Badefols-sur-Dordogne

Badefols -sur -Dordogne ( Occitan: Badafòu de Dordonha ) is a commune of 227 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) in the Dordogne in the Aquitaine region.

Location

Badefols -sur -Dordogne is located on the south bank of the Dordogne at a height of about 40 meters above sea level. inst in the west of the department of Dordogne. The nearest large city is 27 km ( driving distance ) located east of Bergerac, the capital of the arrondissement.

Demographics

The community had in the 19th century usually well over 300 Einwöhner. Through the phylloxera crisis in the wine and the mechanization of agriculture, the population declined from the record lows in the 1970s and 1980s.

Economy

In earlier times, the residents of the community lived as subsistence agriculture, which included the wine and the breeding of sheep and goats. A little below the village there is a - built partly over the Dordogne river - water power station ( Centrale de hydroélectrique Mauzac ).

History

In Gallo Roman times there was a harbor at the river. The existence of a castle is already probably the 10th century. The first mention of the village under the name Badafol and Badefol date from the 13th century. In the 16th century a large part of the population turned to Protestantism. In the 17th century was the place name Badeffou; in 1952 the place of Badefols -de- Cadouin in Badefols -sur -Dordogne has been renamed.

Attractions

• Surrounded by forest ruins of the medieval castle (Château de Badefols ) dominates the small town.
• The 17th-century parish church inconspicuous ( Église Saint -Vincent ) was partially built with the stones of the ruined Protestant temple and is surmounted by a bell tower located above the chancel arch.
• In a wooded area about a mile southwest of the village are the recognized since 1991 as historiques Monuments stone huts of Cabanes de Coudounier and the Cabane de Villeneuve. The three circular buildings together with their conical roofs are built in dry stone walling technique, date from the 19th century and served as storerooms for tools as well as protection and sleeping quarters for people, that is, especially for forest and field workers to from here time of harvest day and night guarding the fields. Even pastors talking at times on here.

Personalities

Seguin de Badefols (1330-1366) was the leader of a band of mercenaries and bandits (see Grandes dance companies ) in the 1360s, that is, in the initial phase of the Hundred Years' War ( 1337-1453 ) between France and England. In 1364 he led his troops (about 2,000 men ) on the side of King Charles II of Navarre in Normandy direction, but turned away at La Charité -sur -Loire by Charles II and devastated instead the region between Lyon and Mâcon, where he took possession of over 60 castles. Later he penetrated far into the Auvergne in before and plundered, inter alia, Clermont- Ferrand, Issoire, Le Puy. In his last year he retired in Gascony, later the Kingdom of Navarre, where he at the Navarrese king - wanted to recover outstanding wages for his services and those of his colleagues - allegedly. He was probably, however, poisoned by order of the force as totally unscrupulous Charles II.