Mosnac (Charente-Maritime)

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Mosnac
Mosnac (France)
Mosnac
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Charente-Maritime
Arrondissement Jonzac
Canton Pons
Community association Haute-Saintonge
Coordinates 45 ° 30 ′  N , 0 ° 31 ′  W Coordinates: 45 ° 30 ′  N , 0 ° 31 ′  W
height 17-39 m
surface 12.44 km 2
Residents 466 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 37 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 17240
INSEE code

West facade of the Saint-Saturnin church

Mosnac , also Mosnac sur Seugne , is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region , France . It belongs to the canton of Pons and the arrondissement of Jonzac and is a member of the Communauté de communes de la Haute-Saintonge, founded in 1992 .

Geographical location

The core town is immediately west of the Seugne , which has several arms here. The D 134 road from Jonzac to Belluire leads west past the core settlement, the D146 from Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge to Saint-Grégoire-d'Ardennes and Marignac south; they cross on the southwest edge of the core town. Pons, about 9 km to the north, can be reached via the D 134 to Belluire and from there via the D 137.

history

Since the 11th century the Seigneurie Mosnac was owned by the Gartrade family, who also owned the castle in Jonzac. At the beginning of the 14th century and Mosnac Jonzac came as a result of successive marriages to the Taillefer de Montausier, a 1031 founded a branch line of the Graf house Taillefer of Angoulême . and as early as 1320 to the Sainte-Maure. The Seigneurie Mosnac still belonged to the Sainte-Maure in the late 17th century, but came into the hands of the Marquise de Dunes in the 18th century. As a result of the revolution , a Mr. Broussart from Pons bought the castle in Mosnac. In 1841 the castle was demolished and the land belonging to it was sold to private individuals.

Population development

  • 1793: 721
  • 1800: 765
  • 1821: 782
  • 1836: 714
  • 1846: 668
  • 1861: 661
  • 1876: 653
  • 1901: 625
  • 1921: 575
  • 1936: 547
  • 1946: 504
  • 1962: 491
  • 1975: 436
  • 1982: 439
  • 1990: 431
  • 1999: 448
  • 2008: 470
  • 2013: 457

Attractions

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Mosnac (Charente-Maritime)

Parish Church of Saint-Saturnin

East elevation with tower and apse
Nave

The Romanesque parish church of Saint-Saturnin is since 1990 as a monument historique historical monument, the west facade and the apse since 1913. The building dates mainly from the 12th century. In the 15th century, a three- bay aisle was added to the originally single-nave church with a semicircular apse . A step portal with five staggered arches and archivolts decorated with simple motifs takes up almost the entire width of the original west facade ; only on the right and left is a relatively small blind portal. Above this, a blind arch with five round arches on pilasters flanked by slender half-columns extends over almost the entire width of the facade; only the middle arch contains a window. The archivolts and capitals are ornately decorated. The facade of the aisle, which was added in the 15th century, is unadorned and broken up by a small door and an arched window. The outside of the apse adjoining the crossing supporting the mighty tower is extremely richly decorated. The compact tower has a square floor plan and a tiled pyramid roof . To prevent a collapse, probably in the 15th century, the outer wall was reinforced on its north and south sides by adding a second wall, which rests in the lower part on a blind arcade with two arches on a central half-column. The original wall is still visible in this area. Under the roof, the tower has three square openings that were once used for observation and defense, but now serve as sound hatches . Inside the church, the crossing and the chancel in the apse are richly painted. There are wall paintings from the Romanesque period on the long south wall of the nave . The front wall of the aisle is decorated with paintings dedicated to Mary (mother of Jesus) .

Notre-Dame-des-Champs chapel

Notre-Dame-des-Champs chapel

The Notre-Dame-des-Champs chapel stands in the midst of the fields about 200 m southwest of the town center on the D 146, west of the railway line from Pons to Jonzac and the D 134. It was owned by the owners of the Château de towards the end of the 19th century Favières built after their daughter was healed after a pilgrimage to Lourdes . On the brick dome of the small, cylindrical structure stands a statue of the Virgin Mary , which looks out over the surrounding fields and vineyards. Two ornate cornices run around the top of the cylinder and the bottom of the dome. The door is framed by pilasters that support a gable arch. One of the windows shows a sower throwing seeds with the child under the eyes of Mary.

Château de Favieres

The Château de Favières , built at the beginning of the 17th century, is located on the D 134 about 600 m south of the core settlement. A previous building and the land were bought in 1598 by Louis de Foix (~ 1536–1602), the first master builder of the Cordouan lighthouse , who was also raised to the nobility . His son Pierre de Foix sold the property to Jean de Saint-Mauris in 1616 at the latest, and Jean de Saint-Mauris had the castle significantly expanded, essentially to its present appearance.

The Château de Favières

The castle, on the east side of the property, has two floors and is flanked at both ends of the corps de logis by a three-story pavilion with a slate-covered tent roof . The northeast pavilion was redesigned in a pseudo-medieval style in the late 19th century. In the north, at right angles to the west, a short, two-story, single-axis side wing is attached, to which a three-story tower-like pavilion with a flat roof and battlements adjoins in the west . On the east side a flight of stairs leads down a stone staircase into the garden; this suggests that the building was once, at least partially, surrounded by a moat. In the 19th century, a long, low and architecturally very simple side wing was added to the southwest pavilion of the Corps de Logis as a straight extension of the main building. Today the castle is divided into several apartments; it is therefore not accessible to the public.

The southwest side of the property is occupied by an elongated wing of former stables and utility rooms. Its outer wall, which runs along the D 134 road, is enclosed at both ends by a pseudo watchtower, a cylindrical one in the northwest and a square in the southeast. The latter is the entrance to the park as well as the entrance to the changing exhibitions of contemporary painting and sculpture that take place there from April to September in the Center Artistique du Château de Favières and in the castle park.

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Charente-Maritime. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-84234-129-5 , pp. 827-828.

Footnotes

  1. ^ De Sainte-Maure
  2. ^ Mosnac: Histoire, on the website of the municipality (French)
  3. ^ Eglise Saint-Saturnin, Mosnac, in the Base Mérimée
  4. ^ L'église Saint-Saturnin, on the municipality's website

Web links

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