Fleuriel

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Fleuriel
Fleuriel (France)
Fleuriel
region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department Allier
Arrondissement Moulins
Canton Gannat
Community association Saint-Pourçain Sioule Limagne
Coordinates 46 ° 17 '  N , 3 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 17 '  N , 3 ° 11'  E
height 255-446 m
surface 28.05 km 2
Residents 335 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 12 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 03140
INSEE code 03115
Website Fleuriel

Church of Our Lady

Fleuriel is a central French town and municipality ( commune ) with 335 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Allier department in the north of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region .

location

The place Fleuriel is located in the fertile and wooded landscape of the Bourbonnais at an altitude of about 370 meters above sea level. d. M. The city of Moulins is about 42 kilometers (driving distance) to the northeast; the city of Clermont-Ferrand is about 73 kilometers south. The municipality owns several hamlets ( hamlets ) and individual farms.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2012
Residents 527 429 335 330 330 311 360 342

In the 19th century the number of inhabitants rose from around 600 to over 1000 at times; Due to the phylloxera crisis in viticulture and the mechanization of agriculture , the number of inhabitants in the municipality then fell continuously to the lows of the last few decades.

economy

For centuries, the inhabitants of Fleuriel lived as self-sufficient farmers from agriculture, which also included viticulture; in addition there were regional retail trade and handicrafts. During the phylloxera crisis at the end of the 19th century, viticulture came to a complete standstill, but red, rosé and white wines are now being produced again and are marketed through the appellations ' Saint-Pourçain ' and 'Val de Loire' . Due to the improved infrastructure conditions, the agricultural products - often still on fields ( bocages ) that are fenced off by hedges - have been sold nationwide since about the middle of the 20th century. Some of the vacant houses in the village have been converted into holiday apartments ( gîtes ).

history

Little is known about the history of the place. In a medieval document it was called Floriacum , which could indicate a Gallo-Roman origin. It was possibly due to a little-known and - due to the lack of scallops and other references - poorly documented branch line of the Camino de Santiago ( Chemin de Saint-Jacques en Bourbonnais ), that from Vézelay via Sançoins , Saint-Menoux , Souvigny , Charroux and Mozac to Clermont, and later merged with one of the main routes ( Via Lemovicensis or Via Podiensis ). In the 12th century the church and with it the place belonged for a time to the sphere of influence of the Benedictine Abbey of Tournus in Burgundy .

Attractions

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Fleuriel

The former priory church and today's parish church of Notre-Dame is a 12th century building influenced by Burgundian art, which is primarily referred to by the two portal walls and the capitals inside the church. The archivolt portal , which protrudes slightly from the structure, is multi-stepped and profiled in a variety of ways , shows set columns , the capitals of which are adorned with fantastic animal figures and tendrils , as well as two outer pilasters with canals , as they are characteristic of the Burgundian architecture of the time. The upper end of the portal zone with a turned-looking bar ornament and a figurative console frieze , the intermediate fields of which are richly decorated with various star and flower motifs, is remarkable ; there is also a meander frieze at the top . The unadorned tympanum field is gable-shaped; the multi-pass window in the gable is enclosed by a richly profiled multi-pass frame that is staggered several times in depth. The three-aisled interior of the church shows a barrel vault with belt arch girders in the central nave and groin vaults in the aisle yokes. The capitals inside repeat the variety of forms of the portal; however, one shows a person seated and leaning on a staff, commonly interpreted as James the Elder ( Saint-Jacques ). The building was recognized as a Monument historique in 1954 .

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de l'Allier. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-053-1 , pp. 107-109.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Église Notre-Dame, Fleuriel in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)