Léguillac-de-Cercles
| Léguillac-de-Cercles | ||
|---|---|---|
|
|
|
| local community | Mareuil en Périgord | |
| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Dordogne | |
| Arrondissement | Nontron | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 24 ' N , 0 ° 31' E | |
| Post Code | 24340 | |
| Former INSEE code | 24235 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2017 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
 The center of Léguillac-de-Cercles with a Romanesque fortified church |
||
Léguillac-de-Cercles ( Occitan Lagulhac de Cercle ) is a town and commune Déléguée in the French commune of Mareuil en Périgord with 288 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the northwest of the department Dordogne in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . The commune déléguée area is also an integral part of the Périgord-Limousin Regional Natural Park .
etymology
The place name Léguillac , Occitan Lagulhac , possibly goes back to the Gallo-Roman proper name Aquilius . Cercles or Cercle is a neighboring municipality to the southwest. Another hypothesis sees Léguillac or Lagulhac as a contraction of the Occitan agulha ( French aiguille ) meaning needle .
geography
Léguillac-de-Cercles is ten kilometers west-northwest of Brantôme and eight kilometers southwest of Mareuil (as the crow flies). The municipality of Léguillac-de-Cercles was surrounded by the following neighboring municipalities:
- Monsec in the north
- Saint-Félix-de-Bourdeilles in the northeast
- La Gonterie-Boulouneix to the east
- Paussac-et-Saint-Vivien in the southeast
- Saint-Just in the south
- Cercles in the southwest
- La Chapelle-Montabourlet to the west
- Vieux-Mareuil in the north-west.
Léguillac-de-Cercles was the southernmost municipality in the Périgord-Limousin Regional Nature Park. In addition to the town center, the commune déléguée consists of the following hamlets, farmsteads and a mill:
Baroden , Chez Denis , Chez Jaille , Chez l'Abbé , Chez Parot , Chez Pichote , Chez Pouyade , Combe-Jolive , Franchères , Jovelle , La Bidalie , La Conturie , La Croze , La Forêt , La Gauterie , Laubanélie , Le Banchereau , Le Barbaris , Le Bost , Le Brouillac , Le Grand Moulin , Le Paillassou , Le Petit Clos , Les Piles , Les Potences , Les Réteries , Les Sudries , Les Tremblades , Loubazac , Maison-Neuve , Maison Neuve de Puyremale , Montaubert , Puygombert , Puyrebuli , Puyremale , Richeni , Rochefolet , Saint-James and Servat .
The area of the Commune déléguée is drained roughly in the middle by the Sandonie , a left tributary of the Euche , to the south towards the Dronne . The Sandonie rises in the northwest at Chez l'Abbé at an altitude of 170 meters above sea level. The Jallieu , a right branch of the Boulou , rises north of Laubanélie and then flows off to the east. The eastern border at Puygombert and Les Sudries is marked by the Boulou moving south. A small dry valley on the left of the Sandonie south of La Conturie formed part of the southern border to the municipality of Paussac-et-Saint-Vivien.
The topographically lowest point at 115 meters above sea level is in the south near Loubazac on the Sandonie, which leaves the area of the Commune déléguée here. The highest points at 211 meters were at the hamlet of Puyremale in the west and at La Gauterie in the northeast. The maximum height difference was 96 meters.
geology
The Commune déléguée Léguillac-de-Cercles lies entirely on flat sediments of the northern Aquitaine Basin . The layer bandage is part of the Gout-Rossignol-Léguillac syncline , the second syncline of the pool edge. The oldest open formation is the Angoulême Formation - Lower Angoumien - consisting of resistant Rudist limestone . This is followed by the Upper Angoumien, also rich in rudists. These two formations line the lower Sandoni valley on both sides, with the Angoulême formation mostly forming steep walls. The Coniacium lies on the Upper Angoumien - very hard fossil limestone , sandy limestone and oyster limestone . For example, it can be found in the town center, in the west near Servat , in the east near Puygombert and in the north near Les Réteries . Most of the municipal area is underlain by layers of santonium - gray, platy limestone containing glaconite from the Lower Canton, limestone marl with oyster shells from the Middle Canton and silty limestone containing glaconite, as well as sands and sandstones from the Upper Canton. As the uppermost exposed layer of the Upper Cretaceous , the Santon occupies high altitudes like La Croze , Saint James and around Puyremale . The high elevations in the northeast, however, are covered by Pleistocene colluvium, mostly river gravel. Above it lie alluvial sediments of a former river system from the Eocene or Lower Oligocene (near Les Potences and northeast of La Gauterie ) oriented to the southwest . The debris carried along consists mainly of polished quartz pebbles , which were transported from the basement near Nontron in the northeast . The rubble freight can also include rare exotic species such as B. contain amphibolite pebbles, which suggest a very long transport route from the Massif Central .
The Angoulême Formation was once quarried in several quarries in the Sandoni Valley as a valued building block; today there is only one quarry in operation (near Rochefolet ).
history
The oldest preserved building is from the 12th century originated Romanesque fortified church Saint Maurice in the center.
The municipality of Léguillac-de-Cercles was incorporated with effect from January 1, 2017 with the municipalities of Champeaux-et-la-Chapelle-Pommier , Les Graulges , Beaussac , Mareuil , Monsec , Puyrenier , Saint-Sulpice-de-Mareuil and Vieux-Mareuil merged to form the Commune nouvelle Mareuil en Périgord and has since had the status of a Commune déléguée there. Until its dissolution in March 2015, it was one of the 14 municipalities in the canton of Mareuil and then belonged to the canton of Brantôme .
Population development
| Population development in Léguillac-de-Cercles | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| year | Residents |
|
||
| 1962 | 429 | |||
| 1968 | 396 | |||
| 1975 | 356 | |||
| 1982 | 319 | |||
| 1990 | 286 | |||
| 1999 | 274 | |||
| 2008 | 290 | |||
| 2016 | 292 | |||
Source: INSEE
The population in the municipality of Léguillac-de-Cercles declined until 1999, but seems to have recovered somewhat afterwards. The decline at the municipality level was somewhat more pronounced than in the rest of the canton of Mareuil.
Attractions
- The Romanesque local church of Saint Maurice .
Infrastructure
Transport links
The center of Léguillac-de-Cercles is located on the south-facing D 93 from Vieux-Mareuil to Paussac. The D 93 is crossed slightly north of the town center by the D 84 from Nontron to Distribution . The D 100 E connects the town center in a north-westerly direction with Gout-Rossignol. Two municipal roads leave the town center to Saint-Félix-de-Bourdeilles and La-Gonterie-Boulouneix.
Long-distance hiking trail
The GR 36 long-distance hiking trail from Brantôme to La Rochebeaucourt-et-Argentine crosses the former municipality of Léguillac-de-Cercles from southeast to northwest.
