Macqueville

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Macqueville
Macqueville (France)
Macqueville
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Charente-Maritime
Arrondissement Saint-Jean-d'Angély
Canton Matha
Community association Vals de Saintonge
Coordinates 45 ° 48 ′  N , 0 ° 13 ′  W Coordinates: 45 ° 48 ′  N , 0 ° 13 ′  W
height 22-97 m
surface 11.21 km 2
Residents 290 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 26 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 17490
INSEE code

Macqueville - Saint-Etienne Church

Macqueville is a western French community with 290 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Charente-Maritime in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine .

location

Macqueville lies at an altitude of about 50 meters above sea level. d. M. about 17 kilometers (driving distance) northeast of Cognac in the north of the cultural landscape of the Angoumois . The main town of the arrondissement, Saint-Jean-d'Angély is about 35 kilometers northwest; the lovely small town Matha is only about 15 kilometers away in the same direction.

economy

A medieval document shows that wheat , wine , millet , parsnips and beans were grown as food crops, but also hemp and flax were grown as crops for the production of fabrics, ropes and sacks. Macqueville is located in the Fins Bois growing area within the wine-growing region of the exclusively white Cognac wines Ugni Blanc , Folle Blanche and Colombard . In addition, grain (wheat, maize) and animal feed are also grown.

Population development

While the place still had around 600 inhabitants around 1800, the population had already declined after the phylloxera crisis at the end of the 19th century; the increasing mechanization of agriculture since the 1950s and the associated destruction of jobs caused the population to fall again significantly.

year 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2017
Residents 421 356 305 276 294 297 290

history

It is believed that the place name is derived from a Roman villa rustica near Via Agrippa , the ancient connection between Bordeaux ( Burtigala ), Saintes ( Mediolanum ) and Clermont ( Augustonemetum ) . A written document from 1686 shows that the place belonged to the Seigneur de Montespan , had 80 fireplaces and the soil was well suited for the cultivation of grain and wine.

Attractions

Saint-Etienne church, interior

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Macqueville

  • The Romanesque church of Saint-Étienne is - despite its unspectacular appearance at first glance - the most important attraction of the place. The west facade is largely unstructured and unadorned; the portal wall has four set columns and a jagged arch, a decorative element that is repeated in the arching of the west window. Below the gable is a simple console frieze. The portal on the north side, on the other hand, is decidedly more richly decorated: three columns on each side carry the archivolts , which are decorated with abstract-vegetable motifs; the outer arch shows various mythical animals with an Agnus Dei in the middle, to whom an angel pays his respects with a censer. The final console frieze shows animal and human figures as well as monsters that are about to devour people. In contrast to the southern outer wall, that of the north side is structured by large blind arches; the tower has a side spiral staircase ( vis ), but the upper part has remained unfinished. The single-nave interior of the church surprises with a rich wall structure of double blind arches and half-column templates with beautiful capital decorations, which mainly consists of tendrils and foliage, but some figurative motifs can also be recognized. The crossing , transept and late Gothic flat choir have stone vaults instead of the wooden roof in the nave. The church was classified as a monument historique in 1931 .
  • Only sparse remains of the former Château de Bouchereau have survived , including part of a facade with a pepper box on the side .
  • In 2004 a kind of theme park on the theme of 'wine' ( le cep enchanté ) was set up.

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Charente-Maritime. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-84234-129-5 , pp. 438-439.

Individual evidence

  1. Église Saint-Étienne, Macqueville in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Web links

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