Vergongheon

Vergongheon is a common French, located in the department of the Haute-Loire and the area Auvergne.

Geography

History

Lords of Vergongheon

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

The church

Very party of an oratory in the year 1000. Bompar of Auzon, then owner probably of an old Gallo-Roman villa, made gift in 1095 of the church Holy-Marie-Our-Lady of Vergongheon ( Sanctae Mariae de Vergunici ) to the Abbey of Sauxillanges. Many a rehandling take place then during the centuries according to. In 1837, the church threatened to collapse and a partial rebuilding was launched in 1844. During work part of the vault of the nave collapsed, obliging to consolidate the sides of the building.

Of style Romance, the church was rather recently restored and the roof of the bell-tower entirely remade out of slate. Its bell-tower comprises 3 bells, sounding the hours, the half-hours and the Angélus. They announce also the baptisms, the marriages and the burials. Closed with public in so much normal, it is useful nevertheless for the masses and other celebrations.

Hamlet and Locality

  • the Mole

  • Bergoide
  • Fire
  • Lubiéres
  • Morny
  • Foot Joubert
  • the White Smallholding
  • Rilhac
  • Jarrige

Bouxhors, Small Jarrige, Broken stones The cross of Bayoux,

Personalities related to the commune

  • Louis-Marcel GAUTHIER (1903-1938): Child of Vergongheon, it made party of the crew “Cross of the South” which was one of the three planes to have crossed the Atlantic-South, that is to say 19.767 km in 127h57. The world records of distance in the seaplane were beaten. Louis-Marcel GAUTHIER was decorated with the legion of honor. A street bears its name in Vergongheon.
  • Jean Pomel (1881-1966): Mayor of 1935 to 1965 (stopped between 1941 and 1945 by the German Occupation and the mode of Vichy), it was at the origin of a great number of improvements in the commune (construction of school and HLM, distribution of the water of the Cézallier, repair of the electrical communication,…). The street connecting Vergongheon to Arvant bears its name.

See too

  • Common of the Haute-Loire

External bonds

  • Vergongheon on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Vergongheon on the site of INSEE
  • Vergongheon on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Vergongheon on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Vergongheon on Mapquest

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