Mareuil (Dordogne)
The French community Mareuil, or Mareuil -sur- Belle, Occitan Maruelh, located in the northwest of the department of Dordogne in the Aquitaine region. It has 1112 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) and is the capital of the canton Mareuil. Your municipality is part of the Périgord -Limousin Regional Natural Park.
Geography
Mareuil is located on the D 939, midway between Perigueux and Angouleme, about 35 kilometers from the two cities. Mareuil is surrounded by the following municipalities:
- Puyrenier in the north.
- Saint- Sulpice- de -Mareuil in the Northeast.
- Vieux -Mareuil in the east and southeast.
- La Chapelle- Montabourlet in the south.
- Gout - Rossignol in the southwest.
- Sainte -Croix -de- Mareuil in the west and northwest.
The community Mareuil has the most inhabitants in the canton of Mareuil, also it has the highest population density. For relatively large municipality ( third largest in Canton Mareuil ) includes the following towns, castles, hamlets and farmhouses:
Beauclaveau, Beaugarie, Champeyroux, Château de Beaulieu, Château de Beauregard, Chez Buisson, Chez Ciermont, Chez Gayet, Chez Maille, Chez Marot, Chez Prougnac, Colombières, font -Grand, Gabardeau, L' Âge, L' Epéronias, La Becquerie, La Bregère, La Gare, La Gauterie, La Grange du Moreau, La Maurelie, La Picherie, La Valade, Le Breuil, Le Chavan, Le Maine Range, Le Mandagat, Le Petit Breuil, Le Repaire, Le Thévou, Les Maines, Les Plagnes, Lespinasse, Malignac, Montbreton, Pareillas, Piovit, Ringaud, Rocfiat, Saint- Laurent, Saint- Pardoux, Saint -Priest, Tivoli and Villard.
The municipality is crossed by the Belle, a left tributary of the Lizonne, in NW- SE direction, the drainage takes to northwest.
The topographically lowest spot at 105 meters above sea level is in the northwest of the Belle, near the hamlet of Chez Maille. The highest point of 207 meters is located in the extreme north-east near the D 708 In le Chavan in the southwest still 194 meters can be achieved. Mareuil consequently lies in a valley between the northeast and one running in the southwest ridge.
Geology
The geological underground Mareuils is completely formed by sediments of the northern Aquitaine basin. The municipality is located on the southeast flank of the NW-SE trending anticline Mareuil, a slightly asymmetrical, nordostvergenten bulge in the sedimentary cover of the Aquitaine basin. Oldest open-minded rocks are cryptocrystalline limestones Kimmeridgiums in the far northeast. After a long hiatus In the following transgressive Cenomanian, was built on the Mareuil. The Cenomanian consists of gray-green, oysters leading marls and sandy Alveolinenkalken. It is concordant with the Turonian Ligérien and the Angoumien ( Rudistenkalke ). It shows, in contrast to the otherwise more or less flat-lying formations partially light, tectonic tilting. In the Turonian, which consists of quite hard Fossilkalken Coniacian follows. The layer sequence is completed by chalky, partly glaukonithaltigem Santonian, which has remained but received only on the northeastern ridge. Another tectonic feature is a NW-SE trending, parallel to the anticlinal extending warpage is ( Mareuil- fault) that runs from La Rochebeaucourt to the north of Brantome and is in direct genetic connection with the movements of the anticlinal. This is a deferment with an offset of around 30 meters, with the southwest half was raised. The chalk formations are then covered in the extreme northeast of upper pleistocene colluvium consisting of old rites of Santon.
History
The oldest historical evidence in Mareuil go back to the Middle Ages. So the nobleman Guillaume I. is mentioned documentary of Mareuil in 1099 for the first time. Oldest buildings in the municipality of Mareuil are the Romanesque churches of Saint- Pardoux, from Saint -Priest (12th century) and the church of Saint -Laurent from Mareuil, also from the 12th century. The two chateaux ( Beaulieu and Beauregard ) date back to the 15th century. The Château de Mareuil was built in the 16th century.
In 1827, the formerly independent municipalities of Saint -Pardoux -de- Mareuil and Saint -Priest- de -Mareuil Mareuil -fused.
Management
Mayor of Mareuil is since 2005, the nonpartisan Alain Ouiste.
Demographics
Source: INSEE
The population statistics for Mareuil go back to 1793. The absolute highlight in the number of inhabitants was 1851 with 1837 inhabitants. A second peak was 1886 with 1616 inhabitants. With the turn of the 20th century, then began a sharp decline. The population growth is relatively stable again since the 1960s. Remarkable are the strong Alterslastigkeit and the predominance of the female population; so provide, for example, more than 60 years 38.4 % of the total population Mareuils and 54.8% of the total population are female.
Attractions
Attractions in the municipality of Mareuil:
- Château de Beaulieu from the 15th and 18th centuries, registered as a monument historique.
- Château de Beauregard, 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, also a monument historique.
- Château de Mareuil from the 16th century, monument historique.
- Romanesque church of Saint- Pardoux, monument historique.
- Ruined church of Saint -Priest from the 12th century, monument historique.
- Church of Saint -Laurent in Mareuil from the 12th century. The church was built in the Gothic style, was extended in the 15th and 16th centuries. The entrance portal dates from the Renaissance.
Transport links
In addition to the main thoroughfare D 939 Mareuil is traversed in NE-SW direction of the next Nontron D 708 according to Riberac, also crosses the NS direction, the D 99 of Les Graulges to La Tour Blanche.
Mareuil had formerly a train station and was accessible from Riberac out by rail. The line is, however, closed down for some time. The line was then about La Rochebeaucourt and Rougnac towards Angoulême.
Photo Gallery
- The Church of Saint- Pardoux
- Hewn from the Angoumien sarcophagi in Saint- Pardoux
- The church ruins Saint -Priest
- The Castle Château de Beaulieu