Quinsac (Dordogne)

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Quinsac
Quinçac
Quinsac (France)
Quinsac
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Dordogne
Arrondissement Nontron
Canton Brantôme
Community association Dronne et Belle
Coordinates 45 ° 26 '  N , 0 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 26 '  N , 0 ° 42'  E
height 115-230 m
surface 17.37 km 2
Residents 362 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 21 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 24300
INSEE code 24346

The Saint-Saturnin local church of Quinsac

Quinsac , Occitan Quinçac , is a French municipality with 362 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) of the North department Dordogne in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . It is on the border of the Périgord-Limousin Regional Nature Park .

etymology

Quinsac, Occitan Quinçac , still called Quinciacum in 1151 , is derived from the Gallo-Roman proper name Quintius and the final syllable -acum with the meaning estate, domain of ...

geography

The drone upstream of the old bridge

Quinsac is 8 kilometers north-northeast of Brantôme and 11 kilometers south-southeast of Nontron (as the crow flies). The municipality is surrounded by the following neighboring municipalities:

The municipality of Quinsac consists of the following hamlets, farmsteads, mills and a castle:

Beauvinières , Blanchardière , Château de Vaugoubert , Chez Nanot , Chez Pitois , Doumejièras , Faurellière , Jayac , La Genèbre , La Grande Font , Labarde , Laroche , Lascaud , Laumède , Lavergne , Le Buisson , Le Grand Moulin , Les Chaumes (expired), Les Combes , Maison Neuve , Maletière , Mars , Maurelière , Peyrebelaygue , Piffan , Teillac and Villeviale .

The municipality is traversed by the Dronne in a southerly direction at noon . It has two right side valleys, both of which rise directly to the north of the town center in the Dronne: a side arm running down from the hamlet of Lavergne in a south-easterly direction and an east-facing transverse valley, which has its source in the town center of Saint-Pancrace . To the north of the Château de Vaugoubert , a small dry valley opens to the west . On the left side of the Dronne, north of Blanchardière, a west-oriented dry valley flows which originates east of Lascaud , and another small dry valley south of Blanchardière .

The topographically lowest point in the municipality of Quinsac with 115 meters above sea ​​level is in the south on the Dronne, which leaves the municipality here. The highest point at 230 meters is on the northwest corner not far from Saint-Angel (municipality of Sceau-Saint-Angel). The absolute height difference is 115 meters.

geology

Pressure cone with armor straps in the Ligérien near Doumejièras

The municipality of Quinsac lies entirely on flat lying ( angle of incidence up to a maximum of 5 ° to the southwest) sediments of the northern Aquitaine basin . The oldest open-ended formation is the Bathonium ( Dogger ). Its cryptocrystalline limestones are barely exposed on the northern edge near Laumède . About this Jurassic strata trangredierte the Cenomanian with green, oyster leading marl , fine sands and sandy Alveolinenkalken . The Cenoman lines the left side of the valley of the Dronne to the center of Quinsac, on the right side of the valley it only extends to Doumejièras . It can also be found in the first right side valley near Lavergne . The Cenoman is followed by the Ligérien ( Unterturon ), which is located in the center and in all side valleys of the Dronne. It consists of bulbous to flat, white chalk limes. The Rudist limestone of Angoumiens lay over the Ligérien . The very resistant Angoulême formation at its base can form hardened bodies in the field. The Mesozoic layer sequence ends in the municipality of Quinsac with hard fossil limestone of the Coniacium , which are just cut at the southwest edge.

The altitudes to the left and right of the drone are covered by tertiary coating sediments. The topographically highest position is occupied by Pliocene or Lower Pleistocene gravel and gravel (formation Fs ). Their expansion is very extensive, especially on the eastern edge. Lower slopes are covered by colluvium (formations ACF and AC ), which for the most part arose from the formation Fs and was redistributed during the Pleistocene glaciations. The dry valleys are filled with limestone slope debris from the Worms Age. In the Dronnetal itself there are two Rift-Ice Age terrace systems and a recent, Holocene sediment backfill. The older upper terrace is only preserved at Beauvinières , the younger lower terrace can be found practically everywhere in the Dronne Valley .

It is worth mentioning a disturbance that crosses the south-east edge in a south-easterly direction into the southern municipal area of ​​Villars and which has led to a slight lifting of the north-east side. This fault zone apparently explains the associated strong silicification of the turon, as can be observed in the vicinity of the fault.

Also noteworthy are the very beautiful, tectonically conditioned pressure cones with armor straps in the Ligérien.

history

The oldest building in Quinsac was the Romanesque church, but it was replaced by the current Saint-Saturnin church in the 17th century . In 1151 Quinsac is mentioned as Quinciacum . At that time, the Romanesque local church was "given as a gift" by the Bishop of Périgueux to the Abbey of Uzerche . The Château de Vaugoubert dates from the 18th century .

Population development

Population development in Quinsac
year Residents


1962 441
1968 391
1975 427
1982 450
1990 421
1999 425
2008 383
2016 369

Source: INSEE

In 1831 Quinsac still had 927 inhabitants, in 1901 there were still 778 inhabitants. Since 1962, the population in Quinsac has been declining overall, but they still had a clear upward trend in the 1980s. The decline is somewhat more pronounced than in the rest of the canton of Champagnac-de-Belair.

In 1999, the population of Quinsac was composed as follows:

  • 183 employees (43.1%)
  • 108 pensioners (25.4%)
  • 74 school-age children and trainees (17.4%)
  • 22 registered unemployed (5.1%)
  • 38 Other unemployed people (8.9%)

In 2005 the number of employees fell to 39.7% and the number of those registered as unemployed rose to 5.4%.


Attractions

Charterhouse of Quinsac
  • Church Saint Saturnin 17th century.
  • Castle Château de Vaugoubert 18th century.
  • Charterhouse (Chartreuse) of Quinsac.
  • Pigeon tower of Villeviale .
  • Old bridge over the Dronne in the west of the town center.

Transport links

The center is located on the D83 running through the Dronnetal to the north (from Brantôme to Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière ). The center is also crossed by the D 98 from Villars to Saint-Pancrace in an east-west direction. Behind Saint-Pancrace it connects to the D 675 from Brantôme to Nontron and then continues to Saint-Crépin-de-Richemont . Parallel to the D 83, a municipal road follows the right bank of the Dronne to Saint-Front-la-Rivière. A municipal road branches off from here at Les Combes to the left (west), which leads to the D 675 via the hamlet of Teillac or after a junction to the right via Lavergne to Saint-Angel. Finally, there is another connection to Villars in the east from the town center or from Villeviale via the dilapidated Boschaud monastery .

literature

  • 1933 ouest - Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière . In: Institut Géographique National (ed.): Carte topographique 1:25 000 .
  • 1833 est - Nontron . In: Institut Géographique National (ed.): Carte topographique 1:25 000 .
  • Floc'h, J.-P. & al .: Feuille Nontron . In: BRGM (ed.): Carte géologique de la France à 1/50 000 .
  • Guilot, P.-L. & al .: Feuille Thiviers . In: BRGM (ed.): Carte géologique de la France à 1/50 000 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Conseil général de la Dordogne with the Occitan community names
  2. ↑ Quinsac on the Insee website

Web links

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