Cursan

Cursan
region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Gironde
Arrondissement	Bordeaux
Canton	Créon
Community association	Creonnais
Coordinates	44 ° 48 ′ N , 0 ° 20 ′ W Coordinates: 44 ° 48 ′ N , 0 ° 20 ′ W
height	41-109 m
surface	6.07 km 2
Residents	650 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	107 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	33670
INSEE code	33145
Website	http://www.cursan.fr/
	; Mairie (Town Hall)

Cursan is a French commune in the Gironde department in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . It belongs to the canton of Créon in the Arrondissement of Bordeaux and has 650 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).

geography

Cursan is located in southwest France in the Entre deux mers area between the Garonne and Dordogne rivers , 22 kilometers east of Bordeaux, the capital of the Aquitaine region, and 4.2 kilometers northeast of the canton capital, Créon , at an average altitude of 75 meters above sea level . The village is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Baron , La Sauve and Croignon . The municipality has an area of 6.07 square kilometers. The Gestas river flows through the municipality, it is a tributary of the Dordogne and classified as an important protected area in the Natura 2000 network .

Cursan is assigned to a climate zone of type Cfb (according to Köppen and Geiger) : warm, moderate rainy climate (C), fully humid (f), warmest month below 22 ° C, at least four months above 10 ° C (b). There is a maritime climate with a moderate summer.

history

Cursan was first mentioned in the 11th century in a document from the Abbey of La Sauve-Majeure . It was about the appointment of Ocent de Cursan as judge of the Prévôté of La Sauve by the monastery founder and saint Gérard de Sauve-Majeure (1025-1095).

In the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) the church of Cursan was damaged. In the inventory lists of the Archdiocese of Bordeaux from 1459 it was noted that the church was in ruins and would no longer bring in taxes.

In 1793, Cursan received in the course of the French Revolution (1789–1799) the status of a municipality and in 1801 through the administrative reform under Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) the right to local self-government . In 1809 the official letters from the sub-prefecture in Libourne to the municipal administration were delivered by a messenger. From 1830 there was also a delivery service for private letters for all citizens, whose headquarters were also in Libourne. In 1834 Cursan was assigned to the Arrondissement of Bordeaux. In 1870 the Saint-Jean church was destroyed and rebuilt as Saint-Michel in 1874. In 1899 a village school was built. The building also housed the Mairie ('mayor's office').

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2009	2016
Residents	184	180	162	413	451	437	474	645
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

Copy of a fresco from the Saint-Jean church

All buildings in the hamlet of Landrin date from the 17th century. The buildings in the hamlet of Gourmaud also date from the 17th century, but were rebuilt in the 20th century.

The unique 15th century frescoes in the apse of the Romanesque Saint-Jean church have been destroyed. A 16th century statue depicting the Virgin and Child has been preserved and is now in the Saint-Michel church.

literature

Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Gironde . Volume 1. Flohic Éditions, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-125-2 , pp. 653-654.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Le village de Cursan. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved October 25, 2011 (French).
↑ Fiche cours d'eau. Le Gestas (P9010500). In: Service d'Administration Nationale des Données et des Référentiels sur l'Eau (Sandre). Office international de l'eau (OIEau), accessed October 24, 2011 (French).
^ Reseau Hydrographique du Gestas. In: Le réseau Natura 2000. Ministère de l'écologie et du développement durable, accessed on October 24, 2011 (French).
^ Gerhard (Gerald) von Sauve-Majeure in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
↑ ^a ^b Cursan - notice communal. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved October 25, 2011 (French).
↑ ^a ^b Entry No. 33145 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
↑ Entry No. 33145 in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
^ Ernest Labadie (1845-1917): Société archéologique de Bordeaux (1874) . In: Société archéologique de Bordeaux (ed.): Société archéologique de Bordeaux . No. 2 . Ch. Lefebvre, Vve P.-M. Cadoret, Bordeaux 1875, p. 5 f . ( gallica.bnf.fr [accessed October 26, 2011]).

[annu-1] Le village de Cursan. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved October 25, 2011 (French).

[2] Fiche cours d'eau. Le Gestas (P9010500). In: Service d'Administration Nationale des Données et des Référentiels sur l'Eau (Sandre). Office international de l'eau (OIEau), accessed October 24, 2011 (French).

[3] Reseau Hydrographique du Gestas. In: Le réseau Natura 2000. Ministère de l'écologie et du développement durable, accessed on October 24, 2011 (French).

[4] Gerhard (Gerald) von Sauve-Majeure in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints

[cassini-5] Cursan - notice communal. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved October 25, 2011 (French).

[mérimée-6] Entry No. 33145 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

[7] Entry No. 33145 in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

[8] Ernest Labadie (1845-1917): Société archéologique de Bordeaux (1874) . In: Société archéologique de Bordeaux (ed.): Société archéologique de Bordeaux . No. 2 . Ch. Lefebvre, Vve P.-M. Cadoret, Bordeaux 1875, p. 5 f . ( gallica.bnf.fr [accessed October 26, 2011]).