Monsec
Monsec, Occitan Mont Sec, is a commune with 204 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the north- west of the department of Dordogne, in the Aquitaine region. It belongs to the canton of Mareuil and is an integral part of the Périgord -Limousin Regional Natural Park.
Etymology
The place name Monsec, Occitan Mont Sec, (mountain, hill ) and sec is derived from the French Mont (dry, arid ). This should be on the right- arid heights of the Upper Cretaceous relate.
Geography
Monsec located 11 kilometers north- west of Brantome and 7 kilometers southeast of Mareuil (air line). The community is surrounded by the following neighboring communities:
- Champeaux -et -la- Chapelle- Pommier in the North
- Saint- Félix -de- Bourdeilles in the East
- Léguillac -de- Cercle in the south
- Vieux -Mareuil in the West.
In addition to the community center consists of the following hamlets, farmsteads and a former forge:
Badaillac, Beauséjour, Chassenat, Chez Briaudet, La Belle, La Forge de Mondevit, La Prade, Les Ages, Les Potences, Brégnac Petit, Petit Marafy, Pontarnaud, Puychauvaux, Puypeyroux, Puyrial and Trépacie.
The municipal area is drained by the Belle, the west of the hamlet Pontarnaud rises in the northeast. It flows initially to the southwest, but rotates with reaching the hamlet of La Belle in the west-northwest direction. A directed to North North West arroyo marks a portion of the western border about Vieux -Mareuil, it opens as a left tributary at Badaillac in the Belle.
The topographically lowest point in the municipality of Monsec with 131 meters lies the hamlet Badaillac to the west of Belle, who leaves the community here. The highest point at 237 meters, is located in the extreme north-eastern corner. The absolute height difference therefore amounts to 106 meters.
Geology
The community Monsec is completely underlain by sediments of the northeastern Aquitaine basin. Deepest layer open-minded member of the Ligérien ( Unterturon ) - nodular, platy Kreidekalke. It lines the left side of the valley of the Belle at Badaillac. In follow Rudistenkalke the Lower and Upper Angoumiens. The Upper Angoumien is open in the center. On the Upper Angoumien the hard Fossilkalke of Coniaciums to see follow in the south of the municipality and to the north of the town center, where Puyrial. On the Coniacian, the gray, glauconite - bearing limestones of the Lower Santoniums place ( at Les Potences on the southern border of the municipality ). The oysters Schill -containing calcareous marl of the Upper Santoniums are north of of Puyrial and Puychauvaux. The generally flat-lying layer sequence of Upper Cretaceous ends with gray white Kreidekalken the Lower Campanian at La Prade. In the Upper Cretaceous transgredierte an alluvial gravel tongue from the Eocene or the Lower Oligocene. Your bed was to the southwest and follows the municipal boundary of Pontarnaud to Les Potences. She is trained in places konglomeratisch and contains quartz and silicified Arkosegerölle. Large parts of northern municipal area are covered by the rearranged Pleistocene colluvium, which emerged from sands of Upper Antons. Residues gröberklastischen Kolluviums and unterpleistozänem alluvium are also available. Worth mentioning the numerous karst caves are also in the Upper Cretaceous.
The Mareuil- fault splits in the municipality of Monsec into two branches, which follow a ostsüdöstlichen or a southeasterly direction. This fault system is the eastern foothills of Mareuil- anticline. It has a stair -like lifting the central and southern flounder effected by displacement amounts of about 50 or 30 meters. In addition, the layer system was disturbed, as he shows, for example at Beauséjour a dip of 15 ° to the northeast or west of Puyrial a dip of 6 ° to the southeast.
At La Forge de Mondevit gravel and sands were once mined in the alluvial gravel tongue. Switched pitches provided the raw material of a now derelict brickworks.
History
The oldest preserved building in the town is the Monsec built 1508 Renaissance church of Notre- Dame de la Nativity. The community was then a stopover on the Camino de Santiago.
Demographics
Source: INSEE
The population in the municipality Monsec declined until 1999, but since then it has experienced a slight upward trend.
Infrastructure
Transport links
The center of Monsec is very close to the main arterial road D 939 from Angouleme to Perigueux. The D 84 of Nontron after Verteillac runs along the entire south-eastern frontier of the municipal territory. A coming of Champeaux -et -la- Chapelle- Pommier municipal road crosses the center and then transferred to Southwest direction on to Léguillac -de- Cercle.
Attractions
Attractions in the town Monsec are:
- The church of Notre -Dame de la Nativity from the beginning of the Sixteenth Century Renaissance input. Since 1925 Monument historique.
- The Château des Ages castle.