Busserolles
Busserolles, Occitan Busseiròla, is a commune with 561 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) in the Dordogne in the Aquitaine region. It belongs to the district Nontron and Canton Bussière- Badil. It also forms part of the Périgord -Limousin Regional Natural Park.
Etymology
The Occitan word bussairòla is a diminutive of bussiera (French Bussière, in turn derived from buis ) and thus means " a small box trees covered area ".
Geography
Busserolles is the most northerly community in the Dordogne and has a very large area of over 30 square kilometers. The population density is very low and is below 20 inhabitants / km ².
The municipality is located away from busy roads. About the D 88 has a hand connection to the north extending D 699 of Saint -Mathieu in the Haute- Vienne to Montbron in the Charente, on the other hand, for running in the South D 91 of Piégut -Pluviers after Montbron. Furthermore, it has. Using the D 90 connection to the neighboring Bussière- Badil the West and to Champniers -et -Reilhac in the East Busserolles is about 10 kilometers from Piégut -Pluviers, and 15 kilometers from Montbron.
Busserolles is a border community to both the Charente and the department of Haute -Vienne. It is surrounded by the following municipalities:
- Maisonnais -sur- Tardoire (Haute -Vienne ) in the northeast
- Champniers -et -Reilhac in the East
- Piégut -Pluviers in the southeast
- Saint- Estèphe in the south
- Bussière- Badil in the southwest
- Écuras (Charente ) to the west and
- Roussines (Charente) in the north- west and north
The municipal area of Busserolles are countless hamlets and farmhouses: Beaulieu, Bellevue, Bost Pertus, Chantalouette, Chez Bigot, Chez Gauchou, Chez Giraudeau, Chez la Lyre, Chez Levraut, Chez Nadaud, Chez Peynaud, Clargourt, Cluzance, Coiraud, Fargeas, Forge Neuve, L' Etang Grolhier, La Barrière, La Châtaignolle, La Forêt, La Forge de Lavallade, La Garenne, La Maillerie, La Ribière, LACAUD, Lamandeau, Langlade, Le Buisson, Le Chalard Le Chêne Blanc, Le Dagois, Le Fraisse, Le Graffeuil, Le Grand Clos, Le Grand and Le Petit Vilotte Vilotte, Le Mangot, Le Moulin de Coiraud, Le Moulin de Ludièras, Le Poirier, Le Reclos, Le Roc, Le Verger, Le Villard, Les Chareyroux, Les joncs, Les Meynieux, Leymeronie, Ludièras, malègue, Mirambeau, Nanteuil, Paugnac, Trepeix, Varachaud, Villautrange and Villeneuve.
Busserolles is located on Trieux, a left tributary of the Tardoire. Furthermore, the municipal area of the Ruisseau la Planche and the Ruisseau de l' Etang Grolhier cross - tributaries of the smaller left Trieux. The Ruisseau de l' Etang Grolhier is to a larger reservoir, the Etang Grolhier, dammed and also forms an important bird sanctuary. The Tardoire river forms the border to the Charente, the Trieux borders the municipality partly from the neighboring communities Maisonnais -sur- Tardoire and Champniers -et -Reilhac.
General drainage direction is to the west or southwest.
The topographically lowest point of the municipality is located 135 meters above sea level at the Tardoire in the southwest. The highest point 303 meters above sea level is located in the Bois de Puyrocher in the southeast.
Through the southern part of the municipality of the GR- GR 4 from Royan leads to Limoges.
Geology
The territory of Busserolles is completely underlain by Variscan basement rocks of the north-western Massif Central. Among metamorphic rocks such as paragneiss, Metatexite and Anatexite. Among the plutonic rocks is one of Piégut -Pluviers granodiorite, which occupies the entire southern half. Associated with the granodiorite is its northern apophysis, which is designed as porphyritic micro- granite. This appendage is separated only by a very thin migmatitische gneiss location just north of the center of Busserolles from the actual Granodioritmassiv. In the far east even of Saint- Mathieu- leucogranite stands with his fine-grained facies. In Villautrange a southeast-northwest trending Lamprophyrgang by hitting the metamorphic rocks.
In the floodplains of Tardoire and Trieux glacial, Holocene river sands were deposited with small quartz pebbles and basement.
History
In Busserolles evidence supporting the Gallo - Roman culture are available. The Romanesque village church was built in the 12th century.
Demographics
Source: INSEE
The population figures are generally very sharply since 1962, with a recent trend reversal since 1999.