Nadaillac-de-Rouge

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Nadaillac-de-Rouge
Nadaillac-de-Rouge (France)
Nadaillac-de-Rouge
region Occitania
Department Lot
Arrondissement Gourdon
Canton Souillac
Community association Causses et Vallée de la Dordogne
Coordinates 44 ° 51 ′  N , 1 ° 26 ′  E Coordinates: 44 ° 51 ′  N , 1 ° 26 ′  E
height 98-270 m
surface 7.73 km 2
Residents 159 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 21 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 46350
INSEE code 46209

Nadaillac-de-Rouge is a French commune with 159 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Lot department in the Occitanie region (until 2015 Midi-Pyrénées ). It belongs to the Arrondissement of Gourdon and to the community association Causses et Vallée de la Dordogne, founded in 2016 . The residents are called Nadaillacais .

geography

The municipality is located in the northwest of the Lot between the landscapes of Périgord in the west and Haut Quercy in the southeast, about 20 kilometers east-southeast of Sarlat-la-Canéda and ten kilometers southwest of Souillac . The calcareous soil does not allow any above-ground running waters in the municipality. The landscape is characterized by vast forests, which make up two thirds of the 7.73 km² community. The north-western border of the commune with the Dordogne department and the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region is marked by the Ruisseau de Tournefeuille river , just before its confluence with the Dordogne . The largest districts of the municipality of Padirac are Travail, La Croix, Les Cassagnes, Andreuilles, La Garenne, Les Estiades, Arteil, Les Espioles, Las Bouffios and Les Bories d'Arties . Padirac is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Le Roc in the north, Lanzac in the east, Loupiac in the southeast, Lamothe-Fénelon in the south and Saint-Julien-de-Lampon in the west.

Place name

The place name Nadaillac is based on the Latin anthroponym Natalius . The ending -ac is a typical Gallic suffix. The suffix -de-Rouge indicates a presumably Germanic person named Hrogis . The name of the community appears for the first time in 1504 in a document. In 1801 the spelling Nadailhac-des-Rouges was used for a time . From 1806 Nadaillac-de-Rouge was part of the municipality of Le Roc together with Mareuil ; In 1928 it was spun off again and re-established.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2016
Residents 96 89 86 92 96 101 172 160
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

Château de Nadaillac
Saint-Pierre church

The Château de Nadaillac is a castle above the village and has been a monument historique since 1930 . From 1450 the members of the Pouget de Nadaillac family were the lords of the castle. During the Hundred Years War, parts of the castle were destroyed by the English, and later the building was converted into a Renaissance castle. The Saint-Pierre church was classified as a monument historique in 1930. It dates from the 15th century, has a Gothic bell tower and a pentagonal apse. It used to be the castle's chapel. Next to the bell tower, under the roof, there are the coats of arms of the lords of the castle, those of Pouget . The church was also affected in the fighting against the English; you can still see arquebus bullet holes today. The monument to the fallen was inaugurated in 1923.

Economy and Infrastructure

In the municipality of Nadaillac-de-Rouge there is a bakery, a butcher and small craft shops. In addition to tourism (holiday apartments and a hotel with a restaurant), agriculture also plays a role in the municipality. 15 farms are located in Nadaillac-de-Rouge (grain cultivation, orchards, cattle breeding).

The D 820 from Souillac to Cahors runs through the east of the municipality of Nadaillac-de-Rouge . There is a connection to the ( Autoroute A20 ) in Souillac, ten kilometers away . The Souillac train station is located on the railway line from Paris via Orléans to Montauban ( Ligne des Aubrais - Orléans à Montauban-Ville-Bourbon ).

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Gaston Bazalgues: À la découverte des noms de lieux du Quercy: Toponymie lotoise, Gourdon, Éditions de la Bouriane et du Quercy, June 2002, 127 pp. ( ISBN 2-910540-16-2 ), p. 117 (French)
  2. ↑ toponym on cassini.ehess.fr (French)
  3. ↑ Nadaillac-de-Rouge on cassini.ehess.fr
  4. ↑ Nadaillac-de-Rouge on insee.fr
  5. ^ Entry in the Base Mérimée of the Ministry of Culture. Retrieved June 7, 2019 (French).
  6. ↑ Saint-Pierre Church on patrimoines.laregion.fr. Retrieved June 7, 2019 (French).
  7. ↑ Farmers in Nadaillac-de-Rouge on annuaire-mairie.fr (French)

Web links

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