Sainte-Eulalie-d'Olt

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Sainte-Eulalie-d'Olt
Sainte-Eulalie-d'Olt (France)
Sainte-Eulalie-d'Olt
region Occitania
Department Aveyron
Arrondissement Rodez
Canton Lot et Palanges
Community association Causses à l'Aubrac
Coordinates 44 ° 28 ′  N , 2 ° 57 ′  E Coordinates: 44 ° 28 ′  N , 2 ° 57 ′  E
height 440-876 m
surface 17.48 km 2
Residents 374 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 21 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 12130
INSEE code 12219

Sainte-Eulalie-d'Olt on the Lot

Sainte-Eulalie-d'Olt is a French commune of the department of Aveyron in the region Occitania . Administratively it is assigned to the canton of Lot et Palanges and the Arrondissement of Rodez .

The village is classified as one of the Plus beaux villages de France ( Most Beautiful Villages in France ).

geography

The town with 374 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) is located in the Massif Central at the foot of the Monts d'Aubrac in the Lot Valley 32 kilometers northeast of Rodez and 120 kilometers north-northwest of Montpellier and is served by the D988 département road .

history

The medieval town, which grew concentrically around a castle from the 11th and 12th centuries, is mentioned in 1383 as Sancta Eulalia Rippe Oltis . Eulalia of Mérida , which has been celebrated in France since the 9th century in the so-called Eulalia sequence , is thus the patron saint of the place. Olt (more precisely Òlt) is the Occitan name for the river Lot and Rippe is probably to be translated as “bank”.

Population development

year 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2009 2016
Residents 414 385 359 310 325 355 376

Attractions

"Lauzedach"
  • The Romanesque church of Sainte-Eulalie-d'Olt dates back to the 11th century and was subordinate to the Abbey of Conques . It was enlarged in the Gothic style in 1530 . The building has been a French cultural monument since 1923 .
  • The castle Château de Sainte-Eulalie-d'Olt is in its present form from the 15th century and has been a French cultural monument since 1976.
  • The mill from 1676 is the only remaining vertical mill in the Aveyron department. It was for the extraction of walnut oil , and later for the production of tannin for tanning of leather used. The complex was bought by the Alexendre family and then restored. Today you can use it to grind grain into flour.
  • Numerous stately houses from the 15th and 16th centuries, which are covered with "Lauzedächern" (roofs with slate tiles).
  • The bank of the Lot, which is pretty "wild" on site.

Web links

Commons : Sainte-Eulalie-d'Olt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sainte-Eulalie-d'Olt on Les plus Beaux Villages de France (French)
  2. ^ Ernest Nègre : Toponymie générale de la France . Volume 3. Librairie Droz, Genève 1998, p. 1642.
  3. ^ Roger Berger, Annette Brasseur: Les séquences de Sainte Eulalie . Librairie Droz, Genève 2004, p. 37.
  4. ↑ a b c d Dominique Auzias: Le Petit Futé Aveyron . Petit Futé, Ligugé 2011, p. 222.
  5. ↑ Entry no. PA00094149 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  6. ↑ Entry no. PA00094148 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  7. ^ Jean-Pierre Henri Azéma: Moulins du cuir et de la peau - Moulins à tan et à chamoiser en France, XIIe-XXe siècle . Editions Créer, 2004.