Montgé-en-Goële is located in the department of Seine-et-Marne in the Île-de-France region. The town is part of the Community of Towns Plains and Mountains of France.
Mentioned in the 11th century, "De Monte Gaio" and also "Mon Jovis". Probable etymology: Mons Jovis, mount Jupiter. Lordship under Dammartin, possession of the Counts Chabannes, then the Condé. Church at the collation of the Bishop of Meaux. Priory of the Holy Sepulcher of Germany, at the collation of the abbot of Tiron (diocese of Chartres). Battles in 1914.
Prehistoric and ancient remains: cut flint. Tumulus. Roman camp.
Civil architecture: village on the hillside: Briard houses from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Château de Saint-Thibault (now defunct), built around 1840 on the site of a former priory of the monks of the Holy Sepulcher of Germany. Optical telegraph tower, in the forest, geodesic reference point for the army.
Sacred architecture: Saint-Étienne church from the 12th / 17th century: tombstone from the 17th century, statuettes from the 18th century, funeral liter of a prince of Condé. Chapel of the Holy Sepulcher (or Saint-Thibault).
