Saux
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| local community | Porte-du-Quercy | |
| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Lot | |
| Arrondissement | Cahors | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 23 ' N , 1 ° 5' E | |
| Post Code | 46800 | |
| Former INSEE code | 46300 | |
| Incorporation | 1st January 2019 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
 View of the center of Saux and its castle |
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Saux is a village and a commune déléguée in the French commune of Barguelonne-en-Quercy with 96 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Lot department in the Occitania region . The place belonged to the arrondissement of Cahors and the canton of Puy-l'Évêque .
The decree of September 28, 2018 established the incorporation of Le Boulvé as Commune déléguée together with the former municipalities of Le Boulvé , Fargues and Saint-Matré to form the Commune nouvelle Porte-du-Quercy with effect from January 1, 2019 . The administrative headquarters are in Le Boulvé.
The inhabitants are called Saussiens and Saussiennes .
geography
Saux is located about 30 km west-southwest of Cahors in the Quercy Blanc area of the historic province of Quercy on the south-western border with the neighboring departments Lot-et-Garonne and Tarn-et-Garonne .
Saux is surrounded by four neighboring communities and a commune déléguée of Porte-du-Quercy:
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Masquières (Lot-et-Garonne) |
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Saint-Matré (Porte-du-Quercy) |
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Courbiac (Lot-et-Garonne) |
Montaigu-de-Quercy (Tarn-et-Garonne) |
Saux lies in the catchment area of the Garonne River . The Vigor, a tributary of the Boudouyssou , forms the natural border with the neighboring municipality of Montaigu-de-Quercy to the south.
history
Between 1795 and 1800 the municipality of Tourniac was incorporated.
Population development
After the records began, the number of inhabitants rose to a high of around 400 at the beginning of the 19th century. In the following period, the community experienced stagnation in size with short recovery phases to this day.
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 167 | 160 | 146 | 140 | 130 | 133 | 124 | 121 | 96 |
Attractions
Parish Church of Saint-André
The semicircular apse with an arched window is made of ashlar and could have been from the 13th century. The design of the entrance portal and the shape of the windows of the stair tower allow the dating of extensive building measures at the end of the 15th or the beginning of the 16th century. The current appearance of the church is mainly the result of works in the second half of the 17th century. The entire vault (the year “1683” can be seen on an arch of the second yoke ) and the two side chapels (the keystone of the arch of the northern chapel bears the date “1679”) were built during this time. A stained glass window from 1902 is the work of the glass painter Gustave Pierre Dagrant from Bordeaux .
The church has a massive bell tower with a vestibule to the west , which rises above the first yoke of the nave . At its foot, the entrance portal allows entry into the church. A small, open oratory is attached to the nave in the north. Apart from the apse and individual wall surfaces of the nave, the building is made of rubble stones . The three bays of the aisled nave are equipped with a ribbed vault with Liernen and Tierceron equipped ribs, while the choir and the two side chapels, a groin vault own.
The church has been inscribed as a Monument historique since June 22, 1972 .
Numerous items of equipment in the church are inscribed as Monument historique :
- an oil painting depicting Saint Anthony from the 18th century,
- a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary from the 17th century,
- a wooden Madonna with baby Jesus from the 17th century,
- a stone baptismal font from the 17th century,
- Choir screens on the choir and in the chapels, pulpit and lintels of the side entrances to the apse from the 17th century,
- a statue made of gilded wood depicting Anthony the Great with his pig from the 18th century,
- a statue of Christ made of gilded wood from the 18th century,
- a stone holy water font from the 17th century,
- a statue made of gilded wood depicting the rapture of Mary from the 18th century and
- the main altar made of gilded wood from the 17th century.
Aix Castle
The simple castle was destroyed in 1212 by the army of Simon de Montfort during the Albigensian Crusade . The current building was rebuilt in the 15th century. Its name comes from the Ays family who originally came from Fumel . In 1465 the heiress India d'Ays married Amalric de Balaguler, Seigneur of Ginolhac. The marriage of a Balaguier widow brought the castle into the hands of the Gozon family, whose descendants lived in the castle until the end of the 19th century.
A document from 1562 gives a description of the castle. It had a cellar, a kitchen, a hall above, a bedroom and a bedroom in the attic. Three transverse floor windows allow the building to be dated to the 15th century. The building was largely rebuilt and enlarged in the 17th and 18th centuries. Today it consists of three sub-buildings, the four-story main building being flanked in the middle on the north side by a round stair tower. Two levels of terraces are built in front of the building. A vaulted entrance portal with a square dovecote gives access to the inner courtyard, which is framed by ancillary buildings.
Personalities
- Jean Louis François de Gozon, born on August 25, 1780 in Saux, died on November 30, 1870 in Saux, was a French politician. During the Restoration he was elected to the Chambre des députés as a member of the Lot department for the period between 1824 and 1827 .
Web links
- Saux on the association's website (French)
- Saux on the Query Blanc Tourist Office website (French)
- Site of Aix Castle
Individual evidence
- ↑ RECUEIL DES ACTES ADMINISTRATIFS SPÉCIAL N ° 46-2018-089 ( fr , PDF) Département Lot. Pp. 11-13. December 27, 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
- ↑ Lot ( fr ) habitants.fr. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
- ↑ Le Vigor ( fr ) eaufrance. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
- ↑ a b Notice Communale Saux ( fr ) EHESS . Retrieved April 22, 2019.
- ↑ Populations légales 2016 Commune de Saux (46300) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved April 22, 2019.
- ↑ Gilles Séraphin, Maurice SCELLES: église paroissiale Saint-André ( fr ) Départemental Lot. October 3, 2013. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
- ^ Eglise ( fr ) French Ministry of Culture . October 13, 2015. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
- ↑ église Saint-André ( fr ) French Ministry of Culture . April 10, 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
- ↑ Gilles Séraphin, Maurice SCELLES: château d'ays ( fr ) Départemental Lot. October 3, 2013. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
- ↑ Château d'Aix ( fr ) chateau-fort-manoir-chateau.eu. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
- ^ Jean, Louis, François, Dieudonné de Gozon ( fr ) French National Assembly . Retrieved December 13, 2019.