Taizé-Aizie
Taizé Aizie is a commune in the Poitou-Charentes region in the Charente. Administratively, it is assigned to the Canton Ruffec and the district Confolens.
Geography
The village with 587 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) is located 5 km northeast of Ruffec and 58 km south of Poitiers in a flung to the southeast loop of the river Charente in the far north of the department of Charente. The municipality borders the Vienne and the Deux-Sevres is only 5 km away.
History
Aerial photographs have revealed that the village was located near a Roman road. These were I to those ancient Road, which led from Saintes to Charroux and crossed the street of Angouleme to Poitiers near Ruffec.
1731 a blast furnace and two metal refineries were built on the site, who received the hamlet of Les Forges. In 1762 Charles -François de Broglie operation by the Duke of Saint -Simon, but the plant during the French Revolution was secularized. Even under the Republic were still among others Cannonballs poured. Beginning of the 19th century, the forge was sold several times, first in 1809 Adélaïde -Charlotte de Broglio and around 1830 on the family Marsat Fils, this was built by a second blast furnace and a third metal refinery. 1840 employed the operation forty workers and there was 800 tons of cast iron annually produced. In 1860, Pierre -Émile Martin, the foundry and thus supplied the arms factory Manufacture Nationale d' Armes de Chatellerault. 1879 has stopped and 1884, the blast demolished. 1889 and the metal refinery was abandoned. Today in Les Forges is a corn mill.
The Old Mill Moulin de l' Isle, which processed grain, was rebuilt in the late 19th century to the then modern flour mill Minoterie Bernard.
Demographics
Attractions
- The Romanesque church of the parish of Saint- Pierre was originally part of the Priory of Sainte -Radegonde d' Aizie de Yissia, an offshoot of Notre- Dame de la Réau Abbey ( in today's town of Saint- Martin- l'Ars, Vienne ). The striking bronze bell is dated to the year 1666. The church, which was renovated in the 19th century, since 1943 is a listed building.
- Flour mill from the 19th century
- Foundry, which dates back to the year 1731