Villepreux

Villepreux is a common French, located in the department of the Yvelines and the area Île-de-France.

Its inhabitants is called the Villepreusiens .

Geography

The commune of Villepreux is to approximately twelve km of Versailles, in the Plaine of Versailles, practically in the axis of the prospect for the Large Channel. The communal territory, with the little accentuated relief, is marked in its northern part by the depression of the valley of the Ru of Gally, and its affluents, the Ru of Oisemont and the Ru of Arcy.

The communal territory is still primarily rural. Urbanization, approximately 15% of the surface, being developed in the southern part, in proximity of Clayes-under-Wood in the sector served by the railway coming from Paris and Versailles.

The communes bordering are Saint-Name-the-Bretèche in north, Noisy-the-King in the North-East on approximately 800 Mr., Rennemoulin in the east, Fontenay-the-Fleury in south-east, Wood-with Arcy in the south, Clayes-under-Wood in south-west and Chavenay in the North-West.

Villepreux, it is initially a historical heart of village established around the castle of the 18th century built by the Francini family and belonging nowadays to the family of the counts de Saint-
It is then, more in the south, towards SNCF railway station, a succession of houses of the years 1970, the majority joint, rehabilitated by new generations of propriétaires.
It is also, in the west, a new pole called Trianon, close to the district to Point-in-the Ange, arranged in house-buildings of quality in edge of the fields, with the limit of the communal territory of Chavenay.
It is also the district of the Merry Valley, a Lotissement of 400 houses, dating from the post-war period, as well as a small more recent residence of houses and apartments in skirt of forest of Wood of Arcy.
Villepreux remains a commune of intermediate size equipped with a sufficient quantity of nursery schools and primary, its own college and a college.
The fact that the downtown area moved of the old village towards the new districts accentuates the absence of a true heart of city, type pedestrian precinct and leaves the impression of a town of type dormitory .

The commune is served by two principal road axes, the secondary road 11 of East-West orientation which connects Saint-Cyr-the School to Septeuil and crosses the commune within its southern limit, practically parallel to the railway, and the secondary road 98 of North-South orientation, coming from Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer.

The railway service road is ensured by the Gare of Villepreux - Clayes, located on the commune of Clayes-under-Wood, on the Ligne Paris-Granville and which gives access in 30 minutes to Paris-Montparnasse.
This line the SNCF cut almost in two the city by isolating the district from the Merry Valley which is found thus related to Clayes-under-Wood than in Villepreux even.

The commune is crossed in its south-eastern part (Merry Valley) by the Aqueduc of Avre.

History

The origin of Villepreux is very old. Among the many etymologies of the name even of “Villepreux”, let us retain that, Gallo-Roman, of villa pirorum , nickname of a “villa” or large farm surrounded by pear trees.

In a book published in 1993 by the editions Leon Puthon, drawn with 2 500 specimens, and entitled Villepreux - one century of images , one finds another etymology, perhaps less flattering, but strongly associating Villepreux with the concept of “farm”: villa porcorum (field of the pigs). Let us quote also, always drawn from the same source, villaperour - villaperor, villaperor (of leprous). Villepreux indeed would have been at the 12th century a town of leprous with a maladrery, located close to the field known as of Grand' Maisons, with the Saint-Vincent locality.

The first written mention of Villepreux goes up with a charter of Charles-the-Bald person gone back to 856. What does not exclude the existence from inhabitants before this time as the discovery of a cemetery mérovingien in top of the seedbed of the school of horticulture attests it Ours, at the end of the 19th century (today Professional training center).

Inheritance

the church Saint-Germain
the castle of Grand' Houses, classified historic building, built as from 1720 for the family Francini, creators of the dancing waters of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer, Fontainebleau and Versailles ; it was completed at the 19th century.
the castle of Villepreux, built in 1885 per Georges Nagelmackers, director of the international Company of the sleeping cars, instead of an old castle of the 17th century having belonged to the family Gondi.
the farm of Grand' Houses, today center of seminars
the house Saint-Vincent in the old village, old residence with corbelling and half-timberings, registered with the inventory complementary to the Historic buildings, was the second house of the Girls of the Charity, founded by Saint-Vincent de Paul and is today a place of exposures, animations and meetings.
the Saint-Vincent-of-Paul church whose decoration of frontage is due to Robert Lesbounit
the statuettes of the street Pierre Curie: with the top of the old bakery, the statuette of Saint-Honore, owner of the bakers and, opposite, those of Saints Like and Damien, decapitated martyrs with Tyr, owners of pharmacists.
Robert Lesbounit also left in the years soixantes of other frescos on certain buildings or public crossroads a little everywhere in the districts of the time (Hedge Sheep-fold, Marché,…)

Economy

City with dominant residential
Agriculture (cereal field crop)

Culture

the Elm with the blonde, located in the vicinity immediate of the town hall, was a tree under which the king, says us one, met one of his mistresses, a fair young woman.

Twinning

Personalities related to the commune

Saint Vincent of Paul was tutor in the family of Emmanuel de Gondi in the old castle of Villepreux and lived in Villepreux (1607-1617?).
Emmanuel de Gondi
the family of Francini, creators of the dancing waters of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer, Fontainebleau and Versailles
Georges Nagelmackers, creator of the international Compagnie of the sleeping cars made build the new castle of Villepreux; it is deceased there in 1905.
Robert Lesbounit (1904-1989), painter and sculptor.
Brownish Stanislas, professional of the Animation, passed its childhood to Villepreux.

See too

Internal bonds

Common of Yvelines

External bonds

Villepreux, official site
Seen air of the commune of Villepreux on the site of IAURIF
Villepreux on the site of IGN
Villepreux on the site of INSEE
Villepreux on Google Maps:

Situation and plan
Seen satellite

Plane of intendance of the parish of Villepreux on the site of the Files of Yvelines

Gallery

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