Vermenton

Vermenton is a common French, located in the department of the Yonne and the area Burgundy.

Its inhabitants is called the Vermentonnais and Vermentonnaises .

Geography

History

Vermenton or " Country of beautiful the collines" , fact part of the territory of the Senons (capital Direction). The oldest document goes back to the year 901 during the restitution of Vermenton to the bishop of Auxerre.

the Castle of Bétry

Located on the Polygon at the Northern entry of Vermenton, its first mention goes up with 1157 as a castle (castrum) held in Fief by the counts of Auxerre. Into 1213, the bishop of Auxerre transforms the vault of the castle into parish church. The castle is abandoned but the church was still maintained and used during the following centuries.

the church

The Nave and the gate, which, resembles to him with that of Vézelay and St-Lazare of Avallon, date from XIIe and 13th century, the chorus is of XIVe. The bell-tower points out to us those of St-Eusèbe and St-Germain of Auxerre. The Sarcophagi discovered with XVIIIe, prove to us the presence of an old cemetery which could date from the time Mérovingienne or Carolingienne.

enclosures of the city

In 1368, the inhabitants were authorized by the king to surround the town of a first enclosure set up around the district of the church. In 1404, Charles VI authorizes the population to restore this fortification. It is probably at that time that the cemetery is moved in a place which is unknown for us. The second enclosure, built in 1514 with the authorization of the king Louis XII, surrounded the current agglomeration which was shared in several seigniories for the exercise of justice: the king, the Abbey of Reigny and Bazarnes. Towards 1746, it in one of the turns, is called the " gross tour" and today " turn of Méridien" , that the various audiences of justice and the assemblies of the commune were held. It is here that the prison was established, on the lower level of the building.

the two hospitals

One, indicated " Dieu" house; and going back to the 13th century, was located towards the large mills, currently the Park of the Islands. The other, Maladrerie or Leper-house, was built in edge of the Cure river. The two hospitals would have been damaged towards 1358 at the time of the English devastations.

the Abbey of Reigny

This monastic establishment, occupied by monks cistercians, was built in edge of Cure towards 1120. The abbey was partly destroyed after the French revolution.

the bridge

A bridge crossing the Cure at the place of the Large Mills was constuit in 1238 then destroyed during the Wars of religion at the 16th century to make stopping with the Protestants. A reconstruction project did not succeed.

lime kilns, floatation of wood and the vine

The 13th century is marked by economic development around the Cure. Lime kilns, there remains only one bridge spanning the river, several meters of rails and a hill dug for the extraction of limestone. Until 1923, industries of the vine and floatation played a big role for vermentonnais. The floatation of the wood, which was used with the heating of the inhabitants as Paris, will allow the installation of the port and the construction of a stopping. In 1887, the Phylloxera mark a first crushing argument to the wine activity, but, it is possible to still observe in spite of human degradations, of the small dry stone huts that the vine growers had built to protect themselves from the bad weather.

the two wars

In 1914-1918, a camp of military training with trenches is arranged street of the Gardens. The second world war sees Vermenton occupied by German. Reigny then becomes a place of reception for the resistant ones until the release of Vermenton, on Sunday, August 26 1945

Why street of the Barrier : It is in this street that one of the doors of the first enclosure of Vermenton was.

Why street of the Scale : It is at the end of this street that was the bracket differently called " the scale of justice of Roy".

Administration

Demography

The estimates remain approximate until 1900

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

the painter Etienne Jeaurat (1699-1789) was born in Vermenton. Painter of the king Louis XV, vice-chancellor of the Royal Academy of painting and sculpture, it lived Vermenton during the beautiful days. Ancestor of the secondary residents, it was called " Jeaurat the cher" because the advertisement of its arrival raised the prices.
Etienne Gilson (1884-1978) professor with the Collège de France and member of the French Academy, repurchased in 1935 the house of Etienne Jeaurat
Maurice Cornevin (1882-1962) born in Sacy and which testified all its life to its attachment to its ascent vigneronne. Our new school complex carries its name and that of his/her son Robert, Africanist.
the abbot Legris Duval was the confessor of the pages of the king Louis XVI.
Rene Martin and Jacques Marc, two resistant vermentonnais French Forces of the Interior, were carried out by German on August 25th, 1944 at the time of the massacre of Fouronnes on order of a lieutenant of the German army condemned thereafter for war crimes.

Some anecdotes

It is with the foot of the cross established on one of the hills dominating Vermenton that the body of an young woman, deaf person was discovered and dumb woman. Its assassin was stopped and guillotine. This cross is called since " the cross of the woman morte".

Victor Hugo was stopped in Vermenton by the constabulary for illegal port of decorations. However, which our gendarmes were unaware of, it is that at the 23 years age, Victor Hugo had already obtained the red ribbon of the legion of honor.

Napoleon, newcomer of the isle of Elba, stopped to lunch in Vermenton.

Twinnings

Vermenton is twinned since 1985 with Zerf and Greimérath , two German villages of the Rhineland-Palatinat

See too

Common of Yonne

External bonds

Official site of Vermenton
Vermenton on the site of the National Geographical Institute
Vermenton on the site of INSEE
Vermenton on the site of Quid
Localization of Vermenton on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Vermenton on Mapquest

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