Ouzouer-the-Market

Ouzouer-the-Market is a common French, located in the department of Loir-et-Cher and the area Center.

Geography

Localities and variations

Communes bordering

in the canton of Ouzouer-the-Market:

Binas, Prénouvellon, Tripleville and Villermain;

in the Canton of Meung-sur-Loire (Department of Loiret):

Charsonville .

History

Ouzouer-The-market would hold its name of " Oratorical on marsh " , from where denomination of the inhabitants. The locality would have developed around a residence, with the limit of the valleys of the Sourness and Mauves, on a layer of clay of at least 9m. The former inhabitants drained the grounds by a system of ponds and ditches (11 ponds at last century).

By the presence of many cut flints (of which there is a small collection with the town hall), one can say that the area to summer very populated. Period of the Neolithic era, Ouzouer does not preserve today than only one dolmen: the has stone “Daillot” , close to Chandry. Small the château' , flanked in North by a watch tower and South-east by a tower appearing older, constitutes nothing any more but part of the primitive construction which underwent demolitions at the 11th centuries.

Its blazon is of Gueules to five rafter S of gold.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Pissier Marcel: senior of the commune, born in 1904 (103 years), founder of SA PISSIER Pissier Michel: his/her son, negotiating out of cereals.

See too

Common of Loir-et-Cher

External bonds

Site of the commune
Ouzouer-the-Market on the site of the national geographical Institute
Ouzouer-the-Market on the site of INSEE
Ouzouer-the-Market on the site of Quid
Localization of Ouzouer-the-Market on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Ouzouer-the-Market on Mapquest

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