Ségur-le-Château
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Corrèze | |
| Arrondissement | Brive-la-Gaillarde | |
| Canton | Uzerche | |
| Community association | Pays de Saint-Yrieix | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 26 ' N , 1 ° 18' E | |
| height | 270-397 m | |
| surface | 9.48 km 2 | |
| Residents | 174 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 18 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 19230 | |
| INSEE code | 19254 | |
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Segur-le-Chateau is a French commune with 174 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Corrèze in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . It is assigned to the canton of Uzerche in the arrondissement of Brive-la-Gaillarde .
The village is classified as one of the Plus beaux villages de France ( Most Beautiful Villages in France ).
geography
The village is located in a bend in the river Auvézère in the west of the Corrèze department, about 50 kilometers south of Limoges . In the north-west of the municipality, the La Penchennerie stream , which forms the border with the neighboring municipality of Saint-Éloy-les-Tuileries , flows into the Auvézère.
history
middle Ages
In the 6th century the area around Ségur belonged to the Franconian abbot Aredius of Limoges (known as St. Yrieix; † 591), who resided in Attanum - today's Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche .
The vice-county of Ségur came into being in the 9th century when a larger feudal association was broken up in the Limousin. The cartulary of Uzerche mentioned a certain Vice-Count Foucher, scion of the noble family Foucher and younger brother of d'Hildegaire († 945), for its part, Vice-Count of Limoges . It is believed that this Foucher was a brother of Archambaud de Comborn, who in turn was the first Vice-Count of Comborn. At the end of the 10th century, his granddaughter Emma, daughter of Adémar I and sole heir to the vice-county of Ségur, married Guy I of Limoges (988-1025). So the city and the fief of Ségur came under the rule of the Vice Counts of Limoges for the next 600 years - with brief interruptions. The castle property, however, belonged to the canons of St. Yrieix and the vice-counts had to pay homage to these canons . Ségur was never the capital of the vice-county of Limoges, but numerous remains in the castle testify that the gentlemen often stayed there. The counts also placed some of their knights and vassals as well as officials in Ségur who were responsible for the administration and jurisdiction in the vice-county. The city was also the seat of a castellany , which extended within a radius of fifteen kilometers over about a dozen parishes, with only Ségur becoming the actual parish in 1749 .
In 1275, through the marriage of Arthur II of Brittany to Marie de Limoges , the Vice-County of Limoges passed to the Dukes of Brittany , but they hardly cared about their distant possessions. During the Hundred Years War , after the occupation by the English from 1361 to 1374 , the fortress of Ségur was confiscated from the Crown of France and made a base directed by royal military commanders. The vice-counts were effectively disempowered at this time. Around the years 1422–1424, however, they regained their autonomy. In 1437 the Vice-Count of Limoges Jean de Blois, who was also called L'Aigle ("the eagle") and was a military leader under the French crown, succeeded in annexing the county of Périgord to his territory.
Modern times
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The Counts of Périgord received in 1343 from the French King Philip VI. the right to establish a court of appeal , the function of which was to mediate between the ordinary courts of the bailiffs and the Parlement de Paris . Ségur was chosen for the seat of this court, which led to an economic boom in the city. As a result, many stately homes were built in Ségur in the 15th and 16th centuries. In 1468 the Vice-County of Limoges came to the House of Albret through the marriage of Alain d'Albret , great-grandfather of the French King Henry IV . In 1582 François de Pérusse , Count of Les Cars , bought the Ségur estate for 34,998 livres . The Pérusse family, who ruled Ségur until 1643, had bought many houses in the town for a century before they finally came into possession of the castle. In 1607, Ségur fell to the French crown under Henry IV, which not only diminished the power of the local lords, but also the city's charisma. In 1643 the Ségur fiefdom passed to the Hautefort family .
Recent history
In 1750, the court of appeal in Ségur was dissolved by a royal decree. With this, the city had lost its supraregional importance and most of the middle-class families gradually left Ségur. During the French Revolution , the Hautefort family sold the property in 1795 to the long-established farmer Gabriel Dumas-Lavareille, who later also became mayor of Ségur.
Ségur was called Ségur-les-Goujons for a short time between 1919 and 1924 ; today the community is called Ségur-le-Château .
coat of arms
Blazon : Square : In the 1st and 4th fields in red a gold lion ; the 2nd and 3rd field single in silver.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 | 2016 |
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| Residents | 400 | 401 | 323 | 304 | 269 | 247 | 235 | 179 |
Attractions
- The remains of the castle ensemble with the castle of the vice-count ( Château vicomtal ) and the house of the nobility ( Enclos aristocratique ). The castle chapel has been a French cultural monument since 1840 and the other buildings since 2005 .
- The Église Saint-Léger du Baillargeau church
- Numerous old manorial houses including:
- The 15th century Maison Henri IV (King Henry IV) house has been a French cultural monument since 1934.
- The 15th century half-timbered house Maison Boyer has been a French cultural monument since 1934.
- The house with the Schar watchtower from the 15th century has been a French cultural monument since 1969.
- The Maison des Appeaux with the Saint-Laurent tower in the Farges district has been a French cultural monument since 1969.
- The 18th century barn, Grange ovale du Montet , used to be thatched, but is now roofed with sheet metal. It has been a French cultural monument since 1993.
- As a local feature, it should be mentioned that some houses are decorated with typical gable decorations.
- The municipal area includes a 179 hectare protected habitat on the Auvézère . a. is inhabited by the dipper ( Cinclus cinclus ).
Saint-Léger church
House with a crowd watchtower
Maison des Appeaux
Saint Laurent tower
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literature
- Bernadette Barrière, Christian Rémy: Ségur-le-Château . Presses Universitaires de Limoges (PULIM), Limoges 2002.
Web links
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Ségur-le-Château on Les plus Beaux Villages de France (French)
- ^ Christian Remy: Ségur-le-Château, le castrum et le bourg . In: Congrès archéologique de France , 163rd session, Corrèze, 2005. Société Française d'Archéologie, Paris, 2007, pp. 317–345.
- ↑ Entry no. PA00099890 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Entry no. PA00099892 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Entry no. PA00099894 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Entry no. PA00099893 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Entry no. PA00099891 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Entry no. PA00125509 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ^ Zone naturelle d'intérêt écologique, faunistique et floristique (ZNIEFF) de type 1
- ↑ INPN, ZNIEFFG2 740120064 - Vallée de l'Auvézère à Ségur-le-Château