Corn (Lot)
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Lot | |
| Arrondissement | Figeac | |
| Canton | Figeac-1 | |
| Community association | Grand Figeac | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 37 ′ N , 1 ° 54 ′ E | |
| height | 163-424 m | |
| surface | 15.26 km 2 | |
| Residents | 227 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 15 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 46100 | |
| INSEE code | 46075 | |
| Website | http://www.commune-de-corn.fr | |
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Corn is a French commune with 227 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Lot department in the Occitanie region (before 2016: Midi-Pyrénées ). The municipality belongs to the arrondissement Figeac and the canton Figeac-1 (until 2015: canton Livernon ).
According to Cassagne, the name of the community is probably derived from the ancient Celtic kor or karn ( German hill, rock spike ). The word kor can be assigned to the proto-Indo-European root kar- ( German stone, rock ). Other theories see the name as a derivation of the Latin cornu ( German Horn ) or as a reference to a forest of dogwoods ( French cornouiller ). The current name is relatively young. Until the 13th century the village was called "Béduer de Bedorio" and "Corn" was the name of the castle.
The inhabitants are called Cornicquois and Cornicquoises .
geography
Corn is located approximately eleven kilometers west of Figeac in its catchment area ( Aire urbaine ) in the historic province of Quercy .
The territory of the municipality is located in the Causses du Quercy Regional Nature Park .
Corn is surrounded by the seven neighboring communities:
| Livernon | Reyrevignes | Cambes |
| Grèzes |
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Boussac |
| Espagnac-Sainte-Eulalie | Béduer |
Corn lies in the catchment area of the Garonne River . The Célé , a tributary of the Lot , crosses the municipality in loops.
history
The village of Saint-Laurent is believed to be the origin of today's municipality. The parish with a church, of which only remnants can be found today, was under the Barasc family until it was sold to the Seigneurs of Cardaillac . During the Hundred Years War , the parish church was destroyed by English troops in 1371 .
During the French Revolution , the municipality of Roquefort was incorporated into what was for a time Corn et Roquefort.
Population development
After records began, the population rose to a peak of 810 in the first half of the 19th century. In the following period, the size of the community fell to around 1,555 inhabitants during short recovery phases until the 1980s, before a phase of growth set in at the turn of the millennium that continues to this day.
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 201 | 210 | 169 | 157 | 163 | 157 | 193 | 197 | 227 |
Attractions
Goudou Castle
The Goudous, who had the status of knights , was mentioned in the 12th century in the copial book of the Cistercian monastery Obazine in today's Corrèze department . A Guillaume de Goudou was appointed Vice Chancellor of the Kingdom of Sicily in the 14th century , then Archbishop of Salerno . In the first half of the 15th century the lordship went to the Garnet family, then to the Lentillac family via a marriage between Jeanne de Garnet and Gabriel de Lentillac in 1544 and finally to the Corn and Lostange-Béduer families via a marriage and inheritance who were the landlords of Goudou until the French Revolution .
The 14th century tower is the focal point of buildings older than the 19th century. This also includes the two wings that frame the tower. Changes were made at the end of the 15th or the beginning of the 16th century, but extensive work was done especially in the 17th century. After the revolution, the castle was sold and a new residential wing was added in the south around 1880. In the process, all the galleries that had lined the entire upper part were torn down.
The castle was built on a rocky outcrop, partly on terraced ground, above the Célé valley. The facade of the residential building from the end of the 19th century is oriented south towards the courtyard. The western wing next to the tower is made of cut stone , the tower itself is made of ashlar . Its basement is accessible on the north side via an arched entrance. The east wing preserved an entrance with supporting stones and above it a lancet-shaped window opening that is now walled up.
Roquefort Castle
At the beginning of the 15th century, Roquefort was believed to be owned by Pierre de Grammont, who died before 1427. His widow Delphine Othon bequeathed all of her property to her Son Bertrand from her second marriage to Guillaume de Lascazes (or Las Cases), who came from Languedoc , in 1470 . In 1504 Dorde de Lascazes became Seigneur of Roquefort with full jurisdiction, house, garden, vineyard and mill. The Lascazes family kept this property until it was sold in 1736 to Jacques Delfau, Seigneur de Bouillac, treasurer of France of the Généralité de Montauban .
The castle has preserved two battlements , which are probably remnants of the first castle from the 11th century. A cross notch with two horizontal slits in a square tower testifies to building activity in the 14th century. The shape of the windows suggests that it was made into a stair tower at the end of the 15th century. Today there are no traces of a four-storey tower that Déodat de Lascazes had built in 1520. Today's buildings are essentially the result of construction work in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The lancet window, which replaced an earlier window from the 18th century, is one of the most recent of these works.
The castle was built on the banks of the Célé at the foot of a steep wall. The residential building, located on Landstrasse, is a large three-story building with wings protruding at right angles. The southern wing is built on a group of buildings that also includes the square tower made of ashlar with a circumferential hurdle . The two transverse floor windows of the building to the east were created at the same time as the stairs. They have rounded frames with crossed bars at the corners or keel arches on the lintel . At the north-western corner of the castle, a large rock served as the foundation of a building, of which only the two battlement-reinforced walls remain.
Former castle
The Corn family has been on record since the beginning of the 13th century. They form a branch of the Barasc family, the Seigneurs von Béduer. The two families formed a common manor over Corn in the 13th century. During the Hundred Years War , Corn was one of the territories repurchased by the Count of Armagnac . But the captain of the English troops, Bertrand de Basserat, had trenches dug and fortifications built in 1380. In 1504 the nobleman Sancho de Corn, Seigneur von Anglars , Jean de Béduer and the doyen of Figeac each jointly held a third of the manor, including all jurisdictions.
The remnants of the former castle in the center of today's municipality date from the 13th or 14th century and can be found in the retaining walls of the garden, looped walls and in the facades of the house that now occupies part of the castle complex. The keep , known from photographs, was demolished in the 1960s. Its foundation is still present on the edge and under the garden.
Mandens mansion
The history of Maudens is poorly documented. The place belonged to François de Cayron, a citizen from Figeac, in the 16th century, and the "castle" was attacked by Protestant troops under Captain Mausse during the Huguenot Wars . An understanding was opened to avoid being shot by the field snakes that were placed in front of the building. The attackers withdrew in exchange for the delivery of wheat and 200 Écu . The windows, some of which have been preserved on the back wall of the building, allow the construction of the manor to be dated to the 17th century. Likewise, the dovecote on the west side could have originated at the same time. The south facade was largely or completely renovated in the 18th century.
Megaliths
In the territory of the municipality there are several locations of megaliths , including:
- the two menhirs at Le Suquet.
The slender Menhir du Suquet stands next to a derelict building on Le Suquet farm, west of Corn. The menhir is about 2.7 m high, 0.4 m wide and thick. A much smaller menhir stands nearby.
- the dolmen Le Pech d'Arsou,
- the dolmen Auriac and
- the dolmen Peyrelongue.
- Dolmen in Corn
Dolmen Le Pech d'Arsou
Dolmen Auriac
Dolmen Peyrelongue
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Economy and Infrastructure
Blue cheese Bleu des Causses
Rocamadour cheese
Corn is in the AOC zones
- the blue cheese Bleu des Causses ,
- des Rocamadour , a cheese made from goat's milk and
- of the Périgord nut oil .
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sport and freetime
The GR 651 long-distance hiking trail also leads through the center of Corn. It is an alternative route to the Via Podiensis , one of the four Camino de Santiago in France.
traffic
Corn can be reached via routes départementales 41, 113 and 802.
See also
literature
Jean Clottes: Inventaire des mégalithes de la France, 5 lot. Supplément à Gallia préhistoire, Éditions du CNRS, 1977, ISBN 2-222-01945-1 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Jean-Marie Cassagne: Villes et Villages en pays lotois ( fr ) Tertium éditions. Pp. 84, 85. 2013. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
- ↑ Lot ( fr ) habitants.fr. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
- ↑ Aire urbaine de Figeac (223) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved June 26, 2019.
- ^ Ma commune: Corn ( fr ) Système d'Information sur l'Eau du Bassin Adour Garonne. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
- ↑ Gilles Séraphin, Maurice SCELLES, Anne-Marie Pêcheur: église paroissiale Saint-Laurent ( fr ) Départemental Lot. October 3, 2013. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
- ↑ a b Notice Communale Corn ( fr ) EHESS . Retrieved June 26, 2019.
- ↑ Populations légales 2016 Commune de Corn (46075) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved June 26, 2019.
- ↑ Gilles Séraphin, Maurice SCELLES: château ( fr ) Départemental Lot. January 2, 2015. Accessed July 4, 2019.
- ↑ Gilles Séraphin, Maurice SCELLES: château ( fr ) Départemental Lot. January 2, 2015. Accessed July 4, 2019.
- ↑ Gilles Séraphin, Maurice Scellés: Châteaufort, actuellement Maison ( fr ) Départemental Lot. January 2, 2015. Accessed July 4, 2019.
- ↑ Gilles Séraphin, Maurice Scellès: demeure ( fr ) Départementrat Lot. September 10, 2013. Accessed July 4, 2019.
- ↑ Manoir de Mandens ( fr ) chateau-fort-manoir-chateau.eu. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
- ↑ Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité: Rechercher un produit ( fr ) Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité . Retrieved June 26, 2019.
- ↑ Caractéristiques des établissements en 2015 Commune de Corn (46075) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved June 26, 2019.
- ↑ L'alternative par la vallée du Célé ( fr ) Agence de Coopération Interrégionale et Réseau “Chemins de Saint-Jacques de Compostelle”. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
