La Coquille
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Dordogne | |
| Arrondissement | Nontron | |
| Canton | Thiviers | |
| Community association | Périgord-Limousin | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 33 ' N , 0 ° 59' E | |
| height | 259-432 m | |
| surface | 22.37 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,324 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 59 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 24450 | |
| INSEE code | 24133 | |
,church_and_square.JPG) La Coquille Church and Church Square |
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La Coquille , Occitan La Coquilha , is a French municipality with 1324 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the northeast of the department Dordogne , Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . It is an integral part of the Périgord-Limousin Regional Nature Park .
etymology
The place name La Coquille, the shell , is an allusion to the scallop shell - it was given to pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago here.
geography
La Coquille is twelve kilometers south of Châlus and 14 kilometers north-northeast of Thiviers (as the crow flies). The municipality is surrounded by the following neighboring municipalities: Firbeix in the north, Saint-Pierre-de-Frugie in the northeast, Saint-Priest-les-Fougères in the east, Saint-Paul-la-Roche in the southeast, Chalais in the southwest and Mialet in the west and Northwest.
In addition to the town center, the community consists of the following hamlets, farmsteads, mills and a castle: Bonhur , Champ Baillard , Chantecor , Château de la Meynardie , Chaurieux , Chevalerie , Curmont , Fardoux , La Barde , La Combe , La Monnerie , La Rebeyrolie , La Roche , La Roussie , La Serve de la Bergère , La Tuillère , Le Clos-Neuf , Le Coderc , Le Meygnaud , Le Moulin Neuf , Les Charbonnières , Les Neyroux , Les Peyrières , Les Rivailles , Magondeau , Moulin de Margaud , Piangaud , Puy Roux , Puyroux , Raty , Ruafon and Sainte-Marie-de-Frugie .
The Côle , coming from the north, flows on the north-western edge of the municipality in a generally south-westerly direction; it initially defines the border with Firbeix and later with Mialet. The eastern border of the municipality with Saint-Pierre-de-Frugie and Saint-Priest-les-Fougères is formed by the Valouse , which drains to the south-southwest. The Ruisseau de la Pouyade , a smaller left branch of the Touroulet, rises southwest of the town center . This brook also moves to the southwest.
The topographically lowest point in the municipality of La Coquille with 259 meters is south of Piangaud on the Valouse, which leaves the municipality here. The highest point at 432 meters is north of Le Meygnaud in the extreme north.
geology
The municipality of La Coquille lies entirely on the metamorphic basement of the northwestern Massif Central . The surrounding rocks form part of the lower gneiss cover . It is mainly paragneiss , mica-schistige paragneiss, leptynite and leptynitic eye gneiss . The paragneiss probably emerged from the neoproterozoic greywacke , the more slatey paragneiss from the clayey greywacken. The Augengneise are considered to be former Cambrian leuco granites. The Leptynites have a granitic or rhyolite composition and an Ordovician age.
In the Devonian, all of these rocks were affected by a partly high-grade, regional metamorphosis - in the area of La Coquille it reached the thistle - and the sillimanite zone (sillimanite- muscovite subzone). In contrast to the usual south-east direction, the metamorphic rocks strike northeast in the municipality of La Coquille. This buckling of the foliation is due to the La Coquille Fault - a system of multiple parallel northeast trending faults . These steeply arranged, staggered faults sometimes reach very deep, as can be recognized, for example, by an entrained serpentinite body . Solid quartz and pegmatite bodies are also associated .
The basement rocks are extensively covered on altitudes of Hüllsedimenten - tertiary colluvium (migrated sands of gneisses and granites, some aeolian silts, often mixed with alluvium) and in places it pliozänes / Pleistocene alluvium (river gravel with up to 30 centimeters quartz pebbles, tongue in Les Rivailles ).
history
The commune of La Coquille was still called Sainte-Marie-de-Frugie until 1856 and the village center used to be the current hamlet of Saint-Marie-la-Barde . The village was moved to what is now La Coquille in the 19th century, where modernity came with the construction of the national road, the post office and the railway. It is worth mentioning that the old church in Saint-Marie was demolished, possibly to persuade the residents to move away.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 | 2016 |
| Residents | 1531 | 1556 | 1692 | 1575 | 1515 | 1489 | 1364 | 1348 |
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Attractions
- Castle Château de la Meynardie from the 16th century (cannot be visited)
- The hamlet of (Saint-Marie-) La Barde with its Zen Buddhist monastery Kanshoji
- The Étang de la Barde with its former smithy which has been converted into the center of the Parc Naturel Régional Périgord-Limousin .
- Saint-Joseph church from 1873
Transport links
The main artery N 21 from Châlus to Thiviers runs through La Coquille. The railway line runs parallel to this from Limoges to Thiviers (and on to Périgueux ), with a stop in La Coquille. From the east, the town crosses the D 79, which , coming from Jumilhac-le-Grand , continues in a westerly direction to Mialet. The D 67 meets the 79 a little northeast of the town center; it starts from Bussière-Galant ( Haute-Vienne ) in the north-northeast and crosses Saint-Pierre-de-Frugie on its way. After La Coquille, it continues to Saint-Paul-la-Roche in the south-southeast. Local roads also lead to Chalais and Saint-Jory-de-Chalais.
literature
- Briand, B .: Feuille Châlus . In: Carte géologique de la France at 1/50 000 . BRGM.
- Guillot, P.-L .: Feuille Thiviers . In: Carte géologique de la France at 1/50 000 . BRGM.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Site officiel du Pays de Jumilhac - La Coquille. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
- ↑ According to local residents, the old church is said to have stood right at the junction to the Étang de la Barde .
- ↑ Accueil. Retrieved October 8, 2019 (fr-fr).