Laubert
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Lozère | |
| Arrondissement | Mende | |
| Canton | Grandrieu | |
| Community association | Mont Lozère | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 35 ' N , 3 ° 38' E | |
| height | 1,186-1,428 m | |
| surface | 14.28 km 2 | |
| Residents | 97 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 7 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 48170 | |
| INSEE code | 48082 | |
 Laubert - Church |
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Laubert is a southern French municipality with 97 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Lozère department in the Occitanie region . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Mende and the Canton of Grandrieu . The community consists of the two villages Laubert and Gourgons as well as some scattered individual farms.
location
The at an altitude of about 1200 meters above sea level. d. M. Laubert is located about 19 kilometers (driving distance) northeast of the city of Mende in the Montagnes de Gévaudan on the southeastern edge of the Massif Central .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 |
| Residents | 160 | 129 | 120 | 124 | 128 | 134 | 112 |
In the 19th century the community had mostly around 300 inhabitants. As a result of the loss of jobs due to the mechanization of agriculture , the number of inhabitants has decreased continuously since then to the current lows.
economy
For centuries, agriculture in the region was primarily self-sufficient . Today - in addition to the breeding of Aubrac cattle , which is largely carried out in the form of suckler cow husbandry - tourism in the form of renting holiday apartments ( gîtes ) plays a not unimportant role in the economic life of the municipality.
history
One of the hll. Barnabas and Bartholomäus chapel in Laubert first mentioned in 1278; however, it was destroyed in 1636 and rebuilt in 1773. The bishop of Mende raised her to church in 1780 because of the winter seclusion of the place and the associated impossibility for the villagers to go to mass in the neighboring village of Allenc . The residents of the neighboring village of Gourgons also tried to have their chapel upgraded, but did not get through with their request. In 1873 Laubert and Gourgons broke away from the municipality of Allenc and have since formed an independent municipality.
Attractions
- Laubert
The current church dates from 1825 and is made of field stones ( granite and others); it has an entrance on the south side and a three-part bell gable above the unadorned west facade. The single-nave interior of the church contains several interesting items of equipment: a crucifix from the 15th century, a virgin and child from the 17th century, a Baroque atlantic supporting the pulpit and an altarpiece with twisted Solomonic columns from the same time period. The not insignificant equipment of the church is due to the fact that the cathedral chapter of the diocese Mende in Laubert had a summer residence.
Crucifix
Virgin with child
Atlant
Altarpiece
- Gourgons
The privately owned former chapel of Gourgons, which no longer serves religious purposes today, is also made of field stones; It too has the entrance on the south side, which can be reached via an eight-step semicircular staircase.
- Surroundings
The Lac de Charpal , located just under eight kilometers to the north-west, was created in the 1920s by damming the Colagne river ; it mainly serves to supply the city of Mende with water. On the Col de la Pierre Plantée , about 18 kilometers to the north, there is a menhir Christianized by an incised cross ; a megalithic tomb ( Dolmen de Chapel ) is about one and a half kilometers away.
