Fontfreyde Saint-Genès-Champanelle 63122 France

Circle Genealogic and Historic Champanellois

Association "Law 1901" of Saint-Genès-Champanelle, 63 , France

History of the village of Fontfreyde

FONTFREYDE, village, municipality of Saint-Genès-Champanelle.
Fief. There was a family that name
who gave several court advisers aids from
Montferrand and Clermont, from 1557 to 1697,
and whose genealogy we have given in our
History of Clermont-Ferrand, t.II, p. 235.
Pierre de Citernes was lord of Teix and Fontfreyde
in 1662; he had: Etienne, lord of Teix and
Fontfreyde in 1670, president of the Court of Aids
of Clermont (1667); Peter, son of the latter; was
also Lord of Fontfreyde, Teix, and died in 1733
; he left Nicolas-François lord of Fontfreyde, Teix, died in 1754.

FONTFREYDE, hamlet, municipality of
Saint-Genès-Champanelle. Almost at the end of the serving tunnel
at the road we found amphoras, rimmed tiles,
red pottery; the whole thing was used for a burial
Gallo-Roman.
V. Roman roads in Auvergne, by P. MATHIEU.

extract of Grand dictionnaire historique du département du Puy-de-Dôme of Ambroise TARDIEU, 1877.

Quarries

In the past, stone quarries of Volvic [of basalt] were exploited
in Fontfreyde, by inhabitants of the village and even stone masons coming from the departement of Creuse.

way quarries		view of the last stone masons of Fontfreyde
old postcard of the great quarry		view of the "cheire" of Fontfreyde
old postcard of a quarry in Volvic		view of the "cheire" of Fontfreyde

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The National Road #89

the old relay
the RN89
the tunnel side Fontfreyde
the tunnel side La Cassière

Once, the
trunk road passed close to the village of Fontfreyde
then went towards the village of la Cassière by borrowing
a tunnel today unused. A relay thrives formerly
remains like witness of this disappeared past. Nature
takes again little by little the top on the old abandonned roadway.

The
oldest quotation of the tunnel which we could find
to date is in the map of the Circuit d'Auvergne
that the MICHELIN company had distribued
gracefully to the spectators at the time of the Gordon-Benett
cup in 1905. One finds the presence of this
tunnel which thus had to be built at the end of the 19th
century at the latest.

Rocks of the way of "pré de lait"

Located under the main road RN89, these large rocks of granite were the subject ofthe production of a postcard.

One of the rocks has the shape ofa chair, it could be well the chair of the devil about which Doctor Pommerole in 19th century speaks.

the rocks view #1
the rocks view #2

The old room of the firemen of Fontfreyde

view of the room
ofthe old
fire pump

last update on August 23, 2002

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listed crosses	59
old postcards of the commune	156
old postcards except commune	47
old postcards of Puy de Dôme	118
associations listed on the commune	186
Gordon-Bennett Cup	74

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