Calvisson
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Gard | |
| Arrondissement | Nîmes | |
| Canton | Calvisson (main town) | |
| Community association | Pays de Sommieres | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 47 ' N , 4 ° 12' E | |
| height | 23-215 m | |
| surface | 28.97 km 2 | |
| Residents | 5,745 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 198 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 30420 | |
| INSEE code | 30062 | |
| Website | calvisson.com | |
 Town Hall ( Hôtel de ville ) |
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Calvisson is a French commune with 5745 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Gard department in the Occitanie region .
geography
Calvisson is located 15 kilometers from the city of Nîmes in the Vaunage countryside . The community includes the hamlets of Cinsens and Bizac and several farms. The neighboring municipalities of Calvisson are Saint-Côme-et-Maruéjols in the north, Saint-Dionisy in the northeast, Nages-et-Solorgues in the east, Boissières in the southeast, Vergèze and Mus in the south, Aigues-Vives in the southwest, Congénies and Aujargues in the west and Souvignargues in the northwest.
history
There are numerous traces of human settlement from antiquity, such as the remains of Gallic Oppida and Roman villas, as well as evidence of settlement as early as the Neolithic . The place developed from a Roman villa and was ruled by various peoples in the early Middle Ages. In 790, Calvisson was first mentioned in a document from Nîmes Cathedral and appears there as the capital of the Vaunage countryside . Bizac , now part of the municipality, was illegally taken over by a feudal lord for 16 years in 876, before it came back into the possession of the rightful ruler, the Archbishop of Nîmes, in 892. The entire region belonged to the French king in the High Middle Ages, but was administered by the Count of Toulouse. In the 11th century a large castle with two towers around 20 meters high was built. In 1229 Calvisson finally became the property of the king. Philip IV gave Calvisson, like some other places, to his courtier Guillaume de Nogaret . Due to the plague , the population fell sharply in the 14th century. In addition to a renewed wave of plague, in the 16th century the Huguenot Wars led to armed conflicts between Catholics and Protestants, which resulted in changing power relations. In 1703 the camisards caused further religious unrest, which ended in a battle in nearby Nages. The camisards could be repulsed from Calvisson, but a year later there was another battle. When the French Revolution broke out in 1789, there was a great celebration in Calvisson. In the course of the revolution it became the capital of a canton in 1790 , but only until 1801. In 1907, Calvisson was the scene of the winemaker rebellion , and in the same year there were floods. On August 20, 1944, the town's train station was bombed. Two bombs fell in the process, but there was no personal injury.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 1792 | 1803 | 1793 | 2088 | 2725 | 3597 | 4588 | 5745 |
Culture and sights
The building of today's Mairie (town hall) was built in 1848 at the position of the old Mairie. This was preceded by a consulate house, an administrative building of the French feudal system. There is a bell tower on the roof of the current building . The bell was originally part of a Protestant church in Nîmes that was destroyed in 1685. The Protestant Church of Calvisson was built between 1821 and 1824. Its predecessor church was destroyed in the 17th century. The church's bell tower was built in 1844. The market halls in the town center were built between 1895 and 1897. The Catholic Church of Saint-Saturnin , whose date of construction is given as 1016, is the oldest building in the town. In 1623, however, it was destroyed and had to be rebuilt. There are older houses in the village, including a hotel from the 18th century.
Personalities
- Hubert Rouger (1875–1958), politician
- Pierre Barlaguet (1931–2018), football player and coach
Individual evidence
literature
- Michel Py: CALVISSON Gard, France . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
