Vabres-l'Abbaye

Vabres-l'Abbaye
region	Occitania
Department	Aveyron
Arrondissement	Millau
Canton	Saint-Affrique
Community association	Saint Affricain, Roquefort, Sept Vallons
Coordinates	43 ° 57 ′  N , 2 ° 50 ′  E Coordinates: 43 ° 57 ′  N , 2 ° 50 ′  E
height	299-730 m
surface	41.36 km 2
Residents	1,200 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	29 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	12400
INSEE code	12286

Vabres-l'Abbaye is a place and a municipality in the south of France - formerly part of the historic Rouergue province - with 1,200 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Aveyron department in the Occitania region .

location

The place Vabres is at about 310 m above sea level. d. M. and is traversed by the Dourdou de Camarès , a tributary of the Tarn , and is about 37 km (driving distance) in a south-westerly direction from the city of Millau . The municipality is part of the Grands Causses Regional Nature Park .

Population development

year	1800	1851	1901	1954	1999	2013
Residents	770	1,278	1,263	790	1,085	1,168

The population decline in the first half of the 20th century is largely due to the loss of jobs as a result of the mechanization of agriculture . In the 1980s, two formerly independent neighboring communities were incorporated.

economy

The place Vabres served for a long time the only agriculturally oriented and largely self-sufficient villages ( hamlets ) and individual farms in the area as a craft, trade and service center. Since the middle of the 20th century tourism has played a not insignificant role for the economic life of the place in the form of the rental of holiday apartments ( gîtes ).

history

In 863 Raymond I , Count of Toulouse, gave the area around Vabres to a group of Benedictine monks . Two hundred years later, the Vabres Abbey was placed under the monastery of Saint-Victor in Marseille . On August 13, 1317, Pope John XXII , who resided in Avignon . the Abbey of Vabres to the seat of a new diocese , because he thought the diocese of Rodez was too big. In 1568, Protestant troops conquered and destroyed the place. During the French Revolution the diocese of Vabres was dissolved; the cathedral was devastated.

Attractions

• The former Saint-Sauveur cathedral, dating from the 14th and 15th centuries, is a single-nave Gothic building with side chapels and a flat-closing apse , which was heavily damaged during the Huguenot Wars (1562–1598). After the reconstruction in the early 17th century, the building was set on fire again by the Protestants. The church, which was almost completely rebuilt in the years after 1715, had to endure again severe devastation inside during the revolutionary years. B. dismantled the marble of the altar to build a monument to Jean-Paul Marat . Inside, however, a Micot organ from the years 1761/2 and the sermon pulpit have been preserved. The building, which today serves as a parish church, has been recognized as a monument historique since 1992 .

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  former cathedral

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  altar

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  pulpit

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  Pulpit and organ

• The bishop's palace ( palais épiscopal ) is a building from the beginning of the 18th century and has been recognized as a monument historique since 1983 .
• The Pont-Vieux dates from the 13th century, the Pont-Neuf was completed in 1734.

Web links

Commons : Vabres-l'Abbaye  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ancienne Cathédrale, Vabres l'Abbaye in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
2. ↑ Palais Épiscopal, Vabres l'Abbaye in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)