Cellettes (Charente)

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Cellettes
Cellettes (France)
Cellettes
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Charente
Arrondissement Confolens
Canton Boixe-et-Manslois
Community association Coeur de Charente
Coordinates 45 ° 52 '  N , 0 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 52 '  N , 0 ° 9'  E
height 52-117 m
surface 9.37 km 2
Residents 402 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 43 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 16230
INSEE code 16069

Castle - Château de Cellettes

Cellettes is a place and a community with 402 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in western France Charente in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . The village of Échoisy and several individual farms also belong to the municipality .

location

The place Cellettes is located in the north of the department about 1.5 km south of the Charente in the old cultural landscape of the Angoumois , part of the Charente landscape , about 29 km (driving distance) north of the city of Angoulême and about 90 km south of Poitiers at an altitude from about 90 m above sea level. d. M.

Population development

year 1800 1851 1901 1954 1999 2013
Residents 425 503 342 249 415 429

The continuous decline in population since the late 19th century is mainly due to the loss of jobs as a result of the phylloxera crisis in viticulture and the increasing mechanization of agriculture . The gradual increase since the 1980s is due to the location of the town in the greater Angoulême area in terms of traffic.

economy

The place and its surroundings were dominated by agriculture for centuries; most people lived on a self-sufficient basis . In the late Middle Ages and early modern times, viticulture was promoted, but - after the phylloxera crisis in the late 19th and early 20th centuries - was almost stopped. From around 1850 until the middle of the 20th century, limestone was mined in Échoisy , burned to lime and shipped on the Charente to Bordeaux . Since the 1960s tourism has played a not insignificant role in the economic life of the municipality in the form of renting out holiday homes ( gîtes ).

history

The wooded region was inhabited as early as the Neolithic Age. In antiquity and in Gallo-Roman times, a road ran along the Charente. Merovingian sarcophagi were discovered near the church in 1964 . The area of ​​the Forêt de Boixe , which formerly belonged to the historical province of Poitou, was annexed by the Counts of Angoulême in the 11th or 12th century . In 1182 the place and its church belonged as a priory to the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Amant-de-Boixe . During the Huguenot Wars (1562–1598), Protestant troops destroyed the priory and the church, which were then renewed.

In the formerly independent district of Échoisy there was also a priory, which was transferred to the Cistercian order by the then Count of Angoulême in 1153 , but which was driven out a few decades later by the monks of Saint-Amant-de-Boixe. Several lime kilns and a lime mill were built on the site of the former Château d'Échoisy in the 19th century.

Attractions

  • The single-nave parish church of Saint-Saturnin is a simple building from the 16th century with a small bell gable ( clocher mur ) over the unadorned west facade.
  • The Château de Celettes is also a 16th century building, which was later expanded repeatedly. The privately owned buildings have been recognized as Monuments historiques since 2004 .
former lime mill of Échoisy

outside

  • The remains of the Château d'Échoisy , built in the late 17th and early 18th centuries but largely demolished in the 19th century, are less interesting; only the tower of the former castle chapel is worth mentioning. However, the lime kilns ( fours à chaux ) on the site of the former castle have been under monument protection since 1994 .
  • In a privately owned forest about 1.8 km southeast of the village lies the huge capstone of a dolmen , which is apparently worked on all sides , which is sometimes also referred to as the sacrifice stone ( pierre de sacrifice ) ( 45 ° 50 ′ 40 ″  N , 0 ° 8 ′ 57 ″  E ). The stone assigned to the Boixe necropolis has been recognized as a monument historique since 1889 .

Web links

Commons : Cellettes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cellettes - Viticulture
  2. ↑ Château de Cellettes, Cellettes in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  3. ↑ Fours à chaux d'Echoisy, Cellettes in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  4. ↑ Dolmen, Cellettes in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)