Sainte-Lheurine
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Charente-Maritime | |
| Arrondissement | Jonzac | |
| Canton | Jonzac | |
| Community association | Haute-Saintonge | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 32 ′ N , 0 ° 22 ′ W | |
| height | 36-109 m | |
| surface | 17.78 km 2 | |
| Residents | 512 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 29 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 17520 | |
| INSEE code | 17355 | |
 The church of Sainte-Lheurine |
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Sainte-Lheurine is a commune with 512 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Charente-Maritime department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France .
Toponomics
The place is named after St. Leverina (also Levrina, Leurina, Lurina), a martyr in England in the 5th century. After the French Revolution of 1789, the place that had previously belonged to the Archiac rulership was first renamed Lheurine-la-Montagne and then in 1793 Lheurine . From 1801 it was called Sainte-L'Heurine , and it eventually became Sainte-Lheurine .
geography
The village is located in the former province of Saintonge and consists of a number of small hamlets located in the vicinity (e.g. Chez Courtableau, Les Maines, Le Bourg), which is prominently located on a hill, with the church, the Mairie and the community hall . Chez Panaud, Le Pastour, Chez Brosset, Chez Bouchet, Chez Boutrit, La Vallade, Chez Herbaud, Le Chapeau, Chez Drouillard) and individual farmsteads.
The neighboring municipalities are Germignac in the north, Saint-Palais-du-Né in the northeast, Archiac in the east, Arthenac in the southeast, Réaux sur Trèfle in the south, Neuillac in the west and Jarnac-Champagne in the northwest.
The brook Villier flows through the municipality in its southern part and flows further southwest in the area of the neighboring municipality Neuillac into the Trèfle , a tributary of the Seugne .
The two country roads D 50 (from Cierzac to Neuillac) and D 251 / D150E2 from Arthenac to Germignac cross in the central settlement of Sainte-Lheurine.
Population development
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economy
Sainte-Lheurine is located in the so-called Petite Champagne , one of the main growing areas for cognac , and is a municipality shaped by viticulture . On an area of 678 hectares , almost half of the municipality's mark, a total of 90,792 hectoliters (hl) of wine with an average alcohol content of 10.47% were harvested in 2018 in 37 farms . Of this, 87,556 hl was processed into cognac, mostly in the cognac distilleries in cognac , 40 hl into Pineau , 413 hl into country wine and 2784 hl into other products. In 2019 there was a total of 70,234 hl of wine with an average alcohol content of 11.01% on 722 hectares of cultivation area in 39 farms. Of this, 69,841 hl processed into Cognac, Pineau 8 hl, 365 hl for table wine and 20 hl to other Produkten.Daneben especially wheat , corn and sunflowers and melons of the variety Charentais and various vegetables grown.
prehistory
The area was settled as early as the Neolithic . In 1886 a farmer discovered "Le Cruchard" west of the hamlet of Les Maines at 45 ° 32 '15 " N , 0 ° 20' 17" W , about 2 km east-northeast of the village center and about 125 m south of the present day while working in the fields D 700 from Archiac to Pons , the Tumulus du Cruchard, a prehistoric barrow . According to contemporary reports, he came across skeletal remains while digging . The dating of some of the finds made there in 1998/99 during archaeological excavations suggests a burial place of the Peu Richard civilization, a culture that began around 3400 BC. BC and until 2200 BC In the Saintonge. The tumulus is about 110 m long and up to 30 m wide and has a height of up to 2.70 m at the northeast end, 1.00 m at the southwest. It is located in the middle of vineyards and can be reached via a dirt road from the D 700.
Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Sainte-Lheurine
church
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The large limestone church, visible from afar, on the hill in the middle of the core settlement dates from the 12th century. At the end of the 15th / beginning of the 16th century, it was laterally expanded (and re-vaulted) in the north and therefore has an asymmetrical west facade. In the 16th century, the otherwise unadorned facade was given a Renaissance portal . Only the south wall still contains Romanesque elements, in particular four narrow arched windows between the mighty supporting pillars. On the north side there are three large pointed arch windows, one of them on the ground floor of the three-story bell tower . The bell tower covered by a very flat tent roof on the north side with its square floor plan has twin windows on each side on the upper floor, separated from each other by a ribbed pilaster . Inside, both the main nave and the side aisle, which runs along the north side and below the tower, are vaulted by pointed arches from the 15th century; the vaults on the first floor of the tower and in the crossing date from the 19th century. The main nave and crossing are separated from each other by a beautiful Renaissance arch. The bell dates from 1753.
Pierre-Percée
When Weiler Les Maines is at the of Archiac by Pons extending D700 and the mouth of the "Le fief des Moulins á Vent" farm track a hewn limestone, about 2.5 m high paths cross , the arms of which are, however, canceled, on an approximately 1, 4 m high stone block through which a round hole about 70 cm in diameter was carved - the so-called Pierre-Percée (the pierced stone) (location: 45 ° 32 ′ 32 ″ N , 0 ° 20 ′ 44 ″ W ). The cross probably dates from the 19th century. According to local lore, young people who crawled through the hole got married within a year.
Windmill d'Arthus
The three-storey substructure of the Moulin d'Arthus tower windmill, built in the 19th century on a vineyard west of the core settlement, is made of hewn limestone (location: 45 ° 31 ′ 42 ″ N , 0 ° 22 ′ 15 ″ W ). The rotating, wooden tower dome with its four wings was only rebuilt and put on in 2009. From the vantage point there you have a wide view of the surrounding landscape.
Roman road
Along the southern border of today's district, near the hamlet of Chez Drouillard, the D 250 runs on the route of the almost dead straight former Roman road from Saintes via Pons to Périgord , a short stretch of which has been exposed near Neuillac, about 3 km west of Sainte-Lheurine is and can be visited.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Charente-Maritime. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-84234-129-5 , pp. 90-91.
Footnotes
- ^ Paul François Étienne Cholet: Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Saint-Étienne de Baigne , L. Clouzot, Niort, 1868, p. 378
- ↑ https://www.annuaire-mairie.fr/rue-sainte-lheurine.html
- ^ Journal Communal, Sainte-Lheurine, January 2017
- ^ Journal Communal, Sainte-Lheurine, January 2019.
- ↑ Bulletin Communal, Sainte-Lheurine, January 2020.
- ↑ The Megalithic Portal: Tumulus du Cruchaud
- ↑ The Megalithic Portal: La Pierre Percée (Sainte Lheurine)
- ^ Moulin d'Arthus - Ste Lheurine
