Roquefixade

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Roquefixade
Roca-Fissada
Roquefixade (France)
Roquefixade
region Occitania
Department Ariège
Arrondissement Pamiers
Canton Pays d'Olmes
Community association Pays d'Olmes
Coordinates 42 ° 56 '  N , 1 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 56 '  N , 1 ° 45'  E
height 508-995 m
surface 12.31 km 2
Residents 149 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 12 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 09300
INSEE code 09249
Website www.roquefixade.fr

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Roquefixade ( Occitan : Roca-Fissada ) is a small French commune with 149 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Ariège department in the Occitania region .

location

Roquefixade is about 100 kilometers (driving distance) south of Toulouse and about 80 kilometers in a south-westerly direction from Carcassonne . The next largest cities are Lavelanet (10 kilometers west), Foix (15 kilometers northwest) and Mirepoix (29 kilometers northeast).

history

Apart from the fact that a castle was mentioned as early as 1050 or shortly before that, little is known about the early medieval history of the place. Between 1209 and 1212 the castle of Roquefixade and probably also the village were besieged and destroyed by the troops of Simon de Montfort during the Albigensian crusade . At the behest of the French King Philip III, who died in 1285 . Simon de Briseteste , who had controlled the county of Toulouse since 1271 , rebuilt the place as a bastide under the name Bastide de Montfort from 1288 .

Population development

year 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2009 2016
Residents 139 142 168 170 151 150 150

In the 19th century the place still had about 700 inhabitants; in 1946 there were around 200.

economy

The small mountain village is off most paths and lives from cattle farming (milk and meat) and a little from tourism.

Roquefixade - castle ruins

Attractions

Roquefixade castle ruins

Others

  • The townscape of Roquefixade with its large, central square square corresponds to that of a bastide.
  • In the large village square there is a wash house ( lavoir ) from the 19th century.
  • The Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste , a single-nave village church with a bell gable , hides a baroque altarpiece inside , which was created around 1728 after a donation of over 4,000 livres by the local pastor who had recently died . The gilding and painting of the wooden figures and the entire altar structure were restored in the 1990s.

literature

  • Société académique d'architecture: Les bastides du Lauragais et du pays de Foix: Carcassonne, Chalabre, Mazères, Mirepoix, Montgeard, Revel, Roquefixade, Saint-Félix-Lauragais, Villefranche-de-Lauragais. Diagram, Toulouse, 1991
Roquefixade - village square

Web links

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