Issoire

Issoire

French commune
nomcommune=Issoire
| région=Auvergne
département=Puy-de-Dôme
("sous-préfecture")| arrondissement=Issoire
canton= Issoire (chief town)
insee=63178 |cp=63500 |maire= Jacques Magne
mandat= 2008-2014
intercomm=
longitude=3.24972222222
latitude=45.545
alt moy=386 m|alt mini=360 m|alt maxi=560 m
hectares=1,969 |km²=19.69|sans=13,373
date-sans=1999
dens=
date-dens=1999

Issoire ( _oc. Suire) is a town and commune of central France, capital of an arrondissement in the "département" of Puy-de-Dôme.

Geography

Issoire is located on the Couze River, near its junction with the Allier, 40 km SSE of Clermont-Ferrand on the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée railway to Nîmes. Issoire is situated in one of the fertile plains of the Petites Limagnes -- basins that follow the Allier River from its source in the Massif Central to the Grande Limagne north of Clermont-Ferrand and on to the Loire.

History

Issoire ("Iciodurum") is said to have been founded by the Arverni, and in Roman times rose to some reputation for its schools. In the 5th century the Christian community established there by Stremonius in the 3rd century was overthrown by the fury of the Vandals.

During the religious wars of the Reformation, Issoire suffered very severely. Merle, the leader of the Protestants, captured the town in 1574, and treated the inhabitants with great cruelty. The Roman Catholics retook it in 1577, and the ferocity of their retaliation may be inferred from the inscription "Ici fut Issoire" ("Here was Issoire") carved on a pillar which was raised on the site of the town. In the contest between the Leaguers and Henry IV, Issoire sustained further sieges, and never wholly regained its early prosperity.

Economy

Voxan motorcycles are manufactured at Issoire.

ights

The church of Saint-Austremoine is built on the site of an older chapel raised over the tomb of St. Austremoine (Stremonius) affords an excellent specimen of the Romanesque architecture of Auvergne.

Twinnings

*flagicon|Germany Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany, since 1971.

External links and reference

* [http://www.issoire.fr/ Official town website]
*1911


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