Saint-Pons-de-Mauchiens
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Saint-Pons-de-Mauchiens Sant Ponç de Mauchins |
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Herault | |
| Arrondissement | Beziers | |
| Canton | Mèze | |
| Community association | Hérault Méditerranée | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 31 ' N , 3 ° 31' E | |
| height | 18-185 m | |
| surface | 13.58 km 2 | |
| Residents | 659 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 49 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 34230 | |
| INSEE code | 34285 | |
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Saint-Pons-de-Mauchiens ( Occitan : Sant Ponç de Mauchins ) is a place and a municipality in southern France with 659 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Hérault department in the Occitania region .
location
The place Saint-Pons-de-Mauchiens is about 36 kilometers (driving distance) northeast of Béziers and about 40 kilometers southwest of Montpellier . The historically not entirely insignificant small town of Pézenas is only about twelve kilometers to the southwest. A river called Tave crosses the municipality.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 | 2017 |
| Residents | 523 | 511 | 416 | 411 | 399 | 513 | 581 | 659 |
In the 19th century the place still had over 700 inhabitants at times, but the phylloxera crisis and the mechanization of agriculture led to a steady decline in population, which seems to have reached its peak in the 1980s and 1990s.
economy
Agriculture and retail trade or small crafts have shaped the place for centuries. Saint-Pons-de-Mauchiens is part of the Herault wine region. The wines produced here may be marketed through the Languedoc (AOC) , Pays d'Hérault (AOC) , Pays d'Oc (AOC) and Vicomté d'Aumelas (AOC) appellations, but wine sales in France have been declining since the 1990s .
history
In 975 the whole region was hit by a great drought and food shortage; roving gangs looted everything that seemed useful and valuable. Many people died during this time. The region was not affected by the effects of the Hundred Years War (1337–1453). During the French Revolution , i. H. from 1789 to 1793 the place was renamed Mont Ventôse .
Attractions
- The place belongs to the southern French type of round villages ( circulades ) grouped around a church or castle , which is still controversial in research and has nothing in common with the high and late medieval bastides .
- The parish church of Sainte-Marie-et-Saint-Pons is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Pontius of Cimiez , who is venerated in the region . It is a single-nave originally Romanesque building that belonged to the nearby castle ( château ) and whose structure was obscured by Gothic additions in the 14th and 15th centuries. Originally still preserved are the polygonally broken apse framed by large blind arcades and parts of the nave walls . The building was recognized as a monument historique in 2005 .
- Several houses in the center are also under protection - z. B. the Maison des Emigrants and the Maison des Consuls .
- Some parts of the wall and two gates still stand from the late medieval city wall ( remparts ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Église Sainte-Marie-et-Saint-Pons, Saint-Pons-de-Mauchiens in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)