Champeaux-et-la-Chapelle-Pommier
| Champeaux-et-la-Chapelle-Pommier | ||
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| local community | Mareuil en Périgord | |
| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Dordogne | |
| Arrondissement | Nontron | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 28 ′ N , 0 ° 35 ′ E | |
| Post Code | 24340 | |
| Former INSEE code | 24099 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2017 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
 The Saint-Martin church in Champeaux |
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Champeaux-et-la-Chapelle-Pommier ( Occitan Champeus e la Chapela Pomiers ) is a village and a commune déléguée in the French commune of Mareuil en Périgord with 170 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the northwest of the Dordogne department in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . The commune déléguée area is also an integral part of the Périgord-Limousin Regional Natural Park .
etymology
Champeaux, often just written Champeau, is derived from the North Occitan Champeus meaning "small fields". La Chapelle-Pommier is the chapel ( la chapela , French la chapelle ) of the hamlet of Pomiers or Pommier (apple tree); The latter already belongs to the municipality of Saint-Sulpice-de-Mareuil.
geography
Champeaux-et-la-Chapelle-Pommier was in the Périgord , nine kilometers southwest of Nontron and ten kilometers east-northeast of Mareuil (as the crow flies). The community was surrounded by the following neighboring communities:
- Lussas-et-Nontronneau in the north
- Saint-Martial-de-Valette in the northeast
- Saint-Front-sur-Nizonne to the east
- Saint-Crépin-de-Richemont in the southeast
- Monsec in the south
- Vieux-Mareuil in the southwest
- Saint-Sulpice-de-Mareuil to the west
- Rudeau-Ladosse in the north-west.
In addition to the town centers of Champeaux and La Chapelle-Pommier, the Commune déléguée consists of the following hamlets, farms, castles and a manor:
Bargeix, Bernardières, Chanteranne, Castle Les Bernardières , Castle Puycheny , Chez Courroie, Chez Ravel, Flageat, Grand Cicaire, La Bertrandie, La Borderie, La Faronie, La Ganterie, La Garenne, La Grande Metairie, La Grange, La Guillaumie, La Japillerie, La Lardie, La Pouyade, La Vignotte, Lascours, Lavaud, Le Grand Merle, Le Magnadat, Le Maine, Le Petit Merle, Le Roc, Les Roches, Maison Neuve (double), Nadallière, Petit Cicaire and Puyséché.
The main flood in the area of the Commune déléguée of Champeaux-et-la-Chapelle-Pommier was the Nizonne , which flows through the Commune déléguée from east to west in the middle. The river has no side arms worth mentioning here. On the right there are two smaller dry valleys (a dry valley downstream from Bernardières along the western border to Rudeau-Ladosse and a dry valley at the foot of the Puycheny castle), on the left four (at Petit Cicaire south of the center of Champeaux, at Lavaud and at Bargeix on the eastern border Saint-Front-sur-Nizonne, with the latter dry valley splitting into two branches).
The topographically deepest point in the area of the Commune déléguée at 135 meters above sea level is on the Nizonne near Le Roc, on the western border with Rudeau-Ladosse and Saint-Sulpice-de-Mareuil (triple point). The highest point at 251 meters is on the ridge west of the Domaine de Bagatelle on the southern edge of the Commune déléguée. At the heights in the north of the Nizonne, another 227 meters are reached. The absolute difference in altitude was 116 meters.
geology
The Commune déléguée Champeaux-et-la-Chapelle-Pommier lies exclusively on flat-lying sedimentary formations of the northern Aquitaine basin (falling at a maximum of 5 ° to the southwest) . The upcoming shift package forms the north wing of the Combiers-Saint-Crépin-de-Richemont-Synklinale. The oldest open-minded formation is the Ligérien des Unterturons ; it consists of platy chalk limestone . Above the Ligérien, which stands on both sides of the Nizonne, follow the Rudist limestone of Angoumiens . The relatively resistant limestones of the Lower Angoumia (Angoulême Formation) form a morphological stratified rib, partly with rock overhangs. After the transition into Upper Angoumia - also Rudist limestone - the fossil limestone of the Coniacium then overlaps , which can only be seen in the south of the center of Champeaux. The high altitudes around La Chapelle-Pommier are built up by the santonium , which can be divided into two formations: platy, gray, glaconite- rich limestone of the Lower Canton and marl limestone (rich in oyster shells ) and sands of the Central Canton (in the center of La Chapelle-Pommier and near Lascours ).
A large part of the high elevations in the north and south of the Nizonne river valley is covered by tertiary shell sediments. These consist of former river sediments (gravel) from the Eocene or Lower Oligocene as well as from the old Tertiary colluvium , which was only rearranged much later in the Pleistocene . The ridge around the Domaine de Bagatelle (municipality of Saint-Front-sur-Nizonne) with a side branch extending to La Chapelle-Pommier, which extends to the southwest, can be conglomerate ; a similarly oriented, but much smaller river system can also be found in the north; but this has consistently finer grain sizes. In the area of the Santons, the colluvium emerged from its sands (Middle Canton ) (Formation ACc ). Gravel-like colluvium ( ACF formation ) is found associated with the fossil sub-tertiary river system. Colluvium (Formation AC ) formed from quartz sands of the basement is mainly found on the northern ridge. There are also isolated old Pleistocene gravel layers (formation Fs around Puycheny). The dry valleys are mostly filled with ice-age limestone debris. The alluvium in the Nizonn Valley also dates from the same period .
The Lower Angoumien was once mined (or sawed out) as a building block in a quarry near Bargeix.
history
The presence of man in the area of the Commune déléguée Champeaux-et-la-Chapelle-Pommier during the Upper Paleolithic ( Magdalenian ) is documented by incised drawings in the cave of Font-Bargeix (near the hamlet of Bargeix). In the Nizonn valley there are also the paleolithic caves of Puyrignac and La Grange aux Putes (the latter in the immediate vicinity of Les Bernardières Castle ). The Romanesque local churches of Champeaux and La Chapelle-Pommier as well as the Les Bernardières castle date from the 12th century . In 1377 a battle between Bertrand du Guesclin and the English took place near the castle during the Hundred Years' War ; here du Guesclin succeeded in wresting the castle from the English again. In 1827 the two previously independent municipalities of Champeau and La Chapelle-Pommier merged.
The commune of Champeaux-et-la-Chapelle-Pommier became with effect from January 1, 2017 with the communes of Beaussac , Les Graulges , Léguillac-de-Cercles , Mareuil , Monsec , Puyrenier , Saint-Sulpice-de-Mareuil and Vieux-Mareuil merged to form the Commune nouvelle Mareuil en Périgord and has since had the status of a Commune déléguée there. Until 2015 it was one of the 14 municipalities in the canton of Mareuil . From March 2015 it was part of the canton of Brantôme .
Population development
| Population development in Champeaux-et-la-Chapelle-Pommier | ||||
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| 1962 | 297 | |||
| 1968 | 240 | |||
| 1975 | 224 | |||
| 1982 | 184 | |||
| 1990 | 200 | |||
| 1999 | 173 | |||
| 2006 | 165 | |||
| 2007 | 164 | |||
| 2014 | 156 | |||
Source: INSEE
The population of the commune of Champeaux-et-la-Chapelle-Pommier was generally declining, but had a brief upward trend in 1990. Compared to the rest of the canton, it has lost an above-average number of inhabitants. The municipality also had the lowest population density in the Mareuil canton.
Attractions
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- The cave of Font-Bargeix with images from the Magdalenian, whose entrance was expanded as a hermitage in the Middle Ages .
- The church of Saint-Martin in Champeaux from the 12th and 14th centuries, monument historique since 1948 . The church was rebuilt again during the Renaissance .
- The church of Saint-Fiacre (patron saint of gardeners) in La Chapelle-Pommier from the 12th century. The bell tower was reinforced in the fourteenth century.
- The Bernadières castle from the 12th century, with residential wing and balustrades from the 17th century; also Monument historique since 1948. The donjon dates from the fourteenth century.
- The Puycheny Castle
Infrastructure
economy
In addition to numerous farms (animal husbandry, cultivation of grain and vegetables), the community has two sawmills that specialize in the production of pallets .
Transport links
The southeast edge of the former municipality of Champeaux-et-la-Chapelle-Pommier is touched by the D 84 from Nontron to Distribution . From it branches off to the west in the Nizonn valley, a communal road that leads into the center of Champeaux; it then follows the right bank of the Nizonne to Rudeau, where it joins the D 708. The D 708 from Nontron to Mareuil touches the north-west of the municipality. From here a communal road turns to the north to Bernardières and on to the center of Champeaux. The center of La Chapelle-Pommier in the south-west can be reached from Champeaux via another communal road; the same road then continues to Monsec and thus enables a connection to the D 939 from Périgueux to Angoulême .
Individual evidence
literature
- Floc'h, J.-P. et al .: Feuille Nontron . In: Carte géologique de la France at 1/50 000 . BRGM, Orléans.
- Dominique Richard (Ed.): Le Guide Dordogne-Périgord. Éditions Fanlac, Périgueux 1993, ISBN 2-86577-162-8 .
