Sainte-Croix-de-Mareuil
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Sainte-Croix-de-Mareuil Senta Crotz de Maruelh |
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Dordogne | |
| Arrondissement | Nontron | |
| Canton | Brantôme | |
| Community association | Dronne et Belle | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 28 ′ N , 0 ° 26 ′ E | |
| height | 95-194 m | |
| surface | 11.93 km 2 | |
| Residents | 150 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 13 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 24340 | |
| INSEE code | 24394 | |
 The church of Sainte-Croix-de-Mareuil |
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The French commune of Sainte-Croix-de-Mareuil ( Occitan Senta Crotz de Maruelh ) is located in the northwest of the Dordogne department in the Aquitaine region and has 150 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017). The municipality is integrated into the Périgord-Limousin Regional Nature Park .
geography
Sainte-Croix-de-Mareuil is located slightly southwest of the D 939 from Périgueux to Angoulême , about three kilometers northwest of Mareuil and six kilometers southeast of La Rochebeaucourt .
Sainte-Croix-de-Mareuil is surrounded by the following neighboring municipalities:
- Les Graulges in the north
- Puyrenier in the northeast
- Mareuil in the east and southeast
- Gout-Rossignol in the south and south-west
- La Rochebeaucourt-et-Argentine to the west and north-west
- Combiers ( Charente ) in the north-west
The municipality includes the following castles, hamlets and farmsteads: Beauchaud , Château d'Ambelle , La Borie , La Chabroulie , La Chatrie , La Durantie , La Forêt , La Grande Côte , La Neuillie , La Vielfalt Côte , L'Echandeuil , Le Sablon , Les Bregnes , Les Forgerons , Les Petits Essards , Les Plaines , Montplaisir , Teillet , Tuillière and Verdinas .
The municipality is traversed by the Belle , a left tributary of the Lizonne , in a south-east-north-west direction. The northernmost limit is formed by the Nizonne .
The topographically lowest point at 95 meters above sea level is located in the northwest, at the confluence of the Belle with the Nizonne coming from the east. The highest point at 194 meters is located in the immediate vicinity of the hamlet of La Durantie in the extreme south-east of the municipality. The community lies between two ridge ridge trending north-west and south-east, the ridge in the south-west being of a much greater extent and sloping down quite flat to the north-east towards the Belle.
geology
Sainte-Croix-de-Mareuil is in the heart of the Mareuil anticline . The exposed strata of the north-eastern Aquitaine Basin extends from the Kimmeridgium up to and including the Upper Santonium . In the Pleistocene , colluvial alterites were deposited on the chalk sediments in the northeast of the municipality , which essentially consist of sands and gravels, which emerged from the sandy upper santonium. Also worth mentioning is the clearly recognizable layer of the Turonium ( Angoumia ); in a semicircle it surrounds the slight structural bulge of the anticline with its cenomanium and kimmeridgium. The turonium is commercially mined in a large quarry near Verdinas by the CMP company. The extremely pure lime is used as granules, aggregate in the manufacture of photographic paper and as lime slabs for the construction industry.
history
The oldest surviving structure in Sainte-Croix-de-Mareuil is without a doubt the Romanesque church.
administration
Mayor of Sainte-Croix-de-Mareuil has been Michel Jacky Boyer, who is not party to any party.
Population development
| Population development in Sainte-Croix-de-Mareuil | ||||
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| 1962 | 160 | |||
| 1968 | 150 | |||
| 1975 | 153 | |||
| 1982 | 144 | |||
| 1990 | 142 | |||
| 1999 | 140 | |||
| 2007 | 133 | |||
| 2016 | 148 | |||
Source: INSEE
Attractions
One of the sights worth mentioning in Sainte-Croix-de-Mareuil is the Romanesque church.