Le Thor

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Le Thor
Coat of arms of Le Thor
Le Thor (France)
Le Thor
region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
Department Vaucluse
Arrondissement Avignon
Canton L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
Community association Pays des Sorgues et des Monts de Vaucluse
Coordinates 43 ° 56 '  N , 5 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 56 '  N , 5 ° 0'  E
height 38–111 m
surface 35.53 km 2
Residents 9,071 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 255 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 84850
INSEE code 84132
Website http://www.ville-lethor.fr

Le Thor is a French municipality with 9071 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Vaucluse in the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur . It belongs to the canton of L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in the Arrondissement of Avignon .

geography

Le Thor is located near the river Sorgue in the west of the department, five kilometers west of L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue and about 20 kilometers east of Avignon .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2008 2017
Residents 3186 3470 4003 5023 5941 6619 7916 9071
Source: INSEE

Attractions

There are some remains of the city walls near the Sorgue, in addition to the city gate, which was redesigned in 1847 to contain a magnificent campanile and clock. The medieval castle that housed the town hall was extensively restored first in 1723 and then in the 19th century. In one of the gardens you can see the statues of Corneille and Molière , made by Louis and Joseph Brian and originally intended to be displayed in front of the Avignon Opera .

  • City gate

  • Le Thor Castle

  • Statue of Molière

church

Entrance to the church

The Notre-Dame-du-Lac church on the banks of the Sorgue was built at the end of the 12th century and has remained very uniform. Similar in plan to the Cathedral of Cavaillon , it shows the progress made in Romanesque building techniques, which can be seen in the use of a ribbed vault . It is also distinguished by the richness of its decoration. A tetramorph adorns the octagonal trumpet dome of the choir and the marble columns of the apse bear capitals decorated with acanthus leaves , eagles and angels . The west and south portals under a vestibule show a wealth of antique ornaments.

Thouzon Hill

Fortified monastery

To the west of the village of Thouzon (north of Le Thor) a small road leads to a small hill covered in scrubland , dominated by the white ruins of the monastery buildings . In the 11th century there was a priory here , which was soon elevated to the rank of monastery. It was fortified in the 16th century to protect it from looters and abandoned a century later. The Romanesque church of Saint-Marie, the fortified towers and the small Saint-Pierre chapel in the north have been preserved and are being restored by volunteers.

Stalactite cave
Stalactite cave

Inside the hill, which testifies to a limestone massif from the Cretaceous period , there is the petrified bed of an ancient underground river. The grotto, hollowed out by the river, with its fistle-shaped stalactites , was discovered by accident in 1902 by quarry workers . It resembles a gallery and is 230 meters long.

Town twinning

Le Thor maintains a partnership with the Alsatian town of Altkirch .

Web links

Commons : Le Thor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Michel Albarède et al .: Vaucluse (=  Encyclopédies du Voyage ). Gallimard Loisirs, Paris 2007, ISBN 2-7424-1900-4 , p. 319 .
  2. ^ Thorsten Droste: Provence (=  DuMont art travel guide ). 7th edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7701-3927-9 , p. 201 f .