Beaumont-de-Lomagne

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Beaumont-de-Lomagne
Bèumont de Lomanha
Beaumont-de-Lomagne Coat of Arms
Beaumont-de-Lomagne (France)
Beaumont-de-Lomagne
region Occitania
Department Tarn-et-Garonne
Arrondissement Castelsarrasin
Canton Beaumont-de-Lomagne (main town)
Community association Lomagne Tarn-et-Garonnaise
Coordinates 43 ° 53 '  N , 0 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 53 '  N , 0 ° 59'  E
height 96-252 m
surface 46.16 km 2
Residents 3,758 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 81 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 82500
INSEE code 82013
Website Beaumont-de-Lomagne

Beaumont-de-Lomagne - the site

Beaumont-de-Lomagne ( Occitan : Bèumont de Lomanha ) is a place and a municipality in the south of France with 3,758 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitania region (previously Midi-Pyrénées ).

location

Beaumont-de-Lomagne is located in a valley on the Gimone River at an altitude of about 137 meters above sea level. d. M. and about 58 kilometers (driving distance) in a north-westerly direction from Toulouse . It is around 35 kilometers to the northeastern city of Montauban .

Population development

year 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2012
Residents 3629 3625 3579 3488 3690 3733 3797

In the 19th century, the small town usually had well over 4,000 inhabitants. The phylloxera crisis in viticulture and the mechanization of agriculture led to the unemployment of part of the population and to migration to other cities in the 20th century.

economy

The agriculture of Lomagne, based on wheat , corn and garlic cultivation - beans, peas etc. have been added since the 1970s - has provided the economic basis for the city's economic life for centuries, offering handicrafts, trade and services of all kinds. Viticulture is also being carried out again; the wines produced in the municipality are the appellations Comté Tolosan and Saint-Sardos marketed.

history

Preserved medieval documents show that there must have been a small village with a church at this point in the 11th and 12th centuries. Today's Beaumont-de-Lomagne was founded as a bastide around 1278 from the Cistercian monastery Grandselve , which was only a few kilometers away but was destroyed during the French Revolution . The founding of the monastery and bastide of Grenade, 30 kilometers south-east, in 1290 also go back to initiatives by Grandselve. Both places were ruled in a coregentschaft ( paréage ) by the abbot of the monastery and by a seneschal from the king.

During the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) Beaumont was captured by the English (1345), but liberated again five years later. At the end of the 14th century an epidemic of plague raged and killed over 500 people. Still, the place flourished again and again.

During the Huguenot Wars (1562-1598) Beaumont remained a Catholic city in the midst of Protestant parishes (e.g. Montauban). In 1577, the French King Henry III sold. the city to Henry of Navarre, later King Henry IV ; At that time he was still a Protestant and a Protestant army massacred the almost exclusively Catholic population of Beaumont. In 1580 an unemployed group of mercenaries came from Montauban, occupied the town for two months and caused great economic damage.

In the 1630s, King Ludwig XIII besieged . some cities in the south of France, including Beaumont, which was sold in 1639 to one of the most powerful men in France - Louis II. de Bourbon, prince de Condé . After further internal political disputes, which cost Beaumont the enormous fine of 15,000 livres, and a renewed plague epidemic, Beaumont had only 2,400 inhabitants at the beginning of the 18th century.

Attractions

Beaumont Church
Beaumont - covered market
  • The parish church ( Église Notre-Dame de l'Assomption ) is a brick building in the Tolosan Gothic style . While the church building was completed by the middle of the 14th century, the octagonal tower with its columns and other decorative elements made of light sandstone is a work of the late 14th and early 15th centuries. The interior of the more than 20 meter high church building has only one nave with side chapels, but has seven bays and a straight choir closure . The tall and slender windows as well as the deep blind arches on the exterior are very reminiscent of the Jacobin Church of Toulouse . After Bishop Bernard de la Roche-Fontenille was expelled from Montauban by the English in 1430, he settled in Beaumont for two years - in this way the church even temporarily became the cathedral of a diocese. Church construction has been recognized as a monument historique since 1843 .
  • The market hall ( hall ) dates from the 14th century and stands on the central square of the Bastide, lined with arcaded houses. The huge, almost limitless-looking entablature of the almost square structure with a side length of about 36.40 meters consists of vertical oak logs and horizontal pine beams and rests on 38 oak supports and covers a total area of ​​1560 square meters. In 1647 the middle stone donjon collapsed and caused great damage to the structure; However, since the use of the hall for the economic and social life of the city was still valued in the 17th century, everything was repaired again. The building has been recognized as a monument historique since 1930 .
  • The place still has some half-timbered houses ( maisons à colombages ). Parts of two representative stone houses from the 18th century were also classified as Monuments historiques .

Surroundings

  • A barn ( Ferme d'Endivalot ) built in the 17th century and belonging to an estate is located about one and a half kilometers south of the village ( 43 ° 52 ′ 3 ″  N , 0 ° 58 ′ 58 ″  E ); it was supplemented by side extensions in 1836. The barn has been recognized as a monument historique since 2008 .

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Beaumont-de-Lomagne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Église Notre-Dame de l'Assomption, Beaumont-de-Lomagne in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  2. ^ Halle, Beaumont-de-Lomagne in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  3. ^ Immeuble, Beaumont-de-Lomagne in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  4. ↑ Hôtel, Beaumont-de-Lomagne in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  5. ↑ Ferme d'Endivalot, Beaumont-de-Lomagne in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)