Saint-Pierre-de-Côle

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Saint-Pierre-de-Côle
Sent Peir de Còla
Saint-Pierre-de-Côle (France)
Saint-Pierre-de-Côle
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Dordogne
Arrondissement Nontron
Canton Thiviers
Community association Périgord-Limousin
Coordinates 45 ° 22 ′  N , 0 ° 48 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 22 ′  N , 0 ° 48 ′  E
height 119-237 m
surface 19.85 km 2
Residents 430 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 22 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 24800
INSEE code

Church Saint-Pierre-ès-liens

Saint-Pierre-de-Côle , in Occitan Sent Peir de Còla , is a French commune with 430 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the northeast of the Dordogne department of the Aquitaine region .

etymology

Saint-Pierre-de-Côle, in Occitan Sent Peir de Còla, is derived from Saint Peter ( Sanctus Petrus ), with the name of the river Côle (Occitan Còla) as a more detailed specification.

geography

Saint-Pierre-de-Côle is 11 kilometers east of Brantôme and 11 kilometers west-southwest of Thiviers (beeline). The municipality is surrounded by the following neighboring municipalities:

In addition to the town center, the community consists of the following hamlets, farmsteads and a ruined castle:

Baspeyrat , Bouchaillon , Bruzac , Cesserou , Champlouviers , Château de Bruzac , Châtellerie , Chef du Clos , Chez Biard , Chez le Cafi , Coutaudou , Doumarias , Ferrières , Fôret , Guichardie , L'Etang , La Béloffie , La Bélonnie , La Bénéchie , La Braconnerie , La Ladrerie , La Patissière , La Pépide , La Rebière , La Rivarie , Lavy , Le Cluzeau , Lébraudie , Les Carrières , Les Gardes , Les Genêts , Les Granges , Les Landes , Les Pénéloux , Les Pierriches , Les Piles , Les Vaures , Maison Neuve , Montet , Puy Belair , Puy Jean , Puy Pela , Reynerie , Saint-Chavit , Sardenne , Talussou and Trépart .

The Côle at Saint-Pierre-de-Côle

The main floodwater is the Côle , which flows slightly meandering in a south -westerly direction north of the town center of Saint-Pierre-de-Côle , but then turns on a westerly course. On the right-hand side, the Côle has a south-facing dry valley that opens into the valley north of the town center. On the left, two side arms that temporarily dry out flow, one arm coming from the east near Champlouviers and one arm coming down from Lempzours in the southeast. A dry valley coming from the south-south-east also flows into the south-west border near Cesserou .

The Côle has a dwindling river due to karst phenomena in the municipality of Saint-Pierre-de-Côle .

The topographically lowest point in the municipality with 119 meters is on the western border near Trépart ; here the Côle leaves the municipality to the west. The highest point at 237 meters is on the northeast corner. The absolute height difference is 118 meters.

geology

The municipality of Saint-Pierre-de-Côle is completely underlain by flat sediments from the northern Aquitaine Basin . The upcoming shift package of the Mesozoic Era leads Dogger ( Unterbathon to Middle Bathon ) and Upper Cretaceous ( Ligérien to Coniacium ). The Dogger is made at Chez Biard and the upper chalk layers are transgressed from the Eocene Sidérolithique at Les Piles - red, iron-containing, sandy claystones . The altitudes to the left and right of the Côle are covered by colluvial gravel from the Young Pleistocene , which arose as relocation products from overlying gravel tongues with a possible Pliocene age (gravel tongues at La Bénéchie and at Chef du Clos ). The dry valley of Champlouviers is of würmeiszeitlichem filled Kalkhangschutt. Würmzeit low terraces can be found in the Côletal. The most recent alluvium can be found in the Côletal and in the Lempzours tributary.

history

The oldest building in Saint-Pierre-de-Côle is the Romanesque church of Saint-Pierre-ès-liens from the 11th century. The Château de Bruzac , consisting of an upper and a lower castle , was built in the 12th century. In its place there was already a castle hill in the 10th century. In the foundations of the lower castle, remains from the Merovingian era have even been found. The upper castle was destroyed at the end of the 13th century. The Manoir de Ferrières manor dates back to the 13th century. The chapel Chapelle des Ladres in Doumarias (opposite the Bruzac castle ruins) dates from the 15th century.

Population development

Population development in Saint-Pierre-de-Côle
year Residents


1962 558
1968 539
1975 507
1982 490
1990 464
1999 444
2007 445
2016 448

Source: INSEE

The municipality of Saint-Pierre-de-Côle continuously lost its population until 1999. This long-term downward trend now seems to have ended. The loss of population was more pronounced than in the rest of the canton of Thiviers.

administration

Mayor of Saint-Pierre-de-Côle has been the non-party pensioner Gérard Fleurat-Lessard since 2008.

Attractions

  • Castle ruins of Château de Bruzac
  • Romanesque church of Saint-Pierre-ès-liens
  • Chapelle des Ladres
  • Manoir de Ferrières , manor house

Transport links

The center of Saint-Pierre-de-Côle is on the D 78 from Brantôme to Thiviers. The D 68 coming from the north from Villars to Sorges also crosses here . A municipal road leaves the town center to the southeast in the direction of Lempzours. At Doumarias , a municipal road branches off to the right from the D 78, which splits into a northern branch towards Thiviers and a southern branch towards Vaunac; Lempzours can also be reached from the southern branch. The right side of the valley of the Côle is accompanied by a municipal road from La Béloffie (with a connection to the D 78) to Châtellerie , where it joins the D 68.

Individual evidence

  1. Saint-Pierre-de-Côle on the Insee website

literature

  • Guillot, P.-L. et al .: Feuille Thiviers . In: Carte géologique de la France à 1/50000 . BRGM.
  • Dominique Richard (Ed.): Le Guide Dordogne-Périgord. Fanlac, Périgueux 1993, ISBN 2-86577-162-8 .

Web links

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