Champdeniers
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Deux-Sèvres | |
| Arrondissement | Niort | |
| Canton | Autize-Égray | |
| Community association | Val de Gâtine | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 29 ′ N , 0 ° 24 ′ W | |
| height | 67-171 m | |
| surface | 21.81 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,666 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 76 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 79220 | |
| INSEE code | 79066 | |
 The site with the former Notre-Dame priory church |
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Champdeniers is a French commune with 1,666 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Deux-Sèvres in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Niort and the Canton of Autize-Égray .
The commune, last officially named Champdeniers-Saint-Denis, changed its name to the current name of Champdeniers by decree N ° 2018-956 of November 5, 2018 .
location
The place Champdeniers is on the river Egray , about 70 kilometers (driving distance) west of Poitiers and about 23 kilometers northeast of Niort . The small town of Parthenay is also about 23 kilometers to the northeast.
history
In 1469 the French King Louis XI stayed. briefly in Champdeniers to pray in the Notre-Dame church. He was on his way to Puyravault and Coulonges-sur-l'Autize to exercise a reconciliation with his younger brother Charles of Valois to achieve, which - in a stoppage of the Hundred Years' War on the side of - Burgundian Duke Charles the Bold found would have.
Population development
Since January 1, 1973, the formerly independent municipalities of Champdeniers, Saint-Denis and Champeaux have been merged into one municipality. Champeaux took on the status of a Commune associée . With effect from January 1, 2017, Champeaux revoked this status, which was replaced by a simple merger.
| year | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2004 | 2006 | 2009 | 2017 |
| Residents | 1580 | 1518 | 1456 | 1491 | 1532 | 1569 | 1664 | 1666 |
Attractions
Notre Dame Church
Others
The water-rich place had eight tanneries in the 18th century, but only one of them has been preserved and can be visited. Some pretty wash houses can be found in the vicinity of the city. Below the village there is an approximately two-kilometer-long underground river and cave system, which can be visited during the dry summer months.
literature
- Thorsten Droste : The Poitou. Western France between Poitiers and Angoulême - the Atlantic coast from the Loire to the Gironde. DuMont, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-7701-4456-2 , pp. 145ff.
