Tool bag-in-Gâtinais

Administration

the current denomination was officialized by decree of the fascinating February 1st, 2001 effect the next on February 4th. However, one frequently meets it as of the XVIIe century in various texts (notarial acts) and in the everyday life throughout the XXe century (control panels).

Chief town of the Canton of Tool bag-in-Gâtinais (called in the past Tool bags ).

Geography

Tool bags is located at approximately 100 km in the south of Paris.

The commune is served by a station of the line Paris - Montargis.

Localities and variations

Communes bordering

in the canton of Tool bag-in-Gâtinais:

Chevannes, Dordives, Fontenay-on-Loing and Griselles;

in the Canton of Châlette-on-Loing (district of Montargis):

Paucourt ;

in the Canton of Castle-Landon (District of Fontainebleau, Department of Seine-et-Marne):

Bransles .

History

Before the decree of the 2001, the commune was called Ferrières.

Religious history

Under the Old Mode, the Saint-Éloy parish of Ferrières depended, in the hierarchical order growing, of the Doyenné or Christendom of Tool bags, then of the Archidiaconé of the Gâtinais and finally of the Archevêché of Direction.

Social history

One notes the presence of tanneries in the low city under the Old Mode, presence dependant during water Cléry which circumvents the city.

Administrative history

Economy

Culture

Demonstrations

Night of Tool bags , in July and August (4 or 5 evenings)

Twinning

, to see

Demography

v. 1882:

Population: 2.076

1990 :

Population without double accounts:
municipal Population:
Total population:

1999 :

Population without double accounts: 3.049
municipal Population:
Total population:

Religious heritage

Abbaye Saint-Pierre-and-Saint-Paul

Succeeding a first basilica of this name founded says one by the king Clovis Ier, the abbey itself being founded in VIIe century by disciples of Saint Colomban, monk Irish.

the Carolingian kings Louis III, king de Francie and of Neustrie, and his brother Carloman, king d' Aquitaine and of Burgundy, were crowned there in 879. Tool bags was the seat of a famous Benedictine abbey, perhaps founded by Clovis, attested at the beginning of VIIe S., restored in IXe S. by Louis Débonnaire and Charles the Bald person. Louis III and Carloman were crowned there. Its schools were famous. Set fire to by the English during the One hundred year old war, it was rebuilt on order of the abbot Louis de Blancafort at the end of XVe S., and still with XVIIe S. on order of the prior dom Guillaume Morin, after the destruction made by the huguenots. It is represented in famous Monasticon gallicanum.

In addition to the abbey church Saint-Pierre (XIIe S., XIIIe S.) were preserved: the Notre-Dame vault of Bethlehem (in the West of the Saint-Pierre church) and of the parts of the conventual monuments, the whole dating essentially from the rebuilding of Louis de Blancafort at the end of XVe S. At the time of its splendor, the abbey occupied a vast ground enclosed with a large cloister (bordering in the South the nave of the Saint-Pierre church) and a small cloister (concerning with the chorus). The abbey church is made of a nave of XIIe S., of a transept and of a chorus of XIIIe S. It had to be started about 1150. September 29th, 1163, the pope Alexandre III devoted the nave in the course of construction. The large vessel of the nave was doubled of collateral single, destroyed on the left in 1739 by the fall of the tower of crossing. One still recognizes the large-arcades which made communicate collateral and large vessel. The supports of these large-arcades (taken today in masonry) represented an alternation a large column and two twinned and ringed posts (even provision with collegial of Champeaux, in Saint Martin's day d' Etampes; twinning and the decoration betray the influence of the cathedral of Direction. It does not seem that it was envisaged to arch the large vessel, cover of a panelled frame. In the wall of right-hand side, one notices the door (walled) which gave in the large cloister. The windows, placed high because of the cloister, are apparently contemporary transept and chorus.

Those were built in the first years of XIIIe S. crossing is an octagonal rotunda. Perhaps this very original party was imposed by the presence, with this site, of a building of Carolingian centered plan (see the arc of stones and alternated bricks, with the posterior side right, which would be a vestige of this construction), sometimes identified with the chorus of the church rebuilt by order of Aldaric, abbot from 821 to 828. Central space is not covered by a cupola but by a ribbed vault to eight radiant districts. Between the vault of the arm and the chorus a small part is which was formerly sacristy and room of dead (the body of the late monks was deposited there before being placed in the chorus for death-watch). On the left arm a vault of XIVe S. opens which perhaps replaces a vault similar to that of the right-hand man. The chorus is covered with a sexpartite vault: it is known that this type of vault is still in XIIIe S. out of Champagne and Burgundy. Its side walls present vestiges of a construction of XIe S.

Crossing carried a tower known as “lead bell-tower” (visible on the engraving of Monastecon gallicanum) destroyed in 1739: it was decorated with eight statues out of lead, high of 2,5 Mr., and escutcheons to the weapons of Louis XIII and prince de Condé. The turn-bell-tower, on the left, introduces very old low parts; the stages were remade in XIIIe S.; the arrow, at the end of XVe S.

The former tympanum of the door of the central vessel, now naked, was decorated of a Christ in majesty, in which one believed to recognize Clovis. In the former door of collateral destroyed, a capital representing the combat of Pip the Brief with the lion. In the chorus, we find the tomb of Louis de Blancafort abbot of 1465 to 1507. The stained glasses of the apse date from the end of XVe S. and the beginning of XVIe S., ordered by Louis de Blancafort or his successor Pierre de Martigny (1518-1527). In the vault Notre-Dame of Bethlehem, retable of 1650 by Gilles Guerin.

Église Our-Lady-of-Bethlehem

the first vault bearing this name was built at this place on the initiative of the missionaries saint Savinien, holy Potentien and holy Altin

Heraldic

Weapons of the city of Tool bag-in-Gâtinais: " Of sand, with two keys passed in money saltire, accompanied by two flowers of lily by gold, one as a chief and the other at a peak, of a star to the dextral side and a crescent to the sinistral side in the same way. "

External bonds

Official site of the city of Tool bag-in-Gâtinais
a private site devoted to Ferrières

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