La Réole

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La Réole
La Rèula
Coat of arms of La Réole
La Réole (France)
La Réole
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Gironde
Arrondissement Langon
Canton Le Réolais and Les Bastides
Community association Réolais en Sud Gironde
Coordinates 44 ° 35 ′  N , 0 ° 2 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 35 ′  N , 0 ° 2 ′  W
height 5-133 m
surface 12.53 km 2
Residents 4,356 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 348 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 33190
INSEE code 33352
Website http://www.lareole.fr/

Mairie La Réole

La Réole ( Gascon La Reula or L'Arrèula ) is a small town with 4356 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Gironde department in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine in France . It belongs to the canton of Le Réolais et Les Bastides . The residents call themselves Réolais .

geography

La Réole is located on the Garonne , 62 kilometers southeast of Bordeaux and 19 kilometers east of Langon , six kilometers west of the border with the Lot-et-Garonne department . The main part of the small town is on the orographically right bank of the river, the hamlet of Rouergue is on the left bank. Especially for Rouergue there is a risk of flooding by the Garonne after storms. In the years 1835, 1855, 1875, 1879, 1918, 1927, 1930, 1981, 2006 and 2009 the Garonne caused floods.

history

The name of the city was derived from Regula Benedicti . Around the year 977 the settlement was assigned to the Benedictine abbey of Fleury .

In 1793 La Réole received as La Réole Saint Aignan in the course of the French Revolution (1789-1799) the status of a municipality and in 1801 under the current name the right to local self-government .

From February 17, 1800 to September 10, 1926, the Arrondissement de La Réole existed , which included Monségur , Pellegrue , La Réole, Saint-Macaire , Sauveterre-de-Guyenne and Targon . La Réole was the main town. The entire district then passed to the Arrondissement Langon .

Number of inhabitants
(source:)
year 1793 1800 1846 1911 1921 1946 1975 1999 2007 2017
Residents 5,035 3,806 4,080 4,241 3,644 4,491 5.016 4.187 4,218 4,356

La Réole had the most inhabitants in 1793 (5035), and least in 1921 (3644).

Culture and sights

The priory

Buildings

The former Benedictine - Priory Saint-Pierre is officially classified as a historic monument classified. It was built in 1704 and is owned by the municipality and the département.

See also: List of Monuments historiques in La Réole

Sports

La Réole XIII is a member of the French "Thirteen Rugby League ".

Infrastructure

La Réole is passed by the Via Lemovicensis , one of the four historical “ Routes of the pilgrims in France ”.

The city has its own train station on the Bordeaux – Sète line of the SNCF . It is used by TER Aquitaine trains.

There is a motorway connection on the A62 autoroute .

Town twinning

Personalities

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Gironde. Flohic Éditions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-125-2 , pp. 1228-1234.

Web links

Commons : La Réole  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maurice Pardé: La crue de la Garonne en mars 1927 . In: Revue de geographie alpine . tape 15 , no. 3 , 1927, ISSN  0035-1121 , p. 455–458 ( on Persée [accessed December 20, 2015]). (French)
  2. ↑ tian: Tempête, inondation: la Garonne se réveille ... In: Le Post. Philippe Jannet, January 26, 2009, accessed August 16, 2010 (French).
  3. ↑ a b La Réole - notice communal. In: Cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved August 16, 2010 (French).
  4. ↑ La Réole. In: Base Mérimée. Ministère de la culture, accessed August 9, 2010 (French).
  5. ↑ Official website of La Réole XIII (French)