Saint-Angeau
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| local community | Val-de-Bonnieure | |
| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Charente | |
| Arrondissement | Confolens | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 51 ′ N , 0 ° 17 ′ E | |
| Post Code | 16230 | |
| Former INSEE code | 16300 | |
| Incorporation | 1st January 2018 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
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Saint-Angeau is a former French community with 740 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Charente in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . The inhabitants are called Angelusiens .
With effect from January 1, 2018, the formerly independent municipalities of Saint-Angeau , Sainte-Colombe and Saint-Amant-de-Bonnieure were merged to form the Commune nouvelle Val-de-Bonnieure and have the status of a Commune déléguée in the new municipality . The administrative headquarters are in Saint-Angeau.
location
Saint-Angeau is about 90 meters above sea level. d. M. on a branch of the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela ( Via Turonensis ) around 28 kilometers (driving distance) northeast of Angoulême and around 16 kilometers northwest of La Rochefoucauld . The neighboring towns of Sainte-Colombe (3.5 kilometers southeast) and Agris (10.5 kilometers south) are also worth seeing.
Population development
| year | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2015 |
| Residents | 613 | 566 | 576 | 579 | 648 | 669 | 768 |
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At the first census in France in 1793, the place had 613 inhabitants; thereafter the population rose temporarily to over 800. Around 1900 there were still around 750 inhabitants.
economy
Saint-Angeau lives mainly from agriculture and viticulture . Since the 1970s, the rental of holiday apartments ( gîtes ) has been an important source of income for the place.
history
Little information is available about the history of Saint-Angeau. As the Romanesque church proves, the place had been permanently settled since the Middle Ages.
Attractions
- The single-nave Romanesque parish church of Saint-Michel is dedicated to the Archangel Michael . The church construction dates back to the 12th century; the west facade was redesigned in the 16th century. The apse and outer walls of the nave are made of roughly hewn stone material; a regular wall connection was therefore not possible everywhere. Only the corner stones as well as those of the buttresses and soffits are carved much more precisely. The two-storey crossing tower has a square cross-section and shows a beautiful basement made of double arcade arches with inserted columns - even in the corners; the upper floor, on the other hand, is much simpler and has only four narrow openings. There is a strange and basically pointless console frieze between the two tower floors . The roof of the apse is covered with stone shingles ( lauzes ); the remaining roof areas have roof tiles . The nave and the recessed apse are barrel-vaulted and separated by a large choir arch . The church building was added to the list of Monuments historiques in 1948 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Decree of the Prefecture on the formation of the Commune nouvelle Val-de-Bonnieure of November 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Église Saint-Michel, Saint-Angeau in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)