Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville
Saint -Martin -de- Boscherville is a commune of 1440 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Seine- Maritime in the Haute -Normandie. Your restored abbey church is now regarded as a school example of Norman Romanesque.
Geography
The municipality is situated on the right bank of the Seine a few miles west of Rouen in Canton Duclair. She is known for her late Romanesque former Benedictine abbey and part of the Regional Park Boucles de la Seine Normande.
Name
In medieval sources the place to 1050-1066 was as Balchervilla, Baucheri villa, known as around 1060 as Bauquervilla and until the 15th century as Bauquierville.
Bauquier could be the former first name of Germanic origin Baldchar ( Baldcharius / Balcarius, Baudacharius or Baldacarius ), which has now become a Surname " B ( e) Auquier ". Ernst Förstemann mentioned the Germanic name Paldachar / Paltker.
The name was Frenchified as Boscher - because it was believed that this first element the corresponding Norman form ( Boquier ) of the old French word ( boscher ) for lumberjack was. -ville is an appellative, formerly " farm" meant (French: ville "town" ).
History
Saint -Martin -de- Boscherville 's Gallic establishment from the late 1st century AD. Archaeologists have excavated on the abbey cloister place the foundations of a Gallo-Roman temple. In the 7th century to Saint George consecrated grave chapel was built on the site of a pagan temple.
Raoul de Tancarville or Fitz- Gerald, chamberlain of William the Conqueror, moved to the Augustinian Canons, who were replaced after 1114 by Benedictine monks.
1225, the abbey church Abbaye Saint -Georges de Boscherville was ordained. When excavation work a Abtskreuz brass was found with engravings, dating from the 13th century. In the French Revolution the monastery was abolished and the Kollegiatsgebäude largely demolished. Get remained the Abbey Church, which was converted to the local parish church. As a result, an elderly, the Patron Saint Martin of Tours parish church consecrated had become superfluous; it served for a time as saltpetre, before it was canceled.
On 16 June 1997, there were as a result of his high- water significant flooding.
Demographics
Survey since 1962: INSEE data without consideration of second homes
Culture and sights
- In the Abbaye Saint -Georges de Boscherville are particularly rich sculpted, coverage restored capitals in the church choir as well as in the chapter room ( 12-13. Century) worth seeing. The adjacent park with vegetable garden is an ingredient of the 17th century and was reconstructed in recent years.
- In the hamlet there is a Genetey Manoir of the Knights Templar from the 13th century and the ruins of a castle; the privately owned facility is not open to visitors. The Chapel of Saint -Gorgon dates from the 16th century.
Economy
Saint -Martin -de- Boscherville is agrarian. Companies are forestry and pasture management, livestock (cattle, pigs, sheep ) and cereals and fruit (apples, plums, cherries ) and beekeeping.
There is tourism trip to the abbey church, but not explicitly geared to tourist infrastructure since the dwell time of the guests visiting the monastery does not exceed usually in place.
Personalities
- Jean -Pierre Aumer (1774/1776-1833), dancer and choreographer, died in the community
- Fabulet Louis (1862-1938), translator of the novels Rudyard Kipling, died in the community
- David Hallyday (born 1966 ), married here on September 15, 1989 his fiancee Estelle Lefébure
- Jean Lecanuet (1920-1993), French politician, was buried in the chapter house of the abbey
Twin Cities
- A twinning consists of Hurstpierpoint in Mid Sussex / England.