Ménerbes

Ménerbes
region	Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
Department	Vaucluse
Arrondissement	Apt
Canton	Apt
Community association	Pays d'Apt-Luberon
Coordinates	43 ° 50 '  N , 5 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 50 '  N , 5 ° 12'  E
height	112-693 m
surface	30.27 km 2
Residents	990 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	33 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	84560
INSEE code	84073
View of Ménerbes

Ménerbes is a French municipality with 990 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Vaucluse in the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur .

geography

Ménerbes is located between Avignon, 42 kilometers away, and Apt , 23 kilometers away , elongated on a ridge and visible from afar. Neighboring towns are Beaumettes , Oppède-le-Vieux and Lacoste . The municipality belongs to the Communauté de communes Pays d'Apt-Luberon and is located in the Luberon Regional Nature Park .

history

Many ancient finds have been made in Ménerbes, including the remains of a pottery workshop (late 1st century), the Sylvanus altarpiece (late 2nd or 3rd century), a tombstone (late 1st century) and some Roman villas. Saint Castor of Apt played an important role in the history of the municipality. The Manancha Monastery, which he founded in an unknown location, may have been in what is now Ménerbes. He also hid in a cave in the Luberon , possibly near Ménerbes, from the clergy and residents of Apt who wanted to consecrate him around the year 410 .

Ménerbes, view from the east

In the Middle Ages, the city was accessible through the two gates Saint-Sauveur and Notre-Dame and was dominated by a fortress from the 13th century. In the middle of the 13th century the Carmelites founded a monastery. In 1274 Ménerbes was incorporated into the Comtat Venaissin . During the Wars of Religion , Ménerbes was a stronghold of Protestantism and occupied by Huguenots from 1573 to 1578. After the French Revolution - until 1801 - Ménerbes was chief lieu of a canton.

In the 1990s, the place became widely known through the English writer Peter Mayle ( My Year in Provence and Toujours Provence ), who described the place and life in Provence so lovingly and authentically in his novels that many tourists went in search of clues and identified his house, among other things, which prompted him to give up his place of residence.

Culture and sights

• Citadel, was destroyed in the 13th century and rebuilt in the 16th and 19th centuries.
• Saint-Hilaire Abbey
• Saint-Luc church from the 14th century
• Sainte-Blaise Chapel from the 18th century
• Houses from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
• Corkscrew Museum

See also : Monuments historiques in Ménerbes

Personalities

• Charles-Joseph Carmejane (* 1772 in Ménerbes, † 1830), Brigadier General
• Clovis Hugues (* 1851 in Ménerbes, † 1907), politician and poet
• Joe Downing (* 1925, † 2007 in Ménerbes), French-American painter

Dora Maar , Pablo Picasso's lover , owned a house in Ménerbes.

Demographics

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2008
Residents	924	891	899	1,027	1,118	1.011	1,153

age structure

22 percent of the population are 19 years of age or younger. Nine percent of the population are 75 years of age or older.

Web links

Commons : Ménerbes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Population statistics from 1793

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.provenceweb.fr/f/vaucluse/menerbes/menerbes.htm
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2012 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.