Saint-Germain du Puy welcomes Bourges to the east. This small town with a population of about 5,000 has an important associative and cultural life (sport, music, twinning…), as well as a vibrant population and economy, especially thanks to the industrial zone. There is also the old castle of Villemenard, which dates from the xve and sixteenth centuries, and presents a Renaissance architecture, period Louis XII. It has two speakers: one, fortified, protected residential buildings and the other formed a vast courtyard containing agricultural buildings.In the Val d 'Yèvre, a site of the agricultural prison colony, a set of nineteenth century buildings made of stone adorned with brick, with open-square openings, built according to the plans of architect Léonard Hippolyte Roger. These buildings were intended to accommodate the prison colony opened in 1847 by Charles Lucas, Inspector General of Prisons, on an area of 412 hectares. It was then a trial colony, a pilot at the time, whose primary objective was to rehabilitate minors through work. In the first part of its existence, it welcomed 270 to 440 settlers. The establishment successfully carried out the clearing of 220 hectares of marshes (also known as palus or malaria), a source of many diseases such as malaria, and the development of 180 hectares of arable land, 9 hectares of wood and 3 hectares of vineyards, distributed on the municipalities of Saint-Germain-du-Puy., Osmoy, Moulins-sur-Yèvre and Savigny-en-Septaine. Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, then President of the Republic and future Napoleon III, visited this colony in 1852 when he was moved to the inauguration of the railway line between Bourges and Nevers. After the Second Empire, mentalities evolved about the ends of the enfirm. Newspapers criticized the treatment of the courts of justice and, as a result, the amount of prison settlers fell. The Val d 'Yèvre colony ceased operations in 1924-25, after more than 70 years of operation. The buildings were sold by auction.In addition to the remnants of this correction colony, we find in the territory of Saint-Germain du Puy the mill Rabot, Fenestrelay, sur Yèvre (where is established L 'Auberge du Vieux Moulin), the post relay at Pont-Réau, along the national highway 151, and Saint-Germain du xixe church century.
