Les Graulges
The commune Les Graulges, Occitan Los Grauges, located in the northwest of the department of Dordogne in the Aquitaine region. It has 61 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) and is one of 14 municipalities of the canton of Mareuil. Les Graulges is border village of the Périgord- Limousin Regional Natural Park.
Etymology
Les Graulges, Occitan Los Grauges, possibly derived from the Germanic personal names Gerald.
Geography
Les Graulges located five kilometers north of Mareuil and 17 km west-southwest of Nontron (air line). The community is surrounded by the following neighboring communities:
- Beaussac the north and east
- Puyrenier in the southeast
- Sainte -Croix -de- Mareuil in the south and
- Combiers (Charente ) to the west and northwest.
Les Graulges is border village of Charente. By area, it is the smallest municipality in the canton of Mareuil.
The community is adjacent to the center of the following hamlets and villages:
Côte de la Bure, Le Maine Lacan, Les Brandes and Malut.
Main floodlights is the flowing westward Nizonne, which forms the southern border with Puyrenier and Sainte -Croix -de- Mareuil. On the southeast corner of the municipality opens the draining to the southwest '' Ruisseau de Bretanges '' as a right tributary to the Nizonne. The creek is in its lower reaches the eastern boundary to Beaussac. East of Malut he takes a right-hand side branch on which comes from the north-west and in this section marks the north-eastern boundary to Beaussac.
The topographically lowest point in the town of Les Graulges is located at 98 meters above the sea on the Nizonne the southwest; the river leaves the municipality here. The highest point at 185 meters, is located on a prominent hill west of the village. The absolute difference in height is 87 meters.
Geology
The municipality of Les Graulges located entirely on lying flat (maximum angle of incidence 6 to 8 ° to the southwest) sediments of the northern Aquitaine basin. The sediments belong structurally to the north wing of the Combiers -Saint -Crépin -de- Richemont syncline. The upcoming film packet begins with the platy, partly flaserigen Kreidekalken of Ligériens ( Unterturon ). The limes line the right arm of the Ruisseau de Bretanges at Malut. About the Ligérien the Rudistenkalke of Angoumiens follow with the Angouleme formation and the Upper Angoumien. The Angoumien accompanied the right side of the valley of the Ruisseau des Bretanges to its confluence with the Nizonne. The hard Fossilkalke of Coniaciums lie then click the Angoumien to see in the center and along the Nizonne. The Coniacian is west of the town center detached from the sub- Anton - platy, gray glaukonithaltige limes. The series ends with platy, oysters Schill leading Mergelkalken, silty, glaukonitreichen limestones and sands of the upper Antons, open-minded in the extreme west of the township. The top is covered by Anton alttertiärem colluvium, which emerged from the sands of the upper Antons and was rearranged in the Pleistocene ( formation ACC). The sediments in the floodplains of the Nizonne date from the Holocene.
History
The oldest surviving building in Les Graulges is the Romanesque parish church built in the 12th century.
Demographics
Source: INSEE
The population of Les Graulges declined sharply until 1999, but have since been back on the rise.
Mayor
Mayor of Les Graulges since 2008, the non-party, working in the printing industry, Jean -Marie Marchand.
Attractions
- The Romanesque parish church built in the 12th and 13th century, historique since 1936 Monument.
Infrastructure
Transport links
Les Graulges is located on the D 87 of Beaussac after Combiers ( and on to La Rochebeaucourt ). The D99 leaves the village to the south, crossing the Nizonne and pulls tions Mareuil. To the north is via the same D 99, which passes in the Charente in the D109 and the D25, a compound of charas. A local street binds to the northwest to the D 25 of Combiers to by charas. The north of the parish also crosses a local road that creates a cross connection from the D99 to the road to Hautefaye.