Champagnac-de-Belair
Champagnac -de- Belair, Occitan Champanhac, is a commune in the north of the Dordogne in the Aquitaine region. It is border village of the Périgord- Limousin Regional Natural Park. According to her the same canton was named, whose capital it is.
Etymology
Champagnac likely to be derived from the Gallo-Roman personal names ending in the suffix - acum and Campanius (Well, possession, domain in. .. ).
Geography
Champagnac -de -Belair is 5 kilometers north- west of Brantome and 15 kilometers south-southeast of Nontron (air line). The community is surrounded by the following neighboring communities:
- Quinsac in the North
- Villars in the Northeast
- La Chapelle- Faucher in the southeast
- Condat- sur- Trincou in the south
- Brantome in the southwest
- Cantillac in the west and
- Saint- Pancrace in the northwest.
The rather large congregation is made up of the following hamlets, villages and a castle:
Aux Quatre Routes, Barbarias, opportunity charging, Chateau de la Borie, Chavalarias, Chavirat, Cheynou, Chez Duret, Coulonges, Fialarge, Genebrière, La Besse, La Borie, La Chataignade, La Durantie, La Faye, La Mole, La Roussarie, Lardailler, Le Bournat, Le Grand Lac, Le Mougnaud, Le Petit Mars, Le Puy, Le Valadier, Les Canquilloux, Libourny, Maison Froide, Martinières, Maucité, Puy de Grange, Puy- Hardy, Puylatour, Racaud, Saint Marc, Talet, Verneuil and Vilotte.
The territory of Champagnac -de -Belair is traversed approximately in the center of the Dronne to the south. The southeast corner pervades the draining to the southwest Trincou. In the Trincou still opens a coming from the east arroyo at Lardailler. Near the western boundary to Cantillac runs approximately parallel to the Libourny Dronne, a small right-hand tributary of the Dronne.
The topographically lowest point at 105 meters above sea level is located south of Verneuil on the southern border; here leaves the Dronne the municipality. The highest point at 222 meters is located on the northwest corner near the D 675 at La Tuilère (municipality Cantillac ). The absolute difference in altitude is 117 meters.
Geology
The territory of Champagnac -de -Belair is underlain in its integrality of flat-lying (angle of incidence up to 10 ° to the south-southwest ) sediments of the northern Aquitaine basin. Oldest open-minded formation is the Ligérien ( Unterturon ) with nodular, platy Kreidekalken to see in the north on the left Dronneseite at Martinières and also on the left side of the Dronne at Verneuil. It follows the Angoumien with its off-road striking, relatively resistant Rudistenkalken. It lines the Dronne both sides in the north and in the south near Verneuil. It is also on both sides of Trincou north of Lardailler pending. To lay the solid Fossilkalke of Coniaciums About the layers of Angoumiens. They flank the central portion of the Dronne; as the center of Champagnac -de -Belair was built on them. Then you move on to the south-east corner of the municipality and in the southwest corner of the Libourny. The Mesozoic layer association usually ends with the Anton - gray, platy, glaukonithaltige limes - mainly pending in the northwest to Genebrière, east of the village near Saint- Marc and in the extreme southeast corner. Just west of Fialarge are also the glaukonithaltigen, oysters Schill leading marly limestones of the Upper Anton encountered.
The altitude at the far northwestern edge are covered just in sediments of a fossil river system from the Eocene or Unterer Oligocene - it is here to gravel and gravels with occasional switched clay lenses ( formation HF), which in Nontron from the Massif Central out in south-west direction poured were. In the Pleistocene rearranged colluvium ( formations AC and ACF with colluvial clays, sands, gravels and gravel ) covered large areas of the lower altitudes; it pulls band shape from the northwest corner to the southeast corner of the church. Würmeiszeitlicher slope debris is found in the valley of Trincou at Lardailler and neighboring arroyo. In Dronnetal risseiszeitliche low terraces were left in the north and in the south, the flood plains are filled by recent Holocene sediments.
Worth mentioning the foothills of the associated with the Mareuil Mareuil- fault anticline, which south of the Château de la Borie is passes southeasterly direction. In this disorder the southern layer association was increased by about 20 meters towards the north side.
History
The oldest surviving structure in Champagnac- de -Belair is the Church of Saint -Christophe from the 14th century. The Chateau de la Borie castle dates from the 16th century. The Chapel of Notre- Dame de Bon Secours was built in the 18th century. Between 1747 and 1749 the town was ravaged by the plague, which fell victim to 25-30 % of the population.
The community was originally called only Champagnac and was later the current additive; as it was called from 1801 Champagnac -de -Bel-Air, and later Champagnac -de -Belair.
Demographics
Source: INSEE
In contrast to developments in the rest of the canton, the municipality Champagnac -de -Belair has to be stated an overall growth of its population compared to 1962. In 1831 the municipality had 1,150 inhabitants in 1886 nor 1025. It came then to a steady loss of population. This trend has reversed again until 1975. However, since 2006 the population has slightly declined
Champagnac -de -Belair is the most populous municipality in the canton.
Management
Mayor of Champagnac -de -Belair is since 2006 the gauche to Divers associated pensioner Bernard Naboulet.
Attractions
- Church of Saint -Christophe from the 14th and 15th centuries. Protected since 1948 as a monument historique
- Château de la Borie Saulnier from the 16th and 17th centuries.
- Notre- Dame de Bon Secours from the 18th century.
Distance footpath
Through the eastern part of the municipality Champagnac -de -Belair of coming from Brantome GR 654 runs (formerly GR 436). About the monastery Boschaud then he reached Villars.
Transport links
The center of Champagnac -de -Belair is located on the plane passing through the Dronnetal D 83 from Brantome to Saint -Pardoux- la -Rivière. From the east from Villars crossed the D 82 towards Cantillac. It binds before Cantillac on the D 675 of Brantome after Nontron. A local road leaves the village in the southeast in the direction of Condat- sur- Trincou. Another local road follows the right-hand side of the valley of the Dronne River upstream and then turns to the northwest and reaches again about Chancelade Saint- Pancrace and D 675
Between 1891 and 1949 reversed a tram between Brantome and Saint- Pardoux. Champagnac -de -Belair was on this route stop and then had its own small railway station.