Originally a small religious establishment, Ménétréol-sur-Sauldre now found a new impetus to become a key location for hunting and nature in rural Sologne.
Located in the heart of the Sologne, Centre region, the village is distinguished by its production and forest resources in cereals.
Country Raboliot and Meaulnes, the municipality managed to stem the decline of its population through a policy of building subdivision and thus attract young families. As evidenced by its increasing population, the Ménétréol, between 1999 and 2006 census.
The town also has extensive hunting grounds, to the delight of wealthy lovers of the outdoors. In the 1950s, the hunt takes precedence over agriculture, then we see blooming large houses at the bottom of driveways.
We find traces of this city in 1020, whose name was Monasteriolum. But the town changed its name several times throughout its history (Monesterello, Menestreoul, Menestro ....). It was a priory, which was then dependent on the abbey of Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire, at least since the 13th century. There are no more traces of the priory today, apart from the church. But behind this last, down in the private domain, is a charming mill.
At the time, despite a bad ground, villagers harvest the forage in meadows stretching along the small Sauldre. The monks are also working to develop this barren soil.
The village is closely linked to Ménétréol-sur-Sauldre the fate of two protagonists: the neighboring distance of 11 km, Aubigny-sur-Nere, and the lords of the castle of Faye. In 1189, King Philip Augustus took Aubigny and fortified to withstand the onslaught of English neighbors. But during the Hundred Years War in 1359 and 1412, they sacked the city and its surrounding villages, which Menetreol.
Then in 1571, the abbey of Saint-Benoit sold to the lord of the castle Faye Senecton Jehan, his rights to the censive Menetreol. This censive was transmitted from year to year, first Fançois Treugnac, then the lords of Nançay (a nearby village), and finally to Count Buat.
Until the 1800s, pilgrims came to pray at the Fountain St Martin, on the road Souesmes. But the latter was destroyed during the widening of the road.
