La Gonterie-Boulouneix
La Gonterie - Boulouneix, Occitan La Gontariá e Bolonés, is a commune with 245 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the north- west of the department of Dordogne in the Aquitaine region.
Etymology
The community name La Gonterie - Boulouneix is a double name, composed of La Gonterie and Boulouneix. La Gonterie is a proper name, which refers to the property of Gontier, a well-known in the region patronymic. Bolouneix derives from the Latin adjective Bolonensis, ie to the river Bolon duly ( in Occitan ) or Boulou.
Geography
The municipality of La Gonterie - Boulouneix consists of three slightly larger, formerly independent towns make Belaygue, Boulouneix and La Gonterie. In addition, the following hamlets and isolated farms: Champat, Champébre, Champ Tonie, Chazeau, Chez Jaumelet, Garelias, L' Etang, La Chataignade, La Combardie, La Nègrerie, La Plagne, La Suchonie, La Sudrie or Les Sudries, La Tabaterie, Landrivie, Le ( s ) Bernard ( s ), Le Clos du Pont, Le Couderc or Le Coudert, Le Haut - Palange, Le Maine, Leforesterie, Les Boutétias, Les Marquisats, Maison- neuve, Malet, Moulin de la Faye and Palange.
The municipal area is drained by Boulou and its right tributary, the Belaygue in a southwesterly direction. The Boulou Several times the northwestern boundary of the municipality dar. The Belaygue by flows from the north east to the town district Belaygue and then flows a short distance south of Boulouneix over. The two rivers join together in the extreme southwest corner of the municipality.
La Gonterie - Boulouneix is surrounded by the following municipalities:
- Saint- Félix- de Bourdeilles in the north.
- Saint- Crépin- de -Richemont in the Northeast.
- Brantome in the east and southeast.
- Saint -Julien -de- Bourdeilles in the south.
- Paussac -et -Saint -Vivien in the southwest.
- Leguillac -de- Cercle in the west and northwest.
The village of La Gonterie located five kilometers north-west of Brantome and 17 km south-southwest of Nontron (air line).
Transport default, the municipality is crossed by any major road. The village of La Gonterie is connected via a local road with the further northeast-trending D 939 of Brantome by Mareuil, it is located about 2 kilometers from the main traffic artery.
The orographic lowest point of the municipality is situated on approximately 105 meters above sea level at the confluence of the Boulou with the Belaygue in the extreme southwest. The highest point reaches 202 meters at Champat at the northeastern end.
The community is marginal community of Parc Naturel Régional Périgord- Limousin.
Geology
The municipal area is largely underlain by flat-lying layers of the Coniaciums. In Bouloutal at Marquisat in the north and stratigraphically deeper Oberturon occurs ( Angoumien ) to days. The altitude of La Gonterie already consist of lower Santonian. The Coniacian is in Bouloutal cliffs with caves and rock shelters several ( cave of La Sudrie, rock shelters of La Nègrerie and La Tabaterie ). Between Marquisat and Belaygue crosses over a disturbance coming from Monsec the municipality in northwest-southeast direction. The disorder is an extension of the Antiklinals of Mareuil. The Upper Cretaceous sediments are partially covered in some high altitude areas of colluvial and alluvial detritus of the Pleistocene.
History
The presence of man can be traced in the municipality of La Gonterie - Boulouneix to the Paleolithic era. So found in the southwest in the rock shelters of Sendouge (also Sandougne ) and La Tabaterie remains from the Mousterian. During the second Iron Age around 600 to 500 BCE, a partly fortified, 13.5 acres oppidum was on the Roc Plat 20 to 30 meters above the rock shelters of Sendouge created. From Roman times, the remains of a masonry brick aqueduct originate in the old cemetery of Boulouneix. The Romanesque church of Boulouneix in Saintonge style dates back to the 12th century. Here was formerly a dependent of the Abbey of Brantome monk Convention, the small settlement was therefore also Labayat. Around the same time the Benedictines in Belaygue founded a priory for noble nuns, of which only the ruins can still be seen today. The church of La Gonterie dates from the 18th century. In 1806, the former municipality was merged with Belaygue Boulouneix. The current community name has existed since 1912.
Demographics
Source: INSEE
In the population development, no clear trend can be seen, it fluctuates around an average of 220 inhabitants.
Attractions
- Iron temporal oppidum Roc Plat from the 6th to 5th century BC
- Romanesque church build in the 12th century by Boulouneix
- Romanesque priory in the 12th century by Belaygue ( ruin)
- Church of La Gonterie from the 18th century