Saint-Sardos (Lot-et-Garonne)

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Saint-Sardos
Sent Sardòs
Coat of arms of Saint-Sardos
Saint-Sardos (France)
Saint-Sardos
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Lot-et-Garonne
Arrondissement Agen
Canton Le Confluent
Community association Confluent et Coteaux de Prayssas
Coordinates 44 ° 20 ′  N , 0 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 44 ° 20 ′  N , 0 ° 29 ′  E
height 42-187 m
surface 14.46 km 2
Residents 295 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 20 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 47360
INSEE code
Website Saint-Sardos

Saint-Sardos-Church

Saint-Sardos ( Occitan Sent SARDOS ) is a place and a multi hamlets and farmsteads southern French community with 295 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Lot-et-Garonne in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine .

location

Saint-Sardos is located in the Agenais about 29 km northwest of Agen or about 35 km southeast of Marmande at an altitude of about 95 m above sea level. d. M. The climate is temperate and is largely influenced by the Atlantic ; Rain falls throughout the year.

Population development

year 1800 1851 1901 1954 1999 2014
Residents 482 854 477 398 243 298

In the second half of the 19th century, the population of the place rose briefly to almost 1,000 people. The phylloxera crisis in viticulture and the loss of jobs due to the mechanization of agriculture have led to a continuous population decline that has only come to a standstill in the last few decades.

economy

For centuries, the residents of the community lived on the produce of their fields and gardens, self-sufficient ; cattle breeding and viticulture were also carried out. Craftsmen, small traders and service providers also settled in the village. Since the 1960s, some of the vacant houses, but also new buildings, have been used as holiday apartments ( gîtes ) .

history

A priory of the Benedictine abbey of Sarlat-la-Canéda , where the relics of St. Sacerdos venerated by Limoges existed as early as 1153; the latter were decisive for the choice of the place name. Around 1250 the place is called Castrum . In 1289, the Abbot of Sarlat and the French King Philip the Fair (r. 1285-1314) signed a treaty ( paréage ) to found a bastide on what was then English territory; however, this treaty was not approved by the French parliament until 1322 . In the following year the place was set on fire by a loyal vassal of the English; in this way began the so-called War of Saint-Sardos (1323-1325), a forerunner of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) between England and France. After the deaths of the kings of both powers in 1327 and 1328, mutual rights were recognized and Saint-Sardos remained a French enclave on English territory until its destruction around 1363. Only in the 16./17. In the 19th century, the place was gradually rebuilt, but most of the historical buildings (half-timbered houses etc.) in the circular town center only date from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Portal of the former priory church

Attractions

  • The former three-aisled priory church and today's parish church Saint-Sardos was in the politically and religiously motivated wars of the 14th to. 16th century badly affected; only the Romanesque portal with its original tympanum was preserved. It was not until the 19th century that the two-aisled new building was built, in which parts of the older structure were integrated. The portal has been recognized as a Monument historique since 1939 .

Surroundings

  • The small church in the hamlet of Saint-Amans, about two kilometers to the southeast, dates from the 12th to 14th centuries.
  • The apse of the church in the hamlet of Lussac , located about one kilometer northeast, was built around the turn of the 11th and 12th centuries.

Web links

Commons : Saint-Sardos  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Saint-Sardos - Map with altitude information
  2. Agen / Saint-Sardos - climate tables
  3. Portail de l'Église Saint-Sacerdos, Saint-Sardos in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)