Eygurande

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Eygurande
Eiguranda
Eygurande coat of arms
Eygurande (France)
Eygurande
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Corrèze
Arrondissement Ussel
Canton Ussel
Community association Haute-Corrèze Communauté
Coordinates 45 ° 40 ′  N , 2 ° 27 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 40 ′  N , 2 ° 27 ′  E
height 709-904 m
surface 34.37 km 2
Residents 685 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 20 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 19340
INSEE code

Town center

Eygurande ( Eiguranda in Occitan ) is a French municipality with 685 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Correze in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine .

geography

The municipality is located in the Massif Central on the Millevaches Plateau in the Millevaches en Limousin Regional Nature Park, not far from the Chavanon , a tributary of the Dordogne .

Tulle , the prefecture of the department, is about 85 kilometers southwest, Ussel about 20 kilometers southwest and Clermont-Ferrand about 65 kilometers northeast.

Neighboring municipalities of Eygurande are Saint-Merd-la-Breuille in the north, Feyt in the north-east and east, Monestier-Merlines in the south-east, Merlines in the south, Aix in the south-west, Lamazière-Haute in the west and Saint-Oradoux-de-Chirouze in the north-west.

traffic

The place is about twelve kilometers northeast of exit 24 of the A89 autoroute . The Gare d'Eygurande-Merlines train station in Merlines , three kilometers away , has been closed since 2014.

coat of arms

Description : The coat of arms is quartered , field one in red three oblique, golden bars , field two on gold three black rafters , field three in red three gold five-pointed stars and in field four on silver a red lion and the applied heart shield is red and gold shaft .

A sign divided into red and gold in a checkered pattern is a reference to the House of Ventadour .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2016
Residents 800 805 791 827 794 779 701 683

Attractions

  • The Saint-Loup-de-Limoges church , a Romanesque sacred building from the 12th / 13th centuries. and 16th to 18th centuries, is classified as a monument historique .

Individual evidence

  1. Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / s3.e-monsite.com
  2. Entry No. IA00066899 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Web links

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