caprin.

With time, it was reduced.

Pont Roman

This Pont which spans the Thouet was built at the 13th century. Of Romance style , with the Arches in clotheshanger broken and with double Curve, it is registered since September 22nd, 1943 on the additional inventory of the Historic buildings under the definition: Bridge of Taizon (old), on Thouet . It depends on the site Archéologique referred as follows: 79.014 9 AH.

History

The passage of the bridge of Taizon was taxed. Indeed, its crossing was subjected to a tax called at the time Dîme. The peasants crossing this bridge were to give a certain quantity of Seigle collected on the grounds of Sault, with the Chevaliers of Malta of the Commanderie of Prailles.

In the middle of this bridge, a Chapelle was built at the 13th century by the sior Jacques Thibault for lady Jeanne Mestreau his wife. She was placed under the patronage of Notre-Dame of Pity or Notre-Dame of the Seven Pains.

Offices were celebrated there in turn by the priests of Bagneux and Nickle silver-L' Church.

The bishop of Poitiers, monseigneur de Saint-Auclaire, visited it on June 8th, 1763.

This bridge was partly destroyed by the German troops in August 1944 during the Second world war. After the war, a Arch of wood and a bridge Bellay were arranged. This provisional construction was used until in 1966, date on which the construction of a more solid and broader bridge was carried out near the old one, to answer an increasingly important passage of vehicles.

A consequent stranding and an abundant vegetation invaded the major bed of Thouet, buried the arches and the piles of the bridge of the 13th century.

This situation causes a rise of water faster and more important in the bordering dwellings.

The recent acquisition of the two pieces by the commune, (registered 221 and 247), located between the two bridges, allowed the destruction of the vegetation and especially the désensablage (more than 500 m ³). This work revealed the arches of the bridge, but also the foundations of the guérite of the right-of-way and those of the vault.

These interventions were made in dialog with the Architecte of the Building industries of France, DDE, the Mixed trade-union of the Valley of Thouet.

External bonds

Thouet since the bridge of Taizon
Poems on the topic of the bridges of Two-Sevres

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