Vieux-Mareuil

The French Town Vieux -Mareuil, Occitan Vielh Maruelh, located in the northwest of the department of Dordogne in the Aquitaine region. It has 340 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) and is one of 14 municipalities of the canton of Mareuil. Your municipality also forms an integral part of the Périgord -Limousin Regional Natural Park.

Etymology

Vieux -Mareuil, Occitan Vielh Maruelh, derives from the Gallic word root mare (large) and the ending- ialo ( clearing, glade ). The addition vieux ( old ) points out that the church is older than the foundation Mareuil. Another hypothesis refers to the Roman functionary Lucius Marullus that should have had a villa here.

Geography

The municipality of Vieux -Mareuil is located 13 kilometers north-west of Brantome and four kilometers southeast of Mareuil (air line). It is surrounded by the following neighboring communities:

• Saint- Sulpice- de -Mareuil in the North
• Champeaux -et -la- Chapelle- Pommier in the Northeast
• Monsec in the East
• Léguillac -de- Cercle in the south
• La Chapelle- Montabourlet in the southwest and
• Mareuil in the West.

Vieux -Mareuil is geographically the largest municipality in the canton Mareui, but ranks in population numbers only in third place.

In addition to the community center consists of the following hamlets, villages, castles and a mill:

Brégnac, Chanet, Chanet de la Lande, Chavaroche or Chaveroche, Chez Nardonnet, Chez Noaillac, Fronsac Fougères, Grange Neuve, L' Etang Bleu, La Beynichie, La Chassagne, La Férédie, La Jardonnie, La Pointerie, La Roussie, La Salle, Le Maupas, Les Chambarrières, Les Combettes, Les Coufourches, Leycoussey, Maraf ( f ) y, Mont ozone, Moulin du Roc and Rouchatoux.

The municipality of Vieux -Mareuil is drained by the Belle, which flows from Monsec from west or north-westerly direction to Nizonne out. A right tributary of the Belle is coming from the north-east Ruisseau de l' Etang Rompu, which is still referred to in its upper reaches as Ruisseau de Fongenade. The creek is dammed to form several ponds and opens just before the town center in the Belle; of Marafy hurries to meet him a small left- side arm. In the vicinity of La Roussie also arises a small right-hand tributary, which flows on the western frontier in the Belle.

On the left side has the Belle only north-facing arroyos as a side arms (the three valleys of Badaillac - eastern border with Monsec - Brégnac and Les Coufourches ). The Combe de l' Autel, initially also still a dry valley, forms a part of the western border of Mareuil. It drains northwest to Mareuil conditions.

The topographically lowest spot at 109 meters above sea level is in the northwest of the Belle, who is leaving the municipality here. The highest point reaches 226 meters at the northeast corner to La Chapelle- Pommier. The maximum height difference therefore amounts to 117 meter.

Geology

The surface of Vieux- Mareuil consists entirely of more or less flat-lying ( incidence angle of 4 ° to south) sediments of the northeastern Aquitaine basin. Oldest open-minded formation is the Cenomanian, pending along the Belle on the western border of Mareuil. It consists of oyster -containing, green marls, fine sands and sandy Alveolinenkalken. In follow the bulbous Kreidekalke of Ligériens that underlie even the town center. The Ligérien bordered both sides of the river along the Belle and extends to the eastern border with Monsec. The two slopes of Belletals be constructed of resistant Rudistenkalken of Angoumiens ( Turonian ), consisting of the cliff -forming Angoulême lineup and the Oberturon. Then follow the hard Fossilkalke of Coniaciums occupying a large part of the southern municipal area; also on the northern ridge they are present, but are truncated to the north by the Mareuil disorder. On the Coniacian to lower Anton sets - to see gray, glauconite - leading limestones on the southern border and just north of Mareuil- disorder. The Upper Cretaceous ends in the north with oysters Schill containing calcareous clay of the middle and upper Antons. Width terrain sections in the north are finally covered by Pleistocene Hüllsedimenten ( colluvium ), which have emerged from sandy layers of the santon ( ACC formation on the geological map ).

The dry valleys are due to karst phenomena in the Turonian.

Vieux -Mareuil is located directly on the Ostausläufer of Mareuil- anticline that plunges tions east-southeast. The north flank of the anticline penetrated by the east-northeast - trending fault - Mareuil, which has raised the southern layer bandage around 50 meters.

The Angoulême lineup was once a valued component and was mined in several quarries near Moulin du Roc. Residual above the resting Turons Sidérolithique ( Eocene ) was on its iron content abraded (northeast of Chavaroche ).

History

The presence of people in the community Vieux -Mareuil goes back to the Magdalenian, as attested by finds in the Fronsac cave. During Roman times, was located in the center a villa, confirmed by Mosaic finds. Also remains of the Gallo- Roman and Merovingian period are available. The existence of the parish of Vieux -Mareuil is secured for the year 800. From the originally rather large parish ( with a seat Archpriest ) the new parishes of Saint- Pardoux, Saint -Priest and Saint- Sulpice were later separated. The local church Saint -Pierre- ès -Liens was built in the twelfth century. At the same time its castle founded the secular rulers, the baron of Mareuil, near Saint -Priest in the 5 km away Mareuil. The addition Vetus (Old) appeared for the first time in the thirteenth century to distinguish the place from the neighboring Seigneurie in Mareuil can. During the fifteenth century, the Château de Chanet Castles and Chateau de Chaveroche was begun with the construction. The manor Manoir de Fronsac was established in the Seventeenth Century, he was succeeded in the Eighteenth century, the Château de Maraffy castle. The former church special position of the parish of Vieux- Mareuil went with the French Revolution and then finally lost with the Concordat of 1801. The neighboring village of Mareuil was then chosen as the seat of the canton.

Demographics

Source: INSEE

The population development in Vieux -Mareuil is generally declining, in line with the development in the canton of Mareuil.

Attractions

• The Fronsac cave from the Magdalenian. Since 1997 Monument historique. Closed to visitors.
• The Abri Roc de Rappe with Klause.
• The Romanesque village church of Saint -Pierre- ès -Liens from the Twelfth Century, Monument historique.
• The Château de Chanet Castle, Monument historique. Fifteenth Century.
• The Château de Chaveroche castle, Fifteenth Century.
• The manor Manoir de Fronsac, Seventeenth century.
• The Château de Maraffy castle, Eighteenth century.

Infrastructure

Transport links

Through the village of Vieux -Mareuil the main artery of Angoulême D 939 runs to Perigueux. Furthermore, the light coming from the north, from Saint- Sulpice- de -Mareuil D 93 crosses; it leads to the south on to Léguillac -de- Cercle. The D 708 of Nontron after Mareuil can be achieved in addition to the D 93 via a local road which passes the castle Château de Chaveroche and at the Manoir de Fronsac. The running in the south D 100 E from Gout - Rossignol Léguillac -de- Cercle can be controlled via a leading past the hamlet Brégnac municipal road.

Distance footpath

The coming of Léguillac -de- Cercle GR 36 runs through the southwestern municipality of Vieux -Mareuil. He then continues on to La Rochebeaucourt Mareuil -et- Argentine.