Castelmoron-sur-Lot

Castel -sur -Lot is a municipality with 1740 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in France, in the department of Lot- et- Garonne in the Aquitaine region.

Geography

Castel -sur -Lot is located on the lower reaches of the river Lot, about 25 km from its confluence with the Garonne at Aiguillon, removed. Just Above Castel Moron a new fortification was the end of the 1990s, built with a dam height of ten meters, which is above the weir, a large artificial lake has been formed, which is used by the neighboring communities for water tourism. The municipality of Castel Moron has the leisure facility Port Lalande built where there is now a marina for pleasure and houseboats, as well as a holiday village.

History

• On a damp and marshy place called " Mauron ," near a river loop of the Lot, first a monastery was founded around which settled the first settlement. In the 13th century made ​​around the castle site already had the name Castel Moron ( Castle of the marshes ).

• At the beginning of the Hundred Years' War, the city was captured thanks to a ruse by the English troops of Count de Derby. This she handed to Chevalier de Caumont, who was on site. The suzerainty remained in this family until the mid-17th century. In 1435 the city was captured by the French again and dragged its fortifications.

• In the 16th century Castel Moron was one of the pioneers in the Calvinist Agenais. His Reformed Church was founded in 1559. Thanks to an agreement between Catholics and Protestants in 1609 her agreement temple was spared during the religious wars, but then first banned and approved for demolition in 1693. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes ( October 18, 1685) provoked the emigration of large numbers of Protestants.

• In the 18th century, the navigation on the Lot became increasingly important. Numerous ships left the port of Castel Moron and transported wine and flour to Bordeaux and from there to Northern Europe and the French West Indies. But from the end of the 18th century ended, the loss of the colonies of America this trade horizon final.

• The town of Castel Moron survived without damage the revolutionary period. At the beginning of the First Republic a resident of Castel Moron was famous for his courage and his daring. On April 12, 1805 attacked Pierre Alexander Marauld Dupon, commander of the corsair ship " La Représaille ", in Santander an English schooner to who was superior to him in strength and hit him in the escape. He was nicknamed " privateers of Agenais ".

• The economic expansion begun under the July Monarchy provoked deep changes that Castel Moron gave a new face in contrast to its former medieval appearance in the second half of the 19th century. 1845 Suspension bridge over the Lot was built where the old church was demolished in the 13th century. The new church (the present ) in 1852 built on the site of the former cemetery.

• Around this time, the old castle of his new owner Félix Solar, son of a family Portuguese- Jewish origin, changed completely. The new architecture, which contains numerous wooden constructs ( galleries and balconies), received its inspiration from the Alhambra in Granada and the Mosque of Cordoba and mimics in the Moorish Casino of Arcachon after. The solar castle was bought in 1902 by the parish council and used as the Town Hall.

Attractions

• Castle "Solar"
• Church St.Hilaire
• Port Lalande

Sons and daughters of the town

Félix solar, last Lord of the Manor