Chatain
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Chatain Chastanh |
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Vienne | |
| Arrondissement | Montmorillon | |
| Canton | Civray | |
| Community association | Civraisien en Poitou | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 4 ′ N , 0 ° 26 ′ E | |
| height | 125-193 m | |
| surface | 22.05 km 2 | |
| Residents | 250 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 11 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 86250 | |
| INSEE code | 86063 | |
 Chatain - Bridge over the Charente |
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Chatain ( Occitan : Chastanh ) is a western French city and a municipality ( commune ) with 250 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the extreme southwest of the department Vienne in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine .
location
Chatain is the southernmost municipality in the Vienne department. It is located on the west bank of the Charente about 16 kilometers (driving distance) southeast of Civray at an altitude of about 165 meters above sea level. d. In the municipality, the Transon River flows into the Charente. The largely destroyed Benedictine Abbey Charroux is about ten kilometers to the north.
Population development
| year | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2012 |
| Residents | 469 | 434 | 391 | 359 | 327 | 325 | 272 |
In the 19th century the community always had between 900 and 1,000 inhabitants; the mechanization of agriculture in the first half of the 20th century led to job losses and a continuous decline in the population to the lows of recent years.
economy
For centuries agriculture , which was formerly mainly self-sufficient , has played the largest role in the municipality's economic life. Are grown wheat , barley and corn as well as rapeseed and sunflower oil recovery. About 25% of the total area of almost 2000 hectares is reserved for the cultivation of feed, which is needed by the ranchers in the area. Some vacant houses were converted into holiday apartments ( gîtes ).
history
The town's church, already mentioned in the 8th century, was initially assigned to the Charroux Abbey ; later it appears as the property of the diocese of Poitiers . From 1226 until the beginning of the French Revolution , it belonged to the Abbey of Saint-Amand de Boixe . A position as a priory church is not explicitly mentioned in a document, but the overall appearance of the building makes an interpretation as a pure parish church seem rather doubtful.
Attractions
- The Romanesque parish church of Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens ( Saint Peter in Chains ) is a single-nave building with a transept and three apses from the 12th century; the eastern parts of the church are dominated by an octagonal crossing tower. While the walls of the central apse are supported and structured by narrow buttresses , the south sides of the nave and the facade are stabilized by mighty buttresses from the 15th century. The ground floor of the west facade presents the triumphal arch scheme , which is more common in the region , with the two side arches designed as blind arcades ; the portal shows a three-tier archivolts structure ; the ends of the arches are decorated with stars and various jagged motifs. The unadorned central zone of the facade is pierced by a window and ends with a console frieze . The gable triangle shows a double window ( biforium ), which is covered by an ornamental cornice. The nave is spanned by a barrel vault with belt arches; the walls are divided by large blind arcades. The windows of the central apse are accompanied by set columns. The church was included in the list of historical monuments in 1926 .
- The five-arched late medieval bridge over the Charente is significantly raised in the middle. The pier heads against the direction of flow are - as usual - pointed to divert driftwood . The bridge has been recognized as a monument historique since 1927 .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Vienne. Volume 1, Flohic Editions, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-84234-128-7 , pp. 63-68.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Église Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens, Chatain in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Pont sur la Charente, Chatain in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)