Châtel-de-Neuvre

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Châtel-de-Neuvre
Châtel-de-Neuvre (France)
Châtel-de-Neuvre
region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department Allier
Arrondissement Moulins
Canton Souvigny
Community association Bocage Bourbonnais
Coordinates 46 ° 24 '  N , 3 ° 19'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 24 '  N , 3 ° 19'  E
height 214-301 m
surface 19.34 km 2
Residents 542 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 28 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 03500
INSEE code 03065

Saint Laurent Church

Châtel-de-Neuvre is a central French town and a municipality with 542 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Allier department in the north of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region .

location

The place Châtel-de-Neuvre is located on a hill above the west bank of the Allier in the fertile and wooded cultural landscape of the Bourbonnais at an altitude of about 250 meters above sea level. d. M. The city of Moulins is about 20 kilometers (driving distance) north; Clermont-Ferrand is about 84 kilometers south. Several individual farms also belong to the community.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2012
Residents 630 600 529 582 512 515 517 553

In the 19th century the number of inhabitants rose from about 600 to over 1000 people; Due to the phylloxera crisis in viticulture and the mechanization of agriculture , the number of inhabitants in the municipality then fell continuously to the lows of the last few decades.

economy

For centuries, the residents of Châtel-de-Neuvre lived as self-sufficient farmers from agriculture, which also included viticulture; in addition there were regional retail trade and handicrafts. During the phylloxera crisis at the end of the 19th century, viticulture came to a complete standstill, but red, rosé and white wines are now being produced again and are marketed through the appellations 'Saint-Pourçain' and 'Val de Loire' . Some of the vacant houses in the village have been converted into holiday apartments ( gîtes ).

history

The existence of the place has been documented since the 10th century; it was a late Carolingian administrative and judicial center ( viguerie ). Given the dimensions of the 11th and. Romanesque church built in the 12th century - one of the oldest in the entire department - is supposed to be a priory church .

Attractions

Tour d'Aigrepont
Nave and apse

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Châtel-de-Neuvre

  • The parish church of Saint-Laurent is - with the exception of the precisely hewn corner stones and the buttresses - built from almost unworked rubble stones and was built in the 11th century on the site of a destroyed Gallo-Roman temple, of which a few spolia are walled up in the outer walls of the church; the eastern parts of the church and the western facade are each considered a work of the 12th century and the small chapel at the end of the north arm of the transept with its late Gothic tracery window was added in the 15th century. The stepping stone stairs in the outer wall of the squat-looking crossing tower , which is covered with a simple gable roof , but which at least has sound openings with double columns , and the imposing blind arch of the west facade are eye-catching. The extremely unadorned central nave of the church is only about three meters wide, but over ten meters high and spanned by an elongated barrel vault with belt arch beams; the side aisles, which are only about 1.50 meters wide, have a quarter-ton arch. The eastern parts of the church are illuminated by a later openwork oculus window in the apse calotte. Church construction has been recognized as a monument historique since 1927 .
  • From the former Château de Moulin-Neuf is only a 14 meter high tower block ( Tour d'Aigrepont ) was obtained ( 46 ° 42 '9 "  N , 2 ° 55' 18"  O ), the wall thickness of from 1.50 to 2.10 Meter is; the towering hipped roof is a later ingredient. The three-storey building has only a few small rectangular windows; it is privately owned and has been classified as a Monument historique since 1927 .
  • The Château de Logères is a late medieval building, which was often revised - most recently in the 19th century - and is privately owned.
  • The same applies to the Château de Moncoquet .

literature

  • Augustin Leclerc: Châtel-de-Neuvre et sa région. Notes d'histoire locale. Réveret-Ardillon, Moulins 1982.
  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de l'Allier. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-053-1 , pp. 685-686.

Web links

Commons : Châtel-de-Neuvre  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Église Saint-Laurent, Châtel-de-Neuvre in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  2. ↑ Tour d'Aigrepont, Châtel-de-Neuvre in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)