Meignanne

Meignanne is a common French, located in the department of Maine-et-Loire and the area Pays of the Loire.

Geography

Commune of the Maine-et-Loire, located at 11 km in the North-West of Angers.

History

10.000 years ago, at the time of the polished stone, the valley of the Brionneau was already inhabited, as the Dolmen testifies some located on Right Bank to the brook at Fessine.

At the time Gallo-Roman, the remainder of the country should not have evolved/moved much. It remains entire wood cover, in the medium of which one finds iron exploitations which draw part of situation geological from the area. The grounds of Silurien and the Armorican Sandstone which form a band of approximately three kilometers in the north of the commune, are very rich in seams containing of the oxides iron.

Meignanne car its name of these old mines of iron and the metallurgical vocation allotted to the first inhabitants. In fact, the old root maignan or meignan evokes the work of iron well, the trade of Chaudronnier.

Such were undoubtedly the activities which Coming Saint met when it arrived at the country of the “Meignans”. The legend wants that it is the evangelist pagan populations found on the edges of Brionneau.

Today, Coming Saint remains the owner of the parish. In the Coming park of the Holy castle, one still finds under the trees secular S, the fountain and the statue of the saint.

Until the Révolution, the borough of Meignanne presents this typical aspect of the last centuries that any more but some rare villages do not offer: church and cemetery occupy the center of it.

The cemetery surrounded this church. It is in 1813 that it was transferred from the place of the church to its current site.

At the time when the administration born of the Revolution is set up gradually, between Brumaire year IV (November 1795) and Messidor year VII (June 1799), Meignanne is selected like chief town of canton. Seen Angers, the choice of the legislators is explained by the central position of Meignanne, like by its population (150 fires, is 675 inhabitants approximately, in 1789) relatively important for the time.

Alas, on the spot déchanter was needed. The ways which lead to the chief town are absolutely impracticable and there is no favourable house to place an administration.

This one will have to be satisfied with the Presbytère. Built in 1738 and sold, it is then requisitioned. The commune will repurchase it on November 1st 1826. For the time being, the tax collector places there and the administrators of the canton hold their meetings to with it.

A few months later, the 21 messidor year VII (July 9th 1799), the chief town of the canton is transferred to Montreuil-Belfroy, before returning to Angers. The administrative vocation of Meignanne had been of short duration.

As of 1832, the commune creates a school of charity, which it establishes in a barn of the presbytery. In 1839, the council names as teacher Mr Lenepveu and of the courses are given to the adults.

The November 24th 1867, a reconstruction project of a news Town hall and a “house of school of boys” is established. The first stone is posed the April 30th 1868. The resources of the commune, the day before the Revolution, are exclusively agricultural and it is only towards second half of the XIXe century that the lime kilns are their appearance to exist until in 1914. There remains about it today only the “hillock” and the career in the North of the center-borough.

In 2006, the town hall moves its offices in the old presbytery, after restoration and extension of the building, inaugurated the October 28th 2006.

Site Source of Meignanne

Administration

Demography

source: http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/psdc.htm (Population without double accounts).

Places and monuments

  • Church of the 19th century.
  • Castle Saint-Quentin 19th century.
  • Saint-Coming Castle 19th century.
  • Castle Goujonnaie 18th century/19th century.
  • Presbytery of the 18th century, rehabilitated in town hall in 2006.
  • Castle Cailleterie of the 18th century.
  • Dolmen of Fessine
  • Turn of the mill To sew it
  • Mill of Tansolière
  • Mill of Farauderie

Cours d' water

  • the Brionneau, brook.

Personalities related to the commune

Companies

  • 37 farms
  • 17 craftsmen contractors
  • 5 tradesmen

Twinning

  • Alfhausen, Germany since 1997.

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