Saint-Jean-de-Buèges
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Saint-Jean-de-Buèges Sant Joan de Buòja |
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Herault | |
| Arrondissement | Lodève | |
| Canton | Lodève | |
| Community association | Grand Pic Saint Loup | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 50 ′ N , 3 ° 37 ′ E | |
| height | 144-806 m | |
| surface | 16.90 km 2 | |
| Residents | 197 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 12 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 34380 | |
| INSEE code | 34264 | |
| Website | Saint-Jean-de-Buèges | |
 Saint-Jean-de-Buèges - View of the town |
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Saint-Jean-de-Buèges ( Occitan Sant Joan de Buòja ) is a place and a municipality in the south of France with 197 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region .
location
The place Saint-Jean-de-Buèges is located in the southern foothills of the Cevennes at an altitude of about 160 m above sea level. d. M. at the confluence of the Garrel in the Buèges river . The next largest city is Montpellier, about 45 km southeast .
Population development
| year | 1800 | 1851 | 1901 | 1954 | 1975 | 1999 | 2012 |
| Residents | 492 | 788 | 603 | 182 | 123 | 184 | 205 |
The phylloxera crisis in viticulture and the increasing mechanization of agriculture caused a significant population decline, which only stabilized in the last decades of the 20th century.
economy
The inhabitants of Saint-Jean-de-Buèges lived for centuries as a self-sufficient living from agriculture, which also included viticulture and a little cattle breeding. The wine produced in the municipality today is marketed through the Languedoc , Pays d'Hérault and Pays d'Oc appellations. Since the middle of the 20th century, tourism has played a certain role in the town's income in the form of day-trippers and the rental of holiday apartments ( gîtes ).
history
Prehistoric, Celtic , Roman and Visigoth finds have not yet been made in the area. Saint-Jean-de-Bueges is mentioned for the first time in a document from the year 990. The castle ( Château de Baulx ) that helped shape the townscape was built around an older donjon in the 13th and 14th centuries ; it subsequently changed hands several times and was given its present appearance through additions from the 17th century. The castle and the local parish church were badly damaged in the Camisard Wars of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The castle was used as a quarry long before the beginning of the French Revolution . It has belonged to the municipality since 1987, which it underwent restoration in the 1990s.
Attractions
- The castle ( Château de Baulx ) is an existing buildings of several complex - oldest member is erected on the square plan keep ( donjon ); Furthermore, two round watchtowers and stair towers have been preserved, one of which is integrated into the surrounding wall.
- The parish church Nativité de Saint-Jean-Baptiste is a building from the late 11th century when it belonged to the Abbey of Maguelone . During the Camisard Wars, the originally single-nave building was partially destroyed and restored in the following years, adding side aisles and the two small towers. Originally preserved are the barrel-vaulted central nave and parts of the apse , which is made of precisely hewn stones and structured by pilaster strips and half-columns with a resting round arch frieze , the upper end of which is formed below the eaves by a tooth-cut frieze made of inclined stones. The church building has been recognized as a monument historique since 1984 .
Web links
- Saint-Jean-de-Buèges, Viticulture - Info (French)
- Saint-Jean-de-Buèges, church - photos + information
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eglise de la Nativité de Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Saint-Jean-de-Buèges in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)