Lagnes

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Lagnes
Coat of arms of Lagnes
Lagnes (France)
Lagnes
region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
Department Vaucluse
Arrondissement Apt
Canton Cheval-Blanc
Community association Luberon Monts de Vaucluse
Coordinates 43 ° 54 '  N , 5 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 54 '  N , 5 ° 7'  E
height 64-622 m
surface 16.93 km 2
Residents 1,635 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 97 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 84800
INSEE code 84062
Website lagnes.fr

Aerial view of Lagnes

Lagnes is a French commune with 1,635 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Vaucluse and the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur .

geography

Lagnes is located at the southwest point of the Monts de Vaucluse between Fontaine-de-Vaucluse , Saumane-de-Vaucluse and Cabrières-d'Avignon , at the entrance to the Luberon Regional Nature Park , to which the municipality belongs.

history

There were some prehistoric settlements at the Claparousse site.

Lagnes is mentioned for the first time in 1154 as "Lagnas".

From the 11th to the 13th century, the Abbey of Saint-André de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon owned a church called Sancti Joannis de Greso , which then passed to the Bishop of Cavaillon .

In 1648 , contrary to the promises made to the residents who had wished to remain under the rule of Saint-Siège , Pope Innocent X established a fiefdom for the Marquisate in favor of Louis de Cambis.

In 1720 the plague, coming from Marseille , spread in Provence . In order to protect the Comtat Venaissin from plague sufferers, the municipalities of the region decided to build a wall 27 kilometers long, the so-called plague wall , some sections of which are still visible in the municipality.

In the 18th century the rule was divided between the Cambis and Fortia families, who owned two different residences inside the castle walls, separated by a courtyard.

During the French Revolution, Lagnes was the capital of the canton .

In 1838 the exploitation of the iron deposits ended.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2008
Residents 1,018 1,025 1,021 1.108 1,397 1,473 1,693

Town twinning

Attractions

  • Thirteenth century castle (revised in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) on top of the village; old chapel Saint-Antoine (twelfth century) in the courtyard, classified as a monument historique
  • Two round towers, village gates and a kiosk as remnants of the old village walls from the fourteenth / fifteenth century, destroyed in 1825
  • Houses from the 16th and 17th centuries in the rue Venteuse , Monument historique, fountains and wash houses in the village center
  • Parish church of Saint-Pierre (1844) with bell tower (1746) of the old Notre-Dame-des-Anges church
  • Belfry with a square tower clock
  • Several converted chapels or ruins (Saint-Véran, Pénitents Blancs, Saint-Jean, Saint-Nicolas)
  • Open-air theater in the north-west of the village (cultural events in summer)
  • Panoramic view from the Pieï rock (beautiful view of the Durance valley and the Luberon )
  • Remains of the plague wall
  • fountain

  • church

  • Castle from the south

  • Old village gate

  • Castle from the west

  • fountain

literature

  • Robert Bailly: Dictionnaire des communes du Vaucluse. Avignon 1986, ISBN 2903044279 .
  • Jules Courtet: Dictionnaire géographique, géologique, historique, archéologique et biographique du département du Vaucluse. Nîmes 1997, ISBN 284406051X .
  • Jean-Pierre Saltarelli: Les Côtes du Ventoux, origines et originalités d'un terroir de la vallée du Rhône. Avignon 2000, ISBN 2879230411 .

Web links

Commons : Lagnes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guy Barruol, Michèle Bois, Yann Codou, Marie-Pierre Estienne, Élizabeth Sauze, List des établissements religieux relevant de l'abbaye Saint-André du X e au XIII e siècle , in: Guy Barruol, Roseline Bacon et Alain Gérard, L 'abbaye de Saint-André de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, histoire, archeology , rayonnement , Actes du colloque interrégional tenu en 1999 à l'occasion du millénaire de la fondation de l'abbaye Saint-André de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, Éd . Alpes de Lumières, Cahiers de Salagon no 4, Mane, 2001, 448 pages ISSN  1254-9371 , ISBN 2-906162-54-X , p. 219