Vaucouleurs

Vaucouleurs is a French town with 2047 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Meuse in the Lorraine region. It is the capital of the canton Vaucouleurs. The name comes from the Latin Vallis COLORUM, the inhabitants of the village are the Valcolorois.

Geography

Vaucouleurs lies in the valley of the Maas (Meuse ), at the left bank, about 20 km south-west of Toul.

History

During the Middle Ages Vaucouleurs was exposed as a border town of Lorraine influences on the part of France. Odo II Count of Blois was here for the first time to build a castle, but in 1023 by Duke Dietrich I. of Lorraine on the instructions of Emperor Henry II of the Holy was destroyed. Then the lords of Joinville seized from the Champagne of the place and built themselves a castle. Roger de Joinville built under King Ludwig VI. a ring wall, which was provided in the course of the Middle Ages with 17 towers and 4 gates.

In Maxey -sur- Vaise, 4 km south of Vaucouleurs, met on February 14, 1171 King Louis VII of France and Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, there to defuse the tensions caused by the schism between the two empires and a joint to decide on action against the marauding Brabancons. Frederick II sealed here in 1212 with Prince Louis VIII of France, the French- Hohenstaufen alliance against the emperor Otto IV and King John of England.

In 1299 herbergte King Philip IV the Fair of France in Vaucouleurs, who then on December 8, 1299 on the lawn of Quatre Vaux (east of the city, at Rigny -Saint- Martin) with King Albert I. met. Here the Roman German king recognized a new border between the two empires that France now on the left bank of the Meuse, instead of the current of the Marne, begin it. This meant that Vaucouleurs was actually removed from the Association of the Holy Roman Empire and beaten to France, for it was now the kingdom as a border town. At the same time at this meeting, the marriage between Princess Blanche Duke Rudolf III was. of Austria ( Rudolf I of Bohemia) agreed.

On December 16, 1334 Anseau de Joinville took the castle of Vaucouleurs to King Philip VI. of France from, in exchange for castles in Champagne. The crown now sat castle captains in Vaucouleurs, who remained loyal to them during the Hundred Years War. Because the surrounding area but was dominated by the Duke of Burgundy, who was an ally of England, the city was an enclave of the royal authority. In June 1428, the city could withstand a siege of the Burgundians.

Gained fame Vaucouleurs mainly by the French patron saint Joan of Arc. This came from the southern neighbor Domremy, and asked for the first time in May 1428 when Captain Robert de Baudricourt, as the sole representative of France in the area, but to abruptly dismissed an audience of them. Beginning in February 1429 moved into the house of Jeanne Royer a neighborhood and asked again unsuccessful with the captain to an escort through the territory of the enemy Burgundy. Then Jeanne Vaucouleurs moved to Nancy where she auditioned for Duke Charles II of Lorraine and that on this occasion advised to violate his mistress. On the return trip, she visited the church of Saint- Nicolas- de-Port and returned on February 12, again in Vaucouleurs. That same day, she said the defeat of the French advance in the same day discharged battle of Rouvray ( "Day of the Herrings " ) before Orléans. Meanwhile Baudricourt had sent a message through the sense of mission of the peasant girl to the court of the Dauphin Charles VII Chinon and underwent Jeanne followed by a priest of the place of an examination of their faith. After they had passed this Baudricourt finally granted her an escort under the leadership of Jean de Metz, left with the Jeanne on February 23, 1429 Vaucouleurs through the French door in the direction of Chinon.

Jeanne's brother Jean ( Jean du Lys) was used in 1457 as a captain in Vaucouleurs.

Demographics

Attractions

  • Saint-Laurent church, built 1782-1785
  • The town hall (construction: 1847-1848 ) with a museum which deals with Jeanne d' Arc
  • A cast in bronze equestrian statue of Joan of Arc in front of the town hall, which was finally placed first in 1951 in Algiers and 1966 in Vaucouleurs
  • The crypt of the chapel preserved from the old castle ( reconstructed in 1923 ) which has a statue of Mary (gen.: Notre- Dame-des- Voûtes ) from the XIII. century contains
  • Next to the castle chapel is the 1733 newly built French Gate ( Porte de France)

Partnership

Vaucouleurs maintains since 1976 a partnership to Neidenstein in Baden- Württemberg.

Personalities

  • Marie -Jeanne Bécu, comtesse du Barry (1743-1793), was a mistress of the French King Louis XV.
Lorraine (region) Arrondissement Arrondissement of Commercy Cantons of France Postal codes in France Meuse (river) Odo II, Count of Blois Theodoric I, Duke of Upper Lorraine Champagne (historical province) Louis VI of France Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor Philip IV of France Marne (river) Blanche of France, Duchess of Austria Nancy, France Charles II, Duke of Lorraine Saint-Nicolas-de-Port Charles VII of France Abainville Amanty Boncourt-sur-Meuse Broussey-Raulecourt Commercy Dagonville Marson-sur-Barboure Mauvages Neuville-en-Verdunois Les Roises Rupt-devant-Saint-Mihiel Sampigny Troussey Void-Vacon Vouthon-Bas Vouthon-Haut
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