Coulonges (Charente)
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Charente | |
| Arrondissement | Confolens | |
| Canton | Boixe-et-Manslois | |
| Community association | Coeur de Charente | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 50 ′ N , 0 ° 5 ′ E | |
| height | 53-124 m | |
| surface | 3.02 km 2 | |
| Residents | 133 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 44 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 16330 | |
| INSEE code | 16108 | |
 Coulonges - Église Notre-Dame |
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Coulonges ( Occitan : identical) is a municipality and a town with 133 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the western French department of Charente in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . The community consists of several hamlets ( hameaux ) and individual farmsteads .
location
The place Coulonges is located about one and a half kilometers southeast of the Charente River in the old cultural landscape of the Angoumois at an altitude of about 90 m above sea level. d. M. and is about 25 km (driving distance) north from the city of Angoulême .
Population development
| year | 1800 | 1851 | 1901 | 1954 | 1999 | 2013 |
| Residents | 324 | 349 | 199 | 181 | 113 | 151 |
The population decline in the late 19th and first half of the 20th century is mainly due to the loss of jobs as a result of the phylloxera crisis and the increasing mechanization of agriculture .
economy
While the inhabitants of the village lived for centuries on the yields of their fields and gardens, viticulture was promoted in the late Middle Ages and early modern times , which - after the phylloxera crisis in the late 19th and early 20th centuries - did not regain its old importance . Tourism also plays a not insignificant role for the economic life of the municipality in the form of renting holiday apartments ( gîtes ).
history
Before it was broken up in the years 1307-1312, Coulonges was the seat of a commander of the Knights Templar . The local parish church was formerly part of the parish of Xambes until it became independent in 1700. Nothing is known about the destruction during the Hundred Years War (1337–1453) and the Huguenot Wars (1562–1598).
Attractions
The former Templar church, built from precisely hewn stones, probably forms the basis for today's parish church of Notre-Dame . In 1312 it came into the possession of the Order of St. John and in the 15th century it belonged to the Abbey of Saint-Amant-de-Boixe . The facade shows changes or repairs in the upper part; the pointed archivolts of the portal were renewed in the 19th century. The flat-closing apse shows three slender windows, typical of Templar churches, which tower up side by side, but half of which were walled up in later times; they are each covered by small arches with diamond rods. The vault of the church collapsed in 1865 and was renewed from lighter material.
