Corme-Écluse
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Charente-Maritime | |
| Arrondissement | Saintes | |
| Canton | Saujon | |
| Community association | Royan Atlantique | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 38 ′ N , 0 ° 51 ′ W | |
| height | 5-33 m | |
| surface | 17.49 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,113 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 64 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 17600 | |
| INSEE code | 17119 | |
 Corme-Écluse - Notre-Dame Church |
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Corme-Écluse is a western French municipality with 1113 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Charente-Maritime in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine .
location
The place is located in the Saintonge about 27 kilometers (driving distance) southwest of Saintes or about 20 kilometers east of the Gironde estuary at Royan . The capital of the canton, Saujon , is only about 7 kilometers to the north-west; the two neighboring communities of Rétaud and Rioux are each about 15 kilometers to the northeast and east.
Population development
| year | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2016 |
| Residents | 627 | 598 | 651 | 686 | 758 | 957 | 1111 |
economy
Agriculture and viticulture have determined the economic life of the place for centuries. Since the 1980s, tourism (rental of holiday apartments) has been added as a source of income.
history
Almost nothing is known or published about the history of Corme-Écluse. However, it is said that the elaborately designed medieval church belonged to a priory of the Abbaye aux Dames in Saintes. This then formed the crystallization nucleus for the further development of the place in the following centuries.
During the German occupation of France during the Second World War, there was a field airfield used by the Luftwaffe in 1943/44 . The 4th squadron of the supplementary Jagdgruppe West was located here from the end of September 1943 to mid-January 1944 and was the base of Ju 88 the following summer after the start of the Allied invasion of Normandy . Two squadrons of Group I of Destroyer Squadron 1 were stationed here from mid-June to mid-July 1944, and the 3rd squadron of Reconnaissance Group 123 was added in the second half of June . Today there is only an ultra-light airfield south of the village.
Attractions
Notre-Dame de Corme-Écluse church
Others
- The convent building of a former Dominican monastery has not been preserved.
- To the south of the village there is a restored windmill ( Moulin de la Motte de Pons ) and a dry stone shelter ( gabirotte ).
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Charente-Maritime. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-84234-129-5 , pp. 1046-1048.
- Thorsten Droste : Poitou. Western France between Poitiers and Angoulême - the Atlantic coast from the Loire to the Gironde. DuMont-Verlag, Cologne 1999, p. 220, ISBN 3-7701-4456-2 .
