Arboussols

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Arboussols
Arboçols
Arboussols (France)
Arboussols
region Occitania
Department Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement Prades
Canton La Vallée de l'Agly
Community association Conflent-Canigó
Coordinates 42 ° 40 ′  N , 2 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 40 ′  N , 2 ° 29 ′  E
height 242-1,004 m
surface 14.08 km 2
Residents 118 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 8 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 66320
INSEE code 66007
Website Arboussols

Arboussols - View of the village with Saint-Sauveur church

Arboussols (on Catalan Arboçols ) is a place and a southern French community with 118 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Pyrenees-Orientales in the region of Occitania in the ancient cultural landscape of the former to Catalonia belonging Roussillon .

geography

Arboussols lies at an altitude of approx. 560 m above sea level. d. M. at the foot of the Pyrenees on the northern side of the Têt valley about ten kilometers (driving distance) from Vinça . The city of Perpignan is about 44 kilometers to the east.

Map of Arboussols

Population development

year 1800 1851 1901 1954 1975 1999 2012
Residents 146 205 202 129 85 95 101

The phylloxera crisis in viticulture and the loss of jobs due to the mechanization of agriculture have led to a steady decline in the number of inhabitants since the end of the 19th century.

economy

Traditionally, the inhabitants lived as self-sufficiency from the yields of their stony fields and from a little cattle-breeding (sheep, goats, chickens). The wines produced in the municipality are marketed through the appellations Côtes Catalanes , Côtes du Roussillon , Languedoc and Pays d'Oc . Since the middle of the 20th century, there has been income from tourism in the form of renting holiday apartments ( gîtes ).

history

The remains of two megalithic tombs ( dolmen ) in the municipality come from prehistoric times ; The Celts , Romans and Visigoths , on the other hand, left no traces. The first mention of the place under the name Arbussolas comes from the year 950; the mention of a church Sainte-Eulalie can be found in a property register of the Abbey of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa from 1011, which lasted until the dissolution of all manors ( seigneuries ) during the French Revolution . The town of Marcevol , located about 3 km to the east, has also been part of the municipality since 1822 .

Attractions

Church Sainte-Eulalie
  • The parish church of Sainte Eulalie is a single-nave early Romanesque building from the 11th century. The only decoration of from rough-hewn stone- brick exterior is a round-arched frieze in Lombard style final apse . The entrance to the church is - as usual in the region - on the south side.
  • The parish church, which had become too small, was replaced in the 17th century by the new church of Saint-Sauveur , whose two-part bell gable ( clocher mur or espadanya ) dominates the townscape.

Marcevol

  • About halfway between Arboussols and Marcevol there is a rarely visited dolmen.
  • The originally three-aisled priory church of Marcevol is one of the most important church buildings in northern Catalonia (Roussillon) and has been recognized as a monument historique since 1840 .
  • In the small town itself there is the single-nave Notre-Dame chapel from the 11th / 12th Century with an apse divided by pilaster strips and final round arch friezes and a simple bell gable over the southern outer wall. The church building was classified as a monument historique in 1973 .

Web links

Commons : Arboussols  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prieuré, Marcevol in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  2. ↑ Eglise Notre-Dame des Escaliers de Marcevol, Marcevol in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)