Saint-Martin-de-Castillon

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Saint-Martin-de-Castillon
Coat of arms of Saint-Martin-de-Castillon
Saint-Martin-de-Castillon (France)
Saint-Martin-de-Castillon
region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
Department Vaucluse
Arrondissement Apt
Canton Apt
Community association Pays d'Apt-Luberon
Coordinates 43 ° 52 '  N , 5 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 52 '  N , 5 ° 31'  E
height 268–1,072 m
surface 38.21 km 2
Residents 781 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 20 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 84750
INSEE code

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Saint-Martin-de-Castillon is a French municipality with 781 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Vaucluse in the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur . It belongs to the canton of Apt in the Apt arrondissement .

geography

Saint-Martin-de-Castillon is located in the southeast of the Vaucluse department , about nine kilometers east of the city of Apt . Neighboring communities are Viens in the northeast, Caseneuve , Saignon and Castellet-en-Luberon in the west, and Cabrières-d'Aigues , La Motte-d'Aigues and Peypin-d'Aigues in the south. Part of the eastern border is formed by the municipality of Céreste in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department .

The parish is part of the Luberon Regional Park . The southern part is occupied by the valley of the Calavon and the northern flank of the Grand Luberon , which is mainly overgrown by beeches and white oaks .

traffic

The most important road through the municipality is the route départementale D900 (formerly N100 ). It runs on a west-east axis from Apt to Céreste in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department.

history

The name of the municipality appears for the first time in 835 as Abbatia S. Martini . A Benedictine monastery had already settled in the area in the 6th century .

The original village of Castillon, about two kilometers from the present village, was destroyed in 1540 during the Huguenot Wars . The settlement was rebuilt on the site of the former St-Martin Abbey and was named Saint-Martin-de-Castillon in the 17th century . After that it was under the rule of the diocese of Apt and the noble Pontevès family from Buoux . From 1724 until the French Revolution , it belonged to the von Piguet family.

During the revolution of 1790 the inhabitants chose the name Luberon-la-Montagne for their municipality . Three years later, however, the current name was chosen again.

Population development

The population of Saint-Martin-de-Castillon was about twice as high as it is today at the beginning of the 19th century, peaking in 1836 with 1625 inhabitants. The increasing rural exodus as a result of industrialization caused a steady decline until the middle of the 20th century to 365 inhabitants in 1954 and then increased again slightly.

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2008 2009
Residents 380 387 449 528 526 563 739 734 768

Attractions

Notre-Dame-d'Espérance chapel

literature

  • Michel Albarède u. a .: Vaucluse (=  Encyclopédies du Voyage ). Gallimard Loisirs, Paris 2007, ISBN 2-7424-1900-4 , p. 250 .
  • Ines Mache, Stefan Brandenburg: Provence . 7th updated edition. Reise Know-How Verlag Rump, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-8317-2022-4 , p. 528 .
  • Marie-Christine Mansuy u. a .: Parc Naturel Régional du Luberon (=  Encyclopédies du Voyage ). Gallimard Loisirs, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-7424-2737-6 , pp. 78 .

Web links

Commons : Saint-Martin-de-Castillon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. The community on annuaire-mairie.fr
  2. a b Saint-Martin-de-Castillon - Presentation. luberonweb, accessed October 29, 2012 (French).
  3. a b EHESS : Saint-Martin-de-Castillon - Notice Communale. Data on the municipality in the Cassini project. Retrieved October 29, 2012 (French).