Mialet (Dordogne)

Mialet, often Miallet, Occitan Mialet, is a commune with 672 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the north of the department of Dordogne in the Aquitaine region. It belongs to the district Nontron and the canton of Saint- Pardoux- la -Rivière. It also forms part of the Périgord -Limousin Regional Natural Park.

Etymology

Mialet is derived from the New Latin melusetum with the meaning apple orchard and apple orchard. Melusetum turn passes back to the Latin malus (apple).

Geography

Mialet located 13 kilometers southwest of Châlus and 15 kilometers north of Thiviers (air line). Until the east, from La Coquille there are scarce six kilometers.

The community is surrounded by the following neighboring communities:

• Dournazac (Haute -Vienne ) in the north.
• Firbeix in the Northeast.
• La Coquille in the east.
• Chalais in the southeast.
• Saint- Jory- de -Chalais in the south.
• Saint- Saud- Lacoussière in the West.
• Pensol and La Chapelle- Montbrandeix (both Haute -Vienne ) in the northwest.

Mialet is border village of the Haute- Vienne in the north. The municipal area next to the town center include numerous hamlets, farms, castles and a mill:

Boissonnie, Château la congerie, Château de Lambertie, Chatelavy, Durmareix, Feyte, Fougeras, Garrelie, Grafeuille, Jambe de Banc, La Brousse, La Gratte, La Maison Rouge, La Nolphie, LACAUD, Lacouchie, Lavalette, Le Grand Clos, Le Maine, Le Maine you Bost, Le Montetchabroulet ( Montéchabroulet ), Le Montibus, Le Moulin du Blé, Le Petit Trois Cerisiers, Le Pintou, Lépinotte, Les Parcs Les Places, Les Rivaux, Les Trois Cerisiers, Lesudrie, Lord Ebert, Magnesse, Mamont, Massavit, Mazoubert, Montéricout, Petit Mamont, Pierre Brune, Pommerède, Puyraud and Veyssièras.

The meandering Dronne flows from the east to the north-west part of the township Mialet and forms before leaving the municipal area to the southwest, the Western border to Saint- Saut -Lacoussière. The southeast part crosses the Côle which is just east dammed from the center to a 77 -acre reservoir ( Retenue de Miallet ). The Côle takes just below Mialet as a right tributary of the Coly on which pervades coming from the northeast, the municipality approximately in the center. It flows past the west of the town center, where it is in turn retained in a smaller reservoir.

The topographically lowest point of the municipality is 250 meters above sea level is Boissonnie at the Côle in the south; the highest point of 391 meters is located on the northwest corner at Le Petit Trois Cerisiers.

Geology

The community Mialet located on the metamorphic geology of the northwestern Massif Central. Structurally deeply situated unit are mica mica schist unit of Parautochthonen that are pending along the Dronne in the West. However, the largest part of the municipality lies on structurally higher lying eyes gneisses of the Lower Gneiss ceiling, the general strike NNW-SSE and think of 40 ° to the northeast. The eyes can be very massive gneisses occur in its central portion, is it here probably metagranites. For the hanging wall ( in the eastern section of the municipality ), they increasingly take leptynitischen character to (former Rhyodazite and rhyolites ). Occasionally even mica slate trains can be ( between Le Montibus and Puyraud ) and islands stored ( at La Gratte, Montéricout and east of Montetchabroulet ) in the eyes gneisses. South of the town center crosses a major, northeast-southwest trending fault zone that causes a local bending of the foliation in the same direction. The contact conditions between mica schists and gneisses eyes are not clear, but likely very likely to be abnormal nature, identifiable by a jump in metamorphic grade.

At mineralization in the eyes of gneisses, which are in connection with the further west upcoming Saint -Mathieu- leucogranite, mention tin ( cassiterite ) at Le Montibus and tungsten ( scheelite ) at Le Moulin de Blé.

Ecology

The eight kilometers of Dronnetals in the community Mialet are provided in accordance with Natura 2000 protected. The river with its shore area and the subsequent wet meadows, heaths, fields and forests is home to a very rich fauna. This section of the Dronne provides for the offspring of the freshwater pearl mussel ( Margaritafera margaritafera ) one of the most important locations throughout France dar. Furthermore, here in Europe endangered taxa such as the yellow-bellied toad (Bombina variegata ), the helmet - Azurjungfer ( mercuriale Coenagrion ), the Marsh Fritillary ( Euphydras aurinia ), the clawed crayfish ( Austropotamobius pallipes ), the bullhead ( Cottus gobio ) and the brook lamprey ( Lampetra planeri ), several Säugetiertaxa such as the otter (Lutra lutra ) and three species of bats.

The community also hosts three ecotopes first order (French ZNIEFF = zone naturel d' interet faunistique et floristic ):

• The above- mentioned gorge-like Dronnetal. Depending on the orientation of the slopes changes in him from atlantic embossed flora of Mediterranean flora with. It contains numerous Farntaxa.
• The valleys of the Côle and Coly are under protection, the valley of Coly almost in its entire length; in the latter, for example, the Slender Cotton Grass ( Eriophorum gracile ) home.
• The 25 acres of marsh and wetlands along the pond at La Maison Rouge in the north of the parish contain rare botanical taxa.

The 77 -acre lake of Mialet has been classified as a sensitive natural area ( French: espace naturel sensitive ) because staying on its banks numerous water birds; the eastern shore is especially protected as a nesting and breeding area.

History

From the 12th century comes the Romanesque local church Notre -Dame du Scapulaire, which was later changed structurally strong. Around the same time, the Château de Lambertie was built. From the 16th century two manors and a castle were built in the municipality.

Demographics

Source: INSEE

The population in Mialet is continuously reversed since 1962.

Mayor

Mayor of Mialet since 2006, the PS belonging to pensioner Pierrette Razé.

Attractions

• The Romanesque church of Notre -Same place you Scapulaire.
• The privately owned is exploiting dividend Château de Lambertie; it was destroyed during the Hundred Years' War by the British and later rebuilt. Its origins date back to the 12th century.
• The manor Manoir de Mialet from the 16th century (private property).
• The manor Manoir de Feyte from the 17th century (private property).
• The Château de la congerie castle from the 18th century (private property).
• The reservoir ( Retenue de Miallet ) at the Côle.

Transport links

The center crosses the east-west direction, the D 79 of La Coquille Saint- Saud- Lacoussière. The D 6a of Dournazac after Nontron runs along the north western boundary of the municipal area. From their branches at Les Trois Cerisiers south towards the town center, the D 77 from which further leads then to Saint -Jory -de -Chalais. From Firbeix in the northeast, the D 82 is the Hauptverkehtsader, the RN 21 from Limoges to Perigueux, draws four kilometers further east past Mialet.

Nahestgelegener station for Mialet is La Coquille on the train route Limoges - Perigueux.