La Rochebeaucourt-et-Argentine

The French community of La Rochebeaucourt -et- Argentine, Occitan La Rocha e Beucort Argentina, located in the northwest of the department of Dordogne in the Aquitaine region. It has 372 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) and is one of 14 municipalities of the canton of Mareuil. Your municipality also forms an integral part of the Périgord -Limousin Regional Natural Park.

Etymology

La Rochebeaucourt derives from Nordokzitanischen Rocha ( defensive castle, fortress ) and the estate or farm ( cort, cour ) of Bodo ( Beu, Beau ). The district Argentine is clear from the Occitan Argentina with the meaning silver mine. A widely earthy hypothesis derives from Latin rupes Rochebeaucourt boves curtis, ie, the rock on which the bull is castrated (mentioned in a church register of the Thirteenth Century ).

Geography

The municipality of La Rochebeaucourt -et- Argentine is located 25 kilometers south-east of Angoulême and 25 kilometers north- west of Brantome (air line). It is surrounded by the following neighboring communities:

• Combiers ( Charente ) in the north
• Sainte -Croix -de- Mareuil in the East
• Gout - Rossignol in the south
• Champagne -et -Fontaine in the southwest
• Édon ( Charente ) to the west and northwest.

The municipality is the border village Charente.

Apart from the center of La Rochebeaucourt the municipality consists of the following hamlets, villages, castles and a mill:

Argentine, Baix, Beauchaud, Beauvais, Bonneuil, Boudoire, Bourdeillas, Chez Favier, Chez Lambaud, fitout, Fontaine de Boudoire, La Bouquerie, La Forêt, Lagland, Lasteyrie ( castle ), Le Chatenet, Le Coderc, Le Cros, Le Moulin de Ménieux, Les Brousses, Les Fieux ( castle ), Les Grandes Métairies, Les Grandes Terres, Les Martres, Lutardias, Manoulie, Ménichoux, Nadaillac, Petit Noble, Seguignas and Trambouille.

The municipality of La Rochebeaucourt -et- Argentine flows around the north and west of the Nizonne that drains tions southwest towards Dronne. The village of La Rochebeaucourt located directly on the river. An emerging near the hamlet of Le Coderc Arroyo moves to the northwest, and joins the left side just before Les Fieux in the Nizonne. Between La Rochebeaucourt and Argentine runs another, only temporarily water leading arroyo; It also follows the north-west direction and flows south from the center of the left side in the Nizonne.

The topographically lowest spot at 85 meters above sea level is located in the extreme west at Nadaillac at the Nizonne, leaving the municipality here. The highest point reaches 183 meters on the southern border to Gout - Rossignol ( south of the hamlet of Le Coderc ). The maximum height difference therefore amounts to 98 meters.

Geology

The municipality of La Rochebeaucourt -et- Argentine is in its entirety on flat-lying sediments of the northern Aquitaine basin. Oldest open-minded formation is the Ligérien. His bulbous platy Kreidekalke to form the frame of the Trockentals south of the town center. It follows from the existing Rudistenkalken Angoumien with the places, the wall forming Angoulême lineup and the Oberturon. The Angoumien underlain and surrounded the southern dry valley and moves on to the north and north-west to the town center. Above that lay the hard Fossilkalke of Coniaciums. They build on the ground almost the entire south-western municipality of the area; even at Beauchaud in the northeast they are open-minded, but trending of the Northwest Mareuil disorder are here cut off abruptly. Northeast of this disorder is then available to Santonian, mainly marly limestones rich in oysters, glauconite - leading silts and sands of the middle and upper Antons. In places, occur also in the gray-green, glaukonithaltigen limestones of the lower Antons.

On the northeast corner of the Upper Cretaceous strata of Pleistocene colluvium are covered, which emerged from the sands of Santon. The two dry valleys are filled by würmzeitlichen talus. The Nizonnetal is lined by Holocene deposits, which are mainly fluvial origin, but some may also contain components of the slopes.

The municipality of La Rochebeaucourt -et- Argentine is located at the northwest end of the northwest-southeast trending anticline Mareuil. It therefore takes compared to its surroundings a tectonic high position. The Mareuil- disorder has pushed up the southwest section here until almost 70 meters, as is true for example in Beauchaud Mittelsantonium in the north- east on Upper Angoumien in the southwest. With the anticline two other disorders are associated; they emphasize nearly north-northwest and cross the Nizonnetal at Les Fieux.

The Lower Angoumien ( Angoulême Formation) was once intensively exploited as a building block. Very many quarries focus on the southern dry valley in Argentine. The right soft blocks were cut out from the wall here. Those left behind, some huge holes in the rock mass are now often used for mushroom cultivation.

Ecology

The limestone plateau of Argentine is because of its endemic flora dry lime-loving nature reserve. It is built up of flat-lying limestones of Angoumien. Noteworthy is the variety of orchids.

History

The presence of the people in the municipality of La Rochebeaucourt -et- Argentine goes back at least to the megalithic age, as is, for example, in Baix a dolmen. In the center of La Rochebeaucourt once stood a Gallic fortress, protected by an annular wall Wall. From her nothing more is now obtained, the former course of the Wall but is marked by the Rue des Fosses. At the site of a former gate later, the Maison du Chapitre arose. Between the 7th century and the 11th century besfand in Argentine troglodytisches an underground sanctuary that had been extended to a true necropolis ( sarcophagi ). La Rochebeaucourt belonged to the early Middle Ages to the barons of Villebois. They built in the 9th century on the right Nizonneseite (municipality Édon ) a large square tower, who oversaw the street from Angouleme to Perigueux. Ytiers de Villebois founded in the 11th century the monks of Cluny the terrain for the construction of a first local church. In the year 1121 then the pin chapter Saint -Théodore was built in Gothic style in the same place. Around the same time, the Romanesque-Gothic church Saint -Martin was built in Argentine. She lay on the Way of St. James, and was led by the exchanged over there Cluniaszensermönchen. 1154 stayed Pope Anastasius IV in the chapter house to settle a dispute about the pilgrimage revenue between the canons and the Cluniaszensermönchen. After a week of Anastasius had to leave the house ( he was kicked out of the chapter gentlemen ) and moved on to Mareuil. After the battle of Bouvines in 1214, the Villebois in La Rochebeaucourt settled since Philip Augustus put them out of their headquarters and had awarded him Hugo of Mareuil. You in a 13th century building opposite the tower then a fortress (Château de la Rochebeaucourt ), which was temporarily occupied by the British in 1349 during the Hundred Years War. The English were driven out in 1372. At the beginning of the 15th century, however, the fortress was razed to the king's command, as their owner had meanwhile made ​​a pact with the English. The line of Villebois was extinct in 1391 and was then succeeded by the La Roche 's from Soubran (Charente -Maritime). 1436 La Rochebeaucourt moved briefly to the Lords of Mareuil. Then it came to the possession of La Rochebeaucourt to long-lasting disputes between La Roche 's and the Lords of Mareuil, which went on until into the 16th century. In the same century, the old tower was demolished, he had soft terraces and an orangery, in which Karl IX. 1556 was staying.

In 1827 the two districts of La Rochebeaucourt and Argentine merged to church today.

Between 1853 and 1859 was Louis Hector de Galard de Béarn build a new castle in neo-Renaissance style instead of the old fortress and castle ruins. It burned during the German occupation from in February 1941. During the occupation the church was still in Vichy France - directly at the former demarcation line that followed the Nizonneverlauf.

Demographics

Source: INSEE

The population of the municipality of La Rochebeaucourt -et- Argentine is generally declining, with fluctuations.

Attractions

• The abbey of Saint- Théodore Chapter 1121
• The Romanesque- Gothic church of Saint -Martin in Argentine with necropolis dating from the 7th to 11th centuries
• The Château de la Rochebeaucourt Castle
• The Château des Fieux Castle
• The Château de Lasteyrie Castle

Infrastructure

Transport links

La Rochebeaucourt is on the main road D 939 from Angouleme to Perigueux, which crosses the Nizonne here. Furthermore, going from the center following roads:

• The D 87 in North direction Rougnac
• The D 12 to the south by Gout - Rossignol and on to Verteillac and Riberac
• D 5 in West direction Villebois -Lavalette.

Municipal roads leading from the town to Sainte -Croix -de- Mareuil and Fontaine. From Argentine from a municipal road follows the left Nizonneufer and connects with Blanzaguet well with Champagne. A strikingly rectilinear paths route leaves La Rochebeaucourt to southeast in the direction of Mareuil. This voie féodale was created in the Middle Ages; due to their straightness it is often mistakenly referred to as voie romaine ( Roman road ).

Between 1850 and 1950 also had its own railway station on the right Nizonneseite in the municipality of Édon. The railway made ​​it possible to connect through Rougnac to Angoulême and south over Riberac to Perigueux.

On the limestone plateau of Argentine is a private airfield.

Distance footpath

By Argentine and La Rochebeaucourt from the south ( Mareuil ) coming GR 36, which then attracts over Villebois -Lavalette to Angoulême runs.