Manzat
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Puy-de-Dôme | |
| Arrondissement | Riom | |
| Canton | Saint-Georges-de-Mons | |
| Community association | Combrailles Sioule et Morge | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 58 ′ N , 2 ° 56 ′ E | |
| height | 528-979 m | |
| surface | 39.06 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,371 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 35 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 63410 | |
| INSEE code | 63206 | |
Manzat is a French commune with 1,371 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Puy-de-Dôme in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It belongs to the arrondissement of Riom and the canton of Saint-Georges-de-Mons .
The municipality is located 30 km northwest of Clermont-Ferrand in the Monts Dômes on the Regional Nature Park Volcans d'Auvergne ( French Parc naturel régional des Volcans d'Auvergne ).
Neighboring communities
- Chapdes-Beaufort in the southwest
- Charbonnières-les-Varennes in the south-east
- Charbonnières-les-Vieilles in the northeast
- Loubeyrat to the east
- Pulvérières in the south
- Saint-Angel in the north
- Saint-Georges-de-Mons to the west
- Vitrac in the northwest
history
Manzat is on the Roman road that connected Riom to Évaux-les-Bains . The place was called Amanziaco in 1163 and then Manzac in 1392 .
A district of Manzat is Le Bouchet (also called Vauluisant); here is the Cistercian abbey Le Bouchet-Vauluisant , which was founded in 1192 in the filiation of Morimond by Robert IV , Count of Auvergne , for monks from Val-Honnête . The abbey temporarily became the burial place of the Counts of Auvergne (for example Robert VII , John I , Guy de Boulogne ).
Population development
- 1962: 1390
- 1968: 1391
- 1975: 1325
- 1982: 1434
- 1990: 1362
- 1999: 1264
Personalities
- François Delarue , physician (1788–1842)
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Town twinning
- Saint-Crespin-sur-Moine in the Maine-et-Loire department , part of the municipality of Sèvremoine since 2016
literature
- Eugène Tallon: Chemin de fer de Montluçon à Clermont par Saint-Eloi, Manzat et Volvic , Versailles, 1874
- Dictionnaire des fiefs de la Basse-Auvergne , in: Bulletin historique et scientifique de l'Auvergne, Volume 2, 1943
- Dictionnaire historique du Puy-de-Dôme
- Michel Provost, Christine Menessier-Jouannet: Le Puy-de-Dôme , Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres , Paris, 1994
- Manzat: commémoration du centenaire de la Mairie, 13, 14, 15 août 1983 , Mairie de Manzat, 1984
- FC Busset: Atlas topographique, statistique et géologique du Puy-de-Dôme ,
- Guillaume Maury: Atlas du département du Puy-de-Dôme par cantons , 12th sheet, 1844
- G. Garde: Les anciens volcans de la région de Manzat (Puy-de-Dôme) , Volume 22, 1922, in: Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France
- Madeleine Ameil: Les Tufs viséens et les mirogranites de la région de Manzat (Puy-de-Dôme) , Paris, 1963
- Notre clocher: Bulletin paroissial de Manzat- L'Ave manzatois , 1946
- René Bouscayrol: Sous l'œil de Couthon: le recensement des tours et châteaux-forts dans les cantons d'Artonne, Combronde et Manzat , Brayauds et Combrailles, No. 37, 1983
