Saint-Saud-Lacoussière

Saint- Saud- Lacoussière ( Occitan Sensaut e la Cossiera ) is a commune with 866 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011 ) in the north of the Dordogne in the Aquitaine region. It belongs to the district Nontron and the canton of Saint- Pardoux- la -Rivière. It also forms part of the Périgord -Limousin Regional Natural Park.

Etymology

The origin of the Occitan Sensaut is not fully understood. The second syllable of the word saut means a wooded slope or a sunken road (literally jump). La cossiera is a variant of la corsiera with the meaning channel or ditch.

Geography

Saint- Saud- Lacoussière is located halfway between Nontron and La Coquille. The distance to the west-facing Nontron is twelve kilometers to the east, from La Coquille also twelve kilometers (direct distance ).

The community is surrounded by the following neighboring communities:

• Pensol (Haute -Vienne ) in the north.
• Mialet in the northeast and east.
• Saint- Jory- de -Chalais in the southeast.
• Saint -Martin -de- Fressengeas in the south.
• Milhac -de- Nontron in the southwest.
• Saint- Pardoux- la -Rivière in the West.
• Champs -Romain in the West.
• Abjat -sur- Bandiat in the northwest.

Saint- Saud- Lacoussière is border village of the Haute- Vienne. By area, it is with 58.04 km ², the largest municipality in the canton of Saint- Pardoux- la -Rivière. To their field next to the center include numerous hamlets, farms, castles, mills or forging and brickyards:

Au Juges, Beynac, Boeuf Mort, Bonnefond, Bourbon, Bourneix, Chapellas, Chatâignier, Château de Beynac, Chez Farjoutie, Claud de la Veyrière, Contussier, Cote chaude, Grandcoing, La Beauzetie, La Besse, La Bucherie, La Chapelle Verlaine, La Forêt de Beynac, La Garde, La Jurie, La Maque, La Pinalie de Montagnac, La Rebière, La Rouderie, La sagne, La Tuileries de la Veyrière, La Valade, La Veyrière, La Villotte, Lacoussière, location, Larret, Le Breuil, Le Claud du Four, Le Grand Peytour, Le Monteix, Le Pic, Le Puy, Le Roudat, Le Tendeix, Les Bordes, Les Clèdes, Les Couderchoux, Les Farges, Les Gargalines, Les Grafouillades, Les Marottes, Les Paleyres, Les Petites Bordes, Les Peychères, Les Plages, Les Tuileries de Vaure, Maberout, Maisonneuve, Manaud, Mazaubrun, Mazaudet, Maziéras, Montagnac, Moulin de Grandcoing, Moulin du Pont, Mouton, Nicolas, Petit Peytour, Peyfreix, Peyrouse, Pimpidour, porcherie, Puydoyeux, Vachaumard, Vacher, Vaure, Veyrinas and Vieille Abbaye.

The municipal area is approximately centrally crossed by the River Dronne. The meandering river has up to 100 meters deep into the bedrock, creating a gorge-like valley. The Dronne initially flows in a southerly direction and simultaneously forms the northeast border with Mialet. After a change of course on Southwest it traverses from the east, the municipality and passes through the center of Saint- Saud- Lacoussière in the south. It reserves the southwest direction at up to leave the municipal area west of Larret. In their last two kilometers, it is then border river to the Champs -Romain. Notable tributaries are the right-side Ruisseau de la Bucherie and also the right side Ruisseau la Malencourie. The latter stream extended with its course the border with West Champs -Romain north. The south-east boundary of the parish is defined by the winding after SSW Queue d' Ane, a right tributary of the Côle.

The topographically lowest point of the municipality is located 189 meters above the sea on the River Dronne in the west, the highest point at 370 meters in the extreme northeast at le Roudat.

Geology

Saint- Saud- Lacoussière lies entirely on the metamorphic basement rocks of the north-western Massif Central. The eastern part of the municipality is crossed by mica schist belt of mica slate Parautochthonen unit in north-south direction. Associated with the mica schists is the Saint -Mathieu- leucogranite, which occurs in his Saint- Saud- facies in the western part of the township. The leucogranite penetrated in the late Upper Carboniferous in the contact area of ​​the mica schist with them over extended paragneisses (the paragneiss are further west in the municipality of Champs -Romain on ). That he is a anatektisches Aufschmelzungsprodukt of mica schist, can be seen in the entrained in him mica schist islands seen ( a good example of this is located in the center of Saint- Saud- Lacoussière ). Structurally follow on the mica schists - the structurally lowermost unit in the Massif Central - Eye gneisses and Leptynite the Lower Gneiss ceiling. The eyes gneisses are just open at the far northeastern edge to Les Grafouillades along a fault; they occur south of Vielle Abbaye also on the southeast border. The leucogranite is penetrated by multitudes transition from lamprophyres, which mainly emphasize North - south-southwest. Even quartz veins occur in the leucogranite, which are mostly oriented very similar. Several aushaltende quartz trains can be found in the mica schists near Grandcoing.

Many altitudes in the municipality are often obscured by relatively thin powerful, colluvial old rites of the Pleistocene.

History

In 1163 the Cistercians founded an abbey in Peyrouse, which was one of the four Cistercian abbeys in the Périgord. Whether the hamlet Vieille Abbaye relate to such activity, is not clear. The Romanesque village church of Saint- Saud- Lacoussière was also built in the 12th century. It includes wooden statues from the former Cistercian abbey. Around the same time is likely to have originated also the Castle of Lacoussière, which was destroyed again during the Hundred Years War. The Château de Beynac was built in the 19th century on a much older foundation.

Demographics

Source: INSEE

The population of Saint- Saud- Lacoussière declined sharply until 1999, but seems to have stabilized since then. Population default, Saint- Saud- Lacoussière the second largest municipality in the canton behind Saint -Pardoux- la -Rivière.

Mayor

Mayor of Saint- Saud- Lacoussière since 2001, the non-party farmer Sylvie Seegers.

Attractions

• The Romanesque church of Saint- Saud- Lacoussière from the 12th century, built of leucogranite.
• The ruins of the Château de la Coussière.
• The ruins of the Cistercian Abbey of Peyrouse.
• The rapids of Saut du Chalard Dronne.
• The 12 -acre lake in the north of the village.

Transport links

Coming from La Coquille D 79 crosses the town center and continues west towards Nontron. On the northern edge of the township, the D runs 6a (Haute -Vienne ), which is referred to in the Dordogne as D 85; it comes from the northeast Dournazac and then moves on to Nontron. The south part of the community ( left side of the valley of the Dronne River ) runs through Southwest in the direction of the D 82 of Mialet to Villars. In the center also crosses a north-south running local road; she makes connections to the D 6a in the north and the D 82 in the south; In addition, it allows a connection after Thiviers.

Distance footpath

The GR 438 crosses the area in approximately centrally in North-South direction.