Saint-Pancrace (Dordogne)
Saint- Pancrace Occitan Sent Pancraci, is a commune with 152 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the north of the Dordogne in the Aquitaine region.
Geography
Saint- Pancrace is located seven kilometers north-east of Brantome and eleven kilometers south of Nontron away (air line). The municipality is the border village of Périgord -Limousin Regional Nature Park and is surrounded by the following neighboring communities:
- Quinsac the north and east
- Champagnac -de -Belair in the southeast
- Cantillac the south and southwest
- Saint- Crépin- de -Richemont (Canton Mareuil ) in the west and
- La Chapelle- Montmoreau in the northwest.
In addition to the town center, the town of Saint -Pancrace consists of the following hamlets and villages:
Bellevue, Bonnetière, Chabans, Charteau Grand Lac, La Grange, La Plagne, La Vigerie, Le Bouquet, Le Claud, Le Désir, Le Meynieux, Maison Neuve, Petit Clos Sainte Marie des Bois and Vilotte.
In the immediate vicinity of the village rises a small right tributary of the Dronne, which flows in the direction Quinsac to the east. In addition, the community has no other watercourses.
The topographically lowest point at 136 meters above sea level at Grand Lac in the far south. The highest point at 233 meters, is located at Maison Neuve (municipality Cantillac ) in the southwest. The absolute height difference therefore amounts to 97 meters.
A special feature is the exklavenartige protuberance of the municipal area in the south represent ( to the hamlet Charteau ), connected only by a narrow, not more than 50 meters wide corridor with the mainland in the north.
Geology
The municipality of Saint- Pancrace lies entirely on lying flat (maximum angle of incidence 10 ° south ) sediments of the northern Aquitaine basin. The oldest pending formation is to see the Upper Angoumien with Rudistenkalken, on the eastern border both sides of the tributary of the Dronne. In follow hard Fossilkalke of Coniaciums. They underlie the center of Saint- Pancrace and also can be found in Le Bouquet and La Vigerie in the southeast. In the southern exclave even lower and upper Vilotte Anton at Anton at Grand Lac pending. The lower Anton consists of gray, platy limestones glaukonithaltigen, the upper Anton takes Mergelcharakteran and leads oysters Schill.
The altitudes in the municipal area are largely masked by colluvium, but found in topographically highest position, the conglomerates and gravel of a fossil river system from the Eocene or Lower Oligocene ( formation HF). The latter were poured from the Massif Central in south-west direction out and now line the eastern boundary of the municipality. The colluvium consists of both rearranged in the Pleistocene gravels, which are directly derived from the Lower Tertiary flow system ( ACF formation in the south) or from Pleistocene editing and rearrangement products of the underlying Oberkreidekalke ( AC formation in the north). At La Grange and south of the village is also a small remnant is possibly down to the Pliocene alluvial gravel reaching back obtained ( Formation FS).
Attractions
- The oldest structure in Saint- Pancrace is the medieval church.
Infrastructure
Transport links
On the western border of the municipality of Saint- Pancrace leads from north, take the D 675 of Nontron according to Brantome along. It has five branches in the municipality on: the most important is undoubtedly the cross connection of the D 98 of Saint- Crépin- de -Richemont after Quinsac which leads down into the center of Saint- Pancrace. Another connection to the D 675 in Bellevue is guaranteed from the center of a local road. A third branch of the D 675 is at Maison Neuve; bypassing the village, this municipal road connects directly to the D 78 and on to Quinsac. On the western edge of the southern enclave stretches along a local road from the D 675 from after Cantillac in the south. The fifth trip to the south is local in nature and passes through the hamlet Vilotte towards Champagnac -de -Belair. Champagnac -de -Belair can also be reached via a groove extending to Southeast municipal road right from the center out.