Terrou

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Terrou
Terron
Terrou (France)
Terrou
region Occitania
Department Lot
Arrondissement Figeac
Canton Lacapelle-Marival
Community association Grand Figeac
Coordinates 44 ° 47 '  N , 1 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 47 '  N , 1 ° 59'  E
height 280-535 m
surface 9.94 km 2
Residents 168 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 17 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 46120
INSEE code 46314

Terrou ( Occitan : Terron ) is a French municipality with 168 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Lot in the Région Okzitanien (2015 Midi-Pyrenees ). It belongs to the arrondissement of Figeac and to the community association Grand-Figeac founded in 2016 . The inhabitants are called Terronais .

In 1925, Ladirat was spun off from Terrou as a new independent municipality.

geography

The community is located about 27 kilometers north of Figeac in the east of the Quercy landscape in the southwestern foothills of the Massif Central . The upper Bave flows through the municipal area of ​​almost ten square kilometers . The landscape is characterized by mountain forests, deeply cut valleys and pastures on the mountain slopes. The largest districts of the municipality of Terrou are La Mazet, Le Montet, Nozières, Jauzac, La Tournerie, Las Descargues, Chapert and Sasmayoux . The highest point in the municipality is a 571 m high ridge near the hamlet of Las Bouygues in the southwest of the municipality. Terrou is bounded by the neighboring municipalities of Ladirat in the north, Gorses in the east, Saint-Médard-Nicourby and Labathude in the south-east, Saint-Maurice-en-Quercy in the south, Espeyroux in the south-west and Molières in the west.

Place name

The place name Terrou could be based on the Occitan Teron (= well or spring ). The Occitan word Terron (= parcel ) allows another interpretation .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2016
Residents 291 271 253 214 197 202 202 171
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens church
  • Saint-Thamar castle northwest of the village from the 15th to 18th centuries, monument historique
  • Sarcophagus of a necropolis from the High Middle Ages west of the village of Terrou, excavated and researched between 1984 and 1986
  • Fallen memorial

  • Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens church

  • sarcophagus

  • Elementary school and memorial for favor

Economy and Infrastructure

There are 24 farms in the municipality of Terrou (grain cultivation, dairy farming, horse, cattle, goat and sheep breeding).

Terrou is located away from the nationally important traffic routes, but is connected to all neighboring communities by country roads. In the town of Figeac , 27 kilometers south of Terrou, several highways meet. In Montfaucon , 50 kilometers to the west, there is a connection to the ( Autoroute A20 ). In Assier , 18 kilometers southwest of Terrou, there is a stop on the railway line from Brive-la-Gaillarde via Capdenac to Toulouse ( Ligne de Brive-la-Gaillarde à Toulouse-Matabiau via Capdenac ).

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Ladirat on cassini.ehess.fr
  2. ↑ Gaston Bazalgues: À la découverte des noms de lieux du Quercy: Toponymie lotoise, Gourdon, Éditions de la Bouriane et du Quercy, June 2002, 127 pp. ( ISBN 2-910540-16-2 ), p. 124. (French )
  3. ↑ Terrou on cassini.ehess.fr
  4. ↑ Terrou on insee.fr
  5. ^ Entry in the Base Mérimée of the Ministry of Culture. Retrieved July 2, 2019 (French).
  6. ↑ Farms on annuaire-mairie.fr (French)

Web links

Commons : Terrou  - collection of images