Sainte-Euphémie-sur-Ouvèze
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Drôme | |
| Arrondissement | Nyons | |
| Canton | Nyons et Baronnies | |
| Community association | Baronnies en Drôme Provençale | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 18 ' N , 5 ° 23' E | |
| height | 528-1,218 m | |
| surface | 11.28 km 2 | |
| Residents | 70 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 6 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 26170 | |
| INSEE code | 26303 | |
 Sainte-Euphémie-sur-Ouvèze - View of the town |
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Sainte-Euphémie-sur-Ouvèze ( Occitan : identical) is a municipality and a town with 70 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Drôme in the southern French region of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . Since 2015 the place belongs to the " Parc naturel régional des Baronnies Provençales ".
location
The place Sainte-Euphémie-sur-Ouvèze is located in the historic landscape of the Baronnies on the north bank of the river Ouvèze at an altitude of about 560 m. d. M. approx. 12 km (driving distance) northeast of the small town Buis-les-Baronnies .
Population development
| year | 1800 | 1851 | 1901 | 1954 | 1999 | 2013 |
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| Residents | 350 | 351 | 257 | 97 | 71 | 80 |
The population decline in the 20th century is mainly due to the remote location of the place and the loss of jobs as a result of the mechanization of agriculture .
economy
The inhabitants of the place lived for centuries as a self-sufficiency from agriculture (agriculture and cattle breeding). Wine was also grown; The place still has the right to market its grapes through the Appellations Comtés Rhodaniens , Coteaux des Baronnies , Mediterranée and Drôme ; but because of the altitude, wine is hardly grown any more. Instead, there are olive, apricot, cherry and apple trees to a lesser extent; there are also some lavender fields . Since the last decades of the 20th century, tourism has played an important role in the economic life of the place in the form of renting holiday apartments ( gîtes ) .
history
Since Carolingian times , the area of the baronnies belonged to the Kingdom of Burgundy , which fell to the Holy Roman Empire in 1033 . The place Saint-Euphémie is mentioned for the first time in a document from the 14th century, but it possibly goes back to the Knights Templar . Around the year 1100 the area belonged to the barony of Mévouillon , which fell to the Dauphiné de Viennois at the beginning of the 14th century , who later became a French crown property. In the 15th century the place was fortified and surrounded by a multi-tower city wall. A hundred years later, part of the population joined the Protestant faith. Louis XIII gave the place of fief to the Grimaldi family, who were loyal to him ; during the French Revolution it became French for good.
Attractions
- The village image is characterized by various buildings made of quarry stone or clad with quarry stone.
- Only small remains of the medieval city wall have survived.
- The medieval church is St. Dedicated to Euphemia of Chalcedon .
- The place has a Protestant church ( temple ).
