Chaillevette
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Charente-Maritime | |
| Arrondissement | Rochefort | |
| Canton | La Tremblade | |
| Community association | Royan Atlantique | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 44 ′ N , 1 ° 4 ′ W | |
| height | 0-28 m | |
| surface | 10.03 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,565 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 156 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 17890 | |
| INSEE code | 17079 | |
| Website | www.arvert.fr | |
 Chaillevette - Port de Chatressac |
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Chaillevette is a southwestern French municipality with 1565 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Charente-Maritime in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine .
location
Chaillevette is located on the south bank of the Seudre , which is criss-crossed by canals, on the Arvert peninsula between Gironde and Seudre , which is part of the historic cultural landscape of the Saintonge , which in turn is part of the Charente landscape . The next larger city is Royan (about 15 kilometers drive south).
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 | 2016 |
| Residents | 1120 | 1073 | 1011 | 1019 | 1031 | 1081 | 1358 | 1542 |
In the 19th century the place consistently had between 920 and 1,180 inhabitants. As a result of the mechanization of agriculture , the population decreased significantly in the first half of the 20th century.
economy
For centuries agriculture and fishing have played the dominant roles in the community's economic life. This is one of the Bons Bois of the Cognac wine-growing region , but because of the sales crisis for expensive brandies, hardly any wine is grown anymore. Many farmers have returned to 'normal' agriculture. Oyster farming has established itself as a further source of income .
Since the 1960s, tourism has played a not insignificant role in the economic life of the place.
history
Prehistoric and Gallo-Roman finds have been made in the municipality ; There used to be two large stone graves ( dolmen ) in the municipality , of which only sparse remains exist. Unlike the neighboring town of Arvert , Chaillevette survived the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) and the Huguenot Wars (1562-1598), which ended with the Edict of Nantes , largely unscathed. The Edict of Fontainebleau (1685) again harassed the Protestant faith, to which more than two thirds of the population in some parishes in western France adhered. He lived on, however, underground - the believers met secretly in the dunes or in barns; there was talk of a 'church in the desert' ( Église du Desert ). It was not until the marshal and governor Jean Charles de Saint-Nectaire , who was tolerant in religious matters , that the situation for Protestants on the Arvert peninsula improved again in the middle of the 18th century.
Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Chaillevette
- The Catholic parish church of Saint-Pierre is a simple building from the end of the 18th century. A nearby Romanesque church was demolished because it was in disrepair. The unadorned west facade has a classical portal with a metope triglyph frieze . In the single-nave interior, the plaster was removed from the walls during restoration work, so that - similar to the churches of Arvert and Les Mathes - the quarry stone masonry is visible; it forms an attractive contrast to the low-hanging, plastered stucco vault , which was applied to wooden boarding.
- The Protestant temple is on the outskirts. The 'ground floor' of the optically two-story building is unstructured and unadorned; on the 'upper floor', which is again divided by a surrounding cornice , about a dozen windows are lined up, each separated by pilaster strips . Above the portal is - the only architectural decoration - a spread cloth with an open book and the words Le Christ est ma vie .
Partner communities
- Reuilly , Indre Department (France)
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Charente-Maritime. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-84234-129-5 , pp. 1138-1141.
