Rochecorbon
| Rochecorbon | ||
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| region | Center-Val de Loire | |
| Department | Indre-et-Loire | |
| Arrondissement | Tours | |
| Canton | Vouvray | |
| Community association | Tours Métropole Val de Loire | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 25 ' N , 0 ° 45' E | |
| height | 47-124 m | |
| surface | 17.09 km 2 | |
| Residents | 3,146 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 184 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 37210 | |
| INSEE code | 37203 | |
| Website | http://www.mairie-rochecorbon.fr/ | |
Rochecorbon (formerly La rochecorbon ) is a French municipality with 3146 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in Indre-et-Loire in the region of Center-Val de Loire ; it belongs to the Arrondissement of Tours and the Canton of Vouvray .
history
Rochecorbon, located on the Loire , was a Gallic settlement in pre-Christian times . The natural grottos on the river were already inhabited in the Aurignacia .
The Romans called the place Vodanum ; its current name probably comes from Corbon des Roches , a nobleman who had a castle built over the Loire. His son built the ten-meter-high rectangular tower called the lantern , which was built around 1095 . The history of the place is also closely linked to that of the Abbeys of Saint-Martin de Tours and Marmoutier , both of which owned numerous estates in the region.
In 1808, the neighboring municipality of Saint-Georges-sur-Loire was united with Rochecorbon.
Population development
- 1962: 2.089
- 1968: 2,216
- 1975: 2,349
- 1982: 2,711
- 1990: 2,685
- 1999: 2.982
- 2014: 3,190
Personalities
In 1863 the composer Charles Bordes was born in Rochecorbon. Jean Cocteau mentions in his Journal d'un film that filming of La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast) began on August 26, 1946 in Rochecorbon.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes d'Indre-et-Loire. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-115-5 , pp. 1388-1392.
