Saint-Avit-Sénieur

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Saint-Avit-Sénieur
Saint-Avit-Sénieur (France)
Saint-Avit-Sénieur
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Dordogne
Arrondissement Bergerac
Canton Lalinde
Community association Bastides Dordogne-Périgord
Coordinates 44 ° 46 ′  N , 0 ° 49 ′  E Coordinates: 44 ° 46 ′  N , 0 ° 49 ′  E
height 61-195 m
surface 23.40 km 2
Residents 439 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 19 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 24440
INSEE code 24379

Saint-Avit-Sénieur is a French commune in the Dordogne department in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . The village developed under the protection of the fortified abbey , well after its foundation, and has 439 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).

geography

Saint-Avit-Sénieur is located in the hill country south of the Dordogne about 35 kilometers east of Bergerac , about 50 kilometers west of Sarlat-la-Canéda , in the Périgord countryside . About 50 kilometers west of the village, the Via Lemovicensis leads over the Dordogne near Sainte-Foy-la-Grande. It was one of the four main routes on the Camino de Santiago to Santiago de Compostela .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2016
Residents 506 464 394 385 365 403 436 457
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

The massive Romanesque church in the center of the village is the remains of a former Benedictine abbey . Since 1998 the church has been listed as part of the UNESCO World Heritage “Camino de Santiago in France”.

The monastery was built on a site where a hermit named Avitus Senior lived at the time of the Merovingians (430-750). He was a soldier in the service of the Visigoth king Alaric II before retiring as a hermit .

  • Westwork of the abbey church

  • Abbey church, view from the south

  • old rectory

  • Houses in the town center

Archaeological excavations to the south of the former priory have discovered the remains of an Augustinian monastery . The foundation walls of the Romanesque church and its monastery buildings were exposed. The buildings were completely destroyed in the wars of religion.

literature

  • Julia Droste-Hennings, Thorsten Droste : France. The southwest. The landscapes between the Massif Central, Atlantic and Pyrenees. DuMont-Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7701-6618-3 .
  • Susanne Böttcher (Ed.): Périgord, Dordogne, Limousin. (= The Green Guide. ) Travel-House-Media, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-8342-8995-7

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