Not at all!
Contrary to what one might think, the adjective "banaux" is absolutely not the plural of banal, i.e. any, common...
It means that what is thus designated, and which can be a forest, a hunting ground, a mill, a well, and, obviously, an oven, belongs, in feudal law, to a lord who draws royalty from it, then, until the nineteenth century, to the population which has free disposal of this common good... which was the case of our common ovens of Vierzon!
And, since they belonged to everyone, they were a permanent meeting place for the inhabitants who came to bake their bread.
The museum
Oh, this is not the Louvre! It is a small museum located in the historical center of the city (normal!), at the foot of the belfry. It describes the history of two fifteenth century ovens, unique in the Loire Valley region.
You will also see a very curious model of Vierzon in the Middle Ages, the polychrome statues of the four evangelists, from the 15th century, and the old clocks of the belfry.
Yes, it is true, one can have the impression that all that "does not go together", but one feels there, also, the feeling that one can feel in an old family attic, since all that is there, finally, is a little the echo of the old families of Vierzon...
Museum of the banal ovens
7, rue du Château
18100 Vierzon
Tel : 02 48 53 09 32
Vierzon Tourist Office
5 bis, place Foch
18100 Vierzon
Phone : 02 48 53 06 14
vierzon@berrysolognetourisme.com
www.berrysolognetourisme.com
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