Bédouès
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| local community | Bédouès-Cocures | |
| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Lozère | |
| Arrondissement | Florac | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 20 ′ N , 3 ° 36 ′ E | |
| Post Code | 48400 | |
| Former INSEE code | 48022 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2016 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
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Bédouès was a French commune with 281 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Lozère department in the Occitanie region . It belonged to the canton of Florac .
Bédouès merged with the municipality of Cocurès to form the Commune nouvelle Bédouès-Cocurès with effect from January 1, 2016 .
geography
Bédouès is located in the Gévaudan in the southern Massif Central in the Cevennes National Park , in the valley of the upper reaches of the Tarn , 84 kilometers north of Montpellier , 21 kilometers southeast of Mende and 15.4 kilometers southwest of Mount Lozère , between Cocurès in the east and Florac . The Runes flows into the Tarn in the former municipal area. The hamlets of Saint-Julien-du-Gourg and Monteils belonged to the municipality of Bédouès.
history
Bédouès was 1,352 as Bedoescus mentioned in a document in the 17th century Bedoese called. Pope Urban V (1310-1370) had a collegiate church built in Bédouès over the graves of his parents in 1363. The fortified church stands on a rock on the Tarn. It was surrounded by a wall with four towers. Matthieu Merle (1548–1584), a captain of the Huguenots , captured the collegiate church in 1580 during the Huguenot Wars . His troops plundered and pillaged. All canons and secular defenders were killed. The collegiate church was rebuilt around 1620 and protected by soldiers until the edict of grace of Alès in 1629. The fortifications of the church were devastated again during the French Revolution (1789–1799) and the collegiate church became a national property . It was bought by a private person who sold it to the parish of Bédouès for 300 francs . In 1825 a pastor was reinstated.
The municipality of Bédouès merged with Cocurès on January 1, 2016 to form the new municipality of Bédouès-Cocurès.
Culture and sights
The castle Le Miral (Château du Miral) was built in the late 13th century. From the Middle Ages the are Donjon and another building of the castle, wall paintings, the farm, a farm, a guard house and part survived the castle walls. Renovation work began in 1980. In 1984 the castle was entered in the supplementary directory of the Monuments historiques ('historical monuments').
The Issenges estate (Domaine rural d'Issenges) was built in the first half of the 17th century. It is privately owned and was entered in the supplementary directory of the Monuments historiques in 1992.
Three menhirs , called La Can d'Issanges , are also privately owned and were entered in the supplementary directory of the Monuments historiques in 1941.
economy
The mine de Ramponnenche was founded in 1840 as a galena mine . Zinc was mined there at the beginning of the 20th century . From 1932, sphalerite and galena were mined for the Génolhac mining company . From 1953 to 1961 barite was mined and processed for the Ramponnenche mining company, which is based in Florac. When it closed in January 1961, the plant employed 62 workers.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bédouès on annuaire-mairie.fr (French). Retrieved February 13, 2010
- ^ Ernest Nègre: Toponymie générale de la France . tape 1 . Librairie Droz, 1990, ISBN 978-2-600-02884-4 , pp. 53 ( in Google Books [accessed February 13, 2010]). (French)
- ↑ Bédoues-Un village du haut Tarn ( Memento of the original of October 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French) Retrieved February 13, 2010
- ↑ Le château de Miral ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French) Retrieved February 13, 2010
- ↑ a b Entry No. 48022 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
