Communauté de communes Charente Boëme Charraud

Communauté de communes Charente Boëme Charraud
	Charente ( Nouvelle-Aquitaine - France )
Establishment date	December 29, 1994
Dissolution date	December 31, 2016
legal form	Communauté de communes
Seat	Sireuil
Communities	8th
president	Jean Revereault
SIREN number	241 600 469
surface	139.2 km²
Residents	11,962 (2013)
Population density	86 people / km²
	; Location of the CC Charente Boëme Charraud in the Charente department

Saint-Estèphe - Dolmen de la Boucharderie

Roullet - Église Saint-Cybard

Plassac - Église Saint-Cybard

Claix - Eglise Saint-Christophe

The Communauté de communes Charente Boëme Charraud is a former French association of municipalities with the legal form of a Communauté de communes in the department of Charente in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . It was founded on December 29, 1994 and comprised eight parishes. The administrative seat was in Sireuil .

Historical development

With effect from January 1, 2017, the community association merged

and so formed a successor organization under the same name Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Angoulême . Nevertheless, it is a start-up with a different legal personality.

Former member parishes

geography

location

The association of municipalities was located about 10 to 20 kilometers southwest of the city of Angoulême in the cultural landscape of the Angoumois in the Charente region . The altitudes of the connected municipalities ranged between approx. 20 and approx. 200 meters above sea level. d. M.

Rivers

Important rivers were the Charente and the Boëme ; there are also several smaller rivers (e.g. Né and Arce ), on whose banks grain , oil and paper mills were once operated. All rivers drain into the Atlantic via the Charente .

Floors

Below the humus layer there are meter-thick limestone deposits , which indicate that the Charente formed the bottom of a prehistoric sea for a long time.

climate

The temperate climate of the region is clearly influenced by the Atlantic; excessive heat in summer as well as night frosts in winter are very rare.

Population development

year	1999	2006	2012
Residents	10,400	11,120	11,916

The greater Angoulême area has been attracting immigrants for decades due to its positive economic development.

economy

In earlier times the population lived essentially on the principle of self-sufficiency ; only the city of Angoulême, which functions as a religious and cultural center as well as a craft and mercantile center, had to be supplied with grain, wine, meat and vegetables. As early as the Middle Ages, oil and grain mills settled on the banks of the rivers and streams, and since the end of the Middle Ages they have been supplemented, and in some cases replaced, by paper mills . Quarries and ore smelting were further pillars of the regional economy (→ Sireuil ). The soils of the municipalities belong to the fins bois of the Cognac wine-growing region , but as a result of the sales crisis for wine and wine products and the increasing development of agricultural areas, there is little viticulture in the municipality.

Attractions

The horse frieze under a ledge ( abri ) in the vicinity of Mouthiers-sur-Boëme is - besides the rock reliefs at Roc de Sers - the only artistic evidence of the presence of people in prehistoric times in southern Charente . In the Charente river valley there are also some megalithic tombs ( dolmen ), which are mostly poorly preserved due to the limestone slabs used ; the best preserved tomb is the Dolmen de la Boucharderie near Saint-Estèphe . Almost every community has a - usually well preserved and as historique monument recognized - Romanesque church; the largest and most important of all is the Église Saint-Cybard in Roullet , which can be seen as a scaled-down image of Angoulême Cathedral . But also the churches of Plassac, Claix, Voulgézac u. a. impress with their location and their architectural and ornamental diversity.