Le Boulvé
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| local community | Porte-du-Quercy | |
| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Lot | |
| Arrondissement | Cahors | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 25 ' N , 1 ° 9' E | |
| Post Code | 46800 | |
| Former INSEE code | 46033 | |
| Incorporation | 1st January 2019 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
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Le Boulvé is a village and a commune déléguée in the French commune of Barguelonne-en-Quercy with 191 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Lot department in the Occitanie region . The place belonged to the arrondissement of Cahors and the canton of Puy-l'Évêque .
The decree of September 28, 2018 established the incorporation of Le Boulvé as the Commune déléguée together with the former communes of Fargues , Saint-Matré and Saux into the Commune nouvelle Porte-du-Quercy with effect from January 1, 2019 . The administrative headquarters are in Le Boulvé.
The name of the place is derived from the Occitan word bolbena , which describes a soil that is thin, light and sandy-loamy. These soils are particularly suitable for growing rye. In the lower Quercy, voulvé denotes barren, lime-poor soils. Another theory says that the place name comes from the word volvène , the name of a hard red rock that occurs here.
The inhabitants are called Boulvéens and Boulvéennes .
geography
Le Boulvé is located about 25 km west of Cahors in the Quercy Blanc area of the historic province of Quercy on the south-western edge of the department.
Le Boulvé is surrounded by five neighboring municipalities and two communes déléguées of Porte-du-Quercy:
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Fargues (Porte-du-Quercy) |
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Saint-Matré (Porte-du-Quercy) |
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Le Boulvé is located in the catchment area of the Garonne River . The Ruisseau de Saint-Matré, a tributary of the Lot , crosses the local area together with its tributary, the Ruisseau du Boulvé.
history
The village did not develop around the castle of Le Boulvé until the 15th century. The course of an earlier city wall or at least an enclosure is visible that enclosed the original village center.
Between 1790 and 1794 the communes of Bouloc and Creissens were incorporated into the commune of Le Boulvé, and between 1795 and 1800 the commune of Ségos was incorporated.
Population development
After records began, the population rose to a peak of around 830 by the first half of the 19th century. In the following period, the size of the community fell to a level of around 200 inhabitants during short recovery periods until the 1970s has since stabilized.
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 274 | 235 | 198 | 196 | 205 | 182 | 204 | 184 | 191 |
Attractions
Parish Church of Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul
The church of Le Boulvé became the center of the parish in the 13th century, displacing that of Creissens, which was henceforth a branch parish. The present building preserved on its north side building stone , which may date from the 13th century. The nave and apse were probably doubled at the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century, as can be deduced from the style of the entrance portal . A bell tower was added to the south in the second half of the 19th century in front of the entrance portal. The building has undergone structural changes over the centuries, which are particularly visible on the inside where the masonry has been exposed.
Parish church in Creissens
Creissens is mentioned in the sources from the seventh century including the will of St. Desiderius of Vienne . The only parish church mentioned in the 12th century is that of Creissens. In the 13th century, the seat of the parish moved to Le Boulvé. The former parish church of Creissens could have been named Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul , which was then transferred to the parish church in Le Boulvé. The masonry and the shape of the entrances can be traced back to the 14th century. The apse, however, was rebuilt in the 15th century. The year "1825" on the south window of the apse indicates that repairs were carried out. Remains of a liter funéraire from the late 16th century can still be seen.
The nave has a single nave and is closed off by a flat apse. A bell gable with a wall opening rises above the interface between the nave and the choir . The brickwork of the north wall is made of ashlar with numerous fractures as signs of changes. The entrance on this side has the shape of a raised pointed arch and is now half sunk into the ground. A narrow, arched window shows a narrow lintel. A stone plaster covers the southern facade. There is a rounded, ogival entrance portal with fat fighters .
Parish church of Saint-Saturnin in Ségos
Ségos was an independent parish in the diocese of Cahors . The church preserves the remains from the late 12th or early 13th century. A side chapel was added to the north in the 14th or 15th centuries . Before the 16th century, the church was probably raised by one level to serve as a place of refuge. The almost complete destruction of the building can be traced back to the Huguenot Wars . The reconstruction was only carried out at a later date, around 1695. This date on the keystone of the western yoke of the nave indicates this. Most of the windows and the entrance portal were renewed in the 19th century.
The church consists of a modern nave and a partially ruined apse. This shows a straight and a semicircular section, in which only the tartar remained and its end was rebuilt on a straight line. The apse used to have an additional level, as revealed by the remains of the wall above the current apse on the bell gable. On the north and south sides there are narrow arched windows with rounded lintels and inside with broad walls . Remnants of cornices with undecorated consoles and perforated metopes show the original height of the roof. The wall of the first yoke of the nave shows on the north side what was probably the entrance arch of a chapel that has now disappeared.
Le Boulvé Castle
The former aristocratic seat of Le Boulvé was part of the Belaye castellany in the 14th century and was owned by the Séguier family. The geographical proximity of the aristocratic residences of Le Boulvé and Lalande and the fact that they were in the hands of the same family suggest a sex that appeared in the Valence area as donors from Moissac Abbey in the 11th century . Members of the family made careers in the mid-14th century when one was appointed Bishop of Elne and his brother Guillaume was a member of Cardinal Arnaud de Via's circle of Avignon . A little later in the middle of the 14th century, the aristocratic residences of Le Boulvé and Lalande came into the possession of the Orgueil family through the marriage of Jeanne de la Siquayrie to Bertrand d'Orgueil. The descendants kept them until the beginning of the 16th century. Around 1460, Jean d'Orgueil, who had previously been wounded in a battle, dragged himself to his aristocratic residence at Le Boulvé. This event is evidence that it was inhabited at the time. The shape of the medieval windows and the decoration of their capitals allow the original building to be dated to the second half of the 13th century. The building was enlarged in the 14th or early 15th century. The transformation of the aristocratic residence into a castle was initiated by the Orgueil family and was probably carried out after the end of the Hundred Years War in the second half of the 15th or the beginning of the 16th century. Extensive renovations were carried out in the 17th century, which resulted in most of today's windows. The spiral staircase was replaced by a straight staircase, which was made possible by enlarging the staircase , which is dated to 1668. In the west wing, which has disappeared today, a similar staircase was installed. During the second half of the 17th century until 1780 the family Durfort-Boissières had the basic rule of Le Boulvé. Before the French Revolution , the castle belonged to a Mr Loudés, a lawyer in Saint-Céré . The extract from a seizure of real estate in 1808 contains a description of the “old castle”, which was inhabited by a Mr. Pergot, notary in Prayssac . The dilapidated building was bought in 1970 by the painter Anthony Cross, who saved it from final disintegration.
The castle of Le Boulvé is directly adjacent to the parish church. It has two wings, which are arranged in an L-shape, with an attached tower, which at first glance appears to be older. The original building consisted of a residential wing perpendicular to the church building with a wall thickness of 1.40 meters and probably direct access to the gallery in the church. It had a floor under the attic with gables with a steep roof pitch. A relatively thin wall divided the building into two unequal parts. In a second construction phase in the course of the 14th or the beginning of the 15th century, the second wing was built across the existing residential wing and part of the residential wing was extended. This new wing was probably completely rebuilt at the end of the 15th century. The addition of two square floors above the gables made it possible to convert the former northern yoke into a square tower. The third floor of the tower that was created in this way is now the best preserved part of the medieval structure. On the north and east sides, two twin windows let light into the interior. One of these windows is located above the roof of the east wing. Given the thickness of the walls, it can be assumed that the tower was once crowned with battlements .
Web links
- Le Boulvé on the Association of Municipalities website (French)
- Le Boulvé on the Query Blanc Tourist Office website (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ RECUEIL DES ACTES ADMINISTRATIFS SPÉCIAL N ° 46-2018-089 ( fr , PDF) Département Lot. Pp. 11-13. December 27, 2018. Retrieved May 13, 2019.
- ^ Jean-Marie Cassagne: Villes et Villages en pays lotois ( fr ) Tertium éditions. S. 40. 2013. Retrieved May 13, 2019.
- ↑ Lot ( fr ) habitants.fr. Retrieved May 13, 2019.
- ↑ Ma commune: Porte-de-Quercy ( fr ) Système d'Information sur l'Eau du Bassin Adour Garonne. Retrieved May 13, 2019.
- ↑ Gilles Séraphin, Maurice SCELLES: village ( fr ) Départemental Lot. November 26, 2013. Retrieved May 13, 2019.
- ↑ a b Notice Communale Le Boulvé ( fr ) EHESS . Retrieved May 13, 2019.
- ↑ Populations légales 2016 Commune du Boulvé (46033) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved May 13, 2019.
- ↑ Gilles Séraphin, Maurice Scellès: église paroissiale Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul ( fr ) Départementrat Lot. October 3, 2013. Retrieved May 13, 2019.
- ↑ Gilles Séraphin, Maurice SCELLES: église paroissiale ( fr ) Départemental Lot. October 3, 2013. Retrieved May 13, 2019.
- ↑ Gilles Séraphin, Maurice SCELLES: église paroissiale Saint-Saturnin ( fr ) Départemental Lot. October 3, 2013. Retrieved May 13, 2019.
- ↑ Gilles Séraphin, Maurice SCELLES: château ( fr ) Départemental Lot. January 2, 2015. Accessed May 13, 2019.