Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-la-Miséricorde de Nissan-lez-Enserune

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Notre-Dame-de-la-Miséricorde Chapel is a chapel of Wisigothic origin located in Nissan-lez-Enserune in the French department of Hérault in the Occitan region. The territory of the municipality houses another Visigothic chapel: the chapel Saint Christol.

Location: The chapel is located 1.5 km northeast of Nissan-lez-Enserune, isolated in the middle of fields and vineyards, 500 m east of the departmental road D162 that leads to Colombiers.

Toponymy: Nissan-lez-Enserune was mentioned as Aniscianum in 1198 in the cartular of Agde's episcopal chapter and as Anicianum in 1199.

Heritage status: The Notre-Dame-de-la-Miséricorde chapel, which is owned by the commune, has been the subject of an inscription as historical monuments since 28 December 1981.

History: The Notre-Dame-de-Miséricorde chapel is built on a place occupied during Antiquity by a Roman villa founded probably by a Roman colonist named Fulpius who gave his name to the Roman villa, which is found in the name Foulpian. In the 5th century, the area passed under the control of the Wisigoths: in 1943, we found in the fields...