Meillers
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Allier | |
| Arrondissement | Moulins | |
| Canton | Souvigny | |
| Community association | Bocage Bourbonnais | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 30 ′ N , 3 ° 6 ′ E | |
| height | 240-426 m | |
| surface | 23.48 km 2 | |
| Residents | 136 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 6 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 03210 | |
| INSEE code | 03170 | |
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Meillers is a French municipality with 136 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Allier in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It is part of the Moulins arrondissement and the canton of Souvigny .
geography
The municipality is located at about 350 m above sea level between Souvigny, eight kilometers away in the east and Saint-Hilaire six kilometers away in the west, on the right bank of the river Ours , which forms a small lake here.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2016 |
| Residents | 267 | 309 | 240 | 225 | 173 | 169 | 159 | 141 |
Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Meillers
- Saint-Julien church, Romanesque (built 1180–1248) in the typical Auvergnatian style , three aisles, main and side aisles , choir and tower Romanesque, northern transept Gothic (15th century), 2 chapels from the 19th century in the south, west portal with trympanum ( Jesus Christ in a mandorla held by two angels ) and figurative decorations (10 apostles - Judas Iscariot and Thomas missing; capitals with animals making music), inside with grotesque figures decorated capitals, a " Black Madonna " from the time of construction and a stone Madonna from 1687. The church is classified as a monument historique .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de l'Allier. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-053-1 , pp. 991-992.
- Jean-François Pasty: Le gisement Paléolithique moyen de Meillers (Allier): an example de la variabilité du débitage Discoïde. In: Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française. Vol. 97, No. 2, 2000, ISSN 0037-9514 , pp. 165-190, ( digitized ; about Neolithic blade finds in the community of Meillers).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saint-Julien Church in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Web links
Commons : Meillers - collection of images, videos and audio files
