Buisson

Buisson
region	Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
Department	Vaucluse
Arrondissement	Carpentras
Canton	Vaison-la-Romaine
Community association	Vaison Ventoux
Coordinates	44 ° 17 ′ N , 5 ° 0 ′ E Coordinates: 44 ° 17 ′ N , 5 ° 0 ′ E
height	156-395 m
surface	9.49 km 2
Residents	298 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	31 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	84110
INSEE code	84022
	; Village square with clock tower

Buisson is a French municipality with 298 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Vaucluse department in the region of Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur . It belongs to the canton of Vaison-la-Romaine in the Arrondissement of Carpentras .

geography

Buisson is located approximately eight kilometers northwest of Vaison-la-Romaine . The municipality is bounded to the north by the River Eygues , which also forms the border with the Drôme department . Other surrounding communities besides Vaison are Villedieu , Roaix , Rasteau and Saint-Roman-de-Malegarde in Vaucluse, and Saint-Maurice-sur-Eygues and Tulette in Drôme. The nearest major cities are Valréas in the north (twelve kilometers), Bollène in the west (20 kilometers) and Orange in the southwest (22 kilometers away).

traffic

The department road D20 crosses the commune from Vaison-la-Romaine in a north-west direction and meets the D94 after the bridge over the Eygues. The D20 is crossed in Buisson by the D51, which leads in a south-westerly direction to Cairanne and in a north-easterly direction to Villedieu.

A few kilometers to the northwest is the small Valréas-Visan airfield .

history

Because of its favorable geographical location, Templars from Roaix founded a commandery in 1137 , in which some soldier monks lived. In 1320 the fiefdom passed into papal ownership and belonged to various landlords in the 16th century . During the Huguenot Wars , Protestants from Nyons invaded the village and stole the church bell , which they only brought back a hundred years later.

The place name is perhaps derived from the late Latin word boscus , which denotes a forest or a copse . Celtologists, however, tend to assume a name after the local deity Buxenus ( Campus Buxenos ).

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2008	2016
Residents	217	181	148	166	195	264	302	297

Attractions

City gate

Bell tower

Despite the destruction caused by the French Revolution , some ruins of the castle from the 13th century are still detectable.

According to the local archives, the city wall, built of pebbles from the Eygues , dates back to 1590. It has only a single fortified gate with a portcullis and an ocher red papal coat of arms. One of the towers was built in the 18th century to allow the installation of a tower clock .

The parish church with Romanesque origin appears in a document from 1200 under the name Notre-Dame des Bois . It has been restored and rebuilt several times and has a bell tower from the 12th century, as well as side chapels and a choir apse from the 17th century.

The Notre Dame d'Argelier chapel, reconstructed in 1874, is still a place of pilgrimage . Outside the village there are two small abandoned chapels: the Chapelle des Pénitents blancs or Chapelle Saint Joseph and the Chapelle Saint-Pierre, which dates back to the 17th century and was restored in 1755 .

literature

Jules Courtet: Dictionnaire géographique, géologique, historique, archéologique et biographique du département du Vaucluse . Avignon 1876.
Robert Bailly: Dictionnaire des communes du Vaucluse . A. Barthélemy, Avignon 1986.

Web links

Commons : Buisson (Vaucluse) - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ The community on annuaire-mairie.fr
↑ ^a ^b ^c Buisson on vaison-ventoux-tourisme.com. Retrieved January 8, 2012 (French).
^ Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing : Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieux en France . Larousse, 1968, p. 1721 .
↑ Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 , p. 650.
^ Pauly / Wissowa: Paulys Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswwissenschaft, Volume 14, JB Metzler, 1930, p. Viii.

[am-1] The community on annuaire-mairie.fr

[tourisme-2] Buisson on vaison-ventoux-tourisme.com. Retrieved January 8, 2012 (French).

[3] Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing : Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieux en France . Larousse, 1968, p. 1721 .

[4] Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 , p. 650.

[5] Pauly / Wissowa: Paulys Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswwissenschaft, Volume 14, JB Metzler, 1930, p. Viii.