Dignac

Dignac is a municipality with 1298 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the Charente region of France in the Poitou -Charentes. The municipality consists of several hamlets.

Location

The municipality is located in Dignac a height of about 170 meters above sea level. inst about 20 km ( driving distance ) south-east of Angoulême in the ancient cultural landscape of the Angoumois. The river originates Échelle in the municipality.

Demographics

In the 19th century, the community had mostly 1000-1650 inhabitants; due to the phylloxera crisis in the wine and the mechanization of agriculture of the population decreased since 1880 continuously from the lows in the 1960s and 1970s.

Economy

The residents of the community lived for centuries on the principles of self-sufficiency from agriculture; Market towns were too far away. The soils of the community still belong to the Bons Bois of the vineyard Cognac, but the paragraphs in expensive brandies and even with wine in recent decades tended to shrink, so that the wine is no longer important. Revenue from tourism, especially the rental of apartments ( gîtes ), are become much more important since the 1960s.

History

Documented traditional medieval town names are DiNAc ( 1162 ) or Dinhaco ( 1233 ).

Attractions

• The Parish Church ( Église Saint- Cybard ) dates from the 12th and 15th centuries. The single nave with its rather simple facade and apse design is dominated by a squat three-story central tower acting, whose average level is surrounded by arcades, while the open arcades of the overlying Glock Tight lap and divided by twin columns. In the barrel-vaulted nave remains of frescoes from the 12th and 16th centuries have been preserved. The church is recognized as a monument historique since 1980.
• The Château de Breuil (45 ° 33 '42 " N, 0 ° 17' 27" O45.5616666666670.29083333333333 ) is a building complex with buildings from the 14th and 15th centuries. Is particularly impressive of late medieval keep ( donjon ), in the chapel still remains of frescoes of time are obtained. The privately owned building is recognized as a monument historique since 1964.
• The architectural ensemble of the Château du Pouyaud (45 ° 33 ' 17 "N, 0 ° 15' 58 " O45.5547222222220.26611111111111 ) consists of buildings from the 15th to the 18th century. The castle is privately owned and is recognized as a monument historique since 1966.
• In the hamlet Cloulas is a single-nave Romanesque chapel with a two-piece bell gable above a restrained decorated Archivolts portal and an unarticulated apse.
• At the very plain church of the hamlet Beaulieu a rectangular apse was sheathed grown in the 15th century.
• In both villages there is in addition a non-covered wash area ( lavoir ).

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Cloulas - Church

Beaulieu - Church