Le Brouilh-Monbert
Le Brouilh - Monbert French community with 226 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Gers in the Midi-Pyrénées region. It belongs to the Local Government Association, Val de Gers.
Geography
Le Brouilh - Monbert located in southern France, 85 kilometers west of Toulouse, 16 kilometers north-west of Auch, the seat of the prefecture of the Gers department, at an average altitude of 181 meters above sea level. The Mairie stands at a height of 122 meters. Neighboring communities of Le Brouilh - Monbert are Bazian in the northwest, Biran in the north, Barran in the southeast and Riguepeu in the West. The municipality has an area of 1296 hectares. The district of Le Brouilh lies on the left bank of the Baise.
The municipality is one of the type Cfb climate zone ( Köppen and Geiger after ) assigned: Warm Temperate rain climate ( C ), fully wet ( f), the warmest month below 22 ° C, at least four months above 10 ° C ( b). There is a maritime climate with moderate summer.
History
Monbert was first documented in 1060. The land originally belonged to the Counts of FEZENSAC. Monbert was a so-called Castelnau, a fortified town with a castle, a church and a city gate in the middle ages.
Bernard III. , Count of Armagnac, and Guillaume II d' Andozile, the Archbishop of Auch founded around 1145 the monastery of Notre -Dame in Le Brouilh ( Brolium ). It was subordinate to the Abbey of Fontevraud. The town developed as Castelnau north of the monastery. Last -preserved buildings of the monastery is a private chapel at the cemetery of Le Brouilh.
In 1569 it came in the wake of the Wars of Religion to a massacre in Brouilh. The Protestant Gabriel de Lorges left the village and especially the monastery burned down by his troops and plunder.
1793 was Le Brouilh - Monbert in the wake of the French Revolution ( 1789-1799 ) as Loubrouil the status of a municipality and 1801 by the administrative reform under Napoleon Bonaparte the right to local self-government. After 1801 the place name to Le Brouilh was.
The narrow range of the medieval Castelnau of Monbert was gradually abandoned after the First World War ( 1914-1918). 1974 Monbert was incorporated and renamed Le Brouilh in Le Brouilh - Monbert. A local club acquired the same year the grounds of Castelnau by Monbert, which at that time only had a resident. Meanwhile, some of the buildings have been restored.
Culture and sights
Le Brouilh - Monbert belongs to the Roman Catholic parish of Saint Pierre de Barran - Jégun of the Archdiocese of Auch.
The church of Saint -Jean- L'Evangéliste Le Brouilh 1538 was built on the foundations of a barn of the monastery. It is dedicated to John the Baptist. The entrance portal is Romanesque. The church tower was built on the former city gate. The church was restored in 1989.
The existence of the Church of Saint -Laurent Monbert, was first documented in 1383 testifies. The square bell tower was built in 1630 and restored in 1873. In the entrance there is an inscription from the revolutionary period: Le peuple - françois - reconnait - l' être et l' suprême - immortalité de l' âme, the French people recognize the existence of the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul '. The inscription dates from 1794. The church was used during the French Revolution as the Temple of the Supreme Being.
Economy and infrastructure
In 2009, 31.8 per cent of workers were employed in the town, the others were commuters. 12.1 percent of workers were unemployed.
There is a public elementary school in the community.
The nearest railway station dteht in Auch. The nearest airport is the Agen 58.7 km distant airport.
The municipal area controlled designation of origin (AOC ) for Floc de Gascogne and Armagnac, and protected geographical indications ( PGI ) for ham ( Jambon de Bayonne ), poultry ( Volailles de Gascogne or du Gers ) apply, ducks for foie gras ( Canard à foie du grass Sud -Ouest ) and wines labeled Comté Tolosan, Côtes de Gascogne and Gers.