Saint-Jory-de-Chalais
Saint- Jory- de -Chalais ( Occitan Sent Jori de Chalés ) is a commune of 575 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the north- east of the department of Dordogne, in the Aquitaine region. It is an integral part of the Périgord -Limousin Regional Natural Park.
Etymology
Saint -Jory is derived from the Saint George ( Sanctus Georgius ). Chalais goes to the pre-Celtic root kal - meaning stone, rock back.
Geography
Saint- Jory- de -Chalais is located 19 km east-southeast of Nontron and 9 kilometers north- west of Thiviers (air line). The community is surrounded by the following neighboring communities:
- Mialet in the north.
- Chalais in the east.
- Saint- Paul-la -Roche in the southeast.
- Thiviers in the south.
- Saint -Martin -de- Fressengeas in the southwest.
- Saint -Saud in the northwest.
In addition to the community center consists of the following hamlets, farms and castles:
Beaudouil, board, Bourdellas, Château de la Grange, Château de la Rhüe, Clos de la Rode, Comboux, Dintras, Etempas, Gaubert, Goursolas, Jalinie, Javanaud, L' Angelie, L' Autarias, L' Auzelie, L' Etang, La Beaudrigie, La Croix, La Grenie, La Jubertie, La Maurie, La Mauroussie, La Pouge, La Pouyade, La Roulandie, location, Le Busson, Le Clos des Enfants, Le Grand Clos, Le Grand Gué, Le Grenier, Les chaumes, Les Gadeaux, Les Genets, Les Pouyouleix, Les reef, Les Verde Ries, Maisonneuve, Montléry, Paradol, Puy Pelat, Puyrajoux, Sauvajoux, Terrasson, Vauriac and Vialezin.
The community is centrally drained approximately from the effluent to the south Côle on which the center is located. In the eastern part of the Touroulet flows, also to the south. It forms the eastern border several kilometers to Chalais. The western border to Saint -Saud and Saint -Martin -de- Fressengeas represents the Queue d' Ane; also, she moved to the south. Smaller streams in the municipality are the Ruisseau de Jalinie, a right tributary of the Touroulet and north to the river of Chalais, and the Ruisseau le Mauroussie, a left tributary of the Touroulet and southern Grenzbach to Chalais.
The topographically lowest point at 178 meters above sea level is located at the confluence of Côle and Touroulet in the extreme south, the highest point at 300 meters, is located at Vialezin on the northern border to Mialet.
Geology
Saint- Jory- de -Chalais is completely on the metamorphic basement rocks of the north-western Massif Central. The community has a share in two ceiling units: along the western border of mica schists of mica slate Parautochthonen unit and the rest area on rocks of the structurally higher-lying Lower Gneiss ceiling, mainly mica schist, paragneiss, and orthogneiss Leptynite. The at La Croix in the south pending, northeast trending mica schist are the Roche Noire massif in Saint- Paul-la -Roche very similar - they also lead to an oceanic crustal remnants eingeschuppte amphibolite ( epidote - containing) and eclogites. About the mica schists follow medium -grained Leptynite that are likely to have resulted from Ordovician granites. Just south of Comboux included a mile-long, north-east facing Peridotitkörper ( serpentine). About the Leptyniten are paragneiss, the output of Neoproterozoic rocks are greywacke, followed eventually by the Cambrian orthogneisses of the Dronne arc. The paragneiss contain at Vauriac a larger Pegmatitkörper, which also follows the north-east direction. The orthogneisses have emerged from Leukograniten and can also be configured as Leptynite or as eye gneisses. In Les reef they are penetrated along a fault of a North - trending Lamprophyrgang.
The place during the Devonian, mid-to high-grade regional metamorphism reached generally the staurolite - Isograd, sometimes also the kyanite - Isograd (especially in the north of the Lower Gneiss ceiling).
Altitudes between the rivers are mostly obscured by colluvial Hüllsedimenten of the Tertiary period, usually sands and clays. About this usually rearranged colluvium is located in the south-east a very extensive alluvial river tongue ( river gravel ) from the Pliocene and Pleistocene.
History
From the megalithic dolmens very nice Pierre- Levee has been preserved in Jalinie. The local church is of Romanesque origin, and is decorated by a Templar cross. The Château de la Rhüe castle dates back to the 17th century.
Infrastructure
Transport links
The main thoroughfare N 21 ( former Route Napoléon ) of Châlus after Thiviers defines the southeast limit of the municipality of Saint -Jory -de -Chalais to Saint- Paul-la -Roche. In parallel, the railway Limoges - Périgueux Thiviers runs. About a municipal road can be reached from the N 21 from the town center in the northwest. Starting from his D 77 leads in North direction Mialet. A connection to 3 kilometers in the north- east of Chalais is produced by the D 98. Milhac -de- Nontron and Saint -Martin -de- Fressengeas can be controlled by means of local roads.
Attractions
- The Romanesque local church.
- The Dolmen Pierre- Levee at Jalinie.
- The Château de la Rhüe castle.