Les Angles (Gard)

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Les Angles
Coat of arms of Les Angles
Les Angles (France)
Les Angles
region Occitania
Department Gard
Arrondissement Nîmes
Canton Villeneuve-lès-Avignon
Community association Grand Avignon
Coordinates 43 ° 57 '  N , 4 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 57 '  N , 4 ° 46'  E
height 10-183 m
surface 17.64 km 2
Residents 8,349 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 473 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 30133
INSEE code 30011

View of the old town

Les Angles is a French commune with 8349 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Gard department and in the Occitanie region .

geography

Les Angles is located on a plateau high above the Rhone Valley opposite Avignon . Thanks to its special location near the city of Avignon, which has a new TGV train station , the town attracts many new residents and numerous businesses. Their development takes place mainly along the road from the neighboring village of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon to Nîmes .

The city is actually divided into two halves: the younger part with its residential and commercial area, and the high old town with its stone houses and narrow streets with a view of the Rhône Valley, which leads to Tarascon and Beaucaire .

history

The name of the place goes back to the wedge-shaped shape of the village (like a wedge for splitting wood) and is mentioned for the first time in 1143. At that time the parish church of Sainte-Marie and three rural churches belonged to the Abbey of Saint-André .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2008 2017
Residents 2728 3505 4582 5570 6838 7578 8269 8349

Attractions

In the center of the old town is the Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption, a Gothic church from the 15th century, with a high square tower above the rectory . The building was erected in place of an old Saracen fortress. Protestants populated the village in the 16th century, built a garrison there and fortified the church and its outbuildings. The old adjoining cemetery has been replaced by a graceful open-air stage . There is also a bakery , the old town hall, the Saint-Estève chapel and the Pontmartin castle.

On Saturdays there is a market on place des Pliades .

The Parc du Cosmos is entirely dedicated to astronomy and is located in the west of the town. It includes a course on which you can get to know the solar system (on a scale of 1: 2,000,000,000) and the universe, as well as a planetarium and the Hesperos Astro Club.

A cultural trail has been set up in the old town with different routes: routes by painters inspired by the historical sites and monuments of the place over the centuries, as well as botanical routes that showcase the botanical diversity of the homeland and its impact on the economy and crafts.

economy

  • Vegetable growing
  • Craft businesses

shops

  • Balzac shopping center
  • Shopping center on place des Priades with Saturday market
  • E.Leclerc shopping center with shopping arcade

Sports

  • Les Angles Rugby Club , plays in the third regional rugby league and has been Honorary President Jo Maso , who has been the manager of France's XV rugby team since 1995.
  • LASA basket club .

Personalities

  • Victor Crumière (1895–1950), French painter
  • André Derain (1880–1954), French painter, stayed in Provence between 1922 and 1931 and painted several paintings of Les Angles and the surrounding area, which are in the collection of Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume in the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris are located.
  • Herbert Klingst (1913–1998), German painter. Studied fine arts in Leipzig and Dresden and lived in Les Angles since 1984. Left behind many extremely intimistic drawings of the village, the landscape and the region.
  • Louis Agricol Montagné (1879–1960), French painter, spent much of his life in Paris and Les Angles. Lived in the castle of Pontmartin.

literature

  • Sylvain Gagnière, J. Granier and A. de la Peine: Le Site paléochrétien de Saint-Étienne-de-Can, commune des Angles, Gard: Résultats de la campagne de fouilles préliminaires 1961–62 , 1963

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernest Nègre , Toponymie générale de la France: étymologie de 35,000 noms de lieux , Genève: Librairie Droz, 1990. Volume III: Formations dialectales (suite); formations françaises . Notices 26388-90, pp. 1447-48
  2. ↑ Guy Barruol, Michèle Bois, Yann Codou, Marie-Pierre Estienne, Élizabeth Sauze: List des établissements religieux relevant de l'abbaye Saint-André du Xe au XIIIe siècle , in Guy Barruol, Roseline Bacon et Alain Gérard: L'abbaye de Saint-André de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, histoire, archeology, rayonnement , 2001, p. 213
  3. ↑ Ville Les Angles - Parcours culturels (with map of the individual routes)
  4. ↑ Club de Rugby of ANGLES, Homepage
  5. ↑ Homepage of LASA basket ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lasa-basket.fr

Web links

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