Chillac

Chillac is a municipality with 204 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the Charente region of France in the Poitou -Charentes.

Location

Chillac is each about fifty km ( driving distance ) southeast of Cognac and Angoulême in south-west of the old cultural landscape of the Angoumois at an altitude of about 150 meters above sea level. inst. On the territory of the Municipality of Beau river rises.

Demographics

In the 19th century, the population fluctuated constantly 400-620 inhabitants. As a result of the phylloxera crisis in the wine and the mechanization of agriculture, the population has since declined.

Economy

The inhabitants of Chillac lived for centuries of agriculture; the bottoms of the community belong to the Bons Bois of the vineyard Cognac, but the sales of expensive wine fires in recent decades tended to shrink, so that the wine plays only a marginal role. Revenue from tourism, especially the rental of apartments ( gîtes ), since the 1960s play a not unimportant role in the revenue of the municipal treasury.

History

The Romanesque church points to an existing place in the Middle Ages.

Attractions

  • The Romanesque parish church ( Église Saint- Sulpice ) was built in the 12th century. The architectural design of the western façade corresponds to the type charenteser: The Portal Zone is designed for a triumphal arch scheme with two lateral portals Blend; is over a stone formed from heads console Fries a five-part series of blind arcades with slender double columns; admitted into the unadorned pediment is a simple bell gable. The outer walls of the nave are broken up by high blind arches and reinforced by only slightly protruding buttresses. For renovation work of the late 15th century, the exterior walls were slightly increased by a battlement; in the interior of the church was a vault and the eastern parts have been completely redone. The church building is recognized as a monument historique since 1961.
  • Right next to the church stands the castle (Château de Chillac ), an existing building complex consists of two separate buildings from the second half of the 15th century. Both buildings have different, often windowless towers with different roof shapes. The building complex is privately owned and has been classified as a monument historique since 1961.
  • The estate Manoir de la Vaure from the 17th and 19th centuries is also privately owned and is recognized as worthy of protection.
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