Beaufort (Hérault)

Beaufort construction ; site
region	Occitania
Department	Herault
Arrondissement	Beziers
Canton	Saint-Pons-de-Thomières
Community association	Minervois Saint-Ponais Orb-Jaur
Coordinates	43 ° 18 ' N , 2 ° 46' E Coordinates: 43 ° 18 ' N , 2 ° 46' E
height	53-220 m
surface	6.09 km 2
Residents	219 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	36 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	34210
INSEE code	34026
	; Beaufort - Church of St Martin

Beaufort ( Occitan : Baufòrt ) is a French commune with 219 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region . It belongs to the Minervois landscape and the Minervois wine region (AOC) .

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2017
Residents	192	194	156	161	161	155	169	219

economy

As in most places in the Minervois, viticulture plays a major role in the working life of the Beaufort people. Since the 1970s and 1980s, tourism in the form of holiday apartments ( gîtes ) has been added.

Attractions

The castle ( Château de Beaufort ) from the 16th to 19th centuries has been registered as a monument historique since 1984 . It is privately owned.
The single-nave Romanesque parish church of Saint-Martin from the 12th century was later given side chapels. The current church tower dates from the 19th century. It is worth mentioning the blind arches made of black stone material above the apse windows.
On the edge of a small hill in the middle of the Beaufort vineyards, a prehistoric stone box ( Tombe de Coste Rouge ) with the skeleton of an approximately 7-year-old boy was found by chance in 2000 , which dates back to around 3500 BC. Is dated. Grave goods in the form of arrowheads and stone knives or scrapers indicate that the parents and members of the tribes lived in the expectation that the child would develop into a hunter in the afterlife.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Château de Beaufort in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
↑ Anne Tresset, Stéphane Hérouin, Muriel Gandelin, Henri Duday, Jean Vaquer: La tombe de Coste Rouge à Beaufort (Hérault) et la question of tombes à dalles néolithiques dans le nord-est des Pyrénées . In: Gallia préhistoire . 49, No. 1, 2007, pp. 127-159. ISSN 0016-4127 . doi : 10.3406 / galip.2007.2453 . Retrieved June 11, 2012.

[1] Château de Beaufort in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

[2] Anne Tresset, Stéphane Hérouin, Muriel Gandelin, Henri Duday, Jean Vaquer: La tombe de Coste Rouge à Beaufort (Hérault) et la question of tombes à dalles néolithiques dans le nord-est des Pyrénées . In: Gallia préhistoire . 49, No. 1, 2007, pp. 127-159. ISSN 0016-4127 . doi : 10.3406 / galip.2007.2453 . Retrieved June 11, 2012.