Jau-Dignac-et-Loirac

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Jau-Dignac-et-Loirac
Coat of arms of Jau-Dignac-et-Loirac
Jau-Dignac-et-Loirac (France)
Jau-Dignac-et-Loirac
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Gironde
Arrondissement Lesparre-Médoc
Canton Le Nord-Médoc
Community association Médoc Atlantique
Coordinates 45 ° 24 ′  N , 0 ° 58 ′  W Coordinates: 45 ° 24 ′  N , 0 ° 58 ′  W
height 0-14 m
surface 41.23 km 2
Residents 973 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 24 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 33590
INSEE code

Lighthouse on the Gironde

Jau-Dignac-et-Loirac is a commune in the Gironde department in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . It is located in the Arrondissement of Lesparre-Médoc and borders the Gironde on the northeast bank . The place consists of the three sub-places lying in a triangular shape and is three kilometers away from the river. It has 973 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) and with 24 inh. / Km² is one of the most sparsely populated areas in the department. Jau-Dignac-et-Loirac is located about 80 kilometers northwest of Bordeaux and about ten kilometers southeast of the Gironde estuary at Le Verdon-sur-Mer .

history

Shrimp fishermen between the lighthouse and the Gironde estuary

The country had already been settled in Roman times, as the excavations at La Chapelle Saint-Siméon show. Over the centuries the land was washed away by ebb and flow. Only when a flood dam was built at the beginning of the 19th century made the area arable again. Jau-Dignac-et-Loirac lies on marshland that was removed from the Gironde estuary by building a dam. Polders with their typical drainage ditches shape the landscape. Only the flood of March 1937 broke the dam and flooded parts of the community.

The originally independent villages Jau, Dignac and Loirac had merged in 1851. The landmark of the place is the sandstone, 18 meter high lighthouse Phare de Richard . The piers with the shrimp fishermen below the lighthouse are also characteristic. The municipality belongs to the Médoc (Bas-Médoc). As far as the excessively moist soil conditions allow, viticulture is practiced to a lesser extent on fewer than 20 farms . About a kilometer above the lighthouse there is a small fishing port at a widened drainage ditch.

Population development

The population had risen continuously to 1275 until 1929 and has since decreased again.

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2017
Residents 872 909 808 803 836 866 978 973

Attractions

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Gironde. Flohic Éditions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-125-2 , pp. 1424-1426.
  • Roger Chaillot: Petite Histoire de Jau-Dignac-Loirac. Chaillot, Libourne 1973, OCLC 3397118 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

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