Beaumont-de-Lomagne

Beaumont -de- Lomagne ( Occitan: Beumont de Lomanha ) is a commune with 3884 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Tarn -et- Garonne in the Midi-Pyrénées region.

Location

Beaumont -de- Lomagne is located about 58 km ( driving distance ) north-west of Toulouse. Up to the north-eastern town of Montauban is 35 kilometers.

Demographics

Economy

Which is based on wheat, corn and garlic cultivation agriculture Lomagne - since the 1970s are also beans, peas, etc. Added - offers the productive base of the economy of the city, grows with trade, commerce and services of all kinds.

History

From preserved medieval documents show that there must have been at this point in the in the 11th and 12th centuries, a small town along with a church. Today's Beaumont -de- Lomagne was located in 1278 by only a few kilometers away, but in the time of the French Revolution ruined Cistercian monastery founded as Grandselve Bastide. The foundations of the monastery situated 30 km southeast of Grenade and the Bastide in 1290 also go back to initiatives of Grandselve. Both places were ruled in a Core Ghent shaft ( paréage ) by the abbot of the monastery and of a seneschal of the king.

During the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) Beaumont was captured by the British ( 1345 ), but freed again five years later. End of the 14th century a plague raged and gathered over 500 people there. Nevertheless, the place flourished again and again.

In the time of the Wars of Religion (1562-1598) Beaumont remained a Catholic city in the middle of Protestant congregations ( Montauban, etc.). In 1577 the French king Henry III sold. the city of Henry of Navarre, the future Henry IV. This was still Protestant, and established a Protestant hordes a massacre of the almost exclusively Catholic population of Beaumont. In 1580 came an unemployed mercenary band from Montauban, the city occupied for two months and caused great economic damage.

In the 30 years of the 17th centuries besieged King Louis XIII. some cities in southern France, including Beaumont, which was sold to one of the most powerful men in France in 1639 - Louis II de Bourbon, prince de Condé. After further internal political disputes, the Beaumont the enormous fine of 15,000 livres cost, and a renewed plague Beaumont had the beginning of the 18th century only 2400 inhabitants.

Attractions

• The Église Notre- Dame de l' Assomption is a Gothic brick building in the style of Gothic tolosaner. While the church building was completed by the mid-13th century, the octagonal tower with its columns and other decorative elements from light sandstone is the work of 14th and 15th century. The interior of the more than 20 meters high church building is only one nave with side chapels, but has seven bays and a straight choir circuit. The high and narrow windows and blind arches on the exterior are very reminiscent of the Jacobins church in Toulouse. After the expulsion of Bishop Bernard de la Roche- Fontenille from Montauban by the British in 1430 to let this two years down in Beaumont - in this way the church was even temporarily cathedral of a diocese.
• The market hall ( hall ) dates from the 14th century and stands in the central, arcaded houses, place the Bastide. The enormous, almost limitless -looking beams of nearly square building with about 36,40 meters each side consists of vertical and horizontal oak logs pine wood beams and rests on 38 pillars of oak. In 1647, the average, stone-built Donjon collapsed and caused great damage to the building; However, since one of the benefits of the hall still cherished for the economic and social life of the city in the 17th century, everything was repaired again.
• The place has some half-timbered houses ( maisons à colombages ).

Personalities

• Pierre de Fermat (1607-1665), lawyer, mathematician and humanist