Rochefort-du-Gard

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Rochefort-du-Gard
Rochefort-du-Gard coat of arms
Rochefort-du-Gard (France)
Rochefort-du-Gard
region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
Department Gard
Arrondissement Nîmes
Canton Villeneuve-lès-Avignon
Community association Grand Avignon
Coordinates 43 ° 59 ′  N , 4 ° 41 ′  E Coordinates: 43 ° 59 ′  N , 4 ° 41 ′  E
height 48-267 m
surface 34.03 km 2
Residents 7,532 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 221 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 30650
INSEE code 30217
Website ville-rochefortdugard.fr

View of the village

Rochefort-du-Gard is a French commune with 7532 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Gard department and in the Occitanie region .

location

Rochefort-du-Gard is one of the easternmost towns in the Gard department. With 3403 hectares it has the second largest area in the municipality of Grand Avignon .

The next major city is Avignon east of the municipality. Other nearby cities are Orange in the north, as well as Nîmes and Montpellier in the southwest.

history

Rochefort belonged to the Diocese of Avignon, temporarily also to the Viguerie Roquemaure and the Diocese of Uzès .

In the 12th century, the Abbey of Saint-André de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon in Rochefort owned the Sanctae Victoriae priory and the parish church of Sancti Bardulphi . The prior of Rochefort served as supplier to the monastery.

After that, Rochefort was the seat of a barony that included the places Domazan, Estézargues, Fournès, Pujaut, Saint-Hilaire-d'Ozilhan, Saze, Tavels and Valliguière. The Saint-Bertulphe priory was merged with the parish church to form Notre-Dame de Rochefort in 1410.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2008 2017
Residents 783 910 1128 2018 4107 5821 6930 7532

Attractions

  • Saint-Joseph chapel (today's town hall)
  • Castelas (parish church)
  • Parish Church of Saint Bardulphe
  • Signargues aqueduct
  • Angel fountain
  • Sanctuary of Notre Dame de Grace

  • Old Saint Joseph Chapel, the town hall since 1825

  • Parish Church of Saint Bardulphe

  • Angel fountain

  • Notre-Dame-de-Grace garden

Wine

Wine is made in the Rochefort du Gard area for a long time. The wine-growing regions are Côtes du Rhône and Côtes du Rhône Villages , as well as the new sub-area Côtes du Rhône Villages Signargues .

Most of the winegrowers are organized in one of the Les Vignerons du Castelas cooperative. There are also some independent winegrowers with their own production:

  • Château Terre Forte
  • Domaine de la Rouette

literature

  • Hector Rivoire: Statistique du département du Gard , Nîmes, Ballivet et Fabre, 1842, Volume II
  • Eugène Germer-Durand: Topographie du Département du Gard , 1868
  • André Laget: Monographie d'une commune rurale - Rochefort-du-Gard , 1909
  • Guy Barruol, Roseline Bacou et Alain Girard: L'abbaye de Saint-André de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, histoire, archeology, rayonnement , Actes du colloque inter-regional tenu en 1999 à l'occasion du millénaire de la fondation de l ' abbaye Saint-André de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, Éd. Alpes de Lumières, Cahiers de Salagon n ° 4, Mane, 2001. ISBN 2-906162-54-X

Web links

Commons : Rochefort-du-Gard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guy Barruol, Roseline Bacou et Alain Girard: L'abbaye de Saint-André de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon , 2001, p. 227
  2. ↑ Les Vignerons du Castelas ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2015 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. , accessed April 8, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vignerons-castelas.com
  3. ↑ Château Terre Forte , accessed on April 8, 2015
  4. ↑ Domaine de la Rouette: Historique , accessed April 8, 2015