Genté
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Charente | |
| Arrondissement | cognac | |
| Canton | Charente-Champagne | |
| Community association | Grand Cognac | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 38 ′ N , 0 ° 19 ′ W | |
| height | 18-101 m | |
| surface | 11.59 km 2 | |
| Residents | 884 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 76 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 16130 | |
| INSEE code | 16151 | |
 Genté - Saint-Médard Church |
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Genté is a southwestern French community with 884 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Charente in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine .
location
Genté is about 65 meters above sea level. d. M. and about 8 kilometers (driving distance) south of Cognac ; the capital of the canton, Segonzac , is about 8 kilometers to the east. The double community of Salles-d'Angles, which is well worth seeing, is only 2.5 and 4.5 kilometers southwest.
Population development
| year | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2016 |
| Residents | 607 | 694 | 755 | 851 | 830 | 877 | 897 |
At the first census in France in 1793, the place had 592 inhabitants; in the middle of the 19th century there were almost 1,000. As a result of the phylloxera crisis , the population fell to around 500 to 600 at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.
economy
Agriculture and especially viticulture have always played an important role in the Charente villages. While cereals, vegetables and oilseeds ( sunflowers ) were mainly grown for their own needs, one could earn good money with the export of wine (later also brandy) to England, Scotland and other countries in Northern Europe, although the winegrowers with the less Part of the earnings had to be satisfied. Today the south bank of the Charente near Genté is part of the Grande Champagne location within the large Cognac wine-growing area.
Another important employer in the region is the Cognac-Châteaubernard military airfield on the northern edge of the municipality .
history
Small Neolithic finds were made in the area of the municipality ; Roman or Gallo-Roman things have not yet been done. As the local church shows, Genté was settled in the Middle Ages; in 1281 Guido I of Lusignan bequeathed the places Genté and Salles to his nephew Guy de Mortemer. In the 16th century the property passed to the La Rochefoucauld family. Nothing is known about the destruction during the religiously motivated conflicts between Catholics and Protestants in the 16th century; the place remained largely untouched by the events of the French Revolution .
Attractions
- The Saint-Médard church was founded in the 11th century; The choir section with its unusual gable facade, the crossing tower and the west portal, which formerly led into the church's interior with only one nave, date from the 12th century . It received its current appearance from the construction of the now three-aisled nave in the 14th century. It is quite unusual for a church building in the Charente both in terms of the facade design and because of its three-aisled Gothic nave: the stone work of the west facade looks very uniform; the portal zone consists of three arches, of which the middle one is slightly raised ( triumphal arch motif ); above is a figure frieze with mythical creatures. Another portal leads into the north aisle and shows - like the windows of the aisles - clearly Gothic forms. The massive stabilizing buttresses on the exterior are additions of the 16th century; possibly the windows of the Gothic nave were made smaller in this context. The church building was recognized as a monument historique in 1984 . Several items of equipment were also recorded as culturally significant.
- Not far from the village there is a well, the water of which flowed into several basins, which were used both as washing places ( lavoirs ) and as cattle troughs ( abreuvoirs ).
- Several farmhouses ( fermes ), the parish building ( presbytère ) and the school are also of historical importance
Individual evidence
- ↑ Église Sainte-Médard, Genté in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Église Sainte-Médard, Genté in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ^ Église Saint-Médard, inventory
- ↑ Farmhouses, parish buildings, schools, etc.
