Curemonte
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Corrèze | |
| Arrondissement | Brive-la-Gaillarde | |
| Canton | Midi Corrézien | |
| Community association | Midi Corrézien | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 0 ′ N , 1 ° 44 ′ E | |
| height | 127-360 m | |
| surface | 8.83 km 2 | |
| Residents | 209 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 24 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 19500 | |
| INSEE code | 19067 | |
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Curemonte ( Occitan Curamonta ) is a French commune in the Correze in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine on the western edge of the Massif Central . It is assigned to the canton of Midi Corrézien and the Arrondissement of Brive-la-Gaillarde .
In 1831 the formerly independent municipality of Saint-Genest was incorporated.
The village is classified as one of the Plus beaux villages de France ( Most Beautiful Villages in France ).
geography
The village with 209 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) is located on a ridge in a wooded area in the southwest corner of the Corrèze department about 100 kilometers south-southeast of Limoges and is served by the D15 departmental road .
As a geographical feature, it should be mentioned that the village is exactly on the 45th parallel and is therefore halfway between the equator and the North Pole.
The area is fertile: wine , wheat and walnut oil are produced.
history
Curemonte is first mentioned in 860. Raymond de Curemonte was a vassal of Viconte de Turenne (Vice-Count of Turenne) and accompanied him in 1096 in the First Crusade . For his services he was given the right to his own castle.
coat of arms
The municipality's coat of arms corresponds to that of the von Plas family from Curemonte. Blazon : Three red, narrow twin bars in silver, running diagonally from heraldic top right to bottom left.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 351 | 311 | 248 | 231 | 203 | 223 | 213 | 209 |
Attractions
The small town today has three castles and just as many churches. The Halle aux Grains market hall from the 19th century is also worth seeing .
Saint-Hilaire Castle
The Château de Saint-Hilaire (French château , dt. Castle) stands in the center of the castle wall and dates back to the 13th century. The rectangular, four-storey building is flanked by three towers from the 15th century. They are crowned with machicolations and covered with beaver tail tiles. The entrance gate is from the Renaissance .
The castle originally belonged to the Saint-Hilaire family, later to the Seigneur Aymard de Lostanges . In 1305 Gérald de Saint-Hilaire paid homage to the Viscount de Turenne and also brought his fief , which consisted of the parish of Lostanges , to the vice-county. On one of the towers is a lion, the coat of arms of the Lostanges dynasty. In the 16th century the castle went to Gabriel de Cardaillac . The Cardaillac family originally came from Quercy and Rouergue . Through marriage, the estate finally came into the possession of the von Plas family.
Plats Castle
The Château des Plas (also called Château de Saint-Hilaire et des Plas ) stands next to the older Saint-Hilaire Castle on the inner wall of the fortification and dates back to the 16th century. The ensemble of buildings (Saint-Hilaire Castle and Plas Castle) has been a French cultural monument since 1991 .
Originally the new building consisted of only two residential towers. In the 17th century, however, a rectangular wing was added. Above the entrance gate is a cartouche flanked by two bosses - pilasters , which shows the coat of arms of the von Plas family. Another extension dates from the same century. This is limited by two towers with large arched openings to the outside. Two other towers are part of the castle wall, one being cylindrical and the other being hexagonal.
From the 16th century onwards, Curemonte can be imagined as co-rulership of the two families Le Plas and Saint-Hilaire , with reference to Curemonte, the Saint-Hilaire family being the older generation. However, the name Plas can be traced back to the 11th century in the parish of Lostanges. The domiciles of the two families were located within the same castle wall from the 16th century and a Ganerbeburg developed . The construction of the additional castle was probably driven by Jean IV. De Plas in the years 1543–1547. He was under the kings of Louis XII. and Francis I Ambassador to Scotland . For his reliable service he was appointed Bishop of Périgueux by Francis I in 1524 . He was also a doctor of canon law at the Sorbonne in Paris. In the palace hall you can find the inscription ung Dieu, ung Roy, une Foy, une Loy (“one god, one king, one belief, one law”). This was the motto of the royalists and the Catholics at the time.
Johannie Castle
The 14th century Château de la Johannie is made up of two tall, offset blocks. The stair tower at the intersection of the two bodies serves both buildings. The castle has been a French cultural monument since 1981 because of its facade, its roof, its spiral staircase and the four chimneys inside.
The building was built by the ruling Les Jean family , who had established themselves in Curemonte in the 13th century. Jean is called Johannes in Latin , hence the name of the castle. In 1405 Hugues de la Johannie , who was a vassal of the Viscount de Turenne , inherited the fiefdom in Curemonte. Later the castle was bought by Sieur Lebrun , a Martel dealer . He gave it as a dowry to his daughter Marguerite de la Johannie , who married Pierre de Vassal , Seigneur of La Tourette , in 1460 . But the Vassal family was in debt and could not hold the property, whereupon the castle began to crumble. In the 16th century the castle was married to the d'Ambert family , who sold it to the Les Plas dynasty in 1693 .
Sacred buildings
- The characteristic of the originally Romanesque church of Saint-Barthélemy du Bourg is undoubtedly its bell gable . The furnishings include three splendid altarpieces from the 17th century. The church has been a monument historique since 1927 .
- The 11th-century church of Saint-Hilaire in the hamlet of La Combe was not only the first on site, but is one of the oldest in the Corrèze department. It was built on a foundation that probably goes back to the time of the Merovingians . This sacred building embodies a pure and original Romanesque style. The church has been a monument historique since 1970.
- The 12th century church of Saint-Genest in the hamlet of Les Granges was built by the Benedictines and was the parish church of Curemonte until the French Revolution . With the recent restoration, it has been converted into a religious art museum. The church has been a monument historique since 1971.
- The Croix de cimetière cemetery cross on the Place attenante à l'église has been a monument historique since 1912.
Interior of the Saint-Barthélemy church
Church Saint-Hilaire de la Combe
16th century house
Alley scene
Personalities
- In 1940 the Romancière Colette stayed in Curemonte and wrote her novel Journal à rebours here .
literature
- Christian Corvisier: Le castrum de Curemonte. Les maisons fortes de Plas et de Saint-Hilaire . In: Congrès archéologique de France , 163rd session, Corrèze, 2005. Société Française d'Archéologie, Paris 2007, pp. 131–155.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Curemonte on Les plus Beaux Villages de France (French)
- ^ Castle Saint-Hilaire in the French language Wikipedia
- ↑ Entry no. PA00099759 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Schloss Plats in the French language Wikipedia
- ↑ Entry no. PA00099754 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Henri Gabriel O'Gilvy, Pierre Jules and Bourrousse de Laffore: Nobiliaire de Guienne et de Gascogne, revue des familles d'ancienne . Dumoulin, Paris 1858, p. 129.
- ↑ Annick Tulasne-Moeneclaey: Châteaux de Correze . Nouvelles Éditions latines, Paris 1997, p. 19.
- ↑ Castle Johannie in French-speaking Wikipedia
- ↑ Entry no. PA00099756 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Entry no. PA00099757 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Entry no. PA00099758 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Entry no. PA00099755 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)