Cros (Gard)

Cros
region	Occitania
Department	Gard
Arrondissement	Le Vigan
Canton	Quissac
Community association	Piémont Cévenol
Coordinates	44 ° 0 ′  N , 3 ° 50 ′  E Coordinates: 44 ° 0 ′  N , 3 ° 50 ′  E
height	178-964 m
surface	16.94 km 2
Residents	249 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	15 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	30170
INSEE code	30099
Cros - hamlet of La Mazade

St Vincent Church

Cros is a municipality with 249 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the southern French department of Gard, consisting of several hamlets (hameaux) and individual farmsteads .

location

Cros is located on the upper reaches of the Vidourle approx. 20 km (driving distance) northwest of the canton capital Quissac in the southern foothills of the Cevennes at an altitude of approx. 250 m above sea level. d. M. The closest major city is Montpellier (approx. 58 km south). The climate is temperate; Rain falls throughout the year.

Population development

year	1800	1851	1901	1954	1999	2017
Residents	1.010	904	646	323	213	249

The continuous decline in the number of inhabitants since the middle of the 19th century is essentially due to the mechanization of agriculture and the associated loss of jobs. In addition, almost all mountain regions in France depopulated in favor of the cities in the valleys.

economy

For centuries, the residents of the community lived on a self-sufficient basis by farming and raising livestock (sheep, goats). In the 19th century, several mechanical wool and silk spinning mills were built in the Vidourle valley and its tributaries. Today forestry and tourism are important.

history

In the hamlet of Cros , the diocese of Nîmes built a priory around the year 1200 ; the other hamlets all seem to be more recent. The entire area on the southern edge of the Cevennes became Protestant in the 16th century and has remained so to this day.

Attractions

• The former Romanesque priory church of St Vincent ( 43 ° 59 ′ 14 ″  N , 3 ° 50 ′ 14 ″  E ) was built around the year 1200; Irregularly cut rubble stones were used to build them . The single-nave unadorned and tower-free building has only two barrel-vaulted yokes stabilized by buttresses and a significantly lower semicircular apse that is undivided inside and out , which shows a - largely destroyed - round arch frieze below the eaves on the outside . The church was declared a monument historique in 1961 and was thoroughly restored in 2012.
• The Protestant church ( temple ), built in the early 19th century, underwent a thorough restoration in 2010.
• A mill built in 1823 was converted into a silk mill in 1837. It has been entered in the inventory of the Monuments historiques since 1995 .
• In the same year, two former silk mills were added to the inventory list of the Monuments historiques . Both buildings now serve as residential buildings.

Web links

Commons : Cros  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cros - map with altitude information
2. ↑ Quissac / Cros - climate tables
3. ↑ Cros - Église Saint-Vincent in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
4. ↑ Cros - Moulin et Filature in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
5. ↑ Cros - Filature de Soie Perrier in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
6. ↑ Cros - Filature de Soie Daudé in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)