Puymoyen
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Charente | |
| Arrondissement | Angoulême | |
| Canton | La Couronne | |
| Community association | Grand Angoulême | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 37 ′ N , 0 ° 11 ′ E | |
| height | 51-149 m | |
| surface | 7.26 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,377 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 327 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 16400 | |
| INSEE code | 16271 | |
| Website | www.puymoyen.fr | |
 Puymoyen - Église Saint-Vincent |
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Puymoyen is a municipality with 2377 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in western France Charente in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine .
location
Puymoyen is located about six kilometers (driving distance) southeast of the city of Angoulême in the old cultural landscape of the Angoumois at an altitude of about 140 meters above sea level. d. M.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2016 |
| Residents | 314 | 436 | 841 | 1573 | 2258 | 2305 | 2413 | 2388 |
In the 19th century the population increased from about 300 in 1800 to about 700 in 1900. Due to the proximity to the city of Angoulême and comparatively cheap property prices, the population of the municipality - after a slump in the decades after the Second World War - grew to over 2,400 inhabitants in the second half of the 20th century.
economy
The place is traditionally agricultural. In the late Middle Ages and early modern times, some water mills (also for paper production) were operated. Otherwise retail, craft and smaller service companies determine the economic activity of the place.
history
Bones of a Neanderthal man were found in the area of the municipality . In medieval documents the place is handed down as Poimea (1147) or Podiomea (1160).
Attractions
- The parish church of Saint-Vincent is a Romanesque building clad with precisely hewn natural stone from the 12th century with an unadorned, but divided into three storeys crossing tower by two horizontal cornices and a rather inconspicuous apse . The otherwise unadorned portal of the west facade, however, shows a clear gradation of depth with undecorated archivolt arches and two set columns. The single nave nave of the church is divided into a wider and a narrower section; below the crossing is a dome on pendentives . The church has been recognized as a monument historique since 1969 .
- The church has an impressive octagonal Romanesque baptismal font from the 13th century, the outside of which is decorated with a checkerboard pattern and small arcades , and a late Gothic Madonna and Child from the 14th century; both are separately protected.
- The name of the Château du Diable recalls the time of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453), when the English were referred to as 'diables rouges' ('red devils'). The building is privately owned; the gate was decorated with two devil figures in 1937.
- A paper mill from the 17th century that is still in operation on the Eaux-Claires stream in the hamlet of Moulin-du-Verger is considered the oldest surviving evidence of paper production in the Angoumois and has also been registered as a monument historique since 1991 .
- In the hamlet of Charsé there are the impressive remains of a former manor house, which is now part of an estate.
Partner communities
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Église Saint-Vincent, Puymoyen in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Fonts Baptismaux, Église Saint-Vincent, Puymoyen in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Vierge à l'Enfant, Église Saint-Vincent, Puymoyen in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ^ Moulin du Verger, Puymoyen in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)