Uzerche

Uzerche
region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Corrèze
Arrondissement	Grommet
Canton	Uzerche (main town)
Community association	Pays d'Uzerche
Coordinates	45 ° 25 ′ N , 1 ° 34 ′ E Coordinates: 45 ° 25 ′ N , 1 ° 34 ′ E
height	270-441 m
surface	23.85 km 2
Residents	2,806 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	118 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	19140
INSEE code	19276
Website	www.uzerche.fr
	; Uzerche with the river Vézère

Uzerche is a French commune with 2806 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Corrèze department . The community is located in the northwestern Massif Central in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine to approximately 333 meters. The river Vézère flows through the historical place. It is a central place for canoe and outdoor tourism in the region with numerous leisure opportunities.

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2007	2016
Residents	3316	3314	3091	3097	2813	3062	3195	2848
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

coat of arms

Description : In gold, two red cattle on top of each other under a blue shield head with three golden lilies as a white bar .

traffic

Uzerche-Ville train station when it opened in 1904

Road bridge Pont Turgot of the D 3 over the Vézère, in the background the 152 m long railway bridge of the disused narrow-gauge railway to Tulle

Uzerche has since the 1880s a railway station on the standard gauge main line Orléans-Montauban , by the railway company Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans was built (PO). Between 1904 and 1972 it was also the north-western terminus of the narrow-gauge railway Chemin de fer du PO-Corrèze (POC), which had another station in the city of Uzerche-Ville .

The former national road 20 , which ran in north-south direction, was downgraded in the Uzerche area to D 920 departmental road. It was replaced by the A 20 motorway , which has bypassed the city to the west and south since 1996 and can be used free of charge on this section .

Uzerche is also the starting point for the D 3, D 137 and D 142 département roads.

Parish partnership

Serravalle Pistoiese , Italy

Personalities

Gaucelm Faidit (before 1185 – after 1202), Trobador
Guillaume Grivel (1735-1810), writer and lawyer
Alexis Boyer (1757-1833), surgeon
Ramon Aguilella Cueco (* 1937), painter, graphic artist and photographer

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Tulle, une gare au parfum de paradis pour ferroviphiles in: Ferrovissime No. 98, p. 58 ff.

[Tpf-1] Tulle, une gare au parfum de paradis pour ferroviphiles in: Ferrovissime No. 98, p. 58 ff.