Champeaux-et-la-Chapelle-Pommier

The French community Champeaux -et -la- Chapelle- Pommier, Occitan Champeus e la Chapela Pomiers, located in the northwest of the department of Dordogne in the Aquitaine region. It has 154 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) and is one of 14 municipalities of the canton of Mareuil. Your municipality also forms an integral part of the Périgord -Limousin Regional Natural Park.

Etymology

Champeaux, often written only Champeau, is derived from the nordokzitanischen Champeus with the meaning small fields. La Chapelle- Pommier is the chapel ( la Chapela, French la chapelle ) of the hamlet Pomiers or Pommier ( apple tree ); The latter already belongs to the municipality of Saint -Sulpice- de -Mareuil.

Geography

Champeaux -et -la- Chapelle- Pommier is located nine kilometers southwest of Nontron and ten kilometers east-northeast of Mareuil (air line). The community is surrounded by the following neighboring communities:

• Lussas -et- Nontronneau in the North
• Saint -Martial -de- Valette in the Northeast
• Saint-Front- sur- Nizonne in the East
• Saint- Crépin- de -Richemont in the southeast
• Monsec in the south
• Vieux -Mareuil in the southwest
• Saint- Sulpice- de -Mareuil in the West
• Rudeau - Ladosse in the northwest.

In addition to the towns of Champeaux and La Chapelle- Pommier the municipality consists of the following hamlets, villages, castles and manor:

Bargeix, Bernardières, Chanteranne, Château des Bernardières, Château de Puycheny, Chez Courroie, Chez Ravel, Flageat, Grand Cicaire, La Bert Randie, La Borderie, La Faronie, La Ganterie, La Garenne, La Grande Metairie, La Grange, La Guillaumie, La Japillerie, La Lardie, La Pouyade, La Vignotte, Lascours, Lavaud, Le Grand Merle, Le Magnadat, Le Maine, Le Petit Merle, Le Roc, Les Roches, Maison Neuve (two times), Nadallière, Petit Cicaire and Puyséché.

Main floodlights in the municipality of Champeaux -et -la- Chapelle- Pommier is the Nizonne, the middle flows in about the church from east to west. The river has no significant side arms here. Right side, there are two smaller dry valleys ( a dry riverbed downstream of Bernardières along the western border with Rudeau - Ladosse and a dry valley at the foot of the Château de Puycheny ), left four ( at Petit Cicaire south of the center of Champeaux, at Lavaud and Bargeix on the eastern border Saint- front-sur - Nizonne, with the latter dry valley splits into two branches ).

The topographically lowest point in the municipal area of 135 meters above sea level is located on the Nizonne at Le Roc, on the western border with Rudeau - Ladosse and to Saint- Sulpice- de -Mareuil ( triple point ). The highest point of 251 meters on the ridge west of the Domaine de Bagatelle on the southern edge of the community. In the higher elevations in the north of Nizonne down to 227 meters can be achieved. The absolute difference in altitude of 116 meters.

Geology

The community Champeaux -et -la- Chapelle- Pommier is exclusively on lying flat ( with a maximum of 5 ° incident to the southwest ), sedimentary formations of the northern Aquitaine basin. The upcoming film package forms the north wing of the Combiers -Saint -Crépin -de- Richemont syncline. Oldest open-minded formation is the Ligérien of Unterturons; it consists of platy Kreidekalken. About the Ligérien, which is present on both sides of Nizonne, follow the Rudistenkalke of Angoumiens. The relatively resistant limestones of the Lower Angoumiens ( Angoulême Formation) form a morphological layer rib, some with rock overhangs. After the transition to the Upper Angoumien - also Rudistenkalke - then superimpose the Fossilkalke of Coniaciums to see only in the south of the center of Champeaux. The high altitude of La Chapelle- Pommier be built from the Santonian, which can be divided into two formations: platy, gray, aconite limestones of the lower Antons and marly limestones (rich in oysters Schill ) and sands of the Middle Antons ( in the village of La Chapelle- Pommier and Lascours ).

Much of the altitudes in the north and south of the Nizonne River valley is covered by tertiary Hüllsedimenten. These consist of former river sediments (gravel ) from the Eocene or the Lower Oligocene and from alttertiärem colluvium, which was rearranged in the Pleistocene until much later. The draw to the southwest ridge to the Domaine de Bagatelle ( municipality of Saint - Front-sur - Nizonne ) with an over -reaching to La Chapelle- Pommier side branch can be konglomeratisch designed a similarly oriented, but much smaller river system is also found in the north; but this has consistently finer grain sizes. In the area of ​​santon the colluvium from the sands ( medium Anton ) has emerged ( formation ACc ). Gravel -like colluvium ( ACF formation ) is found associated with the fossil from tertiary river system. Arisen from quartz sands of the basement colluvium ( group AC ) is mainly found in the northern ridge. Noteworthy are also scattered altpleistozäne gravel layers ( Fs formation to Puycheny ). The dry valleys are mostly filled by glacial Kalkhangschutt. In the same time also the alluvium comes in Nizonnetal.

The Lower Angoumien was once mined in a quarry near Bargeix as a building block (or cut out ).

History

The presence of people in the community Champeaux -et -la- Chapelle- Pommier during the Upper Paleolithic ( Magdalenian ) is documented by engravings in the cave of Font- Bargeix ( the hamlet Bargeix ). In Nizonnetal also exist the Paleolithic caves Puyrignac and La Grange aux Putes (the latter very close to the Château des Bernardières lock). From the 12th century, the Romanesque local Churches of Champeaux and La Chapelle- Pommier, as well as the Château des Bernardières castle come. 1377 a battle between Bertrand du Guesclin and the British took place at the Château des Bernardières during the Hundred Years' War; this succeeded du Guesclin, the castle to rescue the British again. In 1827, merged the two previously independent municipalities of Champeau and La Chapelle- Pommier.

Demographics

Source: INSEE

The population of the municipality of Champeaux -et -la- Chapelle- Pommier is generally declining, but in 1990 had a short uptrend. Compared to the rest of the canton has above average lost its inhabitants. The municipality also has the lowest population density in the canton of Mareuil.

Mayor

Mayor of Champeaux -et -la- Chapelle- Pommier since 1989 Pierre Brejassou, a retired farmer, a member of the Parti Socialiste.

Attractions

• The cave of Font- Bargeix with illustrations from the Magdalenian, whose input has been expanded in the Middle Ages as a hermitage.
• The church of Saint -Martin in Champeaux from the Twelfth and 14th century monument historique since 1948. The church was rebuilt again during the Renaissance.
• The church of Saint -Fiacre ( Patron of gardeners ) in La Chapelle- Pommier from the Twelfth Century. The bell tower was reinforced in the Fourteenth Century.
• The Château des Bernardières castle from the Twelfth Century, with living quarters, and handrails from the 17th century; also Historical Monuments since 1948. The Donjon dates from the fourteenth century.
• The Château de Puycheny castle.

Infrastructure

Economy

In addition to numerous peasant farms ( cattle, cultivation of cereals and vegetables), the municipality owns two sawmills, which have specialized in the production of pallets.

Transport links

The south-eastern edge of the municipality of Champeaux -et -la- Chapelle- Pommier is touched by the D 84 of Nontron after Verteillac. From their branches in Nizonnetal westward a municipal road that leads into the center of Champeaux; then it follows the right bank of the Nizonne to Rudeau, where it flows into the D 708. The D 708 of Nontron after Mareuil touches the northwest of the community. From it bends to the north a municipal road to the Bernardières and on to the center of Champeaux. From Champeaux from can be achieved through a more local road of the village of La Chapelle- Pommier in the southwest; the same road then continues after Monsec and thus allows a connection to the D 939 from Perigueux to Angouleme.