Courcôme (Courcôme)

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Courcôme
Courcôme (France)
Courcôme
local community Courcôme
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Charente
Arrondissement Confolens
Coordinates 45 ° 59 ′  N , 0 ° 8 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 59 ′  N , 0 ° 8 ′  E
Post Code 16240
Former INSEE code 16110
Incorporation 1st January 2019
status Commune déléguée

Courcôme is a village and a former French community with 392 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Charente in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine (before 2016: Poitou-Charentes ).

With effect from January 1, 2019, the former municipalities of Courcôme , Villegats and Tuzie were merged to form the Commune nouvelle Courcôme of the same name and have the status of a Commune déléguée in the new municipality . The administrative headquarters are in Courcôme.

location

The place is located about 47 kilometers (driving distance) north of the city of Angoulême ; It is around 75 kilometers to Poitiers in a north-easterly direction.

Neighboring towns are Raix in the northwest, La Faye in the north, Villegats in the east, Tuzie in the southeast, Charmé in the south, Bessé in the southwest, Souvigné in the west.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2008 2015
Residents 485 445 395 394 391 421 429 418

history

The area was inhabited as early as the Neolithic ; Celtic , Roman or Gallo-Roman finds have not yet been made. The area formerly part of the historical province of Poitou was annexed by the Counts of Angoulême in the 11th or 12th century . The church, built in the 12th century, seems to have belonged to a priory . Nothing is known about the destruction during the Hundred Years War (1337–1453) or the Huguenot Wars (1562–1598).

Attractions

Cemetery chapel
Dolmen de Magné
  • The former priory church and today's parish church of Notre-Dame is an imposing, single-nave building made of stone from the late 11th and early 12th centuries with an elongated choir with a richly structured apse , a similarly structured crossing tower , a transept two apses and a representative portal design in the form of a triumphal arch scheme on the west side. With the exception of the console frieze above the portal zone, there are no figurative decorative elements. In the 15th century, a side aisle covered with an open roof structure was added to the south side of the church , the outer wall of which is stabilized by powerful buttresses . The barrel-vaulted nave is structured by belt arches and blind arcades; Under the crossing tower is an octagonal dome , the corners of which are supported by trumpets . The central apse, divided by exposed windows with inserted columns, shows the usual dome vault ; the side apses, however, are not structured. The half-columns of the nave end in Romanesque capitals . Church construction has been recognized as a monument historique since 1881 .
  • The simple, but also made of stone, cemetery chapel dates from the 17th century; their roof is covered with stone shingles ( lauzes ), which interlock in the ridge . The rear window was walled up. The chapel has been recognized as a monument historique since 1979 .
  • A cross stands on a cubic plinth above a round stepped base in the cemetery, which can be described as both a cemetery cross ( croix cimetière ) and a Hosanna cross ( croix hosannière ).

outside

Web links

Commons : Courcôme (commune déléguée)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Decree of the Prefecture No. 16-2018-12-19-005 on the creation of the Courcôme nouvelle commune of December 19, 2018.
  2. ↑ Église Notre-Dame, Courcôme in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  3. ↑ Chapelle Saint-Antoine du cimetière, Courcôme in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  4. ↑ Dolmens de Magnez, Courcôme in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)