Digoin

Digoin is a commune of the Département of Saône-et-Loire, in the area Burgundy, in France. Its inhabitants are called Digoinais.

Blazon

This blazon is used by the town hall since the beginning of the 20th century. It comes from weapons of 1626 carved on a house of the city, of unknown membership. It was about an oval blazon (of Lady).

The reversed anchor (with small a organeau at the end) is the emblem of the fresh water navy. The stars could also symbolize navigation. The gold crescent as a chief evokes the crusades, but also symbolizes the richness and the fame. These weapons probably belonged to a rich person boatman, in a city which lived fluviatile trade on the Loire.

Some blasonnements describe besants and not quartefeuilles, in contradiction with the representations of the blazon. The significance of the letters F and M, C and I remains obscure. It could be a question of initial of the husband and his wife (blazon of Lady), added with the blazon on its mural representation.

Geography

Digoin is located on Right Bank of the the Loire, with the Confluent of the Arroux and the Bourbince. (to 233 m of altitude). A great number of River (more than 100 km of banks in a radius of 6 km only) make today of Digoin a center of nautical activities. Digoin is crossed by the Loire. ; Localities and variations:

; Communes bordering: The communes of the canton of Digoin are the Mound-Saint-Jean, Game preserve-Saint-Germain, Saint-Agnan and Guerreaux. The commune of Chassenard in the Allier is also bordering.

Access

by the road: to take the trunk road 79 between Mills and Mâcon by the train: line FOR THE THIRD TIME Turns-Orléans/Paray Monial/Lyon Leaves God or line FOR THE THIRD TIME Clermont Ferrand/Dijon Ville

History

The discovery of Flints known as in sheets of bay-tree - of solutréen type - with Volgu, to vestiges Gallo-Roman S and Mérovingiens testify to a relatively old establishment. The place bore the names Latin S of Denegontium then of Digonium .

During several centuries, the activity of the city proceeded in the neighborhoods of the strike on which a port for the Loire was arranged. Of this port were exported towards the Paris and Loire Valley the Vin S of Mâconnais and Chalonnais as well as wood of the Morvan and Freestone. At the end of the XVIIIe century, the States of Burgundy carry out the boring of the channel of Charolais (today channel of the Center) which connects the the Saone to the Loire. This channel becomes navigable starting from 1792 and intensifies the battelery ligérienne. But the creation of the channels of Roanne in Digoin (1832) and side in the Loire nuie gradually with navigation on the Loire which declines throughout second half of the XIXe century. A Tubular bridge out of stone of size, length 243 meters (eleven arches) allows the meeting of the channel of the Center and the side Canal the Loire. At the end of the XIXe century, the navigable drain of Arroux is open; it carries, thanks to a metal tubular bridge, water of Arroux to feed the channel.

Important convergence point of the highway network (on the Swiss road - Atlantic, with the roads of Roanne, Nevers, Autun, the Bourbonnais and the Morvan), since 1869 on the Railway Paray-le-Monial - Mills, Digoin knew a diversification as of its economic activities with the installation of the Faïencerie of Sarreguemines (1876), of the Grès and Poterie S (1875) and of the factory Allia (1927).

Administration

Demography

The population reached to 12000 inhabitants; today it is around 9000 (12000 with the surrounding communes).

Places and monuments

Tubular bridge of Digoin (1834)
Lock 19th
the ObservaLoire
the church Notre-Dame of Providence (1869)

the Museum of the Ceramic
Castle of Chiseuil XVIIIe century
Kiosk beginning XXe century

Anecdote

Digoin holds the record of eaten snails of Burgundy.

The record of 2006 was beaten on August 4th, 2007 during the 18th festival of snail, where 8.400 dozen, is 100.800 snails of Burgundy, were absorbed.

500 kg of butter, 55 kg of parsley and 33 kg of garlic were necessary for the preparation, according to the “traditional” receipt, of this variety of snails.

Personalities related to the commune

Alexandre Dumaine: (XXe century) Large chief cook of prestige.
Antoine Xavier Mayneaud de Pancemont: (XVIIIe century) ecclesiastical
Bauthil Augueba: (XXe century) in Roland Garros in 1958 took part (where it was disqualified) and native of Digoin, became President of the French federation of Tennis in 1968 then Député of the Corrèze of 1970 with 1978 and finally President of a Public corporation of Inter-commune Co-operation in Digoin even.

Twinnings

The town of Digoin is twinned with Gerolstein, a town of Germany, in the Land of the Rhineland-Palatinat. Twinning was sealed the 5/9/1987 with Gerolstein and the 9/5/1987 with Digoin. The two twin towns maintain the intensive exchanges, between the inhabitants of their cities and many associations, schools, organizations which are strongly implied in this partnership.

See too

side Channel in the Loire
Channel of the Center (France)
Channel of Common Roanne with Digoin
of Saône-et-Loire

External bonds

Official site of Digoin
Tourist bureau of Digoin
ObservaLoire
Official site of the college Camille Claudel de Digoin
Official site of the college Roger Semet de Digoin
Hotel of the Station
Great festival of snail of Digoin
Digoin on the site of the National Geographical Institute
Digoin on the site of INSEE
Digoin on the site of Quid
Localization of Digoin on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Digoin on Mapquest

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