Mosset
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Pyrénées-Orientales | |
| Arrondissement | Prades | |
| Canton | Les Pyrénées Catalanes | |
| Community association | Conflent-Canigó | |
| Coordinates | 42 ° 40 ′ N , 2 ° 21 ′ E | |
| height | 558–2,459 m | |
| surface | 71.93 km 2 | |
| Residents | 308 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 4 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 66500 | |
| INSEE code | 66119 | |
| Website | mosset.fr | |
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Mosset is a French commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales in the region Occitania . It is assigned to the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and the Arrondissement Prades .
The village has been classified as one of the Plus beaux villages de France ( Most Beautiful Villages in France ) since 2003 .
geography
The southern French mountain village with 308 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) is located at a good 700 meters in the Conflent and in the valley of the Castellane , a tributary of the Têt . The municipality is located in the northeast of the Regional Nature Park Pyrénées Catalanes, about 55 kilometers west of the city of Perpignan . A 12-kilometer serpentine leads from Prades up to the village, which, calculated as the crow flies, is barely 5 kilometers southwest of the small town.
The community is comparatively large with almost 72 square kilometers. a. Also 13 kilometers away and 1506 meters high pass Col de Jau , with which Mosset "boasts" of having the smallest ski area in the world.
history
Mosset was fortified in the Middle Ages . In the early and high Middle Ages, the castle and its fiefdom belonged to the Counts of Cerdagne . The castle and the church still dominate the village today.
Population development
Around 1860 Mosset still had over 1200 inhabitants.
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 |
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| Residents | 330 | 289 | 269 | 234 | 266 | 293 | 295 |
Attractions
chapel
architecture
The chapel Chapelle Notre-Dame de Corbiac was originally built in the Romanesque style. The floor plan of the sacred building is kept simple: a semicircular, somewhat lower apse with a flat conical roof is attached to the strikingly elongated nave with a gable roof . The apse is decorated with frescoes from the 16th and 17th centuries. The two-arched small bell gable has primitive Romanesque capitals . The nave has a broken barrel vault . The gallery is from the end of the 16th century. Many parts of the original interior are now housed in the Saint-Julien church, such as a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary from the time the chapel was founded. The sacred building has been a French cultural monument since 2000 .
history
The chapel and monastery were founded in 1062 by Chevalier de Beranger Corbiac . The construction was completed in the 13th century. First mentioned in the chapel under the name is Ecclesia Sanctae Mariae Corbiaco left in a deed of 1334. 1549 Baron de Mosset Don Gérard de Cruilles spot the Mausoleum Mausolée of Cruilles de Santa Pau build, but left it in 1575 to the Order of the Trinity . Pierre d'Oriola founded a new monastery and became its first prior. Although the order attracted few monks, the abbey was soon expanded. In 1610 the Trinitarians left the place and the Augustinians took over the priory . In the course of the 18th century the importance of the place decreased continuously until it was completely forgotten with the French Revolution and the chapel slowly fell into disrepair.
Today it is owned by an English couple who are trying to restore it. The recently restored Renaissance wall paintings from the 16th century are unique in Roussillon .
Other facilities
- The remains of the medieval castle from the 11th century now house several private residences - brutally divided.
- The Église Saint-Julien church
- The watchtower Tour de Mascarda from 1242 with a square plan is halfway to the Col de Jau and testifies to the strategic importance of this pass in the Middle Ages.
- Tour des parfums is the name of a cylindrical building that houses a museum. Here visitors can playfully and interactively test and sharpen their olfactory sense of perfumes, of smells that occur when practicing various crafts, or of those that nature has in store.
- Mosset is home to the Fondation Kruger consisting founded by the couple Pitt and Yves Krüger exile School La Coume emerged. As the successor to La Coûme , the Krüger Foundation operates the international meeting place Mas de la Coume here today .
Events
The Opéra Mosset is an open-air performance that takes place in late July and early August. The event has a long tradition and a different popular opera or operetta is performed every year .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mosset ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Les plus Beaux Villages de France (French)
- ^ Adolphe Joanne : Itinéraire général de la France - Les Pyrénées . Librairie de L. Hachette et C ie , Paris 1862, Volume 3, p. 682.
- ↑ Entry no. PA66000008 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Homepage of Mas de la Coume (French)
