Saint-Martin-de-Castillon
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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 | |
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 | 84112 | |
View of Saint-Martin-de-Castillon |
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 |
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Residents | 380 | 387 | 449 | 528 | 526 | 563 | 739 | 734 | 768 |
Attractions
- Oppidum Courennes
- Remains of a Roman Minerva altar
- Remains of the city wall
- Ruins of the medieval village and Agoult castle (11th century)
- Borien
- Romanesque parish church , revised in 1820
- Chapel of the Pénitents Blancs
- Chapel of Notre-Dame-d'Espérance in Ogival style (19th century)
- Votive chapel St-Placide with bell gable (1720)
- Chapel Notre-Dame-de-Courennes
- Former priory of St-Pierre in Romanesque style
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
Individual evidence
- ↑ The community on annuaire-mairie.fr
- ↑ a b Saint-Martin-de-Castillon - Presentation. luberonweb, accessed October 29, 2012 (French).
- ↑ a b EHESS : Saint-Martin-de-Castillon - Notice Communale. Data on the municipality in the Cassini project. Retrieved October 29, 2012 (French).