Puget

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Puget
Puget Coat of Arms
Puget (France)
Puget
region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
Department Vaucluse
Arrondissement Apt
Canton Cheval-Blanc
Community association Luberon Monts de Vaucluse
Coordinates 43 ° 45 '  N , 5 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 45 '  N , 5 ° 16'  E
height 123-703 m
surface 17.9 km 2
Residents 769 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 43 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 84360
INSEE code 84093
Website mairiedepuget.over-blog.com

Entrance to the village with a church

Puget is a French municipality with 769 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Vaucluse in the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur .

geography

Puget is located in the south of the Vaucluse department and is surrounded by the municipalities of Mérindol , Mallemort , Charleval , La Roque-d'Anthéron and Lauris . The nearest major cities are Apt in the northeast ( 17 km ), Salon-de-Provence in the southwest ( 19 km ), Cavaillon in the northwest ( 20 km ) and Pertuis in the southeast ( 20 km ).

In the north of the municipality, the mountains of rises Luberon with the Luberon Regional Nature Park , to which the municipality belongs. In the south flows the Durance , which also forms the border with the Bouches-du-Rhône department .

traffic

The D973 runs south of the community center on an east-west axis. The Cheval-Blanc-Pertuis railway runs parallel to this, but has not been open to passenger traffic since 1971.

history

The oldest traces of settlement go back to late Roman times. The first documentary mention took place in 1257. Raymond and Bérangère de Puyvert were the first landlords at the beginning of the fourteenth century. The Romanesque church also dates from this period . At the time of the plague epidemics in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the place is nowhere mentioned. In 1619, Louis de Merlon, Marquis of Bressieux, and his mother Marguerite de Saint-Michel-Bressieux-Lauris signed a contract that provided for the clearing of building land for a new settlement. At the end of the nineteenth century the Protestant church was reconstructed. Geologists discovered hematite containing iron oxide . Perhaps the coat of arms symbol shows a red pencil made from this mineral.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2008
Residents 110 131 168 333 475 589 652 663

Town twinning

Attractions

protestant church
  • Notre-Dame-de-Puget Romanesque church , listed as a Historic Monument
  • protestant church
  • Castle ruins (14th century)

literature

  • Jules Courtet: Dictionnaire géographique, géologique, historique, archéologique et biographique du département du Vaucluse . Avignon 1876.
  • Robert Bailly: Dictionnaire des communes du Vaucluse . A. Barthélemy, Avignon 1986.

Web links

Commons : Puget  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The community on annuaire-mairie.fr
  2. ^ Ligne de Cheval-Blanc à Pertuis , accessed on October 27, 2011.
  3. ^ Robert Bailly: Dictionnaire des communes du Vaucluse , p. 327.
  4. ↑ Entry no. PA00082137 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)