Champagnac-de-Belair
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Champagnac-de-Belair Champanhac |
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Dordogne | |
| Arrondissement | Nontron | |
| Canton | Brantôme | |
| Community association | Dronne et Belle | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 24 ' N , 0 ° 42' E | |
| height | 105-222 m | |
| surface | 18.46 km 2 | |
| Residents | 752 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 41 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 24300 | |
| INSEE code | 24096 | |
.JPG) Saint-Christophe Church |
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Champagnac-de-Belair , Occitan Champanhac , is a French village in the north of the department Dordogne in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . It is on the border of the Périgord-Limousin Regional Nature Park .
etymology
Champagnac is likely to be derived from the Gallo-Roman proper name Campanius and the final syllable -acum (property, property, domain of ...).
geography
Champagnac-de-Belair is located five kilometers northwest of Brantôme en Périgord and 15 kilometers south-southeast of Nontron (as the crow flies). The municipality is surrounded by the following neighboring municipalities:
- Quinsac in the north
- Villars in the northeast
- La Chapelle-Faucher in the southeast
- Condat-sur-Trincou in the south
- Brantôme en Périgord in the southwest and
- Saint-Pancrace to the northwest
The rather large community consists of the following hamlets, farmsteads and a castle: Aux Quatre Routes , Barbarias , Chancelade , Château de la Borie , Chavalarias , Chavirat , Cheynou , Chez Duret , Coulonges , Fialarge , Genebrière , La Besse , La Borie , La Chataignade , La Durantie , La Faye , La Mole , La Roussarie , Lardailler , Le Bournat , Le Grand Lac , Le Mougnaud , Le Petit Mars , Le Puy , Le Valadier , Les Canquilloux , Libourny , Maison Froide , Martinières , Maucité , Puy de Grange , Puy-Hardy , Puylatour , Racaud , Saint Marc , Talet , Verneuil and Vilotte .
The municipality of Champagnac-de-Belair is traversed roughly in the middle by the Dronne to the south. The southeast corner is traversed by the Trincou, which drains to the southwest . A dry valley coming from the east flows into the Trincou near Lardailler . Near the western border to Cantillac, the Libourny , a small right branch of the Dronne, runs roughly parallel to the Dronne.
The topographically deepest point at 105 meters above sea level is south of Verneuil on the southern border; here the Dronne leaves the municipality. The highest point at 222 meters is on the northwest corner in the immediate vicinity of the D 675 at La Tuilère (Cantillac municipality). The absolute height difference is 117 meters.
geology
The integrity of the municipal area of Champagnac-de-Belair is underlain by flat-lying ( angle of incidence up to a maximum of 10 ° to the south-southwest) sediments of the northern Aquitaine basin . The oldest open formation is the Ligérien ( Unterturon ) with bulbous, flat chalk limestone , to be seen in the north on the left side of the Dronne near Martinières and also on the left side of the Dronne near Verneuil . This is followed by the Angoumien with its relatively resistant rudist limestone, which is distinctive in the area . It lines the Dronne on both sides in the north and in the south near Verneuil . It is also pending on both sides of the Trincou north of Lardailler . The solid fossil limestone of the Coniacium is laid over the layers of the Angoumiens . They flank the central section of the drone; so the center of Champagnac-de-Belair was built on them. They then move on to the south-east corner of the municipality and in the south-west corner of the Libourny . The Mesozoic strata usually ends with the lower canton - gray, platy limestone containing glauconite - predominantly in the north-west around Genebrière , east of the town center near Saint-Marc and in the extreme south-east corner. Just west of Fialarge also the glaukonithaltigen are oysters Schill -führenden marly limestones of the Upper Anton found.
The high altitudes at the extreme northwestern edge are just covered by sediments of a fossil river system from the Eocene or Lower Oligocene - these are gravel and gravel with occasional clay lenses (formation HF ) that poured out of the Massif Central near Nontron in a southwest direction were. In the Pleistocene rearranged colluvium (formations AC and ACF with colluvial clays , sands , gravels and gravels ) covered large areas of the lower altitudes; it stretches like a ribbon from the northwest corner to the southeast corner of the community. Würmeiszeitlicher slope debris is found in the valley of Trincou at Lardailler and neighboring arroyo. In the north and south of the Dronnetal, Rift-Age low terraces were left behind, and the floodplains are filled with recent Holocene sediments.
Worth mentioning is the extension of the Mareuil Fault associated with the Mareuil anticline , which passes south of the Château de la Borie in an east-southeast direction. At this fault , the southern layer structure was raised by around 20 meters compared to the north side.
history
The oldest surviving structure in Champagnac-de-Belair is the Saint-Christophe church from the 14th century . The Château de la Borie dates back to the 16th century . The Notre-Dame de Bon Secours chapel was built in the 18th century . Between 1747 and 1749 the community was ravaged by the plague , which killed between 25 and 30% of the population.
The community was originally just called Champagnac and only later received the current addition; so it was called from 1801 Champagnac-de-Bel-Air and later then Champagnac-de-Belair .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 | 2016 |
| Residents | 584 | 590 | 657 | 606 | 658 | 683 | 712 | 733 |
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Attractions
- Church Saint-Christophe from the 14th and 15th centuries . Protected as a monument historique since 1948
- Castle Château de la Borie Saulnier from the 16th and 17th centuries .
- Notre-Dame de Bon Secours chapel from the 18th century.
Long-distance hiking trail
The GR 654 (formerly GR 436) long-distance hiking trail from Brantôme runs through the eastern part of the commune of Champagnac-de-Belair . He then reaches Villars via the Boschaud monastery .
Transport links
The center of Champagnac-de-Belair is located on the D 83 from Brantôme to Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière, which runs through the Dronne Valley . Coming from the east from Villars, the D 82 crosses towards Cantillac. Before Cantillac it connects to the D 675 from Brantôme to Nontron. A municipal road leaves the town center in the southeast in the direction of Condat-sur-Trincou. Another municipal road follows the right side of the valley upstream of the Dronne, then turns northwest and reaches via Chancelade Saint-Pancrace and again the D 675.
Between 1891 and 1949 a tram ran between Brantôme and Saint-Pardoux. Champagnac-de-Belair was a stop on this route and at that time had its own small train station .
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Conseil général de la Dordogne with the Occitan community names
- ↑ Canton de Champagnac-de-Belair - website with historical postcards in Périgord ( Memento of the original of August 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
