Vernois-on-Mance

Vernois-on-Mance is a common French, located in the department of the Haute-Saône and the area Franche-Comté.

Geography

Etymology

The name of this village would come from Vernoy (Vernoie) which indicates places on the wet ground where the ells also push called Verne.

There is then a Celtic origin for this word which wants to say marsh into Breton.

The direction of water appears to be the first. It will give then its name to the tree which will be then used to indicate the place itself. Verne, very tight and wet, formerly constituted ideal food of the furnaces of bakers, plasterers and brick-makers who called it the wood of boulange.

History

Of any known origin, this village held by the lord of the La Rochelle, is in stronghold of the Comté of Burgundy.

In 1149, the Francus brothers and Lambert Odon, vassal of the lord of the La Rochelle, make a donation with the abbey of Cherlieu and all gives him that they have on the territory of " Bugescort" who becomes " the Barn of Bichecourt". At this same time that " was created; The Barn of Gircourt". These two barns belong to the ten eights that has the abbey of Cherlieu then.

Mainly occupied by brothers convers, they were not to be distant of more than one day of walk of the abbey so that the brothers can go to the mass of Sunday. In these barns one cultivates cereals and vine and one raises there mainly sheep and pigs.

Later, the abbots accept the gifts of men mainmortables, said them, the mills, the communal ovens and the goods of small local lords. At the end of the 13th century, the abbot of Cherlieu is lord of several villages. Thus from the 14th century, Vernoy will be withdrawn from the suzerainty of the lord of the small rock to belong to the abbey of Cherlieu until 1789.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

The church

Built in 1733, it is placed under the patronage of the Nativity of Notre Dame.

Like 276 other churches of Haute-Saône, it has a bell-tower with imperial (655 in Franche-Comté). These domes with imperial, in curve and counter-curve, always have the same structure which is stretched, are crushed or swell to give to each one its singularity. In the beginning they were covered with tinplate. This material was replaced little by little by the tiles glazed punts or coloured tiles which, judiciously placed, form horizontal bands, rafters, rhombuses or very other moucheté which will differentiate each bell-tower. Traditionally they are always crowned sphere, cross and cock. The bell-tower of Vernois shelters two bells which were baptized in 1836. The current clock was installed at the 19th century by the company Odobey Cadet by Morez in the Jura.

The building is directed and has a bell-tower-porch. The nave is of Roman arch and groined vaults. Being of recent construction, this church does not count elements of furniture former to the 18th century.

Cross of way

With the old cemetery, a cross of stone carries in its center on a side a heart and the three nails and other a crown of spines.

Another cross without inscription is beside the church.

One of them with the characteristic to have an incomplete inscription: “with the devotion of Anne Dormoy died in Vernois the 13 fevier 1852 old 60 years request for it requiescat a pace and of”

“with the devotion of Agathe Logerot widow of F Dapret 1757”

With the " Cross of the larrons" the inscription “has L D D J BERMOT 1785”

“devotion of Jn Dormoy de Vernois deceased March 11th, 1850 at the 64 years age and F Bornet its wife deceased on March 19th, 1848 with L age of… years and J C Dormoy deceased on March 19th, 1850 at the 37 years age”

The common house

The common house was built in 1849-1850. Its role, as it was frequent at that time, was multiple. At the ground floor one found the meeting room for the municipal council, the school and the prison and on the floor was housing of the teacher.

Fountains

The village counts several fountains. Generally, it is of fountain-feeding troughs which are composed of a terminal where the villagers came to take water and about a feeding trough for the cattle.

Close to the church one finds a fountain circular dating from the end of the 18th century.

On the place, the fountain-laundrette. This place of female sociability takes in Vernois, like often at that time in Haute-Saône, a monumental pace with its surmounted ladle of a stone building with triangular pediment. On old charts portales, one finds the laundrette with his circular frame and his zinc roof. Today, this roof does not exist any more.

Personalities related to the commune

One finds in the directory of the holders of the legion of honor three native people of Vernois-on-Mance: Edouard Richard, Alexandre Berthiaux and Jean-Claude Naltet.

See too

Common of the Haute-Saône

External bonds

Vernois-on-Mance on the site of the national geographical Institute
Vernois-on-Mance on the site of INSEE
Vernois-on-Mance on the site of Quid
Localization of Vernois-on-Mance on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Vernois-on-Mance on Mapquest

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