Nanteuil-Auriac-de-Bourzac

Nanteuil-Auriac-de-Bourzac ; Nantuelh e Auriac de Borzac
region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Dordogne
Arrondissement	Périgueux
Canton	Ribérac
Community association	Communes du Pays Ribéracois
Coordinates	45 ° 23 ′ N , 0 ° 17 ′ E Coordinates: 45 ° 23 ′ N , 0 ° 17 ′ E
height	61-180 m
surface	20.92 km 2
Residents	224 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	11 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	24320
INSEE code	24303
	; Town hall of Nanteuil-Auriac-de-Bourzac

Nanteuil-Auriac-de-Bourzac is a French municipality with 224 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Dordogne in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine (before 2016: Aquitaine ). The municipality belongs to the Arrondissement of Périgueux and the canton of Ribérac (until 2015: canton Distriblac ).

The name in the Occitan language is Nantuelh e Auriac de Borzac . The name part "Nanteuil" comes from the Gallic word "nantoialo" ( German clearing in the valley ), which goes hand in hand with the elevated position of the village in the valley of the Lizonne . The other two parts of the name are derived from the names of the owners "Aureus" or "Bursius" or "Burtius" of estates in Gallo-Roman times .

geography

Nanteuil-Auriac-de-Bourzac is located approx. 40 km northwest of Périgueux in the Ribéracois region of the historic province of Périgord on the western border with the neighboring Charente department .

Nanteuil-Auriac-de-Bourzac is surrounded by the neighboring communities:

	Vendoire	Champagne-et-Fontaine
Salles-Lavalette (Charente)		La Chapelle-Grésignac
Palluaud (Charente)	Bouteilles-Saint-Sébastien	Saint-Martial-Viveyrol

Nanteuil-Auriac-de-Bourzac lies in the catchment area of the Dordogne river .

The Lizonne, a tributary of the Dronne , marks the border to the neighboring municipalities of Salles-Lavalette and Palluaud to the west, and thus also to that of the department. The Pude also flows through Nanteuil-Auriac-de-Bourzac and flows into the Lizonne not far from the southern tip of the municipality.

history

On January 1, 1973, the municipality of Auriac-de-Bourzac was incorporated into the municipality of Nanteuil-de-Bourzac, which from then on bears the name Nanteuil-Auriac-de-Bourzac.

From the 12th century on, a priory settled in Auriac, which was subsequently leased to the Poor Clares . Later, a Commandery of the Templar Order was set up, defended by a fortress built in the 15th century on the site of an earlier moth above the Lizonne valley. The geographical location on a river allowed the operation of four water mills during the 18th century , a sign of a certain prosperity in the two villages.

Toponymy

Toponyms and mentions of Nanteuil were:

Nantulh (1250, documents of the Order of Malta ),

Nantolium (church register of the 13th century),

Nantholiam (1382, report by Pierre des Mortiers),

Nanteuil (1750, 1793 and 1801, map from Cassini , Notice Communale and Bulletin des Lois, respectively ).

For toponyms and mentions of Auriac see:

Population development

After records began, the population rose in the first half of the 19th century to a high of around 850. In the following period, the size of the community decreased with short recovery phases until the incorporation of Auriac-de-Bourzac in the 1960s to 255 inhabitants. With the merger, the community grew to around 385 residents. The phase of stagnation ultimately continued and continues to this day.

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	2017
Residents	301	255	384	311	275	252	280	255	224

Until 1968 only residents of Nanteuil-de-Bourzac, from 1975 of Nanteuil-Auriac-de-Bourzac
From 1962 official figures without residents with a secondary residence
Sources: EHESS / Cassini until 1999, INSEE from 2006

Sign with the indication of the town twinning

Town twinning

Nanteuil-Auriac-de-Bourzac maintains over the former Canton Verteillac since 1988 a twinning with Fontanetto Po in the Italian region of Piedmont .

Attractions

Parish Church of Saint-Etienne

Parish Church of Saint-Etienne

It was built in the 12th century with a single nave , a semicircular choir and a bell tower over a dome . The dome is placed on pendentives with false trumpets . The apse is decorated on the outside with five blind arcades , which are embellished with sculptured capitals . The church was mentioned in a church register from the 13th century. The parish was under the Archpriesthood of Thiviers . It became the church of a Benedictine priory and had to be fortified during the Hundred Years War . This is evidenced by a low wall above the apse, which still exists today and which could have been reached via the earlier bell tower. In the 15th century, the two side aisles were added, which, like the main nave , were provided with a ribbed vault . The north aisle was subsequently torn down again, but the pillars and arcades of the vault can still be seen on the outer wall . In 1688 the bell tower threatened to collapse. After undergoing several restorations, it was finally rebuilt in 1922 by the architect Cavalier. The porch of the church is artfully designed in the Renaissance style. The archivolt of the entrance portal is provided with nine cartouches that are embellished with cherubins and rosettes . Above the entrance on the west side there is an oculus a little outside the vertical axis , above it a weir bay window decorated with mussel shells . The Renaissance vestibule and the capitals on the west facade have been inscribed as Monument historique since December 6, 1948 .

Inside the church there is an oil painting that has been classified as a movable object as a monument historique since May 6, 1982 . It dates from the 17th century and shows the patron saints of the Périgord and the Limousin . The 1.80 m high and 2 m wide work depicts a group of saints: Blasius von Sebaste , blessing as a bishop with a crook and miter and cope , St. Anne as an older woman with a headscarf, Antony the Great , clad in a habit and holding a stick, and St. Leonhard as a priest, holding a book.

Parish church Nativité de Notre-Dame in Auriac

Parish Church Nativité de Notre-Dame

The church dedicated to the Nativity of Mary was built in the 12th century. It was first mentioned in the scriptures in 1365 and was originally a priory subordinate to the chapter of the order of Aubeterre-sur-Dronne in what is now the Charente department. Extensive restoration work was carried out during the second half of the 19th century. Only the walls of the choir have survived from the Romanesque era. A former arched entrance and the remains of arcades and window openings can be seen on these . The current church is from cut stones and plastered rubble stone from limestone built. The bell tower was built in 1920 on a narthex , a narrow, single-storey vestibule that opens into the nave. Two side chapels flank the main nave in the north and south and form the cross arms of a transept. The main nave has a barrel vault and does not lie on the longitudinal axis of the choir, which has a quadrangular floor plan and is provided with a false ribbed vault.

Fixed house la Bourgeade

The fortress house was undoubtedly built in the 12th century, later modified and expanded. The Napoleonic cadastre from 1825 describes the house with two L-shaped living quarters, which are brought together via a round stair tower . The tracts are two-storey and made of ashlar and with plastered quarry stone made of limestone. A dovecote seems to be inserted in the southern wing. After the first quarter of the 19th century, a residence was added and farm buildings were erected opposite. The property is privately owned and is not open to the public.

Watermill du Treuil

It was drawn on the map by Pierre de Belleyme in the second half of the 18th century . At the beginning of the 16th century, the Seigneur von Auriac had an oil mill built over the Lizonne to process the walnuts from his forests. Under his influence and that of the Seigneurs of La Valette, the region experienced prosperity over several centuries. This fed the need for an expansion and the mill was expanded to include three pairs of millstones for grinding grain. In 1809 the company produced five quintals of flour a day. The mill remained in the possession of the Auriac seigneurs until 1831. The introduction of steam power and electricity led to the decline of the company and finally to a standstill in 1931. In 2001 the now decaying ruin was bought by a couple who restored the building and furnished some with holiday apartments.

Watermill du Pont

It was drawn on the maps of Pierre de Belleyme and Cassini in the second half of the 18th century. Most of the mill was rebuilt in the same century. It was equipped with two water wheels with two pairs of grinding stones and an oil press . At the beginning of the 20th century, the production facility was converted into a barn and a new residential building was built to the northwest. Today only part of the south facade with a water wheel is left of the former mill.

Auriac watermill

It was built in a rectangular plan on a weir above the Lizonne. This mill was also marked on the maps of Pierre de Belleyme and Cassini in the second half of the 18th century. In 1809 the company was equipped with three water wheels and produced 24 to 30 quintals of flour a day. In 1936, however, the daily output fell to seven quintals. The mill now had a vertical and a horizontal water wheel and two pairs of grinding stones. The milling of grain ceased in the 1950s. The mill was subsequently redesigned, with part of the equipment being preserved.

Poirier watermill

It was marked in the second half of the 18th century on the map of Pierre de Belleyme as the Perier mill. The mill was housed in a rectangular building that was built as a weir over the Pude. In 1864 the paper mill , which has now disappeared, was equipped with a water wheel on the side, three machines for shredding the wool and a washing cylinder. From the wheat mill only the inlet to the vertical waterwheel still exists today, the oil mill, however, has been completely preserved. Flour and nut oil were produced here until 1945/46.

More buildings

17th century house in the hamlet of la Guillermie
Farm in the hamlet of la Reinerie from the 17th century
Farm in the hamlet of la Fontenelle from the 17th century
Manoir de Bourzac, remains of a 15th century castle to the north-west of the center of the municipality
Manoir de Reinerie, 16th century villa to the west of the center

Economy and Infrastructure

Logo of the Charentes-Poitou butter

Nanteuil-Auriac-de-Bourzac is located in the AOC zones of the Charentes-Poitou , Charentes and Deux-Sèvres butter varieties as well as the Noix du Périgord , the walnuts of the Périgord, and the nut oil of the Périgord.

Active workplaces by industry on December 31, 2015
total = 38

sport and freetime

The Boucle de Petit Bourzac circuit is 5.8 km long with a difference in altitude of 79 m. It leads from the center through the area of the municipality.

traffic

The Route départementale 1, Route départementale 24 in the neighboring department of Charente, Nanteuil-Auriac-de-Bourzac crosses from west to east and connects the town to the west of Salles-Lavalette and in the east with Saint-Martial-Viveyrol and in the further course of Perigueux. The route départementale 100 crosses the municipality from north to south and connects it in the north with La Chapelle-Grésignac and in the south with Bouteilles-Saint-Sébastien and further on with Périgueux. The commune can also be reached via route départementale 89 of the Charente department, which connects it with the neighboring municipality of Palluaud.