Corbère

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Corbère
Corbera
Coat of arms of Corbère
Corbère (France)
Corbère
region Occitania
Department Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement Prades
Canton La Vallée de la Têt
Community association Roussillon-Conflent
Coordinates 42 ° 39 ′  N , 2 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 39 ′  N , 2 ° 40 ′  E
height 130-523 m
surface 7.25 km 2
Residents 733 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 101 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 66130
INSEE code 66055

Corbère - Donjon du Château

Corbère ( Catalan Corbera ) is a place and a municipality in the south of France with 733 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the old cultural landscape of Roussillon in what is now the Pyrénées-Orientales department in the Occitania region .

geography

Map of Corbère

location

The place Corbère is at an altitude of about 220  m above sea level. d. M. in the eastern foothills of the Pyrenees and is around 24 km (driving distance) to the west of Perpignan ; the old episcopal town of Elne is about 33 km southeast.

Population development

year 1800 1851 1901 1954 1975 1999 2012
Residents 979 1,481 616 435 421 543 717

In the middle of the 19th century the place had around 1500 inhabitants. As a result of the phylloxera crisis in viticulture and the loss of jobs due to the mechanization of agriculture , the number of inhabitants in the municipality fell continuously in the 20th century and only stabilized in the last few decades.

economy

Traditionally, the residents lived as self-sufficient food from their (wine) fields and from a little cattle-raising (sheep, goats, chickens). The wines produced in the municipality today are marketed through various appellations . Since the middle of the 20th century, there has been income from tourism in the form of renting holiday apartments ( gîtes ).

history

Celts , Romans , Visigoths and Moors left no traces on the municipality. According to local tradition, it was Charlemagne himself or his army who initiated the establishment of the village, but the first written mention of the place name dates from 1230, although a church with the patronage of Saint-Pierre was first mentioned in 1163 . The medieval houses around the castle hill were gradually abandoned in the 19th century; in 1856, the district of Corbère-les-Cabanes was officially founded.

Attractions

  • The donjon of the Château de Corbère , built on a rectangular floor plan, is an imposing building from the 12th century; it received later corps-de-logis additions. The restored and privately owned building was recognized as a Monument historique in 1974 .
  • The Romanesque chapel Saint-Pierre del Bosc , built from largely unworked rubble stones, dates from around 1100 and was the former parish church of the village. The vestibule is - as usual - compared to the 16 m long nave drawn both in height and in width; it has a window made of precisely hewn stones with a sloping reveal . The west portal made of the red marble of Villefranche-de-Conflent comes from a church that was demolished in the 19th century.
  • The new Saint-Pierre church is a 17th century building.

Web links

Commons : Corbère  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Château, Corbère in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)