Castets-en-Dorthe
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| local community | Castets et Castillon | |
| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Gironde | |
| Arrondissement | Langon | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 34 ′ N , 0 ° 9 ′ W | |
| Post Code | 33210 | |
| Former INSEE code | 33106 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2017 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
 Château du Hamel |
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Castets-en-Dorthe is a town and commune Déléguée in the French municipality of Castets et Castillon with 1,158 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Gironde in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine .
With effect from January 1, 2017, Castets-en-Dorthe was merged with the neighboring municipality of Castillon-de-Castets to form Commune nouvelle Castets et Castillon. The village belonged to the Arrondissement Langon and the eponymous canton of Langon .
geography
The place is about 45 kilometers southeast of Bordeaux , neighboring places are:
- Saint-Martin-de-Sescas and Caudrot in the north,
- Barie in the northeast,
- Castillon-de-Castets in the southeast,
- Bieujac in the south,
- Saint-Loubert to the west and
- Saint-Pardon-de-Conques and Saint-Pierre-d'Aurillac to the north-west.
The area is crossed by the Garonne River and its tributary Beuve .
shipping
To the north of the town the canal Canal latéral à la Garonne (German: Garonne-Seitenkanal ) flows into the river Garonne. The Garonne Lateral Canal begins in Toulouse , where it connects to the Canal du Midi , and ends at Castets-en-Dorthe. Further downstream, the Garonne is directly navigable by ships and, in connection with its Gironde estuary, allows ships to reach the Atlantic Ocean . The shipping route thus connects the Atlantic with the Mediterranean and is therefore also known as the Canal des Deux Mers . Today, cargo shipping has become meaningless here, sport boats and houseboats use this connection all the more and form a tourist source of income for the places on the canal.
Population development
| year | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2010 |
| Residents | 920 | 889 | 829 | 996 | 1,124 | 1,221 | 1,211 |
Attractions
- Church Saint-Romain (from the 12th century in Mazerac historique Monument )
- Hamel Castle , originally from the 14th century (Monument historique)
- St-Louis Church , built in the 1860s
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Gironde. Flohic Éditions, 2 volumes, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-125-2 , pp. 831–834.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saint-Romain de Mazérac in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Château du Hamel in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)