Vieux-Mareuil
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| local community | Mareuil en Périgord | |
| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Dordogne | |
| Arrondissement | Nontron | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 26 ' N , 0 ° 30' E | |
| Post Code | 24340 | |
| Former INSEE code | 24579 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2017 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
.JPG) The church of Vieux-Mareuil |
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Vieux-Mareuil ( Occitan Vielh Maruelh ) is a town and commune Déléguée in the French commune of Mareuil en Périgord with 340 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the northwest of the department Dordogne in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . The commune déléguée area is also an integral part of the Périgord-Limousin Regional Natural Park .
etymology
Vieux-Mareuil, in Occitan Vielh Maruelh , is derived from the Gallic root mare (large) and the ending -ialo (clearing, clearing). The addition vieux (old) indicates that the municipality is older than the newly founded Mareuil . Another hypothesis is based on the Roman functionary Lucius Marullus , who is said to have had a villa here.
geography
Vieux-Mareuil is 13 kilometers northwest of Brantôme and four kilometers southeast of Mareuil (as the crow flies).
The municipality of Vieux-Mareuil was surrounded by the following neighboring municipalities:
- Saint-Sulpice-de-Mareuil in the north
- Champeaux-et-la-Chapelle-Pommier in the northeast
- Monsec to the east
- Léguillac-de-Cercles in the south
- La Chapelle-Montabourlet in the southwest and
- Mareuil to the west.
In terms of area, Vieux-Mareuil was the largest municipality in the canton of Mareui, but only ranks third in terms of population.
In addition to the town center, the Commune déléguée consists of the following hamlets, farmsteads, castles and a mill:
Brégnac , Chanet , Chanet de la Lande , Chavaroche or Chaveroche , Chez Nardonnet , Chez Noaillac , Fronsac , Fougères , Grange Neuve , L'Étang Bleu , La Beynichie , La Chassagne , La Férédie , La Jardonnie , La Pointerie , La Roussie , La Salle , Le Maupas , Les Chambarrières , Les Combettes , Les Coufourches , Leycoussey , Maraf (f) y , Montozon , Moulin du Roc and Rouchatoux .
The area of the Commune déléguée of Vieux-Mareuil is drained by the Belle , which flows from Monsec in a westerly or north-westerly direction towards the Nizonne . A right tributary of the Belle is the Ruisseau de l'Étang Rompu , which comes from the northeast and is still known as the Ruisseau de Fongenade in its upper reaches . The brook is dammed up into several ponds and flows into the Belle shortly before the town center; from Marafy a small left branch rushes towards him. In the vicinity of La Roussie there is also a small right branch that flows into the Belle at the western border.
On the left, the Belle has only north-facing dry valleys as tributaries (the three valleys of Badaillac - eastern border to Monsec -, Brégnac and Les Coufourches ). The Combe de l'Autel , initially also a dry valley, forms part of the western border with Mareuil. It drains to the northwest to Mareuil.
The topographically lowest point at 109 meters above sea level is in the northwest on the Belle, which leaves the area of the Commune déléguée here. The highest point reaches 226 meters on the northeast corner of La Chapelle-Pommier . The maximum height difference is therefore 117 meters.
geology
The subsoil of Vieux-Mareuil consists entirely of more or less flat ( angle of incidence of 4 ° to the south) sediments of the northeast Aquitaine basin . The oldest open-ended formation is the Cenomanium , located along the Belle on the western border with Mareuil. It consists of oyster- containing, green marls , fine sands and sandy alveoline limestone . Above this are the lumpy chalk limestone of the Ligériens , which also underlay the town center. The Ligérien lines both sides of the river along the Belle and extends to the eastern border with Monsec. The two slopes of the Belletal are built up from resistant Rudist limestone of the Angoumiens ( Turonium ), consisting of the steep wall-forming Angoulême Formation and the Oberturon . This is followed by the hard fossil limestone of the Coniacium , which occupy a large part of the southern municipality area; they are also present on the northern ridge, but are cut off to the north by the Mareuil fault . Untersanton - gray, glauconite-bearing limestone, can be seen on the southern border and immediately north of the Mareuil fault lies on the coniacium . The Upper Cretaceous ends in the north with limestone marls from the Central and Upper Canton containing oyster shells. Large stretches of terrain in the north are finally covered by Pleistocene coating sediments ( colluvium ), which emerged from sandy layers of the Santons ( ACC formation on the geological map ).
The dry valleys are due to karst phenomena in the Turon .
Vieux-Mareuil is located directly on the eastern foothills of the Mareuil anticline , which plunges towards the east-south-east. The north flank of the anticline is penetrated by the east-north-east trending Mareuil fault, which has raised the southern strata by around 50 meters.
The Angoulême Formation was once a prized building block and was quarried in several quarries near Moulin du Roc . Sidérolithique ( Eocene ) lying residual above the Turon was scraped for its iron content (northeast of Chavaroche ).
history
The presence of humans in the municipality of Vieux-Mareuil dates back to Magdalenian , as evidenced by finds in the Fronsac cave . During the Roman period there was a villa in the center , confirmed by mosaic finds . There are also remains from the Gallo-Roman and Merovingian periods. The existence of the parish of Vieux-Mareuil is assured for the year 800. The new parishes Saint-Pardoux , Saint-Priest and Saint-Sulpice were later separated from the originally quite large parish (with the seat of an archpriest) . The local church of Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens was built in the 12th century . At the same time, the secular ruler, the Baron von Mareuil, founded his castle not far from Saint-Priest in Mareuil, 5 kilometers away. The addition Vetus (old) appears for the first time in the 13th century to distinguish the place from the neighboring Seigneurie in Mareuil. During the 15th century , the construction of two of the castles, the Château de Chanet and the Château de Chaveroche , began. The Manoir de Fronsac was built in the 17th century , followed by another castle, the Château de Maraffy , in the 18th century . The former ecclesiastical special position of the parish of Vieux-Mareuil was finally lost with the French Revolution and then with the Concordat of 1801 . The neighboring town of Mareuil was then chosen as the seat of the canton .
Vieux-Mareuil with effect from 1 January 2017 with the municipalities of Champeaux-et-la-Chapelle-Pommier , Les Graulges , Léguillac-de-Cercles , Mareuil , Monsec , Puyrenier , Saint-Sulpice-de-Mareuil and Beaussac to commune nouvelle Mareuil en Périgord and has had the status of a Commune déléguée there ever since. The municipality of Vieux-Mareuil was one of the 14 municipalities of the canton of Mareuil until its dissolution in March 2015 , after which it belonged to the canton of Brantôme .
Population development
| Population development in Vieux-Mareuil | ||||
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| 1962 | 425 | |||
| 1968 | 393 | |||
| 1975 | 398 | |||
| 1982 | 384 | |||
| 1990 | 350 | |||
| 1999 | 342 | |||
| 2008 | 327 | |||
| 2016 | 344 | |||
Source: INSEE
The population development in Vieux-Mareuil has generally declined, in line with the development in the canton of Mareuil.
Attractions
- Fronsac cave from Magdalenian, monument historique since 1997 , closed to visitors
- Abri Roc de Rappe with hermitage
- Romanesque local church of Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens from the 12th century, Monument historique
- Château de Chanet , Monument historique. 15th century
- Château de Chaveroche , 15th century
- Manor Manoir de Fronsac , 17th Century
- Château de Maraffy , 18th century
Transport links
The main artery D 939 from Angoulême to Périgueux runs through the center of Vieux-Mareuil . The D 93 coming from the north from Saint-Sulpice-de-Mareuil also crosses; it continues south to Léguillac-de-Cercles. In addition to the D 93, the D 708 from Nontron to Mareuil can also be reached via a municipal road, which runs past the Château de Chaveroche and the Manoir de Fronsac . The D 100 E from Gout-Rossignol to Léguillac-de-Cercles, which runs in the south, can be reached via a municipal road that passes the hamlet of Brégnac .
Long-distance hiking trail
The GR 36 long-distance hiking trail coming from Léguillac-de-Cercles runs through the southwestern former municipality of Vieux-Mareuil. It then continues via Mareuil to La Rochebeaucourt-et-Argentine .
