Lussas-et-Nontronneau
Lussas -et- Nontronneau ( Occitan Lucac et Nontroneu ) is a commune with 309 inhabitants ( 1 January 2011) in the north of the Dordogne in the Aquitaine region. It belongs to the district Nontron and Canton Nontron. It also forms part of the Périgord -Limousin Regional Natural Park.
Geography
The community Lussas -et- Nontronneau located about 7 km west-southwest of Nontron ( center Lussas ).
It is surrounded by the following municipalities:
- Javerlhac -et -la -Chapelle -Saint -Robert in the north.
- Saint -Martin- le-Pin in the Northeast.
- Saint -Martial -de- Valette in the east.
- Champeaux -et -la- Capelle- Pommier in the south.
- Rudeau - Ladosse in the southwest.
- Connezac in the West.
- Hautefaye in the northwest.
Besides the two towns of Lussas and Nontronneau to the municipality of Lussas -et- Nontronneau include the following hamlets, farmsteads and a castle:
Bondazeau, Bosredon, Buzetière, Château de Beauvais, Chez Garni, Chez Mauvy, Chez Veyssière, Clarat, Fontroubade, La Tonnelle, Lacabane, Lamourette, Les Bellus, Les Codercs, Les Fours, Lombardière, Plaisance, Puychissou, Puyfagnoux, Vieux Sirieix and Villejalet.
The north-eastern and northern part of the municipal area is touched by Bandiat and dehydrated in a northwesterly direction. For Bandiat flow in a northerly direction two small left side streams at Villejalet and Lombardière, that are partially dammed to form ponds. At a source west of Lussas on the municipal boundary to Saint -Martial -de- Valette rises a small stream which flows in a westerly direction to the municipality of Connezac every now and then where it discharges into the Beaussac. North of the Château de Beauvais he still has a right side arm.
The topographically lowest point of the municipality is located 125 meters above the sea at Bandiat at Bondazeau in the north, the highest point at 232 meters on a ridge in the extreme southeast.
Geology
The oldest bedrock in the municipality of Lussas -et- Nontronneau come from the Lias. These flat-lying sediments of the Lower Jurassic are digested at Lombardière in a small, left tributary of the Bandiats. About the Lias then follows calcareous Dogger, the south of the Bandiats builds the slopes. The Dogger consists of Upper Bajocian and Bathonian, mainly cryptocrystalline Oolithkalke. It can also occur recrystallized. North of Lussas still Oxfordian ( fine-grained, beige -colored limestones ) has been preserved. The rest of the municipality is, however, largely covered by Pleistocene colluvium. North of the Château de Beauvais to find würmzeitliche, calcareous scree deposits (French Grèzes ), which were generated by Gelifraktion. At the high point in the southeast a small occurrence of rock-forming river gravels is also worth noting the likely date from the Eocene; they belong to a fossil river system of that time ends located in raising the Massif Central; its main branch runs in the SSW direction along the boundary of the municipality of Saint-Martial -de- Valette and Saint-Front- sur- Nizonne.
The recrystallized Dogger suggesting tectonic processes.
History
Oldest cultural artifacts in Lussas -et- Nontronneau are a Gallo-Roman villa complex from the 1st century at Nontronneau. From the Middle Ages several Romanesque buildings such as the Church of Saint- Étienne in Lussas from the 12th century, the church in Nontronneau and the remains of the old chapel in Fontroubade, also from the 12th century. Come The Château de Beauvais goes back to the 16th century.
The previously independent municipalities Lussas and Nontronneau merged in 1827 to Lussas -et- Nontronneau.
Demographics
Source: INSEE
The population of Lussas -et- Nontronneau has suffered heavy losses during the 1960s, but then stabilized.
Mayor
Mayor of Lussas -et- Nontronneau since 2008, Ms. Mauricette Belly.
Attractions
- The Romanesque church of Saint -Étienne in Lussas from the 12th century.
- The Romanesque church of Nontronneau.
- The ruins of a Romanesque chapel in Fontroubade from the 12th century, since 1988 Monument historique.
- The Château de Beauvoir from the 16th century, historique since 1973 Monument.
The Gallo-Roman villa complex in Nontronneau is privately owned and is now sadly in a pitiful state.
Economy
Transport links
The district Lussas can be reached via the D 95, which binds to the D 708 of Nontron after Mareuil. The D 95 then continues in a northwesterly direction Hautefaye and Mainzac (Charente). In the Northeast and the northern edge of the township draws in Bandiattal the D 75 of Nontron towards Angoulême over. From it branch off several local roads leading into the municipality of Lussas -et- Nontronneau. For example, in Villejalet towards Nontronneau, at Lespinasse ( commune of Saint -Martin- le-Pin ) towards Clarat, Château de Beauvais and Lussas and in Jommelières (municipality Javerlhac -et -la -Chapelle -Saint -Robert ) to the hamlet Bondazeau.
Economic use
Predominant in the community Lussas -et- Nontronneau are agricultural (crops, livestock ) and forestry holdings ( extended forests ).