Malaucène
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| region | Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur | |
| Department | Vaucluse | |
| Arrondissement | Carpentras | |
| Canton | Vaison-la-Romaine | |
| Community association | Ventoux-Comtat-Venaissin | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 10 ′ N , 5 ° 8 ′ E | |
| height | 238-1,132 m | |
| surface | 45.33 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,903 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 64 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 84340 | |
| INSEE code | 84069 | |
| Website | http://www.malaucene.fr/ | |
 Malaucène, in the foreground the landmark, the belfry below the Calvary |
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Malaucène is a French commune with 2,903 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Vaucluse in the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur .
geography
location
The typical Provencal town is located on the western foothills of the Maritime Alps and there at the western foot of Mont Ventoux , nine kilometers south of Vaison-la-Romaine , 18 kilometers north of Carpentras and about 40 kilometers northeast of the city of Avignon on the Rhone . From Malaucène a 21 km long road leads up to the top of Mont Ventoux.
Neighboring communities
Neighboring municipalities of Malaucène are Entrechaux in the north, Beaumont-du-Ventoux in the east and Le Barroux . Other neighboring communities are in the Arrondissement Carpentras Suzette , Caromb , Bédoin and Crestet and in the Département Drôme the municipality Mollans-sur-Ouvèze .
see also: List of communes in the Vaucluse department
population
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 |
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| Residents | 1,780 | 1,940 | 1,955 | 2,096 | 2.172 | 2,537 | 2,652 |
Community partnerships
The city maintains a community partnership with the small German town of Mahlberg in Baden-Württemberg .
Attractions
- The Saint-Michel church from the 14th century, which was expanded as a fortified church by Pope Clement V. This is reflected in the high-seated arched windows of the nave , the one with loopholes equipped walls in the basement of this phenomenon and the casting bay on the west portal. Inside, the longitudinal barrel is interrupted by the rib-vaulted transverse barrel of the side chapels. The church houses an organ built in the 18th century and an oak pulpit from 1885 decorated with the figures of the church fathers .
- The belfry with its wrought iron belfry dates from the 16th century.
- City gates, wash houses and fountains from the 14th to 19th centuries.
- On a hill are the remains of a castle, probably from the 12th century. It was conquered by the Calvinists in the 16th century , later razed and converted into a calvary .
Église Saint-Michel
Porte Chaberlain (1363)
Wash house and well
Kalvarienberg (castle ruins)
- Surroundings
Almost two kilometers south-east of Malaucène, on the road to Mont Ventoux , the Groseau stream rises under a hundred-meter-high rock face, the water of which the Romans led to Vaison-la-Romaine . The aqueduct from the second half of the first century only few remains have been preserved. Petronius, Bishop of Vaison-la-Romaine, founded an abbey in 684 in the headwaters, which was already a holy place in ancient times . It was destroyed in 739 but rebuilt between 1079 and 1114. Clement V , the first Pope of Avignon , expanded the monastery into a papal palace in the 14th century. Today the palace, monastery church and farm buildings have disappeared, only the Romanesque Chapelle Notre-Dame du Groseau still stands. The main room of the chapel has an almost square floor plan, the barrel-vaulted vestibule opens to the west, the apse with semicircular dome completes the building to the east. In the south, a side chapel with a transverse barrel was added in the 12th century. Parts of frescoes have been preserved inside . In the trumpets of the eight-sided dome the evangelist symbols are depicted as high reliefs . In the chancel there is a Roman cippus with an inscription in Gallic and Greek letters, which is dedicated to a god named "Graselos".
Groseau source
chapel
dome
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economy
Since 1545 the paper mill Papeteries de Malaucène was attested, which had specialized in the production of cigarette filter tubes. It was closed in 2009 by its last owner, the Schweitzer-Mauduit Group.
Personalities
- Pope Clement V , who had designated Avignon as the seat of the Popes, spent several months in Malaucène between 1310 and 1313.
- Petrarch stayed in Malaucène in April 1336 before his literary ascent of Mont Ventoux.
literature
- Marianne Mehling: Provence and the Côte d'Azur . Weltbild-Verlag Augsburg 1998, pp. 123–124 and 155–156, ISBN 3-8289-0692-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population on the INSEE site ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Le dernier combat des salariés de la papeterie de Malaucène. In: Le Monde . July 22, 2009, accessed May 26, 2020 (French).
