Villars (Dordogne)
Villars ( Vilar Occitan ) is a commune with 466 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the north- east of the department of Dordogne, in the Aquitaine region. It is border village of the Périgord- Limousin Regional Natural Park.
Geography
Villars is located 10 kilometers north-east of Brantome and 13 kilometers west of Thiviers (air line). The community is surrounded by the following neighboring communities:
- Milhac -de- Nontron in the north.
- Saint -Martin -de- Fressengeas in the Northeast.
- Saint -Jean -de- Côle in the east.
- Saint- Pierre -de- Côle in the southeast.
- La Chapelle- Faucher in the south.
- Champagnac -de -Belair in the southwest.
- Quinsac in the West.
- Saint-Front- la -Rivière in the northwest.
In addition to the community center for the following hamlets, farmsteads, a (now expired ) abbey and a castle of:
Bionac, Bironnaud, Boschaud, Chabaneau, Château de Puyguilhem, Cirier - Bossu, Gaillarde, La Barbinie, La Barde, La Chaboussie, La Croix des Jarthes, La Gerbonnie, La Gorce La Gourelle, La Peyzie, La Privadie, La Puychardie, Lafarge, Laschenaud, Lasmanas, Lavergne, Le Brandeau, Le Chatenet, Le Cheyroux, Le Cluzeau, Le Lumeyrac, Le Petit Chatenet, Le Pré du Pontau, Les Boussarias, Les Peycharias, Les Rebières, Les Sablières, Les Thomas, Les Vergnes, Maison Grande Maison Neuve, Murat, Piche - Sevre, Pressillac, Puy Chaud, Puyfavard, Puyjaloux, Puyruffet, Sefon and Tranchillon.
The municipality Villars is dewatered approximately in the center of Trincou in southsouthwest direction. Just before the center takes the Trincou as a left tributary coming from the northeast Bach Etang Rompu on. An extending to West West arroyo forms the southern boundary of the municipality of La Chapelle- Faucher, this then leads to the left side in the Trincou (already in the municipality of Champagnac -de -Belair ). In the center of the Trincou also houses a small, coming from the northwest, right-hand side stream which flows past the Puyguilhem castle.
The topographically lowest point in the municipal area of 125 meters located in the southwest near La Gorce; here leaves the Trincou the community in a southwesterly direction. The highest point at 240 meters is located at Piche - Sevre on the eastern border.
Geology
The municipal area of Villars is completely underlain by flat-lying sedimentary rocks of the northeastern Aquitaine basin. The oldest layer sequences are from the Dogger, more precisely from the Upper Bajocian. Were deposited Oolithkalke to see at Le Cluzeau and to the Villars Cave. This is followed by cryptocrystalline limestones, bioclastic limestones and some lignite - leading mudstones of the Lower Bathoniums (occurrence at Maison Neuve ); the limestones may be places also recrystallized. The Dogger ends with cryptocrystalline limestones of some Cretaceous limestones of the character and grobdetritischen Oberbathons (with Les Thomas ). About the Dogger then transgredierte across the Cenomanian. The Cenomanian consists of green, oyster -bearing marls, fine sands and sandy Alveolinenkalken. It underlies the town center and bordered above by the place the left side of the valley of the Trincou and the left side of the valley of the Pond Rompu. On the Cenomanian Turonian with the Kreidekalken of Ligérien ( Villars- Formation) and the Rudistenkalken of Angoumien concordant follows. The top layer stage consists of hard, crystalline limestones of Coniaciums to see in the south at La Gorce.
The Jurassic - Cretaceous sequence of layers is mostly hidden to altitudes of tertiary Hüllsedimenten, starting with probably derived from the Eocene colluvium ( rearranged during the Pleistocene ), which in turn of altpleistozänem Alluvium ( river gravel, tongues at La Peyzie, Puy Chaud, Puyfavard and Tranchillon ) superimposed will. South of the village is located on a Trincou würmzeitliche gravel terrace. Slope debris layers along the Trincou and the Etang - Rompu also go back to the last ice age.
Several minor faults traverse the layer bandage. The center, for example, raised horst -like means of NO and O- trending faults and also the southwest near Pressillac and Cirier - Bossu is a structural high, which is bounded by two SO- trending faults.
History
The presence of man can be based on representations of animals in the Villars Cave to the Lower Magdalenian trace (about 17000-15000 years BP). The Romanesque church of Saint -Martial was built in the 12th century. In 1154 the Cistercians founded the Abbey Boschaud, which was destroyed during the 16th century during the French Wars of Religion, and in the 17th century during the Fronde again. The Puyguilhem castle was built in the 16th century.
Demographics
Source: INSEE
The population has been declining steadily since 1962 in Villars, the decay but has slowed somewhat since 1982.
Attractions
- Romanesque fortified church of Saint -Martial
- Cistercian Abbey Boschaud
- Castle Puyguilhem, protected as a monument historique since 1992
- Villars Cave.
Transport links
The center reaches the light coming from the northeast D 82, that binds to the D 707 from Saint -Pardoux- la -Rivière after Thiviers. The D 82 E leads through Trincoutal of Milhac -de- Nontron to Villars. In the center, furthermore, take a D 3 Nontron and D 68 from Saint- Pierre -de- Côle. The D 3 then passes on through the southern Trincoutal towards La Chapelle- Faucher. In the eastern part of the municipality of the D 98 branches in an easterly direction on the D 86 to Saint -Jean -de- Côle. The same D 98 leaves behind the castle Puyguilhem the D 3 to the west and turn off towards Quinsac.
Distance footpath
The Coming of Saint -Jean -de- Côle GR 436 crosses the area from east to west and continues towards Champagnac -de -Belair and Brantome. ¨