Oppède
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| region | Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur | |
| Department | Vaucluse | |
| Arrondissement | Apt | |
| Canton | Apt | |
| Community association | Luberon Monts de Vaucluse | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 51 ' N , 5 ° 10' E | |
| height | 103-733 m | |
| surface | 24.1 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,332 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 55 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 84580 | |
| INSEE code | 84086 | |
| Website | oppede.fr | |
 Oppède-le-Vieux |
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Oppède is a French commune with 1,332 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Vaucluse in the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur .
geography
Oppède is about eleven kilometers east of Cavaillon and is neighboring with the municipalities of Maubec , Beaumettes , Lacoste and Ménerbes .
The community extends over several districts. It is located on the northern slope of the Luberon Mountains, above an overgrown rock ledge, surrounded by a magnificent rocky backdrop, the wild forests of the Luberon Regional Nature Park and the cultural landscape of a wine-growing region. The municipality is spread over the Luberon Mountains in the south, the adjacent hill country and the alluvial plain of the Coulon . The district of Poulivets in the valley is at an altitude of 140 m .
history
The first traces of human settlement go back to Roman times. The place quickly developed into a fortress and is mentioned for the first time in 1008. In 1044 Oppède belonged to the county of Forcalquier , then to Guillaume and Bertrand d'Agout. The castle was built around 1200 by Count Raimund VI. de Toulouse built on the foundations of an older fortress. In 1209 Raimund VI handed over. de Toulouse the associated marquisate to Pope Innocent III. The castle of Oppède was entrusted to the monks of Montmajour . In 1274 Oppède finally became papal property.
In the 16th century the place experienced an upswing. The church and the fortifications were built. 1501 handed over to Alexander VI. the papal fiefdom to the Seneschal Acuse de Maynier. After his death, his son Jean Maynier succeeded him and, with the blessing of the Pope, enforced a decree in 1545 that provided for the persecution of the Waldenses and led to the Mérindol massacre . Maynier's daughter passed the castle on to Jean de Forbin as a dowry.
Part of the castle was destroyed by an earthquake in 1731. In 1793 revolutionaries looted the Romanesque church at the foot of the castle and desecrated two of the Maynier graves. In the 19th century, an increasing depopulation of the place began, which was last almost uninhabited. In 1911 the town hall was transferred to the valley to Oppède-les-Poulivets. In 1936 there were only around ten residents. Since the time of the Second World War, the morbid charm of the Oppéde-le-Vieux district in particular has been discovered by artists and dropouts who have settled there. Today this place is very popular with vacation home owners and tourists, leading to its reactivation and a slow population increase. Today Oppède has a functioning community with a school, sports fields, etc.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2008 |
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| Residents | 867 | 902 | 907 | 1,015 | 1,127 | 1,226 | 1.311 | 1,336 |
Attractions
The Notre-Dame-d'Alidon (or Notre-Dame-de-Dolidon) church is located above the old town and is one of the few structures that has not been destroyed in this area. The church was built in Romanesque style, reworked in 1547 after the Waldensian War and later expanded several times with Gothic style elements. It is a fine example of a collegiate church from the twelfth century.
The tower ruins of a medieval castle and the remains of an old merchant's shop are worth seeing, as are pretty houses from the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries and four recently restored lavoirs . Also worth seeing is a Sator square on one of the stones of the fortification.
Other sights are the chapel of the Pénitents blancs in the old town, in the direction of the church, and the Saint Antonin chapel in the valley, in the direction of the old railway line. The remains of an old fortification can be observed in the historic town center. In the southwest corner, a tower on the edge of a precipice can be seen in particular. The internal stairs have disappeared, but the "toilet" can be reached with a little climbing. The top of the tower is connected to the rest of the castle by a dizzying archway. According to a legend, antipope Benedict XIII. fled over them with the help of the devil. Not much is left of the castle itself, a few vaulted rooms have been identified in recent years. Also of interest are the Saint-Augustin mill as well as the old Sainte-Cécile terraces and a landscaped garden, a complex with 15 terraces on which over 80 rustic species of herb plants, shrubs and trees from the Luberon grow.
Personalities
- Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry (1901–1979), Salvadoran artist and writer
- Jean-Paul Clébert (1926–2011), French writer
literature
- François Berjot, Lucien Bourgue, Émile Obled, Robert Harbonnier, Christiane Faivet, Michel Wannery, Yvette Dalou: Une terre de Provence sous la Révolution. Le pays d'Apt . n ° special d'Archipal, Apt, 1990, 1990.
Web links
- Official website (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The community on annuaire-mairie.fr
- ^ The parish on the Provence website
- ↑ Pierre Miquel: Les Guerres de religion , Club France Loisirs, 1980, ISBN 978-2-7242-0785-9 , p. 120.
- ↑ Oppède le Vieux - Un village chargé d'histoire ( Memento of the original dated November 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
