Blanzaguet-Saint-Cybard

Blanzaguet -Saint- Cybard is one of three districts ( Blanzaguet, Saint- Cybard and Le Peyrat ) existing municipality with 264 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the Charente region of France in the Poitou -Charentes.

Location

Blanzaguet -Saint- Cybard lies at an altitude of about 105 meters above sea level. inst about 30 km ( driving distance ) south-east of Angoulême in the ancient cultural landscape of the Angoumois.

Demographics

In the second half of the 19th century, the church had occasionally more than 500 inhabitants; due to the phylloxera crisis in the wine and the loss of jobs through the mechanization of agriculture, the population then dropped continuously from the lows of the past decades.

Economy

The residents of the community lived for centuries of agriculture; the bottoms of the community belong to the Bons Bois of the vineyard Cognac, but the paragraphs in expensive wine fires in recent decades tended to shrink, so that the wine industry plays any role. Revenue from tourism, especially the rental of apartments ( gîtes ), on the other hand has become increasingly important for the revenue of the municipal treasury since the 1960s.

History

The Romanesque church and castle of Blanzaguet point to an existing already in the Middle Ages site; the formerly independent parish of Saint- Cybard has a Romanesque church. In 1790, Saint- Cybard and the hamlet of Le Peyrat joined together; took place in 1862, the merger with Blanzaguet.

Attractions

• The Romanesque parish church of Blanzaguet ( Église Saint- Pierre ) dates from the 12th century. The indented by half-columns templates and round arches of the apse and transept, provided with blind arcades are its most prominent members; the west facade with a little decorated Archivolts portal is against rather unimpressive. The corners of the building are reinforced by stepped buttresses, whereas the exterior reinforced only by simple buttresses against the arch thrust. The sound from the exact clips dressed stone masonry church is vaulted in the interior nave and a conical buoy. The outer wall is broken up by large arcades. The off-axis shifted to the right apse suggesting an early change in the blueprint. The building is recognized as a monument historique since 1920.

View from the southeast

View from the west

• The only 100 meters from the church standing castle (château ) of Blanzaguet is a fairly simple two-story building of the 16th century, the one - incorporated round tower - possibly older. He was one of the widely branched, but originally from the area of Condom in Gascony family Galard. During the Revolution the castle as a national ( Bien national) was sold, but in 1867 bought back by the municipality to be placed here the town hall ( mairie ), a school and rectory ( presbytery ). On the back of the castle is a beautiful park, through which the stream flows Voultron.
• The the hl. Cybard consecrated Angoulême Church of Saint- Cybard is a very simple Romanesque building, absent in the lantern tower and apse. The portal zone of the west facade is decorated in a triumphal arch scheme; about projects on the articulated by two horizontal cornices west tower. The apse loose nave is spanned by a wooden flat ceiling.

View from the southwest

Interior