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HISTORY
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| The Arnay-le-Duc former hospital, called « Domus Dei Arnetti » is mentioned since the 13th century. |
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A court of parliament decision dated June 15th, 1599, notices the existence of the hospital implanted in the border of
the Arroux on the right bank, downstream of the bridge Saint Jacques, dated 1678, wich steps over this river. |
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This hospital was built towards 1500. It contained this general hospital, 8 beds intended for poor people,
and was primitively
served by 2 laic women, afterwards by 3 nuns from the Hospital of Beaune. |
| At a hundred meters of its primitive place, on the other bank of the Arroux, one built from 1693 till 1695
the current building
of the Hospital Saint Pierre, according to the plans and supervized by Claude and François BOITUZET, architects of AUTUN. |
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The first stone was put by Emiland BONNARD, secretary of King and mayor of ARNAY in 1681.
The current buildings were built towards 1693 for the price of 6000 pounds (gifts and spoils of the Protestant Church of ARNAY
and possession seized from the escaped religionnaires). 12 patients beds were installed and confided to the care of 4 nuns of
the Ordre de Sainte Marthe de BEAUNE (whose first superior was Louise Niault in 1695). During 3 centuries,
the nuns assured the functioning of this establishment. |
After, other rooms were put at the disposal of old persons and before its closing,
this service included 27 beds. |
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In 1863, the bell tower was constructed and repairs were brought to the roof ; M. FAIVRE DAVID,
watchmaker to ARNAY, supplied
and put a clock in the bell tower.
In 1873, the big room was repaired and one built the rotunda of the chapel under the supervision
of Pierre Creusevaux. |
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During the first world war, the building served as hospital auxilliaire number 211 under the aegis of the Fench Red Cross.
In 1935, a small service of 4 beds of maternity was opened in the annex ; it closed in 1965.
In december 1954, a sale of antiques was decided by mayor Claude Guyot in order to pay the expenses of modernization
and maintenance of the hospital.
In 1968, one sold a meadow to be able to install the central heating. The Saint Pierre hospice is free of any activity
in the creation of the complex rural hospital - house of cure - and shelters since March 28, 1981,
the MAISON RÉGIONALE DES ARTS DE LA TABLE. |
It remains nevertheless :
- 2 Bernard Palissy' dishes (XVIth century) among wich the last Supper
- 1 Urbino dish (XVIth century)
- an important collection of 30 earthenwares of XVIIth century
- tins
- a sideboard in walnut of time Louis XV, and a panel of wood, painted in the XVIIth century, representing the Virgo to the Child,
classified in ancient memorials in 1959
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| The gate of the entrance, the interval railings, the façades and the roof of the pavillon of the guards
were classified on december 8, 1981. The rotunda of the chapel was added in 1873. |
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In the choir were interred the aumoniers of the hospital and in the chapel, the superiors.
The other nuns are burried in the heart of the garden, near the farm of the hospital.
In 1977, the last patients are transfered in the ARNAY LE DUC new hospital,
where from the idea of making the Maison Régionale des Arts de la Table in the old hospital.
The greographic situation pleads in favour of the Maison Régionale to Arnay-le-Duc situated in the heart of Burgundy.
It's halfway the winy coast and the Morvan.
The originality of the Maison Régionale, it is that it has no immobilism of a tradionnal museum ; it's alive.
The Maison Régionale welcomes periodically different exhibitions the subject of wich has report with the table. |
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