Saint-Germé

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Saint-Germé
Sent Germer
Saint-Germé (France)
Saint-Germé
region Occitania
Department Gers
Arrondissement Mirande
Canton Adour-Gersoise
Community association Armagnac Adour
Coordinates 43 ° 41 ′  N , 0 ° 9 ′  E Coordinates: 43 ° 41 ′  N , 0 ° 9 ′  E
height 89-110 m
surface 9.55 km 2
Residents 500 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 52 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 32400
INSEE code 32378

Saint-Germier village church

Saint-Germé ( Gascon : Sent Germer) is a French commune with 500 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Gers department in the Occitanie region ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Mirande .

geography

Saint-Germé is located around 10 kilometers southeast of the small town of Aire-sur-l'Adour in the west of the Gers department. It belongs to the Côtes de Saint-Mont wine region . The main bodies of water are the Adour River , the Le Jarras stream and a few small ponds. The most important supra-regional transport connection is the A65 autoroute (part of Europastraße 7 ), a few kilometers west of the municipality . Saint-Germé is a bus stop on the 940 Aire-sur-l'Adour-Tarbes bus line.

Saint-Germé is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Lelin-Lapujolle in the north, Caumont in the northeast, Tarsac in the southeast, Saint-Mont in the south, Corneillan in the southwest, Gée-Rivière in the west and Barcelonne-du-Gers in the west and northwest.

history

The municipality is historically located within Gascony . From 1793 to 1801 Saint-Germé belonged to the district of Nogaro, from 1793 to 1802 to the canton of Barcelonne and then until 2015 to the canton of Riscle . In 1822 the municipality of Barthe-Cagnard (1821: 30 inhabitants) was incorporated.

Population development

year 1793 1821 1831 1841 1861 1906 1936 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2012
Residents 290 324 422 470 444 423 275 511 508 523 488 471 443 486 480
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • 19th century village church of Saint-Germier
  • Bullring
  • lock

  • old draw well

  • Mairie (Town Hall) of Saint-Germé

  • Memorial to the Fallen

  • Shop selling farm products

  • Bullring

Web links

Commons : Saint-Germé  - collection of images, videos and audio files