Saint-Crépin-de-Richemont

Saint-Crépin-de-Richemont
local community	Brantôme en Périgord
region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Dordogne
Arrondissement	Nontron
Coordinates	45 ° 25 ' N , 0 ° 36' E Coordinates: 45 ° 25 ' N , 0 ° 36' E
Post Code	24310
Former INSEE code	24391
Incorporation	1st January 2019
status	Commune déléguée
	; Saint-Crépin-de-Richemont from the south

Saint-Crépin-de-Richemont ( Occitan Sent Crespin de Richemont ) is a former French community with 223 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) of the North department Dordogne in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . It is integrated into the Périgord-Limousin Regional Nature Park .

etymology

The name of the place is actually a double name, which is composed of the place name Saint-Crépin and the manor Richemont . Saint Crépin or Sent Crespin is derived from Saint Crispinus ; Richemont or riche mont refers to the strategically dominant position of the ridge in the south above the village.

geography

The center of Saint-Crépin-de-Richemont is about seven kilometers northwest of Brantôme and 13 kilometers south-southwest of Nontron .

The place includes the hamlets or individual farms Beleyme, Canteix, Champagne, Chanceland, chez Froment, Francillou, Grange-Haute, La Barde, La Clède, La Forge, La Grèze, La Riboutie, Le Caprice, Le Meyrat, Le Moulin, Le Moulin de la Forge, Le Plessac, Les Âges, Les Baléares, Les Borderies, Les Brageaux, Les Brandes, Les Fregeas, Limeuil, Petit Berger, Pontarnaud, Puylibeau, Puyssegné and Rousselières .

The local area is traversed roughly in the middle of the Boulou , a right tributary of the Dronne . The valley runs in a northeast-southwest direction.

The town center is crossed by the D 98 coming from Quinsac , which connects it to the D 939 from Brantôme to Angoulême , which runs just 1.5 kilometers to the southwest , the main artery from Périgueux to Angoulême. On the eastern border of the local area, the D 675 runs from Nontron to Brantôme. The north-western border is formed by the D 84, a cross-connection from Nontron to Distribution Lac .

Saint-Crépin-de-Richemont is surrounded by the neighboring municipalities and delegated municipalities:

Mareuil en Périgord	Saint-Front-sur-Nizonne	La Chapelle-Montmoreau
		Saint-Pancrace
Saint-Félix-de-Bourdeilles	La Gonterie-Boulouneix (Commune déléguée)	Cantillac (Commune déléguée) Brantôme en Périgord (Commune déléguée)

The orographically lowest point of Saint-Crépin-de-Richemont at 120 meters above sea level is at Moulin de la Forge on Boulou on the southwestern edge, the highest point at 246 meters at Puyssegné in the northeast.

geology

Valley southwest of Saint-Crépin-de-Richemont with the course of the Mareuil fault

The menhir near Champredon consists of ancient tertiary conglomerates

The local area of Saint-Crépin-de-Richemont is underlain by sediments of the Upper Cretaceous , which are exposed in the lower elevations along the Boulou. The two ridges in the northwest and southeast consist of tertiary alluvial fans. The flat upper chalk sediments begin in the northeast with the Coniacium followed by the lower and upper Santonium to the southwest. A peculiarity is an N 110 to N 120 trending fault ( Mareuil fault ), which roughly follows the course of the D 939. It is a steep upheaval dipping to the south, along which there was an offset of around 100 meters, so that rocks of the lowest coniacium are now directly next to rocks of the santonium. This fault is a continuation of the Mareuil anticline further to the northwest . The two tertiary alluvial fans are of fluvial origin, they consist of sandstones and conglomerates with quartz and silicified arkose boulders . They are erosion products of the Massif Central and can be up to 70 meters thick. They were poured towards the southwest. Their ages are classified as Eocene or Lowest Oligocene . The hard, conglomerate locations used to be popular as raw material for millstones .

history

The historical traces in Saint-Crépin-de-Richemont can be traced back to the megalithic era, for example a menhir stands not far from Champredon . The extraction of millstones from the old Tertiary alluvial fans took place under the Romans in the 1st century and only came to a standstill in the second half of the 18th century. The church of Saint-Crépin-de-Richemont is late Romanesque . From 1564, Pierre de Bourdeille began building the Château de Richemont .

The decree of November 6, 2018, with effect from January 1, 2019, incorporated Saint-Crépin-de-Richemont as a Commune déléguée together with the former municipalities of Brantôme en Périgord , Eyvirat , La Gonterie-Boulouneix , Cantillac , Sencenac-Puy- de-Fourches and Valeuil for the new Commune nouvelle Brantôme en Périgord .

Population development

After records began, the number of inhabitants rose to a peak of 935 at the beginning of the 19th century. In the following period, a phase of stagnation set in, which caused the number of inhabitants to fall to around 200 before the 1990s with short recovery phases a phase of stabilization set in that continues today.

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2011	2017
Residents	339	326	246	239	207	202	222	202	223

From 1962 official figures without residents with a second residence
Sources: EHESS / Cassini until 2006, INSEE from 2010

Attractions

La Barde Castle, castle and fort from the 15th century
Richemont Castle, 16th century castle, inscribed as a Monument historique since 1927
Saint-Crépin castle, 19th century castle
The late Romanesque church of Saint-Crépin and Saint Crépinien
Menhir of Champredon