Quinsac (Dordogne)
Quinsac, Occitan Quinçac, is a commune with 388 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the north of the department of Dordogne in the Aquitaine region. It is border village of the Périgord- Limousin Regional Natural Park.
Etymology
Quinsac, Occitan Quinçac 1151 still referred to as Quinciacum, derived from the Gallo-Roman personal names ending in the suffix - acum Quintius and with the meaning of property, domain des ...
Geography
Quinsac lie 8 km north-northeast of Brantome, 11 kilometers south-southeast of Nontron (air line). The community is surrounded by the following neighboring communities:
- Saint-Front- la -Rivière in the North
- Villars in the East
- Champagnac -de -Belair in the south
- Saint- Pancrace in the southwest
- La Chapelle- Montmoreau in the west and
- Sceau - Saint-Angel in the northwest.
The community Quinsac is composed of the following hamlets, farms, mills and a castle:
Beauvinières, Blanchardière, Château de Vaugoubert, Chez Nanot, Chez Pitois, Doumejièras, Faurellière, Jayac, La Genèbre, La Grande font, Labarde, Laroche, LASCAUD, Laumède, Lavergne, Le Buisson, Le Grand Moulin, Les chaumes (disused ) Les Combes, Maison Neuve, Maletière, Mars, Maurelière, Peyrebelaygue, Piffan, Teillac and Villeviale.
The municipality is crossed by the River Dronne noon in the south. It has two right side valleys, both immediately north of the village go up in the Dronne: a pulling down from the hamlet Lavergne in South East direction sidearm and a directed transverse valley to the east, which in the center of Saint- Pancrace has its source. North of the Château de Vaugoubert opens to the west a small right-sided dry valley. On the left side of the Dronne River flow north of Blanchardière a Western-oriented dry valley, east of the LASCAUD takes its origin, as well as south of Blanchardière another small arroyo.
The topographically lowest point in the municipality of Quinsac with 115 meters above sea level on the south by the River Dronne, leaving the community here. The highest point of 230 meters is located on the northwest corner, near Saint- Angel (municipality Sceau -Saint- Angel). The absolute difference in altitude is 115 meters.
Geology
The community Quinsac is completely flat-lying (angle of incidence up to 5 ° tions southwest) sediments of the northern Aquitaine basin. Oldest open-minded formation is the Bathonian ( Dogger ). Meanwhile cryptocrystalline limestones are digested at Laumède just on the northern edge. About this Jurassic strata trangredierte the Cenomanian with green, oyster marls, fine sands and sandy Alveolinenkalken leading. The Cenomanian lines the left side of the valley of the Dronne River to the village of Quinsac, on the right side of the valley, it is sufficient only to Doumejièras. In addition, it is found in the first right-hand side valley near Lavergne. On the Cenomanian the Ligérien ( Unterturon ), which is present at the center and in all the valleys of the River Dronne follows. It consists of nodular to platy, white Kreidekalken. Lie the Rudistenkalke of Angoumiens About the Ligérien. The quite resistant Angoulême formation at its base can form clingstones in the field. The Mesozoic strata sequence ends in the municipality Quinsac with hard Fossilkalken of Coniaciums that are barely touched on the southwestern edge.
The altitudes left and right of the Dronne be covered by tertiary Hüllsedimenten. The topographically highest position is occupied by Pliocene or unterpleistozänen gravels and gravels ( Fs formation ). Their extent is particularly on the eastern edge very extensively. Lower slopes are covered by colluvium ( formations ACF and AC), which has emerged largely from the formation during the Pleistocene glaciations Fs and learned rearrangements. The dry valleys are filled by würmeiszeitlichen Kalkhangschutt. In Dronnetal itself there are two risseiszeitliche terrace systems and a recent, Holocene sediment infill. The older upper terrace is only available from Beauvinières, the younger lower terrace can be found virtually anywhere in the Dronnetal.
Worth mentioning is a disorder that pulls over on the southeast edge in a southeasterly direction to the southern municipality of Villars and which has led to a slight lifting of the north-east side. This fault zone apparently explains the so einhergangene, strong silicification of the Turonian, as can be observed in the vicinity of the fault.
Noteworthy are also the very beautiful, tectonically induced, provided with armor Trie Mung pressure cone in Ligérien.
History
The oldest structure in Quinsac was the Romanesque church, which was replaced in the 17th century by the present church of Saint- Saturnin. In 1151 Quinsac is mentioned as Quinciacum. At that time the local Romanesque church was " presented as a gift " by the Bishop of Périgueux to the abbey of Uzerche. The Château de Vaugoubert dates from the 18th century.
Demographics
Source: INSEE
Quinsac had in 1831 still 927 inhabitants, in 1901 there were at least still 778 inhabitants. Since 1962, the population in Quinsac are falling, but they had yet to record a clear upward trend in the 1980s. The decline is somewhat clearer than in the rest of the canton Champagnac -de -Belair.
In 1999, the population of Quinsac was composed as follows:
In 2005 the number of employees had dropped to 39.7%, the number of registered unemployed rose to 5.4%.
Management
Mayor of Quinsac since 2008, the nonpartisan Michel Dubreuil.
Attractions
- Saint Saturnin church from the 17th century.
- Château de Vaugoubert from the 18th century.
- Charterhouse ( Chartreuse ) of Quinsac.
- Dovecote of Villeviale.
- Old bridge over the Dronne in the west of the town center.
Transport links
The village lies on the north by the Dronnetal (from Brantome to Saint -Pardoux- la -Rivière ) running D 83 The center also crosses the D 98 from Villars to Saint- Pancrace in east-west direction. It ties behind Saint- Pancrace on the D 675 of Brantome after Nontron and will come back to Saint- Crépin- de -Richemont continued. Parallel to the D 83 is followed by a local road upstream from the right side of the valley of the Dronne River to Saint - Front -la -Rivière. From their branches at Les Combes to the left ( west) a municipal road that the D drives via the hamlet Teillac 675 or leads to a right turn on Lavergne to Saint - Angel. Finally, it is from the center or from Villeviale starting on the dilapidated convent Boschaud another connection to Villars in the east.