Courgeac
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Charente | |
| Arrondissement | Angoulême | |
| Canton | Tude-et-Lavalette | |
| Community association | Lavalette Tude Dronne | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 24 ' N , 0 ° 5' E | |
| height | 74-177 m | |
| surface | 18.42 km 2 | |
| Residents | 189 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 10 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 16190 | |
| INSEE code | 16111 | |
 Courgeac - town view |
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Courgeac ( Occitan : identical) is a municipality and a town with 189 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 Courgeac is about one and a half kilometers southeast of the Charente river in the old cultural landscape of the Angoumois , part of the Charente , at an altitude of about 100 m above sea level. d. M. and is about 36 km (driving distance) in a southerly direction from the city of Angoulême .
Population development
| year | 1800 | 1851 | 1901 | 1954 | 1999 | 2013 |
| Residents | 637 | 625 | 423 | 318 | 175 | 204 |
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 former importance . Tourism also plays a not insignificant role for the economic life of the municipality in the form of renting holiday apartments ( gîtes ).
history
In the Middle Ages, the manorial rule ( seigneurie ) over Courgeac was for a long time with the Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption du Bournet Abbey, about two kilometers to the north . However, the parish church was led from the diocese of Angoulême . Almost nothing is known about the destruction during the Hundred Years War (1337–1453) and the Huguenot Wars (1562–1598).
Attractions
- The parish church of Saint-Étienne , built from roughly hewn stones, was built in the late 11th or early 12th century. The two buttresses articulated, but otherwise unadorned apse was probably in the time of the wars of religion through a chamber with bretèche ( bretèche increased). The walls of the nave are made of fist-sized, largely unhewn stones ( moellons ) and without buttresses, which indicates an early construction period. In front of the unadorned portal, a vestibule was created from precisely hewn stones that was painted with frescoes. The nave is barrel vaulted ; the apse shows blind arcades in the lower area as well as an unadorned dome vault . The church contains a Romanesque holy water font carved like a capital with an openwork base. The simple rural church building has been recognized as a monument historique since 2009 .
- outside
- About two kilometers north of the village are the ruins of the former Benedictine - and later Cistercian - Abbey of Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption du Bournet, founded by Géraud de Salles in 1113 . It was placed directly under the Holy See by Pope Pius II in 1460 , but controlled 20 years later by the Bishop of Angoulême . Set on fire by the Protestants in the 16th century and partially destroyed, but then partially rebuilt, it was finally destroyed during the French Revolution .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Courgeac - Viticulture
- ^ Eglise Saint-Étienne, Courgeac in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)