Faux (Dordogne)

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Faux
Faux (France)
Faux
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Dordogne
Arrondissement Bergerac
Canton Sud-Bergeracois
Community association Communes de Portes Sud Périgord
Coordinates 44 ° 47 '  N , 0 ° 39'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 47 '  N , 0 ° 39'  E
height 67-172 m
surface 16.07 km 2
Residents 630 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 39 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 24560
INSEE code 24177

Faux Town Hall

Faux is a French municipality with 630 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Dordogne in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine (before 2016: Aquitaine ). The municipality belongs to the Arrondissement Bergerac and the canton Sud-Bergeracois (until 2015: canton Issigeac ).

The name in the Occitan language is Faus ( German  Buchen ) and goes back to the Latin “fagea” ( German  Buchenwald ).

The inhabitants are called Fallois and Falloises or Fauxois and Fauxoises .

geography

Faux is located about 15 km south-east in the catchment area ( Aire urbaine ) of Bergerac in the Bergeracois region of the historic province of Périgord .

Faux is surrounded by the neighboring communities:

Verdon
Lanquais
Saint-Aubin-de-Lanquais Neighboring communities Monsac
Monmadalès
Montaut

Faux lies in the catchment area of ​​the Dordogne river .

Tributaries of the Dordogne cross the territory of the municipality:

  • the Couzeau,
  • the Couillou which springs in Faux and
  • the Conne.
House in the center of Faux
Bell tower of the parish church

history

As in almost all municipalities in the region, weapons and tools from prehistory were also unearthed during excavations in Faux a few years ago. a. polished axes , grooves , knives, scratches , arrows . Celtic monuments in the form of three dolmens can still be found in several places on the territory of the municipality , a fourth has disappeared since the 1950s. There is also an artificial cave from this era in Faux. Some hamlets of the municipality, z. B. La Genèbre, La Barde, La Robertie or La Jasse, possibly date from the Roman period. By plowing the fields near the hamlet of Le Buth, fragments of thick red roof tiles sometimes come to light, as are characteristic of Roman productions. In the vicinity of the hamlet of La Genèbre there is an old cemetery from early Merovingian times, where numerous graves are provided with stone coffins. Faux lies at the intersection of two country roads, one from Bergerac to Beaumontois en Périgord , the other from Lalinde to Issigeac . Located on a hill, Faux held a noble seat in the Middle Ages and was under the Sénéchaussée of Sarlat . The judicial district included the entire parish and parts of Verdon. In the 16th century a priory was established with St. Saturninus as patron saint . The castle, built in the 18th century, is the sole residence of a seigneur in Faux, but there are no traces of a castle .

Toponymy

Toponyms and mentions of faux were:

  • Faus and Faurs (1283 and 1390 respectively, common rights of Beaumont),
  • Eccl. Sancti Saturnini (1555, shield of the dioceses of Périgueux and Sarlat ),
  • Faux (1750, 1793 and 1801, map by Cassini , Notice Communale and Bulletin des Lois, respectively ).

Population development

After records began, the population rose in the mid-19th century to a peak of 945. In the following period, the size of the community decreased with brief recovery periods until the 1950s to 410 inhabitants before a period of growth began until the 1980s which raised the population to a relative high of around 615. A phase of stagnation set in until the turn of the millennium, followed by another phase of growth that continues to this day.

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2010 2017
Residents 436 514 612 617 586 536 562 583 630
From 1962 official figures without residents with a second residence
Sources: EHESS / Cassini until 2006, INSEE from 2010

Attractions

Parish Church of Saint-Saturnin

Parish Church of Saint-Saturnin

The first church was built in 1555, but the current church was built in 1856 by architects Abadie and Biras on the foundations of the previous structure. The bell tower of the neo-Byzantine church was rebuilt in 1886.

Faux Castle

Faux Castle

The castle may have been built in the 18th century on the foundations of an earlier building. It is located in the center of the parish near the parish church and consists of a residential wing flanked by a round tower. Its multi-sided roofs are decorated with gables. Several families took turns in ownership of the castle, the Larlandie family, the du Repaire family and then the Latour family. The castle is privately owned and is not open to the public.

Dolmen Bourdil

It is not far from the road that leads from the center of the municipality to the hamlet of la Micalie. The capstone has an irregular shape and measures over two meters in length, over one meter in width and about 1.5 m thick. All stone blocks are roughly hewn and consist of limestone , the rock that is also found in the subsoil of the site. The capstone once slipped over the northern orthostats , which it crushed in the process. The remaining four orthostats have an irregular shape.

Dolmen Campguilem

This dolmen is located on a former vineyard property at the entrance to the winery not far from the country road that leads from the center of the municipality to Saint-Cernin-de-Labarde . The capstone measures 2.80 m in the east-west extension, 2.20 m in the north-south extension with a maximum thickness of 2 m. It is made of pebbly limestone like two of its five orthostats, while the remaining three are made of limestone. The capstone on this dolmen has overturned, exposing an opening that is supported by two orthostats. Earthworks and the creation of a parking lot have partially covered the dolmen with earth.

Economy and Infrastructure

In September 2017, a photovoltaic system with an area of ​​16 hectares was inaugurated in Faux on the property of a former target shooting facility and a racetrack that was abandoned in 2009 . It is the first solar power system in the department. The company Urbasolar from Montpellier invested 14.5 million euros in the system, the annual production of which is expected to be 13,733 MWh, the needs of around 5,000 households.

Active workplaces by industry on December 31, 2015
total = 60

sport and freetime

  • The Boucle de Faux circular route is 7.6 km long with a difference in altitude of 83 m. It leads from the center through the area of ​​the municipality over wooded terrain with great biodiversity.
  • The Boucle de Falloise - Faux circular route is 16.9 km long and has an altitude difference of 100 m. It leads from the center through the area of ​​the municipality u. a. past the dolmens Bourdil and Campguilem.
  • The equestrian center and Poyclub La Métairie du Roc offers on an area of ​​50 hectares u. a. various riding courses and training courses and rides. In addition, the business is an educational farm.

traffic

The Route départementale 19 connects Faux in the West about Saint-Aubin-de-Lanquais with Bergerac, s in the southeast with Beaumontois Périgord about Naussannes . Route départementale 22 connects the municipality in the north via Lanquais with Lalinde, in the south Issigeac via Montaut. Route départementale 27 leads to Monsac in the east, route départementale 36 to Verdon in the north.

Albert Guillaume, around 1900 Advertising poster
Albert Guillaume, around 1900
Advertising poster

Personalities

  • Adrien Lemaître, born on March 30, 1863 in Rouen , died on January 12, 1944 in Bergerac, was a French painter. In 1930 he retired to faux, his final resting place is in the cemetery of Faux.
  • Georges Faugère, born on December 27, 1869 in Fonroque , died on August 20, 1936 in Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais) , was a doctor and French politician and mayor of Faux from May 1904 to December 1918 and again from May 1929 until August 1936.

Web links

Commons : Faux  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le nom occitan des communes du Périgord ( fr ) Départementrat des Dordogne. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Faux ( fr ) Conseil régional d'Aquitaine. Archived from the original on September 9, 2016. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  3. ↑ Dordogne ( fr ) habitants.fr. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  4. ↑ Aire urbaine de Bergerac (109) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  5. ↑ Ma commune: Faux ( fr ) Système d'Information sur l'Eau du Bassin Adour Garonne. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  6. ^ Mairie de Faux ( fr ) Pays de Bergerac Tourisme. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  7. ↑ a b c Faux au Néolithique ( fr , PDF) February 17, 2013. Accessed November 2, 2018.
  8. ^ Paul Vicomte de Gourgues: Dictionnaire topographique du département de la Dordogne ( fr ) In: Dictionnaire topographique de la France . Imprimerie nationale. P. 116, 1873. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  9. ^ France 1750 ( en ) David Rumsey Map Collection: Cartography Associates. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  10. ↑ a b Notice Communale Faux ( fr ) EHESS . Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  11. ↑ Populations légales 2015 Commune de Faux (24177) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  12. ^ Eglise Saint-Saturnin ( fr ) Observatoire du patrimoine religieux. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  13. ↑ Château de Faux ( fr ) chateau-fort-manoir-chateau.eu. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  14. ↑ Michel Moriton: Un Dolmen Inconnu, en Dordogne. Le Dolmen du Bourdil, à Faux (Arrondissement de Bergerac) ( fr ) In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française . Persée. 1928. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  15. ^ Daniel Bozec: Faux (24): un parc photovoltaïque sur l'ancien circuit automobile ( fr ) Sud Ouest . September 14, 2017. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  16. ↑ Caractéristiques des établissements en 2015 Commune de Faux (24177) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  17. ↑ GR6 - Randonnée de Ste Foy-la-Grande (Gironde) à Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil (Dordogne) ( fr ) gr-infos.com. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  18. ^ Boucle de Faux ( fr ) Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN). August 1, 2018. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  19. ↑ Boucle de Falloise - Faux ( fr ) Institut national de l'information geographique et forestière (IGN). August 1, 2018. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  20. ↑ Center équestre La Métairie du Roc ( fr ) Equestrian Center La Métairie du Roc . Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  21. ^ Albert Guillaume (1873-1942) ( fr ) Bibliothèque nationale de France . Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  22. ^ Adrien Lemaître ( fr ) chronobio.com. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  23. ↑ Georges Faugère (1869-1936) ( fr ) Bibliothèque nationale de France . Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  24. ↑ Les anciens Maires de Faux ( fr ) Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved November 2, 2018.