Menigoute

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Menigoute
Coat of arms of Ménigoute
Ménigoute (France)
Menigoute
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Deux-Sèvres
Arrondissement Parthenay
Canton La Gâtine
Community association Parthenay-Gâtine
Coordinates 46 ° 30 ′  N , 0 ° 3 ′  W Coordinates: 46 ° 30 ′  N , 0 ° 3 ′  W
height 122-181 m
surface 19.22 km 2
Residents 859 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 45 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 79340
INSEE code 79176
Website Menigoute

Ménigoute - Chapelle Jean Boucard

Ménigoute is a place and a western French community with 859 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Deux-Sèvres in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine .

location

The place Ménigoute is located on the north bank of the Vonne river in the historic landscape of the Gâtiné poitevine at an altitude of about 160 m above sea level. d. M. about 25 km (driving distance) south of Parthenay or about 36 km southwest of Poitiers .

Population development

year 1800 1851 1901 1954 1999 2013
Residents 880 1.002 1,030 923 864 870

The slight population decline in the 20th century is mainly due to the loss of jobs as a result of the mechanization of agriculture .

economy

For centuries, the residents of the village lived on the yields of their fields and gardens as self-sufficiency . Viticulture and livestock farming were also practiced to a small extent. Agriculture continues to play a leading role in the municipality's economic life.

history

The historical development of the place is to a large extent connected with the former Benedictine - and later Cistercian - monastery of Les Châtelliers , about 8 km to the west . Marie d'Anjou , the widow of the French King Charles VII , died there on November 29, 1463 on the way back from a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela . However, it was not until the 20s or 30s of the 16th century that the former administrator of Les Châtelliers Abbey, Jehan Boucard, founded a hospice in Ménigoute.

Attractions

  • The Chapelle Jean Boucard was formerly part of a hospital for the poor or a pilgrim hospital, but it was already used in the religious wars of the 16th and 17th centuries. It was partially destroyed in the 19th century and completely destroyed in the French Revolution . The late Gothic building is unusually richly furnished for the rural location of the place; it was classified as a Monument historique as early as 1862 .
  • The parish church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste is a single-nave building from the late 14th century, which received its current tower in the 19th century.
  • In the square behind the church there is another late Gothic monument, which is sometimes referred to as the Hosanna cross or the death lantern . It was built on the former cemetery in the 14th century, but was thoroughly restored in 1552 and has been recognized as a monument historique since 1883 .
  • The privately owned late medieval castle is only a few meters away.
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  • The Château de la Barre , restored by its new owner at the beginning of the 21st century, dates from the 18th century and is also privately owned.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chapelle Jean Boucard, Ménigoute in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  2. ↑ Croix hosannière, Ménigoute in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)