Castels and Bézenac

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Castels and Bézenac
Castels et Bézenac (France)
Castels and Bézenac
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Dordogne
Arrondissement Sarlat-la-Canéda
Canton Vallée Dordogne
Community association Vallée de la Dordogne and Forêt Bessède
Coordinates 44 ° 52 '  N , 1 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 52 '  N , 1 ° 3'  E
height 57-267 m
surface 23.76 km 2
Residents 809 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 34 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 24220
INSEE code 24087

Castels et Bézenac is a commune with 809 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the north of the department Dordogne in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine (before 2016: Aquitaine ). The municipality belongs to the arrondissement of Sarlat-la-Canéda and the canton of Vallée Dordogne .

Castels et Bézenac was formed as Commune nouvelle on January 1, 2017 from the previously independent municipalities of Castels and Bézenac .

geography

Castels et Bézenac is about 50 kilometers east of Bergerac on the Dordogne , which borders the municipality in the south. Castels et Bézenac is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Meyrals in the north, Saint-André-d'Allas in the north and northeast, Beynac-et-Cazenac in the east, Saint-Vincent-de-Cosse in the southeast, Allas-les-Mines in the south, Berbiguières to the south and southwest and Saint-Cyprien to the west.

structure

District former
INSEE code 		Area (km²) Population (2016)
Bézenac 24041 04.16 155
Castels (administrative headquarters)00 24087 19.60 649

Attractions

Castels

Claw stand ( travail ) in the hamlet of Baran
  • The Église Saint-Clair du Vieux-Castel is a single-nave Romanesque building from the 13th century. It stands in the middle of the old cemetery, which is still in use, although the old village has long since disappeared. The externally unadorned building has a crossing tower and an archivolt portal that protrudes slightly from the wall on the north side. The interior of the apse , which is polygonal on the outside , has a blind arcade decoration and some late Romanesque capitals. The church building was recognized as a monument historique in 1965 .
  • The towerless Roman former priory Saint-Martin in virtually abandoned Weiler Redon Espic ( 44 ° 52 '25 "  N , 1 ° 6' 21"  O ) has been completely restored in the years after the 2000th The church is now in the middle of a forest and has been classified as a monument historique since 1999 .
  • The Château d'Argentonesse is a building from the end of the 19th century that is now used as a hotel.
  • In addition to a former forge in the hamlet Baran is a well restored wooden livestock crush ( travail ), which until the 20th century became the hoof of working horses and used -ochsen.

Bézenac

  • The Saint-Pierre-es-Liens church is a single-nave building from the 12th century, but was thoroughly redesigned after the end of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). The small portal porch and perhaps the bell gable rising above it also date from this time .
  • In its present form, the Château du Thon mainly dates from the 17th century. In its immediate vicinity there is still a cubic dovecote with a pyramid roof . The complex is privately owned and was recognized as a Monument historique in 1981 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures retrospectively from January 1, 2016
  2. ↑ Église Saint-Clair du Vieux-Castel, Castels in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  3. ↑ Église, Redon-Espic in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  4. ↑ Château du Thon, Bézenac in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Web links

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