Grenade (Haute-Garonne)
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Grenade Granada |
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Haute-Garonne | |
| Arrondissement | Toulouse | |
| Canton | Léguevin | |
| Community association | Save Garonne and Coteaux de Cadours | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 26 ' N , 1 ° 18' E | |
| height | 97-167 m | |
| surface | 37.01 km 2 | |
| Residents | 8,847 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 239 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 31330 | |
| INSEE code | 31232 | |
_Clocher.jpg) Grenade - Notre-Dame de l'Assomption |
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Grenade ( Occitan : Granada ) is a small town in the Haute-Garonne department in the French region of Occitania .
location
Grenade is located - in an almost island-like location - between the west bank of the Garonne and the east bank of the small river Save about 27 kilometers (driving distance) in a north-westerly direction from Toulouse . It is another 30 kilometers to the city of Montauban in the north .
Population development
| year | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2017 |
| Residents | 4108 | 4540 | 4784 | 5026 | 5760 | 6681 | 8847 |
In the 19th century the place always had around 4,000 inhabitants. The increasing mechanization of agriculture in the first half of the 20th century led to a decrease in the number of inhabitants to under 3000.
economy
As the sustained population growth in recent decades shows, Grenade benefits greatly from its proximity to the city of Toulouse. Low land prices in the industrial areas ( zones industrielles ) have led to the settlement of smaller companies and thus to the creation of new jobs. Agriculture based on wheat and maize cultivation , as well as retail and handicrafts, play an ever decreasing role in the economic life of the city.
history
Grenade was founded as a bastide in 1290 from the Cistercian monastery Grandselve , which was only a few kilometers away but was destroyed during the French Revolution . The founding of the monastery and bastide of Beaumont-de-Lomagne , located 30 kilometers north-west, in the years after 1280 also goes back to initiatives by Grandselve. Both places were ruled in a coregentschaft ( paréage ) by the abbot of the monastery and by a seneschal from the king.
Little is known about possible destruction during the Hundred Years War (1337–1453) or the Huguenot Wars (1562–1598). During the Napoleonic Wars - in the run-up to the Battle of Toulouse (April 10, 1814) - the English, Spanish and Portuguese troops fighting together were quartered in Grenade.
Attractions
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See also: List of Monuments historiques in Grenade (Haute-Garonne)
- Work on the Church of Notre-Dame de l'Assomption began in 1290 but was not finished until 1376; the octagonal tower, built from bricks in the Tolosan Gothic style, was started later and was not completed until the middle of the 15th century. The tympanum field and the archivolts of the Gothic main portal are unadorned; The outer keel arch , which refers to a construction period in the late Gothic period, is interesting . There is a statue of Our Lady at the top of the Trumea pillar . The interior - in contrast to the exterior - is completely clad in sandstone and presents itself as a three-aisled hall church with a straight choir closure and a rib vault , which - without mediating capitals - seems to grow out of the total of 14 round pillars. Some of the almost entirely baroque furnishings (altarpiece, pulpit, candlestick, etc.) come from the closed Grandselve Abbey. The church has been recognized as a monument historique since 1926 .
- Several buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries have been preserved from the Ursuline convent, which was built in 1626 and, overall, resembles a factory building , as they were used as hospitals for many years during and after the revolution. They too have been recognized as Monument historique since 1988 .
- But not the churches, but the market hall ( hall ) forms the actual center of the city. In the 1990s, inspection and restoration work was carried out on the beams. Dendrochronological studies have shown that several beams of the roof truss, resting on 36 octagonal brick pillars, date from the end of the 13th century, which means that the Grenade market hall could be the largest and oldest surviving medieval structure of its kind in all of France. The hall, which is open on the sides, was opened in the 16./17. Restored in the 19th century, perhaps also enlarged and served - in addition to its main mercantile function - for centuries as a dance hall at festive events or as a weather-protected place for announcements and gatherings of all kinds. The market hall has also been recognized as a monument historique since 1979 .
- A late medieval three-arched brick bridge from the 14th century leads over the river Save . It has been recognized as a Monument historique since 1926 .
Personalities
- Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon (1754-1818), General of the Revolutionary Period
- Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès (1758–1805), conservative politician during the revolutionary period
Town twinning
- Istrana (Veneto, Italy)
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Haute-Garonne. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84234-081-7 , pp. 745-749.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Église Notre-Dame de l'Assomption, Grenade in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Couvent des Ursulines, Grenade in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ^ Halle, Grenade in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Pont sur la Save, Grenade in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)