Congénies
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Gard | |
| Arrondissement | Nîmes | |
| Canton | Calvisson | |
| Community association | Pays de Sommieres | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 47 ' N , 4 ° 10' E | |
| height | 49-145 m | |
| surface | 8.64 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,668 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 193 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 30111 | |
| INSEE code | 30091 | |
 The historic town center |
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Congénies is a French commune with 1668 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Gard department in the Occitanie region . It belongs to the canton of Calvisson and the Pays de Sommières municipal association .
geography
Congénies is located in the west of the Vaunage plain and in the east of the Pays de Sommières , 29 kilometers northeast of Montpellier , 19 kilometers southwest of Nîmes , 11 kilometers northeast of Lunel and 5.7 kilometers east of the canton capital Sommières, between the neighboring communities of Calvisson in the northeast and Aubais in the southwest.
history
The place name is of Gallic origin and developed from Congenna .
Around 1769, a resident of Congénies in Great Britain converted to Quakerism and established a Quaker community in Congénies. The last Quaker in town died in 1928.
In 1793 Congénies (as Congenies ) received in the course of the French Revolution (1789-1799) the status of a municipality and in 1801 the right to local self-government.
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 441 | 473 | 496 | 596 | 903 | 1,072 | 1,542 | 1,668 |
Attractions
The medieval structure of the town center has been preserved. The huddled cluster of houses was surrounded by fortifications.
An original church Sainte-Marie was first mentioned in 1156 in a bull of Pope Hadrian IV († 1159). That building was integrated into the fortification system of the village in the 14th century. The church was looted during the Huguenot Wars (1562–1598) and repaired in the 17th century. In 1703 it was sacked and set on fire by the Camisards under the leadership of Jean Cavalier (1681–1740). In 1759 a new bell tower was built. Services were not held during the French Revolution and the church was returned to the Roman Catholic Church on August 6, 1800 . Regular services took place again from 1807. In 1949 the church was entered in the supplementary directory of the Monuments historiques (historical monuments).
The meeting house of the Quakers was built in 1822 in the classicism style and was used until 1907. The Quaker cemetery was established in the garden of the building and was in use from 1830 to 1890. During the First World War (1914-1918) the building was converted into a military hospital. It has served as a residential building since 1954.
Web links
- Private website via Congénies (French)
- Website of the Association pour la Conservation du Patrimoine de Congénies (Association for the Preservation of the Cultural Heritage of Congénies) (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Congénies on annuaire-mairie.fr (French) Retrieved February 17, 2010
- ^ Paul Fabre: Noms de lieux du Languedoc . Christine Bonneton, Paris 1995, ISBN 978-2-86253-174-8 , pp. 52 ( in Google Books [accessed February 17, 2010]). (French)
- ↑ Le Pays de Sommières - Les Villages, on the website of the Tourist Office des Pays de Sommières ( Memento des Originals of April 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French) Retrieved February 17, 2010
- ^ Congénies on Cassini.ehess.fr (French) Retrieved February 17, 2010
- ^ Congénies in Base Mérimée (French) Retrieved February 17, 2010
