Lacroix-Barrez
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Lacroix-Barrez La Crotz |
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Aveyron | |
| Arrondissement | Rodez | |
| Canton | Aubrac and Carladez | |
| Community association | Aubrac, Carladez et Viadène | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 47 ' N , 2 ° 38' E | |
| height | 300-804 m | |
| surface | 28.01 km 2 | |
| Residents | 506 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 18 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 12600 | |
| INSEE code | 12118 | |
| Website | Lacroix-Barrez | |
 Lacroix-Barrez - Château de Valon |
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Lacroix-Barrez ( Occitan : La Crotz ) is a place and a southern French community with 506 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Aveyron in the region v . The place belongs to the historical province of Rouergue .
location
The place Lacroix-Barrez lies at an altitude of approx. 770 m above sea level. d. M .; the rivers Bromme and Truyère form the eastern and southeastern municipal boundaries. Rodez , the former capital of the Rouergue, is about 74 km (driving distance) south; the small town of Aurillac is about 42 km to the northwest.
Population development
| year | 1800 | 1851 | 1901 | 1954 | 1999 | 2013 |
| Residents | 296 | 1,827 | 1,541 | 761 | 550 | 464 |
The population increase in the first half of the 19th century is due to the incorporation of the formerly independent villages Bars , Freysse and Valcaylès . The population decline in the 20th century is mainly related to job losses as a result of the mechanization of agriculture .
economy
The place Lacroix-Barrez served for a long time the only agriculturally oriented and largely self-sufficient villages ( hamlets ) and individual farms in the area as a craft, trade and service center. Since the middle of the 20th century tourism has played a not insignificant role for the economic life of the place in the form of the rental of holiday apartments ( gîtes ).
history
In the Middle Ages there was a priory church in bars , which belonged to the Abbey of Conques ; the church of Lacroix, however, was dependent on La Chaise-Dieu . The place Lacroix-Barrez is first mentioned around 1250 as La Croix de Bars and later formed part of the Carladez , part of the Rouergue, under the Vice Counts of Carlat ; this in turn was part of the Kingdom of Mallorca from 1276 to 1344 . In the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) the place was probably spared because of its northern location; the Château de Valon , however, was attacked by rioters in 1378 and partially destroyed. In 1643, the French King Louis XIII. the area as a fief to the Grimaldi family , who resided in Monaco and ruled until the French Revolution .
Attractions
- Lacroix-Barrez
- The parish church is an imposing building from the 20th century in neo-Romanesque style.
- Bars
- The Romanesque priory church of Saint-Barthélémy was completely redesigned in the Gothic style in the 15th century and received a new patronage ( Sainte Geneviève ).
- Fraysse
- The Château de Valon , built almost entirely from quarry stone , dates back to the 14th century in its current state. The complex is dominated by a mighty keep ( donjon ) made of precisely worked house stones on a square floor plan; the former castle chapel has also been largely preserved. The castle ruins have been recognized as a monument historique since 1925 .
Personalities
- Jean Verdier (1864–1940), Archbishop of Paris since 1929 , was born in Lacroix-Barrez.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Château de Valon, Lacroix-Barrez in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)