Beaussac
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| local community | Mareuil en Périgord | |
| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Dordogne | |
| Arrondissement | Nontron | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 30 ′ N , 0 ° 30 ′ E | |
| Post Code | 24340 | |
| Former INSEE code | 24033 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2017 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
.JPG) Center of Beaussac from the southwest |
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Beaussac , ( Occitan Baussat ) is a town and commune Déléguée in the French commune of Mareuil en Périgord with 160 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) of the northwestern department Dordogne in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . The commune déléguée area is also an integral part of the Périgord-Limousin Regional Natural Park .
geography
Beaussac is located in the Périgord , eight kilometers northwest of Mareuil and 13 kilometers west-southwest of Nontron (beeline). The municipality of Beaussac was surrounded by the following neighboring municipalities:
- Mainzac ( Département Charente ) and Hautefaye in the north
- Connezac to the east
- Rudeau-Ladosse in the southeast
- Puyrenier in the south
- Les Graulges in the southwest
- Combiers (Charente department) to the west
- Charras (Charente department) in the north-west
Beaussac was a municipality on the border with the Charente department.
In addition to the town center, the Commune déléguée consists of the following hamlets, farmsteads, mills, castles and a brickyard: Aucors , Bretanges , Château d'Aucors , Château de Bretanges , Château de Poutignac , Coulouniex , Donzac , Grosse Pierre , La Côte , La Papetterie ( lapsed), La Petite Garde (lapsed), Lagarde , Le Moulin à Vent , Le Moulin de Puyloubard , Le Repaire , Maconty , Marat , Plambeau , Poutignac , Pronchère , Pouffon , Puyloubard and Tuilière de Lagarde .
The main floodwater of the Commune déléguée is the west flowing Nizonne , which forms the southwest border to Puyrenier. At the Pont du Râteau, it receives the Ruisseau de Beaussac as its right tributary - the south-eastern border with Rudeau-Ladosse. At Le Moulin de Puyloubard , the Nizonne leaves the territory of the Commune déléguée; At this triple point it takes up the Ruisseau de Bretanges as another right tributary - western border to Les Graulges. This stream flows in a south-westerly direction; About a kilometer from its confluence with the Nizonne, a small, right branch comes towards it from the northwest (Grenzbach zu Les Graulges).
The topographically deepest point in the area of the Commune déléguée of Beaussac at 105 meters above sea level is on the Nizonne in the southwest corner. The highest point at 224 meters is in the northwest. The maximum difference in altitude is 119 meters. The Commune déléguée Beaussac contains extensive forests that cover around 75% of the area ( Bois de Beaussac and eastern part of the Forêt Domaniale de la Mothe-Clédou ).
geology
The area of the Commune déléguée Beaussacs lies exclusively on flat sediments of the northern Aquitaine Basin . Structurally, these belong to the north wing of the Combiers-Saint-Crépin-de-Richemont-Synklinale . The oldest open formations are the cryptocrystalline limestone of the upper bath . You are in the far north on the border with Charras, Combiers and Hautefaye. This is followed by Oxfordium - an alternation of fine-grained, white, chalky limestone and beige oolite limestone . The transgression of the Cenomanium passed over the Oxfordium . The cenomanium consists of green, oyster-bearing marls , fine sand and sandy alveoline limestone . It can be seen at Pouffon , Lagarde and Donzac . The next higher layer member are the flat, partly fibrous chalk limestone of the Ligériens ( Unterturon ). It lines the two side branches of the Ruisseau de Bretanges and the right side of the valley of the Ruisseau de Beaussac near the center of Beaussac. This is followed by the Angoumien with the layer rib of the '' Angoulême Formation '' ( Rudist limestone ) at its base , which cannot be confused in the terrain . The Angoumien is pending on the right side of the Nizonne valley. The lower Angoumien occurs around the town center exceptionally in its calcarenitic facies. The last exposed layer of the Upper Cretaceous formations are then the hard fossil limestone of the Coniacium , exposed at Aucors , Pronchère and Puyloubard .
The Jura and Upper Chalk sediments in the area of the Bois de Beaussac and the Forêt Domaniale de la Mothe-Clédou are covered by old-tertiary colluvium that was rearranged during the Pleistocene (formations AC and ACF ). Small remains of alluvial gravel from the Pliocene are preserved in the north and northwest of the town center. The sediment filling in the Nizonne floodplain comes from the Holocene .
Southwest of the town center along the Ruisseau de Beaussac traverse three east-south-east trending faults , which have led to a tilting of the strata (for example, in the middle of the three blocks the sediment series, which usually plunges 3 ° to the south-west, was adjusted to up to 30 °, at the same time the direction of strike was adjusted twisted to the southeast). The Beaussac fault zone is very likely to have a genetic connection with the Mareuil anticline, which emerges a little further to the southwest .
Pits in the Upper Cenomanium were once mined as raw material for brickworks at La Tuilière de Lagarde and Maconty .
history
The oldest surviving structure in Beaussac is the Romanesque church of Saint-Étienne from the 12th century. The two castles Château d'Aucors and Château de Poutignac were built in the 15th century . The Château de Bretanges dates back to the 17th century.
The place is still referred to as Beaussat on the Cassini map from 1756 to 1789 . 1793 is as Baussac mentioned again and then in 1801 as Beaussat to be performed.
The commune of Beaussac became with effect from January 1, 2017 with the communes of Champeaux-et-la-Chapelle-Pommier , Les Graulges , Léguillac-de-Cercles , Mareuil , Monsec , Puyrenier , Saint-Sulpice-de-Mareuil and Vieux-Mareuil merged to form the Commune nouvelle Mareuil en Périgord and has since had the status of a Commune déléguée there. It belonged to the canton of Brantôme (until 2015 to the canton of Mareuil ).
| year | Residents | Population density |
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| 1962 | 281 | 16 / km² | |
| 1968 | 254 | 14 / km² | |
| 1975 | 224 | 12 / km² | |
| 1982 | 203 | 11 / km² | |
| 1990 | 212 | 12 / km² | |
| 1999 | 187 | 10 / km² | |
| 2004 | 197 | 11 / km² | |
| 2006 | 191 | 11 / km² | |
| 2008 | 187 | 10 / km² |
Source: INSEE
The population in Beaussac is generally declining with slight fluctuations, the decline is somewhat more pronounced than in the rest of the canton of Mareuil.
Attractions
- Romanesque church of Saint-Étienne from the 12th / 13th centuries Century. The church has been a monument historique since 1948 . It houses the bench of honor for the local noble family, which has also been a monument historique since 1963.
- Castle Château d'Aucors from the 15th and 17th centuries
- Castle Château de Poutignac from 15-16. Century and 18th century
- Castle Château de Bretanges 17th century
- Russian Orthodox Church of the Savior in the hamlet of Puyloubard
Transport links
The center of Beaussac is on the D 93 from Javerlhac-et-la-Chapelle-Saint-Robert to Mareuil. The D 82 also arrives in the center from Rudeau further to the east; it connects to the D 708 from Nontron to Mareuil at Rudeau. Before crossing the Nizonne at Pont du Râteau , the D 87 branches off from the D 93 to the right. It follows the right side of the Nizonne valley to Les Graulges and on to Combiers and La Rochebeaucourt . Charras in the northwest can be reached from the town center via the D 104. At the confluence of the Ruisseau de Bretanges in the Nizonne, a municipal road branches off from the D87 in a north-east direction to Hautefaye.
