Saint-Pierre-de-Frugie

Saint- Pierre -de- Frugie ( Occitan Sent Peir de fregia ) is a commune of 393 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

The name of the village derives from Saint Peter and the Latin fracto Iove ( broken Jupiter), probably in allusion to a ruined temple of Jupiter.

Geography

Saint- Pierre -de- Frugie located 4 kilometers northeast of La Coquille and 9 kilometers south of Châlus (air line). The community is frontier community to the Haute- Vienne. It is surrounded by the following neighboring communities:

• Bussière -Galant (Haute -Vienne ) in the north and east.
• Saint -Priest- les- Fougères in the south.
• La Coquille in the southwest.
• Firbeix in the West.

In addition to the community center consists of the following hamlets, farms, mills and castles: Aillac, Bussin, Château de Frugie, Château de Montcigoux, Château de Vieillecour, Fot, Froidefond, L'Age, La Gare, La Grange, La Lande du Puy, Le Breuilh, Le Mont, Le Moulin de Bussin, Le Moulin du Breuilh, Le Pont de Montcigoux, Le Puy, Les Landes d' Arsac, Les Landes de Vieillecour, Les Poujades, Les Trois Fontaines, Loubatour, Montcigoux, Plagne de Vassoux, tulle, Vassoux, Verde Mille and Vieillecour.

The municipality of Saint- Pierre -de- Frugie drained approximately in the center of the Valouse south. The Valouse takes a couple of smaller right side streams. The Périgord flows from the massif of Vieillecour ( Forêt de Vieillecour ) also in a southerly direction from and simultaneously forms the southeast border with the neighboring village of Bussière -Galant ( district of Saint -Nicolas -de- Courbefy ).

The topographically lowest point in the municipality with 305 meters is located on the southern border south of Le Breuilh; here leaves the Valouse the church in the south. The highest point of 491 meters is located on the eastern border to Saint -Nicolas -de- Courbefy (municipality Bussière -Galant ) in the Forêt de Vieillecour. He also represents represents the highest elevation in the Dordogne

Geology

The municipality of Saint- Pierre -de- Frugie is located entirely on the metamorphic basement rocks of the northwestern Massif Central. The upcoming rocks form part of the Lower Gneiss ceiling, it is here mainly to paragneiss, Leptynite and leptynitische eyes gneisses. These metamorphic rocks from the Sillimanitzone be in the east of the municipality ( Forêt de Viellecour ) from Saint- Nicolas- Courbefy granite intruded, a two- mica granite kalkalkalischen.

The La Coquille fault crosses the area in a northeasterly direction (N 040 - N 050) - a system of multiple, oriented roughly parallel faults. Along this fault zone, some mineralized quartz veins have formed. The parent rocks were also sometimes converted into cataclasites or mylonites ( for example, in Le Puy ). The fault zone by also suggests the granite and has places kataklasiert him.

As mineralization in quartz veins are to lead: galena and sphalerite, and stibnite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, covellite and pyrite ( at Château de Vieillecour and Le Puy ).

History

Oldest preserved building remains in the commune of Saint -Pierre -de- Frugie be found at the Château de Montcigoux from the 12th century. In about the same age, the Romanesque church in the town center is likely to be. The Château de Frugie goes back to the 14th and 15th centuries. The Château de Vieillecour dates from the 16th century. On the Cassini map of 1746 the place is listed as Frugie.

Demographics

Source: INSEE

The population of Saint- Pierre -de- Frugie declined sharply until 1999, but have since recovered somewhat.

Mayor

Mayor of Saint- Pierre -de- Frugie since 2008, the nonpartisan Gilbert Chabaud, director of a company in retirement.

Attractions

• The Romanesque church of Saint -Pierre -et-Saint -Paul, structurally changed dramatically in the 17th century.
• The Château de Montcigoux from the 17th century with the remains of the 12th century.
• The Château de Frugie from the 17th century with ruins dating from the 14th and 15th centuries, Monument historique since 1968.
• The Château de Vieillecour from the 16th century, Monument historique since 1946.
• The ' EcoCentre in the hamlet Froidefond, a training center for ecological construction.

Infrastructure

Transport links

The center of Saint- Pierre -de- Frugie crosses coming from the north D 67; it connects the town of La Gare (municipality Bussière -Galant ) with La Coquille. (Limoges - Périgueux ) in the western suburbs of the municipality is the main artery of N 21 is passing north-south direction. The municipality is also used by the railway Nexon - traversed La Coquille in southsouthwest direction section of the route Limoges - Thiviers - Perigueux.