Burie

Burie is a common French, located in the department of the Charente-Maritime and the area Poitou-Charentes. Its inhabitants is called the buriauds and buriaudes .

Geography

Burie is located in Borderies, vintage classified of the Vignoble of name Cognac.

Access

The commune is crossed by D732 which connects Cognac to Saint-Jean-in Angely. Burie is located at 13km Cognac, 13km of Saint-Hilaire-with-Villefranche and 24 of Saint-Jean-with Angely. And by the road which passes by Saint-Breaking-of-Wood, Burie is to 20 km of Saintes.

Burie is a small town which overhangs this axis. Its commercial street, the avenue of the Republic begins in D732, passes in front of the place of the town hall and the fairground and begins its rise towards its oldest part. It leaves the Lavoir on its left, accentuates its slope and arrives until the church. The street of the castle carries out behind the church to the Château which is coupled there.

Localities and hamlets

At Garnier, Coquillot, Montigny,

Communes bordering

Located at the extrème Is of the Charente-Maritime, Burie is bordering on Saint-Sulpice-of-Cognac in Charente and on Saint-Breaking-of-Wood, Villars-the-Wood and Migron in Charente-Maritime.

Geology and Relief

Burie has with 103 meters the culminating point of the south of the Charente Maritime.

Burie is located on a fine limestone plate which dates date from the Tithonien (in the past named stage Portlandien). It is in the area catchment of the river Charente, on an important rise in its Right Bank which goes down soft inclined towards the East and the river the Antenne affluent from the Charente.

It has many sources but is crossed by no river.

Toponymy

Could come either from the Gallo-Roman villa of Burrius or of Burra or bore-hole , the fabric of wool.

History

On its height, Burie exists since strong a long time since its current church is 12th century. At the 16th century we have documents which concern Pierre de Coucy in 1418 then Charles de Coucy, lord of Burie, which made its first weapons in Italy and was captain of ordinance as of on February 6th, 1551. It is him which rebuilds the castle about 1545. It does not have a child and Burie return to its nephew Charles Harpedaine of Belleville. Its wife Claude de Rochechouart of widowed arrival remarie with Léonor Chabot of Saint-Froze baron de Jarnac.

Then Burie passes in several families and will be the dowry of Gabrielle Therese de Chateigner which marries Charles Louis Chesnel on April 17th, 1709. In an enumeration he is declared knight lord of Ecoyeux, Montigny, Burie, Rochereau, Château Chesnel, Cherves, Ménac, Chazotte and other places, captain of the vessels of the King, knight of the royal order of Saint Louis.

March 7th 1787 the representatives of Burie at the preliminary assembly of the General states which is held with the chapter house of Récollets de Cogac are P.Foucaud, F.Gabeloteau, Corbineau, notaries, J.Garnier and Élie Borde

The commune of Burie was created in the department of Charente Inférieure which became Charente-Maritime in 1941. Burie formed part in 1793 of the district of Saintes then as from 1801 of the district the Holy ones, canton of Écoyeux in 1793 to become chief town of canton in 1801.

Administration

Intercommunality

The the Community of common Vineyards and wooded Valleys of the Country Buriaud include/understand nine of the ten communes of the canton of Burie: Burie, Chérac, Dompierre-on-Charente, Migron, Saint-Breaking-of-Wood, Saint-Césaire, Saint-Saving, Seure and Villars-the-Wood.

Taxation

The taxation is of a rate of 9,48% for the tax from dwelling, 19,32% on the land frame, 45,99% on not built and 14,97% of professional tax, and as the community of communes takes on all four tax, respectively 1,67%,3,25%,8,06% and 3,07% that gives on the whole and before the department and the area are added to it, 11,15% for the tax of dwelling, 22,57% on the land frame, 54,05% on not built and 18,04% of professional tax (figures 2007).

Town planning

The 532 residences of the commune are 512 individual residences and only 20 multifamily apartments. They are main homes for 485 and there are only 16 second home and 31 vacant housings according to the census of 1999. The main homes were built in majority (296) before 1949. Between 1949 and 1974 it was built only 53 residences but 136 between 1975 and 1999.

Demography

Burie since 1921 guard a stable population with light oscillations around 1200, the same one as in 1800 whereas it counted to 1802 inhabitants in 1866 then around 1600 after the crisis of the will phylloxera and until the First World War.

The commune include/understand 471 credits with an unemployment rate of 12,9%.

The 471 credits having an employment are 271 men and 200 women of which 362 are paid and 109 nonpaid. The proximity of Charente explains why 167 work in another department.

Economy

A dairy is built in 1910, then a casein factory in the years 1930. It produced butter, casein and milk in bottles, then out of sachets plastic. It has cesséa its activity in 1970.

A factory of baskets of vintage, wheelbarrows and handles of tool out of wooden, created into 1920 was reconverted in 1958 into the manufacture of chairs out of wooden of beech.

The economy is centered on the cognac, the vine growing and the trade of the cognac and the pineau (Burie proclaims capital pineau).

The city comprises very many trade throughout the avenue of the Republic, and there are three market per week, on the place of the church and the place of the town hall.

Culture and inheritance

Culture

Religious heritage

The Romance church of Saint-Leger has part of the 12th century which is registered like Historic building since 1982. It is the gate and the apse which date from the priory-cure built by the Bénédictin S of the Abbaye of Cognac and which was used as vault with the castle.

Civil inheritance

The castle: there does not remain old castle of Charles de Coucy, lord of Burie, that part of the construction of the 16th century, the staircase rebirth with a surmounted buttress of a pepper plantation. Rise, the garden and the carriage door of which there remains a part go back to 1546,1548. The northern frontage, the southern frontage and the door of the garden are registered by decree of February 23rd, 1925.

The covered laundrette and the fountain of the fidelity which bears this name following a legend. It would have spouted out with died of two lovers, Hugues, page of the lord of Burie and Odette d' Ébéon. Hugues had sworn fidelity to him before leaving to the first crusade, four years passed then the news of his death arrived at Odette who in mourrut on the blow in the middle of a wood of hazel trees at the time when Hugues arrived who by thus seeing it committed suicide out of a blow of sword. Their bodies would have disappeared and the source spouted out.

Environmental inheritance

The circuit of the laundrettes which makes a loop since the fountain of fidelity , the well laundrette of Fontenelles, the well laundrette of the Kitten, the well with stone roof in warhead from Challot, the laundrette of the Make-Shoe, private laundrettes of Montigny and along the road towards Malberteau, the cascade and the laundrette of the Seven-Font, the laundrette from Garnier and by the castle and the church return to the fountain of fidelity

Equipment or Services

Education

Burie has a nursery school, an elementary school and a college, the three establishments are street of the schoolboys.

Sports

Tennis, hiking roads and a club of Table tennis are present at Burie.

Health

Burie has dental doctor's offices and, nurses, pharmacy.

The specialist physicians the hospitals and the private clinics are with Saintes and Cognac.

Local life

The library inter-commune media library is in Burie, places town hall.

Catholic worship with the church.

Environment

A work of safeguard of the fountains and laundrettes allowed the creation of three footpaths on the community of commune of which that which starts from Burie. It makes it possible to discover in addition to the wells, fountains and laundrettes, the ways and wood. Because this calcareous plate is the field of the vines and wood.

Famous characters

Charles de Coucy, “lord of Burye”, general lieutenant of Guyenne was the friend and the adviser of François 1st. In 1558, benefitting from the absence of king de Navarre, the father of the future Henri IV, Spanish penetrated until Dax and plundered Saint Jean de Luz. Charles de Coucy carries out the 3000 men raised by the States of Béarn but a pouring rain leads to the failure this forwarding called “the wet war”.

It is the town of birth of Goulebenéze, bards Charente-native 20th century.

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