Léguevin

Léguevin (occitan: marked Legavin Legavin ) is a common French, located in the department of the Haute-Garonne and the area the Midday-Pyrenees.

The inhabitants of Léguevin are the Léguevinoises and the Léguevinois .

Blazon

Blazon: of azure with two turns of money posed on a terrace of same surmounted by two gold flanchis forming the Roman numeral twenty.

Geography

Commune located in the Savès on the Trunk road 124 which connects Toulouse to Auch with eleven kilometers of the Isle-Jordan. It is on this axis the last commune of the department of the Haute-Garonne before reaching the Département of Gers. Léguevin is one of the principal road black spots of the Toulouse agglomeration. At the rush hours, its crossing involves strong decelerations. A project of deviation has trailed for more than twenty years. Its realization, undertaken in 2003, only advances very slowly.

Part of the National forest of Bouconne is on the territory of the commune of Léguevin. Léguevin divides a station the SNCF with the common neighbor of Brax. This service road Ferroviaire Léguevin place at 20 minutes of the heart of Toulouse in Train, even if the frequency of this service road remains still limited. However, for one year (2005), the SNCF has set up a service given rhythm with an oar every 1/2 hours at the rush hours.

History

The discovery of tools Préhistorique S attests that Léguevin was early occupied. These tools (rollers arranged in Quarzite), are difficult to date. However, one of them, found on the banks of the Billhook would be dated from the Acheuléen, period of the Paléolithique inferior. A stone of hearth would be dated from the Neolithic , but this dating is discussed because certain think that since it was found close to basalt balls used during the Guerre One hundred Year old, it could very well be brought by English.

The Sauveté of Léguevin is quoted as of the 12th century in a document of 1108 in which the noble ones make ground donation to the Hospitaliers in the “ territory of Léguevin between two brooks ”. These two brooks are the Billhook and the Paradise. The area is then indeed in the course of clearing by the hospitallers of the Ordre of Jean Saint of Jerusalem. Nothing attests presence of a village at that time.

The village of Léguevin was undoubtedly created at the 13th century. In the beginning, it was about a halt on the Via Tolosane intended for the pilgrims who went to Saint-Jacob de Compostelle by the way of Arles.

The name of Léguevin, comes from the Occitan Legavin , which means 20 miles, this stop being indeed located at a score of miles of the town of Auch. Léguevin joined again with this tradition. A reception is at the disposal of the pilgrims of Saint-Jacob. It is located close to the Market in full heart of the old city.

The first constructions were a hospital and a church, built with the site of the current market. A Commanderie was built with the site of the castle of Castelnouvel.

A competition will be established between the Hospital ones and the Jordan V of Isle (which gave its name to the Isle-Jordan). November 23rd, 1309 an agreement of Paréage put an end to the estrangement and made of Léguevin a country house.

Léguevin undergoes the occupation of English starting from 1344 at the time of the Guerre One hundred Year old and the destroying passage of the Prince Noir in 1355. One then decided to proceed to the fortification of the village which was completed on October 30th, 1363. Léguevin was attached successively to the County of Isle- theJordan, with the Comté of Armagnac then to the Kings de Navarre. Henri III of Navarre, future Henri IV of France, was lord of Léguevin of 1572 at 1579 and will cross Léguevin in 1579 and 1580. August 10th, 1579 the seigniory of Léguevin will pass to Guy of Faur of Pibrac.

Léguevin will not be saved by the wars of religion at the 16th century. In May 1562 the troops of Blaise de Montluc crossed Léguevin; the priest Balthazar Vintimiglia was suspecté of Protestantisme and was stopped; and the village was put at bag by a troop of Protesting S on August 11th, 1593.

Louis XIV will pass to Léguevin in 1659, and Napoleon in July 1808.

Léguevin was incorporated in the department of the Haute-Garonne in 1790.

A revolutionary municipality was created at the instigation of the priest in August 1789. The Town hall was taken and plundered by demonstrators twice, on July 25th, 1790 and on June 15th 1792. A quota of Spanish prisoners remained in the village in 1795, accentuating the difficulties caused by the famine of 1794. On August 8th and 9th 1799 of the royalists cut down the tree of Freedom and reversed the furnace bridge of the Fatherland.

From March 26th to 29th 1814 the troops of Wellington occupied Léguevin. It was nearly 7000 infantrymen and 800 riders, placed under the command of the general lieutenant, to sir Rowland Hill, which remained on the commune.

Sources :

Michel Aragon, social and economic structures with Léguevin of 1780 to 1914 - Thesis of doctorate of IIIe cycles , Toulouse, 1986.

Administration

Demography

In the five decades space, Léguevin passed from a population of: 1000 inhabitants approximately in 1950 with close to: 7000 in 2005. This multiplication by 7 had deep effects on the environment of the commune. Initially centered on the agricultural activity, Léguevin is now a dynamic city of the great Toulouse agglomeration. The fast urbanization continues as from 2006 with the installation of new ZAC which allow an economic development.

Culture

A library and a space multimédi@ are joined together within the municipal media library. The commune is equipped with a dynamic music school and a new MJC (Youth club and arts center) innaugurée in 2007.

A cultural room is in construction. It will open its doors from here the end of 2008.

The Gone of Sunday morning, installed on the place of the Country house, brings a cordial and dynamic key to Léguevin. Sports equipment and cultural was built with the height of the recent development.

Tourist monuments and places

the church (Bell-tower wall S)
the Castle of Castelnouvel (1540)
the old relay of Station
the market (1834)

Structure

Traditional architecture

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