Soyaux

Soyaux is a municipality with 9538 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the Charente region of France in the Poitou -Charentes.

Location

Soyaux is located in the old cultural landscape of the Angoumois at an altitude of about 130 meters above sea level. inst and about three kilometers ( route ) east of the city of Angoulême.

Demographics

In the 19th century, the population increased steadily from about 500 in 1800 to about 1,500 inhabitants in 1900. Due to the proximity to the city Angoulême and comparatively cheaper property prices, the population of the municipality is temporarily increased in the 20th century to over 12,000 residents.

Economy

While until the 19th century, agriculture and viticulture played the dominant roles, today large parts of the former arable land are cultivated. Two industrial parks ( zones d' Activités ) were reported in which several businesses located - have settled - including a rotary printing press and an establishment for the manufacture of plastic packaging. Otherwise, determine retail, craft and small service businesses, the economic affairs of the village.

History

In old documents mentioned place names are Mons Soilis (908 ), Mons Suellis (1138) or inter Soellos ( 1273); the Romanesque church of points onto an already existing mediaeval center.

Attractions

  • The Matthew the Evangelist parish church Église Saint -Mathieu is a fortified outward and largely unadorned building from the second half of the 12th century with a bell gable tiefenräumigen ( clocher mur ) on the flat closed apse. The gable loose and almost square west facade contains only a unadorned portal and about befindliches window with only one Archivolts bow and a decorative bow as the displayed Framing. The single nave is covered with a wooden roof, whose entablature is equal to the crossing of a transversely -mounted belt bow, which can also be regarded as a triumphal arch, interrupted. The interior of the - slightly against the church retracted - flat closing apse is lit from a window with two columns set. The church is recognized as a monument historique since 1949.
  • Near the parish church is a medieval cemetery was more trapezoidal stone cist graves or sarcophagi, which may have been used repeatedly exposed already in 1850.
  • Near the town center, the scale until 2004 Jardin des Saveurs et senteurs is a reasonable selection of regional plants.
  • The Logis de Frégeneuil was built in the 16th century, but then redesigned several times; its present shape was the construction in the second half of the 18th century. On the property there is a dovecote ( pigeon ) for the supply of poultry. The buildings are recognized as a monument historique since 1996.
  • The municipal area there are several sources whose borders were used as a washing area ( lavoir ).

Partner communities

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