Lagny, Oise
Lagny (formerly Laigny -les- Chataigniers ) is a commune of 546 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011 ) in the department of Oise in the Picardie region; it belongs to the district Compiègne and Canton Lassigny.
Location
Lagny is a long-drawn street village about eight kilometers northeast of Noyon at 80 to 90 meters above sea level. In the northeast, it is dominated by a wooded hill ( 160 m). Even in Roman times led near a paved road - part of a Via Agrippa - over. Today Lagny is connected through the department of road D934 with Noyon and Roye.
History
The village's name may be derived from the words lanon ( wide view over the plain ) and gny, are from the Latin ignis (fire), derived ( forging, place of extraction of iron ore ).
On a prehistoric settlement can finds of stone tools and polished stones close. On the eastern slope of the hill (near a water tower ) is an old cemetery hides with stone sarcophagi from the time of the Templars ( copy in the Museum of Noyon ).
At the eastern end of the hill, near the geodetic point (163 m), was the mill " Ch'moulin d' today ". A second mill was found on maps of the eighteenth century at the site of the farm called " Du Moulin de Bas ". In the nineteenth century a third mill was in operation at a place called " Penchemont ", near the old Roman road.
The medieval village had a fortified castle, which was destroyed by the Burgundians for the first time on December 2, 1430 had raised the siege of Compiègne. Until the 19th century it was rebuilt and destroyed several times. Near the church remained some traces.
The village had a traditional agriculture with livestock and a variety of occupations around the forest economy. In particular for the production of conductors chestnut has been used for fruit harvest. It also produced drums, shoes and charcoal: the remains of furnaces remained on the northeast side of the hill get at a place called " Attaché fours ".