Brissac
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Brissac Briçac |
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Herault | |
| Arrondissement | Lodève | |
| Canton | Lodève | |
| Community association | Cévennes Gangeoises et Suménoises | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 53 ' N , 3 ° 42' E | |
| height | 99-772 m | |
| surface | 44.13 km 2 | |
| Residents | 613 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 14 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 34190 | |
| INSEE code | 34042 | |
| Website | Brissac | |
 Pont d'Issensac over the Hérault |
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Brissac ( Occitan Briçac ) is a place and a municipality in the south of France with 613 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Hérault department in the Occitania region .
location
The place Brissac is located in the southern foothills of the Cevennes at an altitude of approx. 145 m above sea level. d. M. on the Avèze river . The next largest city is Montpellier, about 43 km southeast .
Population development
| year | 1800 | 1851 | 1901 | 1954 | 1975 | 1999 | 2017 |
| Residents | 706 | 953 | 807 | 420 | 305 | 442 | 613 |
The phylloxera crisis in viticulture and the increasing mechanization of agriculture caused a significant population decline, which only stabilized in the last decades of the 20th century.
economy
For centuries, the inhabitants of Brissac lived on their own farming, which also included viticulture and a little cattle breeding. The wine produced in the municipality today is marketed through the Languedoc , Pays d'Hérault and Pays d'Oc appellations. Since the middle of the 20th century, tourism has played a certain role in the town's income in the form of renting holiday apartments ( gîtes ).
history
The castle towering over the place dates back to the 11th century; the former priory church was built at about the same time at its feet. It can be assumed that the place emerged gradually in the following centuries and that the village of Issensac gradually disappeared to the same extent.
Attractions
- The castle ( Château de Brissac ) sits enthroned on a rock above the village. Its origins are in the 11th century; however, it was later changed several times. The two donjons , built on a square floor plan and crowned with battlements , belong to the old stock , between which a much younger corps de logis is stretched.
- The current parish church of Saint-Nazaire-et-Saint-Celse dates back to the 11th and 12th centuries and was a former priory church of the Benedictine abbey of Aniane, which was completely destroyed in 1542 . Its west facade, which is supported by a mighty buttress arch due to structural damage, is extremely unadorned, but shows a triumphal arch scheme with lateral blind arcades in the portal zone . The apse has a pilaster structure in Lombard style with a rounded arched frieze ( bandes lombardes ). The church building has been recognized as a monument historique since 1907 .
Surroundings
- In close proximity to a bridge across the river Herault in the southwest of the municipality of the Roman church is Saint-Etienne d'Issensac ( 43 ° 50 '36 " N , 3 ° 42' 3" O ). It was once the parish church of the village of Issensac , which has gradually been depopulated since the end of the Middle Ages. The original, with a bell tower ( clocher mur provided) building is built of precisely cut stone seems, however, later destroyed in parts and with dry stone material to have been restored and increased. The small church was recognized as a monument historique in 1945 .
- The central arch of the three-arched bridge over the river Hérault ( Pont d'Issensac ) is significantly wider and higher than the two side arches. The bridge over the Hérault River , built in the 14th century but subsequently restored several times - most recently as a result of war damage by German military vehicles in the Second World War - has been recognized as a Monument historique since 1948 .
Web links
- Brissac, Viticulture - Info (French)
- Brissac - photos ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Église Saint-Nazaire et Saint-Celse, Brissac in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Église Saint-Étienne d'Issensac, Brissac in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Pont d'Issensac, Brissac in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)