Vigneux-Hocquet

Geography

A pastoral landscape of small valleys and trees whose growth is supported by an abundant pluviometry do not make it possible to include/understand the recent demographic trends.

Vigneux holds its name of the old culture of the Vignes.

The close to the castle were the field of the former seigniory. They name this manner because formerly was a Château there. As there are nothing any more in these meadows but the ditches to point out it, ditches they-even which took the shape of a pond, the tone is given: the whole of the details reported here confine with a deep nostalgic reflection of times of formerly.

Whereas Vigneux is located in a sheltered valley of the winds, which developed according to several road axes, the old hamlet of Hocquet is him a Village-street all in length, which overhangs the preceding village.

History

With the Middle Ages and throughout the Old mode, the zone is made up in Seigneurie.

the village of Vigneux was a ecclesiastical Seigneurie of the Abbaye Saint M3edard's Day located at Soissons;
1162, it is freed by the habit from Vervins;
1220 : construction of a Priory, disappeared today;
18th century: Vigneux becomes the personal Seigneurie Villelongue.

the commune of the Hocquet is made up during the Revolution.

Vigneux-Hocquet becomes a single commune by regrouping the September 14th 1887.

the Remembrement of the grounds is a great subject of the farmers.
gradual Abandonment of the Fun fair annual.
Undergoing a Rural migration proclamation after the Second world war, with late prolongations, this neglected village of the media leaves the lapse of memory by an arrival on the national media scene thanks to the emission the Chart to the treasures diffused on France 3 the August 16th, 2005. It was turned in June with a Atterrissage of the Hélicoptère S - blue (team of Septime) and red (team of Fabienne) - on comments of Sylvain in the close to the castle . A local new exceeding the arrival of ULM at the time of the previous decade on the hill leading to Montcornet.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the strengthened church belongs to the network of protection of the fort-churches of the Vallée of the Greenhouse, developed and generalized in the area during the 16th century and 17th century.

The local tradition tells that a tunnel dug under the village allowed the inhabitants besieged by plunderers to run away itself since the church to leave in the meadows on other side wood the Valley-Saint-Pierre, at the place where are ecclesiastical buildings.

the War memorial the is surmounted by a cock.

the wooded Remblai seen cemetery of the church is a portion of the Roman Voie , and crossing the Valley Saint-Pierre near.

a Calvaire separates Vigneux de Hocquet in top from the hill.

the Ruisseau of the Poncelet was, until in the the Eighties, the point of meeting at the time of the visit of the f'seuse ED drips (" faiseuse" from drop)
a laundrette feeds an affluent of the principal brook. It was restored here is a score of years by a team of voluntary young people accommodated at the village.

the Green path is the known name of the inhabitants of Vigneux to rejoin the valley; but all that it was before the arrival of the Automobile and its roads Goudron born…

Personalities related to the commune

The family of the Religieux belongs to the local notability as much as the De Villelongue . The Maire is also a figure impossible to circumvent by the renewal of its mandates, though to take up this duty in the small communes raises of the Sacerdoce.

Popular expressions

One should not confuse Jeantes with Bancigny , says one by here when one is mistaken in button while slipping in his shirt.

See too

Montcornet : local convergence point since the closing of the last trade of the agglomeration vigneusoise.
Common of Aisne
List of war memorials French surmounted by a cock

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