Mant
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Country | |
| Arrondissement | Mont-de-Marsan | |
| Canton | Chalosse Tursan | |
| Community association | Chalosse Tursan | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 35 ′ N , 0 ° 30 ′ W | |
| height | 68-208 m | |
| surface | 19.34 km 2 | |
| Residents | 271 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 14 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 40700 | |
| INSEE code | 40172 | |
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Mant is a French municipality with 271 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of land in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine (before 2016: Aquitaine ). The municipality belongs to the arrondissement of Mont-de-Marsan and the canton of Chalosse Tursan (until 2015: canton of Hagetmau ).
The name in the Gascognischen language is also Mant . Its origin is unclear. It could be derived from the word “mont” ( German mountain ) or come from the pre-Latin mantello ( German way ).
The inhabitants are called Mantois and Mantoises .
geography
Mant is located about 35 km south of Mont-de-Marsan in the Tursan region of the historic province of Gascony on the southern border with the neighboring Pyrénées-Atlantiques department .
Mant is surrounded by the neighboring communities:
| Monségur | Samadet | |
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Arboucave | |
| Peyre | Monget |
Malaussanne (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) |
Mant lies in the catchment area of the Adour River .
The Luy de France , a tributary of the Adour, crosses the territory of the commune, as does its tributaries,
- the Ruisseau Larritou and
- the larbin that rises in Mant and its tributary,
- the Ruisseau de Larruton, also called Ruisseau de Baillé.
Mant is also irrigated by the Canal du Biélongue, a tributary of the Louts .
history
Archaeological excavations have unearthed remnants of prehistory and early history . This is especially true for two tumuli in the neighborhoods Basté and Tourouns.
The barrow of Basté was first excavated in 1920 and some of the finds were deposited in the town hall, where they were soon forgotten. The barrow was leveled, but its location could sometimes be identified from the air. A soil survey in 1995 made it possible to calculate the diameter of the site at 13 meters. A little flint and sculpted partially gravel as well as a fragment of a box made of ceramic were recovered. The original find in the form of three fragments of torques made of bronze with fluting in the longitudinal direction were then also found again. One of these pieces of jewelry has even retained its two stamped ends. Due to the lack of decorations on the ceramic parts, metal finds were compared with other objects from the region and these were finally dated to the Hallstatt period. The burial mound probably comes from the same era.
On May 28, 1994, a flight was carried out that revealed the Touruns barrow on property that had been deforested in 1992. These finds also come from the Hallstatt period. They are part of a burial site on an existing burial mound. A polished ax that was found elsewhere in 1986 is further evidence of the settlement of the area as early as the Neolithic Age .
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The origins of the parish undoubtedly go back to the Middle Ages . The existence of a moth is believed to have protected the surrounding village. A wide moat surrounded the entire settlement. The owner of the castle was the Seigneur of Arboucave. As a result, Mant was a fiefdom of the Cistercian monastery in the Pontaut district, which was founded in 1115. It was not spared from the Huguenot Wars . In November 1569, the church and buildings were looted by Protestant troops, some of which were set on fire and damaged. The neighboring forest was cut down at the same time. After the war, fewer monks settled down in the ruins again. During the French Revolution , the monastery was sold as a national good and subsequently used as accommodation for pack animals. In 1930 the monastery was bought by John D. Rockefeller , who removed the chapter house brick by brick and had it rebuilt in the Cloisters , a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City . Only the facade of the monastery church remains in Mant, which is now used as an agricultural building.
Population development
After records began, the population rose to a peak of around 900 by the middle of the 19th century. In the period that followed, the size of the community sank to around 270 inhabitants during short recovery phases until the turn of the millennium, before a certain stabilization at this level began.
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2010 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 420 | 379 | 329 | 331 | 322 | 273 | 278 | 289 | 271 |
Attractions
Parish Church of Saint-Fabien-et-Saint-Sébastien
The first parish church of Mant was dedicated to St. Peter and was built in the Middle Ages . It was located in the middle of the communal cemetery, southwest of today's center of the community. The local Seigneur Momus d'Arboucave had it built so that the residents would not go to the Pontaut Abbey. In 1569 it was destroyed by Protestant troops led by Gabriel de Lorges , Count of Montgomery, rebuilt in the 17th century and restored in 1846. It had a single nave and a bell gable . The length of the building was 20 meters, the width six meters. Nevertheless, gradually fewer services took place in the church. The condition of the church deteriorated and the parish had no funds for restoration. Eventually it was demolished in the 1990s to enlarge the cemetery. After a plague epidemic in the middle of the 17th century, which cost part of the population their lives, the villagers made a vow to build a chapel in honor of the patron saints Fabianus and Sebastian . With the shift in the center of the parish, the chapel eventually became the main place of worship in the parish. After the French Revolution, the chapel was provisionally restored. On May 3, 1845, it was closed due to its too small size and its poor condition. A first new building project was designed in 1841. The work was carried out by the entrepreneur Pédeboscq from Orthez according to plans by the architect of the Jules Sibien department between September 1847 and September 1849. Due to quarrels between the entrepreneur and the community, construction work dragged on until 1852. On April 11, 1890, during a violent thunderstorm, lightning struck the bell tower and caused great damage to the church. a. the glass windows were destroyed. The damage was then repaired. During the 20th century, the church was restored and given a new coat of paint. In 1950 the bell was renewed and the roof a year later. In 1979 the interior of the church was renovated. The classical style church has a nave with three naves. The main nave opens to the side aisles via arched arcades with visible bricks . It is lengthened by a semicircular choir flanked by two sacristies . To the west, the square bell tower rises from the building. He is equipped with an octagonal helmet that is covered with slate . The walls of the church are built with a mixture of quarry stone from limestone and ferrous sandstone , called Garluche , the frames of the arched windows and the entrance door from ashlar .
When it was built in the middle of the 19th century, the current church took over some of the furnishings from the previous church, an altar painting with the image of St. Peter, signed by the painter Léonard Fortuné and made in 1870 or 1878, an altar accessory made of gilded wood the 18th century and a small bell made in 1876 by bell founder U. Dencausse from Tarbes . The other equipment seems to have been acquired specifically for the new church, including a. the marble main altar from 1841, the neoclassical side altar, consecrated to the Heart of Jesus and a simplistic replica of the main altar, and another side altar in honor of the Virgin Mary , made by the marble cutter Barrau from Toulouse after 1906. Ten glass windows are works by the glass painter Gustave Pierre Dagrant from Bordeaux from 1877. They show Saints Sebastion, Fabianus (as Pope ) and Peter as well as a representation of the immaculate conception . The other windows show symbolic motifs, a chalice and host , a scapular , the dove of the Holy Spirit , a rosary , the Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary .
Economy and Infrastructure
The community tries to diversify its economy, which is mainly based on the cultivation of corn.
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education
The community has a public primary school with 20 students in the 2017/2018 school year.
sport and freetime
The Au trot'Mant company offers horse-drawn carriage rides through the municipality.
traffic
Mant can be reached via Routes départementales 18, 73 (Pyrénées-Atlantiques: 664), 118 and 173.
Web links
- Mant on the association's website (French)
- Website of Au trot'Mant (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mant ( fr ) Gasconha.com. Retrieved July 14, 2018.
- ↑ a b c Odette Castaignos-Baqué: Mant, d'hier et d'aujourd'hui ( fr ) 1997. Accessed July 14, 2018.
- ↑ Landes ( fr ) habitants.fr. Retrieved July 14, 2018.
- ↑ Ma commune: Mant ( fr ) Système d'Information sur l'Eau du Bassin Adour Garonne. Retrieved July 14, 2018.
- ↑ a b Mant ( fr ) Regional Council of Aquitaine. Archived from the original on September 12, 2016. Retrieved July 14, 2018.
- ↑ Notice Communale Mant ( fr ) EHESS . Retrieved July 14, 2018.
- ↑ Populations légales 2015 Commune de Mant (40172) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved July 14, 2018.
- ↑ église paroissiale Saint-Fabien-et-Saint-Sébastien ( fr ) Ministry of Culture and Communication . Retrieved July 14, 2018.
- ↑ le mobilier de l'église paroissiale Saint-Fabien-et-Saint-Sébastien ( fr ) Ministry of Culture and Communication . Retrieved July 14, 2018.
- ↑ ensemble de 10 verrières: Saint Sébastien, Saint Fabien, Saint Pierre, Immaculée Conception, symboles (baies 1 à 10) ( fr ) Ministry of Culture and Communication . Retrieved July 14, 2018.
- ↑ Caractéristiques des établissements en 2015 Commune de Mant (40172) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved July 14, 2018.
- ^ École élémentaire ( fr ) National Ministry of Education. Retrieved July 14, 2018.
- ↑ Balades en calèche - Au Trot'Mant ( fr ) Comité Départemental du Tourisme des Landes. Retrieved July 14, 2018.