Sainte-Colombe (Charente)

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Sainte-Colombe
Sainte-Colombe (France)
Sainte-Colombe
local community Val-de-Bonnieure
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Charente
Arrondissement Confolens
Coordinates 45 ° 50 ′  N , 0 ° 19 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 50 ′  N , 0 ° 19 ′  E
Post Code 16230
Former INSEE code 16309
Incorporation 1st January 2018
status Commune déléguée

Sainte-Colombe - castle tower

Sainte-Colombe is a former French community with 198 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Charente in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine .

With effect from January 1, 2018, the formerly independent municipalities of Saint-Angeau , Sainte-Colombe and Saint-Amant-de-Bonnieure were merged to form the Commune nouvelle Val-de-Bonnieure and have the status of a Commune déléguée in the new municipality . The administrative headquarters are in Saint-Angeau.

location

Sainte-Colombe is about 110 meters above sea level. d. M. and about 32 kilometers (driving distance) northeast of Angoulême and about 14 kilometers northwest of La Rochefoucauld . The neighboring towns of Saint-Angeau (3.5 kilometers northwest) and Agris (8 kilometers south) are also worth seeing.

Population development

year 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2015
Residents 282 217 195 174 176 185 188
Source: Cassini and INSEE

At the first census in France in 1793, the place had 445 inhabitants; thereafter the number of inhabitants rose temporarily to over 500. Around 1900 there were still 400 inhabitants.

economy

Sainte-Colombe lives mainly from agriculture and viticulture. Since the 1970s, the rental of holiday apartments ( gîtes ) has been an important source of income for the place.

history

Little information is available about the history of Sainte-Colombe. Two Roman roads - the Via Agrippa from Saintes ( Mediolanum Santonum ) to Clermont ( Augustonemetum ) or Lyon ( Lugdunum ) and another road that connected Angoulême ( Ecolisma ) and Bourges ( Avaricum ) - passed not far from the town. As the Romanesque church proves, the place was inhabited since the Middle Ages.

Attractions

Sainte-Colombe Church
  • The single-nave Romanesque church of Sainte-Colombe is dedicated to St. Kolumba von Sens - a saint very popular in Western Europe in the Middle Ages. The church construction dates mainly from the late 12th century and is one of the most beautiful in the Charente: The first four bays of the outer wall of the nave are made of well-hewn stones and structured by high blind arcades with small window openings. On the eastern yoke, however, this dividing element is missing: the outer wall is not articulated - as is that of the apse ; this - together with the significantly poorer hewn stone material - points to an earlier construction period of the east part of the church. The west facade is comparatively richly structured by four buttresses and a multi-tiered archivolt portal ; In the upper part, figurative architectural decorations ( evangelist symbols etc.) can be seen - in the west window even the set columns are replaced by two very elongated figures of St. Kolumba and St. Peter (or St. Augustine, the companion of St. Kolumba). Above this, a figural console frieze (one console shows a penis) covers both the facade and the first four bays of the church building; the west facade ends in a two-arched bell gable . The church building was added to the list of Monuments historiques in 1973.
  • All that remains of the Château de Sainte-Colombe is a mighty square tower, which is accompanied by a small round tower with an internal spiral staircase ( vis ). The tower closes at the top with surrounding machiculis and a - formerly probably not roofed - parapet platform.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Decree of the Prefecture on the formation of the Commune nouvelle Val-de-Bonnieure of November 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Église, Sainte-Colombe in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Web links

Commons : Sainte-Colombe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files