Lagrange (Landes)

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Lagrange
Lagrange (France)
Lagrange
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Country
Arrondissement Mont-de-Marsan
Canton Haute Lande Armagnac
Community association Landes d'Armagnac
Coordinates 43 ° 58 ′  N , 0 ° 6 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 58 ′  N , 0 ° 6 ′  W
height 90-167 m
surface 21.13 km 2
Residents 192 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 9 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 40240
INSEE code 40140

Parish Church of Saint-Pierre

Lagrange is a French municipality with 192 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of land in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine (before 2016: Aquitaine ). The municipality belongs to the arrondissement of Mont-de-Marsan and the canton of Haute Lande Armagnac (until 2015: canton of Gabarret ).

The name is in the Gascognischen language Lagranja or La Granja . It is derived from the Latin granica with the meaning "room to store the grain" and in the broader sense "farm".

The inhabitants are called Grangers and Grangères or Lagrangeois and Lagrangeoises .

geography

Lagrange is located about 35 km northeast of Mont-de-Marsan in the historic province of Armagnac in the historic province of Gascogne on the eastern border with the neighboring Gers department .

Lagrange is surrounded by the neighboring communities:

Saint-Julien-d'Armagnac Créon-d'Armagnac
Betbezer-d'Armagnac Neighboring communities Gabarret
Mauvezin-d'Armagnac Labastide-d'Armagnac Cazaubon (Gers)

Lagrange lies in the catchment area of ​​the River Adour .

The area of ​​the municipality is crossed by the Douze , a tributary of the Midouze , and its tributaries,

  • the Ruisseau l'Uby and its tributaries,
    • the Ruisseau du Sablé, which rises in Lagrange, and its tributary,
      • the Ruisseau de Pourqué, which rises in Lagrange, and
    • the Ruisseau de Mouné, which rises in Lagrange,
  • the Ruisseau de Montdoy, which rises in Lagrange,
  • the Ruisseau de Lavardan, which rises in Lagrange,
  • the Ruisseau de Cavaillon, which rises in Lagrange, and its tributary,
    • the Ruisseau de Peyre, and
  • the Ruisseau de Pouthet, also called Ruisseau de Joutan.

history

Lagrange derives its name from a 13th century priory that was next to the 11th or 12th century Saint-Pierre de Juliac church . In September 1227 gave Wilhelm II. , Viscount of Bearn and Gabardan, monks of the Order of the Premonstratensians from the Abbey Saint-Jean de la Castelle the tithe to the church. A little later the monks built the priory with buildings that were attached to the south of the church. The monks were subordinate to the Viscount of Juliac and the Count of Armagnac. They owned the fiefs that they cultivated for their livelihood. However, in cases of famine, they also support the population. The agricultural properties of monasteries of all orders were often called "granges" ( German  barns ). In the course of time the priory was called "la grange de Juliac", from the 16th century "Lagrange". During the Hundred Years War the church was fortified at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries, in particular by building a tower, and later during the Huguenot Wars in September 1569 by Protestant troops under the command of the captains Thoiras and Baudignan, devastated and set on fire. After 1572, the priory slowly recovered. Between 1687 and 1692 Paule de Bézolles (around 1620–1699), Viscountess of Juliac appeared as a patron and financed the restoration of the church and the monastery buildings. During the French Revolution , the priory was dissolved under the direction of César de Cour-Lussagnet. Declared as a national good, it subsequently came into the possession of the Tursan d'Espaignet, Verdier de Plaisance and Bergerot families. In 1922 it was finally demolished against the council of the municipality. Today's municipality has no actual center, the houses are scattered across the municipality.

Population development

After records began, the population rose to around 660 in the middle of the 19th century. In the period that followed, the size of the community fell to around 170 inhabitants during short recovery phases until the 1990s, before moderate growth began, but this has recently been the case again stagnates.

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2010 2017
Residents 300 257 237 198 171 190 203 205 192
From 1962 official figures excluding residents with a second residence
Sources: EHESS / Cassini until 1999, INSEE from 2006

Attractions

Parish Church of Saint-Pierre

Today's flat apse dates from the time the church was founded at the turn of the 11th and 12th centuries . Its sculptural consoles are characteristic of the early 12th century. A few decades later, around 1130, the triumphal arch and the single-nave nave were built, of which the western wall, the western part and the eastern end of the south wall have been preserved to this day. The remaining walls and wall parts were rebuilt at a later, indefinite point in time. At the same time, the eastern wall of the apse was extended by a risalit , the windows of which are decorated with rollers and balls in the longitudinal axis. After the destruction in 1569, the church was restored between 1687 and 1692 and the porch was built at the same time. At the beginning of the 19th century a sacristy was added to the north of the apse and a two-story building on the western side, which from 1837 housed the town hall and the school. Several security and restoration measures have been carried out since 1959.

The tower from the turn of the 14th to the 15th century, made of regular masonry, is covered with a tent roof. Buttresses decorate its corners and a round stair tower is added to the south. At its foot is the porch with an entrance lined with pilasters . Inside the porch, a Romanesque , arched entrance portal leads into the nave with many windows in the north and a few in the south, where the priory buildings were added until 1922. The Romanesque and Gothic parts of the building show numerous stonemason's marks inside and out (letters B, M, N, S and Z, III, IIIII, etc.). As the church was looted and destroyed by Protestant troops in 1569, few of the earlier elements of the church's furnishings could be preserved, such as the sculpted consoles and capitals of the triumphal arch from the 12th century and a holy water font , which probably dates from the Middle Ages . Other older pieces of equipment are a baptismal font from the late 17th century and two other holy water fonts from the 17th and 18th centuries. The described and many other items of equipment of the church are registered as national cultural assets. The church has been inscribed as a Monument historique since December 23, 1996 .

Economy and Infrastructure

Bottle with Armagnac

The main economic activity of the municipality today is the production of armagnacs . Another line of business is the supply of mud from the local forests to the Barbotan thermal baths in the neighboring community of Cazaubon.

Lagrange is located in the AOC areas of Armagnac (Armagnac-Ténarèze, Bas Armagnac and Haut Armagnac), Blanche-Armagnacs, and Floc de Gascogne , a liqueur wine .

Active workplaces by industry on December 31, 2015
Total = 23

traffic

Lagrange can be reached via routes départementales 51, 203 (Gers) and 381.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lagrange ( fr ) Gasconha.com. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Lagrange ( fr ) Conseil régional d'Aquitaine. Archived from the original on June 16, 2017. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  3. ↑ Landes ( fr ) habitants.fr. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  4. ↑ Ma commune: Lagrange ( fr ) Système d'Information sur l'Eau du Bassin Adour Garonne. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  5. ↑ a b c église paroissiale Saint-Pierre-de-Juliac ( fr ) Ministry of Culture and Communication . Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  6. ↑ Notice Communale Lagrange ( fr ) EHESS . Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  7. ↑ Populations légales 2006 Commune de Lagrange (40140) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  8. ↑ Populations légales 2015 Commune de Lagrange (40140) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  9. ^ Eglise Saint-Pierre ( fr ) Ministry of Culture and Communication . Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  10. ↑ le mobilier de l'église paroissiale Saint-Pierre-de-Juliac ( fr ) Ministry of Culture and Communication . Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  11. ↑ Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité: Rechercher un produit ( fr ) Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité . Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  12. ↑ Caractéristiques des établissements en 2015 Commune de Lagrange (40140) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved May 19, 2018.