Chadurie

Chadurie is a West commune with 520 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Charente in the Poitou -Charentes.

Location

Chadurie is located about 21 km ( driving distance ) south of Angouleme in the cultural landscape of the Angoumois at a height of about 90 meters above sea level. inst. Boëme The rivers and Arce spring in the south of the municipality.

Demographics

In the first half of the 19th century, the church had always 750-900 inhabitants; due to the phylloxera crisis in the wine and the mechanization of agriculture, the population then dropped steadily to their lowest point in the 1960s and 1970s from.

Economy

The residents of the community lived for centuries of agriculture; the bottoms of the community belong to the Fins Bois Cognac of the vineyard, but the paragraphs in expensive wine fires in recent decades tended to shrink, so that the wine industry today plays no significant role. The tourism in the form of apartment rentals wearing since the 1960s to the revenue of the congregation.

History

Chadurie is located on Chemin BOISNE, an old Roman road that connected Saintes ( Mediolanum Santonum ) and Périgueux ( Vesunna ) together. At the hamlet of La Berche traces of an ancient settlement were discovered. The existence of a medieval town with names Cadureia (1030 and 1044 ) or Catureia (1110 ) is documentary evidence.

Attractions

• The unadorned and unarticulated Romanesque apse and the resultant about the same central tower of the parish church ( Église Saint- Saturnin ) could still come from the late 11th century; the west facade with its triumphal arch pattern in the portal zone and the three blind arches in the plane above, however, is clearly the work of the 12th century. In the 15th or 16th century façade and exterior walls of the church were stabilized because of the nave interior clearly visible drifting apart of the exterior walls due to the vault thrust by powerful buttresses. The church is recognized as a monument historique since 1925.
• In hollow of a valley in the south of the municipal area (45 ° 30 '35 " N, 0 ° 8' 43 " O45.5097222222220.14527777777778 ) is the parts in a stylish converted hotel Logis de Puygâty. The late medieval building with its circular corner towers and nearly windowless outer walls was revised in the 17th century is recognized as a monument historique since 1987.
• The Logis des Thibaudières is a building of the 17th century in the style of the late Renaissance; it now serves as a retirement home.

Personalities

• François Faure (1612-1687) was Bishop of Amiens