Labastide-d'Armagnac

Labastide-d'Armagnac
region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Country
Arrondissement	Mont-de-Marsan
Canton	Haute Lande Armagnac
Community association	Landes d'Armagnac
Coordinates	43 ° 58 ′  N , 0 ° 11 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 58 ′  N , 0 ° 11 ′  W
height	67-139 m
surface	31.87 km 2
Residents	687 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	22 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	40240
INSEE code	40131
Labastide-d'Armagnac - Place Royale with arcaded houses

Labastide-d'Armagnac is a French municipality with 687 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of land in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . Historically, the place belongs to the former province of Gascony .

location

Labastide-d'Armagnac is located on the Douze river, about 82 kilometers (driving distance) in a north-westerly direction from the city of Auch and about 132 kilometers south of Bordeaux . The next largest city is Mont-de-Marsan about 29 kilometers southwest.

Population development

year	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2007	2010	2017
Residents	871	809	775	731	707	692	689	687

economy

After its foundation, the place quickly developed into a regional handicraft and trading center for the many villages, hamlets and farmsteads in the area, where wine is also grown, but the grape juice is rarely processed into wine, but - after extensive distillation - matures in oak barrels to ' Armagnac '.

history

The bastide was founded in 1291 by Bernard d'Armagnac under the name Bolonia . The English King Edward I gave permission to do so. In the vernacular, however, the place was called Labastide-d'Armagnac from the start. In the 16th century, the future French King Henry IV stayed in the small town several times.

Attractions

• The central square ( Place Notre-Dame or Place Royale ) is the visual flagship of the place. The two-storey houses originally all stood on eaves facing the square. Your ground floor is opened by arcades or pillar or wooden stand constructions and thus offers excellent weather protection. While it was mainly traders and craftsmen who settled here in earlier times, some of the premises are now used as cafes, ice cream parlors or restaurants.
• In Maison Malartic be held Henry of Navarre several times after his flight from Paris. The owner of the property was a loyal friend and comrade in arms of the future French king.

Inside of the Notre-Dame church

• The Notre-Dame church stands out primarily because of its mighty west tower, which the residents of the town consider to be a former defensive tower ( donjon ), which was built in the 15th and 16th centuries. Century was integrated into the new building of the church. Inside, the church does not seem defensible at all - the wide and light nave is adorned with a complicated late Gothic rib vault, the thrust of which is - optically - intercepted by graceful side bundles ; to the side of the nave there are chapels. The architectural sceneries of the flat, non-apsidial end of the choir, painted in trompe l'œil style, are remarkable, which - like the immaculate windows - give an idea of the style epoch of the Renaissance . The church building was recognized as a monument historique in 1970 .
• The cellar vaults below the neighboring town hall ( mairie ) were used as a granary in times of crisis. There was also a prison cell.

Surroundings

• About two kilometers outside is the simple Romanesque Église de Géou or Église Notre-Dame des Cyclistes , so called because a cyclist's meeting has been held here every year since the 1950s at Whitsun, based on the ideas and initiatives of a pastor who is enthusiastic about cycling. Nowadays the building no longer serves sacred purposes; rather, it is a kind of pilgrimage site for cycling enthusiasts from all over the world. One of the new church windows shows the Madonna - framed on the side by a rainbow, which can easily be identified as a cycling track. This church has also been recognized as a monument historique since 1980 and 1998 .

Protestant temple

• Also outside the city is a former Protestant church - the so-called Temple . The first - inner-city - Protestant church in the area fell victim to an arson attack - they did not want any people of other faiths in the city. The current building dates from 1607; After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in 1685, the temple was closed and used as a barn etc. It is one of the few Protestant buildings in France that survived the difficult times of the Huguenots' expulsion. Today the former church serves as an interesting museum on the history of the bastides in southwest France.
• The Château du Prada is a country house built in the classicism style from 1764. The client wanted a beautiful and practical building and commissioned the architect Victor Louis , who a few years later was to design and build the theater in Bordeaux , with the planning . The building was recognized as a monument historique in 1984 .
• A little outside the village is a former wash house ( lavoir ) from the 19th century.

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  Place Royale

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  Église Notre-Dame

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  Notre-Dame des Cyclistes

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  Château du Prada

Others

It is possible that the large central square of Labastide d'Armagnac gave the impetus for a similar building project by Henry IV in Paris - the Place des Vosges .

Web links

Commons : Labastide-d'Armagnac  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Labastide - pictures
• Labastide - photo video
• Notre-Dame des Cyclistes - photo video
• Labastide - photo series
• Labastide - photo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Église, Labastide-d'Armagnac in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
2. ↑ Église Notre-Dame des Cyclistes, Labastide-d'Armagnac in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French) and Église Notre-Dame-des-Cyclistes, Labastide-d'Armagnac in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
3. ↑ Château du Prada, Labastide-d'Armagnac in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)