Salagnac

Salagnac Salanhac
region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Dordogne
Arrondissement	Nontron
Canton	Isle-Loue-Auvézère
Community association	Isle-Loue-Auvézère en Périgord
Coordinates	45 ° 19 ′  N , 1 ° 12 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 19 ′  N , 1 ° 12 ′  E
height	176–354 m
surface	19.01 km 2
Residents	769 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	40 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	24160
INSEE code	24515
Website	Salagnac - website
Salagnac - View of the town with the former sanatorium

Salagnac - Clairvivre Retraining Center

Salagnac ( Occitan Salanhac ) is from the village and several hamlets (hamlets) and individual farms (fermes) existing commune with 769 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Dordogne in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine (before 2016 Aquitaine ). It belongs to the Arrondissement Nontron ( Périgueux until 2017 ) and the Isle-Loue-Auvézère canton, which has been in existence since 2015 ( Hautefort until 2015 ).

Location and climate

The place Salagnac is located about 50 km (driving distance) northeast of Périgueux and about 75 km south of Limoges at an altitude of about 215  m . The climate is temperate; Rain (approx. 940 mm / year) falls over the year.

Population development

year	1800	1851	1901	1954	1999	2015
Residents	210	323	317	1,228	785	799

The enormous increase in population in the middle of the 20th century is mainly due to the construction of a lung sanatorium (later a retraining center); the mechanization of agriculture and the abandonment of small farms subsequently led to a population decline.

economy

The community is still largely agriculturally oriented, with livestock also playing a significant role. Craftsmen and small service providers of all kinds have settled in the village itself. Since the 1930s, the construction of a lung sanatorium has created numerous new jobs.

history

The first written mention of Salanac comes from 1219; the place at that time was the property of the Cistercian - monastery Dalon that in 1791 during the French Revolution was dissolved. After the First World War, plans arose to set up a tuberculosis and lung center, which served as a hospital during World War II, but was then converted into a training center for the disabled in 1966, which, however, ceased operations at the beginning of the 1980s and only in the year Reopened in 2012 as a regional retraining center.

Attractions

• The Église Saint-Martin originally belonged to the Abbey of Tourtoirac , then to the Cistercian monastery Dalon and then to the diocese of Limoges . The single-nave Romanesque church was thoroughly redesigned in the 19th century; only parts of the west facade with the portal date from the Middle Ages.
• In the Château de Born or Château de Bellegarde , which existed until the 18th century, the troubador Bertran de Born was born around the year 1135 . However, nothing remains of the medieval castle.
• The Château de la Renaudie or Château de las Reynaudias is privately owned.
• The building complex of the Clairvivre lung sanatorium, planned and constructed by the architect Pierre Forestier around 1930, was classified as an architectural monument of the 20th century in 2011.

Web links

Commons : Salagnac  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Salagnac - Map with altitude information
2. ↑ Salagnac - climate tables
3. ^ Salagnac - sanatorium / retraining center
4. ↑ See in detail Erich Stern : Die Psyche des Lungenkranken. Clinical-psychological and social-psychological studies on the influence of pulmonary tuberculosis and sanatorium life on the patient's psyche. 2nd edition, Berlin 1954.