Unpleasant-the-Juhel

Geography

The town of Unpleasant-the-Juhel was not done by chance. Its site on a strategic Roman way enabled him to develop to give the city which we know today. Its size confers to him a position of town of third rank on a departmental scale, at the demographic and administrative level. Unpleasant-the-Juhel is a relatively isolated rural pole and depends on other administrative divisions.

Unpleasant-the-Juhel counts 3273 inhabitants without the double accounts. The commune extends on 29 km ² and has an average density of 110 habitants/km ². It is the eleventh commune and the ninth most populated agglomeration department of the Mayenne. It is located in the North-eastern part of the Mayenne, with 56 kilometers of the Prefecture of the department, i.e. Laval. Its position, with the variation of the main roads, the great agglomerations, and the rail network made of Unpleasant-the-Juhel, a central pole for all this part of the department.

The city is close to the Eastern limit of the Mayenne. Its canton is bordering on the department of the the Sarthe, and very near to the limit with the Orne. It is in the center of a triangle made up in the North-East by Pre-in-Pail, the West by Mayenne and South-east by Sillé-the-Guillaume in the the Sarthe. Each one of these towns of importance, on the scale of the Mayenne, is separated from 16 to 28 kilometers the Unpleasantones. The commune is far away from the great ways national and highway but the secondary roads leave out of star to irrigate the canton. That reinforces the idea that it is a true center of attraction on its canton.

History

The Roman way Jublains - Lisieux passed near the current agglomeration, which lets suppose an occupation of the site as of this time. With the the Middle Ages, the lord of Mayenne sets up a castle on a hillock, not far from the borough of Saint-Georges, core of the agglomeration. Aiglibert, bishop of the Mans, gives to the monastery of Sainte-Marie half of said the Unpleasant ones, Trans, Thorigné, on July 9th 692. These localities are also confirmed in Saint-Aldric by Louis Débonnaire into 892 but under the name of Vilhena.

In 1140, Mathilde of England gave the ground of Unpleasant, in Juhel de Mayenne II, in thanks of the services which it had rendered. The seigniory took its name then. A fortress was built at that time, ruins some since the war of the English and of which remains today, bases of the Donjon.

Unpleasant-the-Juhel formed initially a châtellenie, chief town for the franc-strongholds of one of the seigniories of the Maine in 1312 and concerning the county of the Maine. The family of Champagne occupied the ground the Unpleasantones until the Révolution. The linen threads and of hemp used in manufactures of Alençon or Mayenne came from Unpleasant-the-Juhel. The borough exported also its eggs, its butter, its poultries and its pigs.

After the 2nd world war, a deputy MRP of Mayenne (1945-1959), Robert Buron, become several times minister, was general adviser (1951-1970) and mayor the Unpleasantones (1953-1970). It under its impulse and is relayed by the successive municipalities that the city took a new rise. The presence of large companies testify to this dynamism even if today, the commune undergoes the delocalization of some of enters. The city obtained important industrial companies, thus employing a great number of employees.

However, the common one suffered from the closing of several great production facilities as the factory Seb - Moulinex which employed until several hundreds of employees. However, other industries (materials of office automation, multi-media manufacture of supports, etc) have a dynamic activity and employ a big part of the local active population.

Administration

Demography

The population villainaise knew a sustained high growth between 1962 and 1982 with a profit of 1000 inhabitants in 20 years are an increase of +50%, spending 2037 to 3081 inhabitants.

Since then, the growth slowed down and the commune does not gain any more inhabitants today. However, its population is estimated at 3337 inhabitants in 2006.

Places and monuments

With the locality Courtœuvre , located at 2 kilometers of Unpleasant-the-Juhel, was high a castle-extremely dating from the 15th century including/understanding of the ditches, the ditches, the walls and the turns with two fish tanks.

the Street of the Castle , a fortress was built at the 12th century on a hillock. It is in ruin since the war of the English; remain today, the bases of a square keep, a whole of walls in glacis carefully installed. This rise was not probably used of residence to the lord in the place but rather as shelter for the populations during the English invasions of the Guerre One hundred Year old. Thus, in 1419, Ambroise de Loré is taken by the English, who seize the city in 1420 and which returns in 1446 thanks to the complicity of a traitor, Jean Poisson . Thereafter, a martyrdom was built on the ruins of the monument.

the Tower of the old church Saint-Georges , church built for the period of the traditional Middle Ages (12th century). Vestige of the old parish church, dedicated to Saint-Georges and demolished in February 1963, the bell-tower was restored the same year and preserves its function of call to the prayer with its three bells. The building presents a provision of stones in fish-bones characteristic of its time. The windows of the old Saint-Georges church were transferred in the church Midsummer's Day from Laval.

La Motte of the street Saint Nicolas's Day , is a perimeter where a mound castrale would have been built.
Vaucelle , locality in the North-East of the agglomeration, where was built a strong house undoubtedly built during the Low Middle Ages.

the Street Jules-Doiteau , presence of a medieval tower dating from the the Middle Ages.

the stele close to the Saint-Georges church probably raised during the age of iron. This sandstone stele presented in the middle of a floor in front of the bell-tower of the old Saint-Georges church is a rare witness of the Gallic time in Mayenne. It belongs to a series of monoliths which one meets in the Northern part of the department. Its initial function was undoubtedly funerary.

the Castle of Large Coudray . Located at the south of the commune, on the road which connects Unpleasant-the-Juhel to Trans, it is an imposing formed residence of a main building flanked of two houses and of a surmounted tower of a bell-tower and contiguous dependences. Including/understanding a score of parts on four levels whose vault, it was built by the family Lecureul in 1904 on the site of an old castle. The property was resold with the family Boitière current owner following the bankruptcy of the Lecureul family. In 1534, the field belonged to Pierre of the Hedge , lord of the manor of Lassay and descendant of Jean of the Hedge, baron de Coulonces. Following the marriage of Anne of the Hedge with Brandelis de Champagne in 1642, it owed property of the family of Champagne . Rene Moulé of Raitrie bought it in 1678. The castle was sold like national good, the 2nd germinal An II for 20.000 books, then demolished and replaced by the current castle.

Schools

Colleges

College Garettes
College Holy Jeanne d' Arc (http://clg-stejeannedarc-53.ac-nantes.fr)]

Personalities related to the commune

Robert Buron, Politician
Madeleine Grey, singer.

Twinning

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Sports

Unpleasant-the-Juhel Club VTT
Rando VTT of the country of Pail to the Alps Mancelles - 2 {{E}} weekend of May
Site of the control of Paris-Brest-Paris Unpleasant-the-Juhel
Paris-Brest-Paris
Club of judo, jujitsu, taiso Unpleasant-the-Juhel

Lodging

Lodgings of the pond of the Pearls with Averton - Unpleasant-the-Juhel OTSI

See too

Common of Mayenne

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