Jumilhac-le-Grand

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Jumilhac-le-Grand
Coat of arms of Jumilhac-le-Grand
Jumilhac-le-Grand (France)
Jumilhac-le-Grand
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Dordogne
Arrondissement Nontron
Canton Thiviers
Community association Périgord-Limousin
Coordinates 45 ° 30 ′  N , 1 ° 4 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 30 ′  N , 1 ° 4 ′  E
height 186-442 m
surface 66.67 km 2
Residents 1,237 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 19 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 24630
INSEE code 24218

Castle of Jumilhac-le-Grand

Jumilhac-le-Grand , in Occitan Jumilhac lu Grand , is a French commune with 1237 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the northeast of the Dordogne department , Aquitaine region . It is an integral part of the Périgord-Limousin Regional Nature Park .

geography

Jumilhac-le-Grand is 14 kilometers northeast of Thiviers and eleven kilometers west-southwest of Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche (as the crow flies). The municipality is border municipality to the Haute-Vienne department . It is surrounded by the following neighboring communities:

In addition to the town center, the community consists of the following hamlets, farmsteads, mills and a castle: Auzeillas , Belair , Bione , Bourdoux , Bretenoux , Chaban , Chalusset , Château de Jumilhac , Combeyrol , Combrin , Faneix , Faye de Port , Garlandie , Grand Seignat , Gravier , Janiat , La Bouchemoussie , La Farge , La Faye , La Forêt Jeune , La Grande Borne , La Grange , La Jarousse , La Lande du Mas , La Lande de Prunoux , La Mouthe , La Perdicie , La Peyrière , La Pouyade de Vaux , La Robertie , La Tour , La Vacherie , Lachereau , Latrade , Le Bitour , Le Bost , Le Châtaignier du Guet , Le Cheyroux , Le Cros , Le Grand Gollier , Le Mas , Le Moulin de Fouilloux , Le Moulin de Loule , Le Queyroi , Le Rat , Les Feynières , Les Fouilloux , Les Perinches , Les Trois Bornes , Les Valades , Les Vignes de Chalusset , Livier , Marsaud , Moulin de la Vergne , Piaulet , Pontroy , Prends-y-Garde , Puygers , Rhue , Rouledie , Sevey (Seveix) , Teyssonnière , Vaux , Veyrinas , Vialette , Vialle , V ignes du Bac and Villesanges .

The main floodwater is the Isle , which drains the municipality of Jumilhac-le-Grand roughly in the middle in a generally south-westerly direction. At the northern border it takes in the Ruisseau le Galet coming from the north as a right side stream . Downstream, not far north of the town center, the Périgord, coming from the northwest, flows into the Isle . In the south, the community extends to the Roulet, which runs roughly parallel to the Isle (or its extension, the Ruisseau de Layaud ), the border river to the Sarlande. In the west, Jumilhac-le-Grand reaches the Rochille , a left tributary of the Valouse, which flows south at Marsaud .

The topographically lowest point in the municipality with 186 meters is on the southwest border near Combeyrol ; here the Isle leaves the community in a south-westerly direction. The highest point at 442 meters is in the east at Grand Seignat near the border with Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche.

geology

The municipality of Jumilhac-le-Grand lies entirely on the metamorphic basement of the northwestern Massif Central . The surrounding rocks form part of the lower gneiss cover , mainly mica schist , paragneiss , mica schistige paragneiss and medium-grain leptynite ; The latter form the Arch of Saint-Yrieix and the Arch of Sarlande . The mica schist originated from argilites , the paragneiss is likely to originate from late Neoproterozoic Grauwacken and more clayey parent rocks. The granitic leptynites are assigned to the Ordovician .

Associated with the mica-schistigen paragneiss is a southeast-striking mica slate band near La Farge as well as several smaller apophyses of the muscovite- bearing Bourneix granite along the valleys of the Isle and the Périgord. Furthermore, several isolated amphibolite deposits with epidote or garnet can be found in the mica schists and in their vicinity . The mica schists reappear along the southern border near Combeyrol , but at this point they strike northeast. In addition, the community here just touches the ultra- basic Sarrazac massif with smaller isolated serpentinite deposits , serpentinized peridotite and metagabbro bodies (former oceanic crustal material ). This massif is cut off to the west by Combeyrol at a north-south trending, partly cataclasmic fault zone .

The metamorphic rocks have everywhere reached the grade of the staurolite zone , but can also be more metamorphic ( thistle and sillimanite zone ), especially in the north of the municipality near the intrusions of the Bourneix granite.

The foliation generally strikes northeast-southwest in the western part of the municipality, but turns in the northeast to southeast direction. This structurally created a synform , the so-called Jumilhac synform .

The basement rocks are covered in places on the ridges between the rivers by Pleistocene alterites , usually colluvium of fluvial origin. Two larger tongues of river sediments have survived at La Forêt Jeune and Les Trois Bornes , possibly dating back to the Pliocene . The gravel consists of up to 30 cm large quartz pebbles, embedded in a sand matrix.

In terms of natural resources and minerals , the gold deposits at Les Fouilloux , which have been mined since the 3rd century BC, are to be mentioned above all . They are tied to a north-northeast trending corridor within the mica-schistigen paragneiss, not far from one of the intrusions of the Bourneix granite. A little further south near Sevey , a similarly oriented pegmatite dike was mined on kaolin . Both courses are related to the large gold-bearing course from Bourneix (Haute-Vienne). In the dolomitic breccia of Combeyrol , which formed at the fault zone mentioned above, fuchsite and chromite can be found in addition to dolomite .

Town Hall ( Hôtel de ville )

history

The prehistoric presence of humans in Jumilhac-le-Grand is documented by several tumuli , for example at La Peyrière . Gold mining took place between 250 and 150 BC. The beginnings of the Château de Jumilhac go back to the 12th century. The church dates (at least) from the 14th century.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2016
Residents 1896 1654 1535 1411 1260 1213 1233 1244
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

Pont de la Tour

Transport links

Several departmental roads start from the center of Jumilhac-le-Grand, for example the D 79 E (connection with Ladignac-le-Long), the D 18 to Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, the D 80 to Sarlande and leading to the northeast on to Angoisse in the southeast, the D 78 to Thiviers and in a north-west direction the D 79 to Saint-Priest-les-Fougères and La Coquille. The main traffic axis RN 21 from Limoges to Périgueux can be reached via the D 78 and the D 704 from Limoges to Montignac and Sarlat-la-Canéda via the D 80 . The numerous hamlets are accessible via local roads.

swell

  1. ↑ Pont de la Tour in the Base Mémoire des Ministère de la Culture. Retrieved March 18, 2011 (French).

literature

  • Briand, B. et al .: Feuille Châlus . In: Carte géologique de la France à 1/50000 . BRGM.
  • Guillot, P.-L. et al .: Feuille Thiviers . In: Carte géologique de la France à 1/50000 . BRGM.
  • Dominique Richard (Ed.): Le Guide Dordogne-Périgord. Éditions Fanlac, Périgueux 1993, ISBN 2-86577-162-8 .

Web links

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