Nanthiat

Nanthiat, Occitan Nantiac, is a commune with 274 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the north- east of the department of Dordogne in the Aquitaine region.

Etymology

Nanthiat, Occitan Nantiac, derived from Nantuacum with the importance of the domain Nantuus (or Nantius ) ( Roman or Gallo-Roman personal name suffix - acum ). Consideration is also the Gallic word root nanto ( valley ) in allusion to the Valley Isle.

Geography

Nanthiat located 5 kilometers east of Thiviers and 20 kilometers southwest of Saint- Yrieix- la -Perche (air line). The community is surrounded by the following neighboring communities:

• Sarrazac in the North
• Saint- Sulpice- d'Excideuil the east and southeast
• Corgnac -sur -l'Isle in the south and
• Nantheuil in the West.

The community is made up next to the center of the following hamlets, farms, mills, a paper mill and a castle:

Bourneix, Castilloux ( paper mill ), Champdoré, Château de Nanthiat, Finette ( mill), Grelière, La Côte, La Coutille, La Croix des Bois, La Croze, La Forêt, Labauberie, Laborie, Lavergne, Le Buisson, Le Pont de Madame, Les Combas, Les Jarthes, Les Longeix, Les Mitardes, Les Tibles, Leycuras, Magenaud, Moulin de Madame, Marcou, Monchaty, NAZAC, Nègrevergne, Puybarbeau, Rochepeau and Sinsac.

The western boundary of the parish is formed by the flowing southward Isle. It receives as a left tributary to Lavaud, which marks the northern border to Sarrazac. Something takes down the valley of the Isle on the cake Sabate also coming from the left. The southern boundary is formed by a small, also left side stream which rises near the hamlet of La Croze.

The topographically lowest point in the municipality with 136 meters above sea level at La Forêt on the southwest corner of the Isle, which leaves the community here. The highest point of 313 meters is Bourneix in the Northeast. The absolute height difference of 177 meters thus.

Geology

In the municipality of Nanthiat the metamorphic basement rocks of the Massif Central is revealed. Openness are mainly rocks of Thiviers - Payzac unit such as the Rhyodazite of Thiviers sandstone (French Grès de Thiviers ). The volcanic Grès de Thiviers are then of Serizitschiefern ( Donzenac Shale ) replaced in the North, which might be resulted from pelites and Areniten and also contain greywacke layers. A special feature in the middle of Serizitschieferbandes are metavolcanics Keratophyre that are pending at Bourneix. It follow along the northern border again the Grès de Thiviers, but present here in their höhermetamorphen facies as Payzac quartzite. Guide you in Nègrevergne a green slate band that emerged from the former dolerites and basaltic tuffs. Should further be mentioned nor the numerous Diabasgänge, which break through the southern Grès de Thiviers ( at le Pont de Madame ).

In the south of the municipality of Corgnac granite is intruded into the Grès de Thiviers to see at Finette and Les Mitardes. There is a granite kataklasischen monzonitischer composition that caused the Grès de Thiviers a contact metamorphism to recognize hornfels at La Forêt. In his peripheral region ( at Finette ) the granite is available as orthogneiss.

Structurally form the generally east-southeast - trending metamorphic rocks in the southern part a Syhklinorium (extension of Génis - syncline ) and in the northern part of an anticlinorium (extension of Saint- Mesmin anticline ) with steeply angled foliation. The foliation is very clearly developed in the valley of cake Sabate.

The metamorphic grade increases generally in a northerly direction, reaching the cake Sabate is exceeded the biotite and only slightly further north at Sinsac the almandine Isograd.

The basement is transgrediert lying flat (maximum incidence angle 6 ° to the northeast) sediments of the northern Aquitaine basin, the use here with the Lias (the main deposits are located east of the town center ). The series begins with the Lower Hettangian - conglomerates, sandstones and arkoses. The following Oberhettangium is dolomitic and is usually silicified before. The Sinemurian is oolitic and also often silicified. The series ends with coarse, partly dolomitic sandstones of Pliensbachiums.

In the area of the center of Nanthiat, the basement and the Lias is covered by river gravels of the Pleistocene. The alluvial gravel at Champdoré might go back to the Pliocene. The slopes northwest of Grelière be covered by würmeiszeitlichem talus. In the river valleys of the Isle, the cake Sabate and Lavaud to recent sediments have settled.

History

The Château de Nanthiat castle dates back to the Sixteenth Century.

Management

Mayor of Nanthiat since 2001, the non-party retiree Serge Jobard.

Demographics

Source: INSEE

The population in the municipality Nanthiat a general decrease since 1962. However, in comparison with the rest of the canton Lanouaille the decline was much lower.

Attractions

• Church of Nanthiat.
• Castle of Nanthiat from the 16th century, rebuilt in the 18th century.

Infrastructure

Transport links

Through the southern part of the municipality of the D 707 runs in east-west direction of Thiviers after Lanouaille. From it can be the center accessible via local roads that branch off to the left at Les Longeix, Les Mitardes or Labauberie. From the village, from a municipal road leads west down to the Lisle Valley, then north on the D 81 of Thiviers after Sarrazac taken. Two local roads leave the Lisle Valley again on the right side in the direction Thiviers, left it goes beyond the hamlet Sinsac after Sarrazac. About the hamlet Sinsac the town center is also directly connected with Sarrazac.