Les Quatre-Routes-du-Lot
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| local community | Le Vignon-en-Quercy | |
| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Lot | |
| Arrondissement | Gourdon | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 0 ′ N , 1 ° 39 ′ E | |
| Post Code | 46110 | |
| Former INSEE code | 46232 | |
| Incorporation | 1st January 2019 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
| Website | www.lesquatreroutes.fr | |
Les Quatre-Routes-du-Lot is a village and a commune déléguée in the French commune of Le Vignon-en-Quercy with 590 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Lot department in the Occitanie region . The place belonged to the arrondissement of Gourdon and the canton of Martel .
The decree of August 2, 2018 established the incorporation of Les Quatre-Routes-du-Lot as the Commune déléguée together with the former municipality of Cazillac into the Commune nouvelle Le Vignon-en-Quercy with effect from January 1, 2019 . The administrative headquarters are in Les Quatre-Routes-du-Lot.
The inhabitants are called Quatre-Routois and Quatre-Routoises .
geography
Les Quatre-Routes-du-Lot is about 36 km northeast of Gourdon in the historic province of Quercy on the northern edge of the department.
Les Quatre-Routes-du-Lot is surrounded by three neighboring communities and a commune déléguée of Le Vignon-en-Quercy:
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Cazillac (Le Vignon-en-Quercy) |
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Condat |
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Les Quatre-Routes-du-Lot lies in the catchment area of the Dordogne river . The Vignon flows into the Tourmente near the village .
history
The parish of Beyssac, now a hamlet of the former parish, existed before Quatres-Routes was founded . With the French Revolution it was incorporated into the Strenquels community. At the beginning of the 19th century, there was just one house at the intersection of the four streets that gave it its name. With the increasing volume of traffic, the Gasthaus des Quatres Chemins , the “four ways”, was opened at the point that became an important intersection of two connections between the Lot and the Corrèze. The arrival of the railroad in 1862 changed the life of the area by increasing trade and the exchange of goods and, on the other hand, decreasing the population, mainly due to emigration. The economic boom led to the establishment of the municipality in 1912 from areas of the neighboring municipalities of Cavagnac, Cazillac, Condat and Strenquels. The Beyssac parish chapel became the church of the new village, which was renamed Les Quatres-Routes-du-Lot in 1995 .
Population development
After the municipality was founded, the population rose to an initial high of around 670 by the mid-1970s. In the following period, the size of the municipality decreased to 580 inhabitants by the turn of the millennium, before growing to 640 inhabitants with the 2012 census. Recently there has been a further decline in population.
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 630 | 617 | 671 | 632 | 588 | 580 | 647 | 642 | 590 |
Attractions
Parish Church of Saint-Martial
It was built in the late 15th century on the site of an earlier church that had been destroyed in the Hundred Years War . From this, ashlars have been preserved in the walls of the nave and an entrance, which can be attributed to the 12th century.
Its possession was disputed by the Vice Counts of Turenne and the Barons of Cazillac. The very modified building now consists of a single nave, a large polygonal choir and two side chapels that form a transept . To the west, a massive square bell tower rises above the first yoke of the nave. The entrance portal is designed in the shape of a pointed arch . There is a statue of the Virgin Mary in its niche. In earlier times, the entrance to the nave gave access to a stair tower with a spiral staircase, which has now disappeared.
The inside of the building is fully equipped with a ribbed vault . In the southern chapel there is a stone statue of the Virgin from the 16th century of simple design. In the northern chapel, a later statue in polychrome wood depicts St. Fiacrius , the patron saint of gardeners. He holds the Bible in one hand and the spade with which, according to legend, he miraculously dug the trench of his monastery in one day and planted the vegetables to feed the pilgrims in the other. Remains of a liter funéraire can be seen on the walls of the southern chapel. They show several coats of arms painted on, which can no longer be assigned to any noble family.
Costebille mansion
It was built in the 17th century and restored between 1996 and 2006. It consists of a residential wing and an adjacent tower. During the restoration, an overhanging tower was rebuilt on the south side at the connection between the residential wing and the tower and the crossbeams and posts of the cross-frame window on the east side of the tower.
Watermill in Beyssac
It is located in the immediate vicinity of the parish church of Saint-Martial above the Vignon River. The church came into the possession of the Abbey of Beaulieu between 1112 and 1118 through a donation from the Bishop of Cahors . The manor belonged to the Saint-Michel family, who expressed fealty to the Vice Count of Turenne. It is unclear who owned the mill in the 13th century as it was not mentioned in the donation. It changed hands several times over the centuries. In the 19th century it belonged to the Battut family. then Guillaume Glédines. In 1873 he asked for permission to rebuild the mill in order to convert it into a grain mill and to expand the headrace channel. The innkeeper Mathurin Delol, who owned the flour mill in 1879, benefited from the location on the street and the train station. Gustave Delol, patron and mayor of the new municipality, bequeathed the mill to the Merle family in 1932, who ran it for a long time. In 1935 the current flour mill building was rebuilt. At that time bakers began to prefer the finer flour from the flour mill to that from the old mill. As a result, the millstones of the old water mill were given away after the Second World War . The flour mill, on the other hand, remained in operation until 1980.
Personalities
- Pierre Marsaud, born on December 4, 1933 in Les Quatre-Routes-du-Lot, was a French rugby union player . He won the French runner-up championship in 1965 with the CA Brive team .
- Christian Signol , born in Les Quatre-Routes-du-Lot in 1947, is a French writer.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ RECUEIL DES ACTES ADMINISTRATIFS SPÉCIAL N ° 46-2018-087 ( fr , PDF) Department Lot. Pp. 21-24. December 20, 2018. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
- ↑ Lot ( fr ) habitants.fr. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
- ↑ Le Vignon ( fr ) eaufrance. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
- ↑ Les bourgs du nord du Lot - Les Quatre-Routes-du-Lot ( fr , PDF) Département Lot. 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
- ^ Notice Communale Les Quatre-Routes-du-Lot ( fr ) EHESS . Retrieved May 9, 2019.
- ↑ Populations légales 2016 Commune des Quatre-Routes-du-Lot (46232) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved May 9, 2019.
- ↑ Gilles Séraphin, Maurice SCELLES, Anne-Marie Pêcheur: église paroissiale Saint-Martial ( fr ) Départemental Lot. October 3, 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
- ↑ Gilles Séraphin, Maurice SCELLES: manor ( fr ) Départemental Lot. February 26, 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
- ↑ Le moulin de Beyssac ( fr , PDF) Société scientifique historique et archéologique de la Corrèze. Retrieved May 9, 2019.