The Be worth-on-Seine

the Be worth-on-Seine is a common department of the Yvelines, in the area Île-de-France, in France, to 20 km in the east of Mantes-the-Pretty.

The name of “Be worth” drift of the Latin valles , valley.

The inhabitants are called Vauxois.

Geography

It is a commune whose territory extends on four kilometers, along Right Bank of the the Seine and in the wooded solid mass of the Hautil in extreme cases southern of the French Vexin. It also includes an island of the Seine, the island of Are worth, opposite Verneuil-sur-Seine. The commune bordering on Évecquemont in the West, Menucourt and Boisemont in North, on Triel-sur-Seine in the East and, is separated by the Seine, on Verneuil-sur-Seine in the South.

It is served by the secondary road D 190, very attended, which connects Poissy to Mantes-the-Pretty. It also lays out of a station ('' the Be worth-on-Seine '') on the line ferrovaire Paris-Saint-Lazare - Mantes-the-Pretty via Conflans-Holy-Honorine

There no were main risks since 2001. (Source 1) (Source 2)

the basements of Be worth on the Seine contain galleries, careers, old exploitations of Craie S.

History

Site inhabited since the Paleolithic time .

Anciennement “Be worth of Jouste” until in 1902.

Old possession of the Count S of Meulan, of the Abbey S of Jumièges and Cernay.

Possession with the Revolution of the Célestins of Limay.

Seigniory with Count of Saint-Simon, favorite of Louis XIII and father of the memorialist.

the exploitation of the Gypse was important. It completely ceased in 1980.

the Abbé Robert Bengel settles in 1962 in the Be worth-On-Seine and writes a book, Marvellous Human the , before dying on October 1st 1987. June 23rd 2003, a ceremony took place with the Château of Rohan de Saverne, for the handing-over on a purely posthumous basis of the Médaille of Right the.

Economy

common residential

In 1999, built urban space represents 21 % of the common , not-builds it 12 % and rural areas 67 % of the surface of the commune. (Source)

Forest of Hautil

This private forest is strewn with Fontis, funnels of collapse related to the last exploitation of the Gypse by underground career S, which present a permanent danger. The filling of these holes is undertaken in order to allow an exploitation and a frequentation without risk of the forest. (Source)

Industry

There are 71 companies referred on the commune. (Source)

Culture

the free Faculté of evangelic theology is established in the commune since 1965.

Architectural heritage

Church Saint-Pierre-be-Bonds: church of the 12th century, rebuilt after the One hundred year old war and restored in 1970. It was classified historic building in 1977. The foundation Maxime Goury-Laffont took part in the restoration of a virgin of the 17th century preserved in this church.
Castle: building of the 15th century, classified historic building in 1996.

Personalities related to the commune

the site inspired the painter Gen Paul.
the painter and contemporary draftsman, Jean Olivier Hucleux, born in 1923 with Chauny, in the Aisne, always lives and works in the Be worth-on-Seine.

See too

Common of Yvelines | French Vexin

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