La Canourgue
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Lozère | |
| Arrondissement | Mende | |
| Canton | La Canourgue (main town) | |
| Community association | Aubrac Lot Causses Tarn | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 26 ' N , 3 ° 13' E | |
| height | 521-1,008 m | |
| surface | 104.29 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,161 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 21 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 48500 | |
| INSEE code | 48034 | |
| Website | La Canourgue | |
 La Canourgue - the townscape |
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La Canourgue is a place and a municipality with 2,161 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the south of France in the Occitanien region in the Lozère department .
location
The place La Canourgue is located on the northwestern edge of the Cevennes in the transition to Gévaudan at an altitude of about 560 to 600 m above sea level. d. M. on the Urugne river , a tributary of the Lot . The closest larger city is Mende, approx. 43 km (driving distance) to the northeast . About a dozen smaller hamlets and farmhouses belong to the municipality of La Canourgue.
Population development
| year | 1800 | 1851 | 1901 | 1954 | 1999 | 2013 |
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| Residents | 1,893 | 1,856 | 1,640 | 1,144 | 1,922 | 2.126 |
The population decline in the first half of the 20th century is mainly due to the loss of jobs as a result of the mechanization of agriculture . The population growth in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to the incorporation of several formerly independent municipalities, which also increased the municipality area.
economy
For centuries, the inhabitants of the municipality of La Canourgue lived directly or indirectly from agriculture in the area. The place itself functioned as a craft, trade and service center. After the completion of the A75 motorway about two kilometers away, an industrial area was designated at the end of the 20th century.
history
As early as the Neolithic Age , people lived in the area traversed by the Lot and its tributaries; and bronze - Iron Age and Gallo-Roman traces were discovered. As early as the 7th century, Benedictine monks founded an abbey, which became larger and larger through donations and transfers of property. The neighboring town of Banassac had the right to mint coins in Merovingian times.
Attractions
- La Canourgue
- The narrow streets in the old town center ( bourg ) with their houses built from quarry stones and half-timbered give a medieval impression. The center of the village is the grain market ( Place du blé ). Some houses dating from around 1500 have been recognized as Monuments historiques since 1993 .
- The current parish church ( Église Saint-Martin ) is the last remnant of the medieval Benedictine monastery , which was converted into a collegiate monastery in the 13th or 14th century . The Romanesque apse made of precisely hewn stones with their service templates and the rectangular chapels added in the 15th or 16th century are well worth seeing . The upper floor of the choir area later received Gothic tracery windows . Church construction has been recognized as a monument historique since 1929 .
- The Chapelle Saint-Frézal ( 44 ° 25 ′ 45 ″ N , 3 ° 13 ′ 35 ″ E ) is a late Romanesque church from the 13th century, hidden in the forest about 1.5 km southeast of La Canourgue; the facade was renewed in the 16th century. The pointed barrel vault inside is subject to belt arches . The building was recognized as a monument historique in 1984 .
- La Capelle
- The Église Saint-Martin in the incorporated district of La Capelle ( 44 ° 23 ′ 26 ″ N , 3 ° 18 ′ 19 ″ E ) about 5 km to the east was formerly subordinate to the Abbey of La Canourgue. It originated in the 12th, 13th and 15th centuries. The most beautiful components are the Romanesque apse with buttresses added later and the multi - bay, barrel - vaulted nave with a sacristy and a south chapel, which houses a 'primitive' stone relief. The tower is an 18th or 19th century addition. Church construction has been recognized as a monument historique since 1932 .
- Chardonnet
- The Dolmen de Chardonnet ( 44 ° 27 ′ 5 ″ N , 3 ° 15 ′ 37 ″ E ), about 4.5 km northeast of La Canourgue, is a reminder of the presence of people in the times of megalithic cultures . It has been protected as a Monument historique since 1889 .
- Montjèzieu
- The standing privately owned Château de Montjézieu ( 44 ° 28 '55 " N , 3 ° 12' 23" O ) from the 16th century. With its seemingly compact three-storey construction, it is vaguely reminiscent of medieval donjons . It has been a listed building since 1971.
- Two Merovingian stone box graves lying next to each other were carved into a rocky cliff high above the Lot Valley ( 44 ° 28 ′ 31 ″ N , 3 ° 12 ′ 43 ″ E ).
Partner municipality
- Gaiberg , Baden-Wuerttemberg.
literature
- P. Peyre: LA CANOURGUE or Cadoule, Lozère, France . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
Web links
- La Canourgue, history - photos + information (French)
- La Canourgue, Chapelle St.-Frézal - photos + information (French)
- La Canourgue, Merovingian tombs - photos
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maisons à pans de bois, La Canourgue in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Église Saint-Martin, La Canourgue in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Chapelle Saint-Frézal, La Canourgue in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Église de la Capelle, La Canourgue in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Dolmen de Chardonnet, La Canourgue in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Château de Montjèzieu, La Canourgue in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)