Cadenet

Cadenet is a common French, located in the department of Vaucluse and the area Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure.

Its inhabitants is called Cadenétiens.

Geography

Cadenet is a village overhanging the valley of the Durance, located on the southern slope of the Massif of Luberon. 57 km in the south-east of Avignon, 59 km in the north of Marseilles and 616 km as the crow flies of Paris.

Access

One reaches it since Lourmarin north by the secondary road 943. The secondary road 973 cross-piece the commune on a East-West axis in the south of the borough and makes it possible to connect Lauris to the west and Pertuis/Villelaure the east. The secondary roads 43,59,118 and 139 also pass on the commune.

A railway crosses the commune on a East-West axis in the plain to the south of the borough.

Relief and geology

The village is posed on a hill overhanging the valley of the Durance, in the south of the Massif of Luberon, mountainous solid mass formed of grounds of the secondary (cretaceous inferior). Several other hills in the north of this one of which the hill of Castellar.

Plain Alluvium naire of the Durance in the south.

Hydrography

The Durance passes to the south of the commune.

Torrent of Laval.

Many " mines" , sources in the form of water collectors dug in the rock and important network of irrigation (roubines).

History

The site was, during the Protohistoire, the site of the tribe of the Caudellense S (Cavares), from where the origin of its name Cadenet.

The presence of important a Oppidum on the hill of Castellar makes of Cadenet the first capital of the Acute Pays at the time pre-Roman.

8th century, of invasions sarrasines destroyed the village completely.

Cité end 10th: " Cadanetum " and " Cadenetum ".

The medieval agglomeration was formed, it, around a castle raised on another hill in the current of the 11th century, by the lord Rostaing de Cadenet. Strategically placed on its rock headland dominating the Durance, the castle of Cadenet crossed the Middle Ages at the time modern of many vicissitudes. Although several times rebuilt, there remain about it today only ruins of various periods. Around this place an embryo of habitat troglodytic in cliffs is established.

1165, the counts of Toulouse and Provence besieged the city.

Since 1173, I' Saint-Victor abbey of Marseilles establishes a priory on the current site of the Saint-Etienne church and annexed there the priory Midsummer's Day de Fanabrégol.

1393, the Viscount Raymond Turène, called the “plague of Provence”, burns and devastates the area.

Cadenet found, in first half of the 19th century a prosperity based on the development of the craft industry - many workshops of Vannerie settled, working the Osier cultivated in the valley of the Durance.

The completion of the setting in culture of the plain supported the promotion of the village to the row of chief town of canton.

The canton of Cadenet was offered by Louis XIV to Honore d' Albert, Marquis de Cadenet during his reign. This last was the creator of famous the hairstyle which one carried to the cour : the Cadenette S.

Heraldic

Administration

Twinning

Varvari-Mirtia, Crete, Greece

Town planning

Deposits of permit building over 10 months of 2006: 82 licenses deposited and 98 declarations of work.

These figures shows an important urbanization on the sector.

Demography

Economy

As much communes of the department, Cadenet saw agriculture and in particular of the culture of the vine with productions of wines in AOC Côtes of Luberon or the cultures mararaîchères of strawberries, asparaguses, etc and orchards facilitated by a rich person ground around the Durance and an important possibility of irrigation.

In addition to agriculture, the tourism has also an impact on the local economy and the village has an tourist office besides. This last accommodated in 2006: 1194 visitors moreover than in 2005… with foreign customers coming especially from the Netherlands, of Germany, of Belgium and Great Britain.

The tourists going on Cadenet have several possibilities of residences: 2 hotels, of the rooms of hosts labellized and not labellized, the lodgings, a camp-site, etc

More and more tourism of the wine (or " develops; Oeno-tourism ") with visit of cellars and an initiation with tasting.

ZA of the meilère in the south of the Borough. Craft industry of earthenware, sandstone…

Equipment or Services

The inhabitants of the commune can have a public library, of an open-air theater, a rural household, a laic hearth, of a crib, nursery school, elementary school, college.

Education

The pupils of the village of Cadenet can be informed the schools Mélina Mercouri (elementary) and to Andre Etienne, like with the college " Luberon".

Sports

Several sporting clubs of which clubs of Karate, Football, Judo, Taekwondo, Aikido, Handball, Cyclo-club Villelaure - Cadenet (the FCVD)… and an association (law 1901) of sporting training: the School of the Goalkeeper of Cadenet (E.G.B.C.), etc

Various football stadium and equipment. School of horsemanship.

Hiking and VTT, bathe, fishing.

Health

General doctors and specialists (speech therapist, kinesitherapist, chiropodist, etc) + nurses.

A pharmacy and a store of optics.

Hospital on Sluice.

Local life

Small shops on the spot (four bakeries, a butcher, a grocer, etc), one biomarché, a delicatessen, trade of equipment of the house and equipment of the person, 2 banks (Savings bank and agricultural credit), insurances, etc

The origin of the weekly market, still into force in Cadenet, goes back to Charles IX who, by letter patent data with Moulins on September 11th, 1566, officialized this market Monday.

Worship

Catholic - Christian

Environment

Two déchèteries on the community of commune (in Lauris and Vaugines) like two point specialized (For the branches, the site of Puget on the Durance and for rubble, the site of Puyvert).

Points of Voluntary contribution for glass, newspapers and packing in mixture.

Places and monuments

Cadenet has a castle ruins some overhanging the village + Tour of the belfry of 1879 on the site of the castle. This one replaced an old Romance belfry with three arches (1500) which threatened to collapse on the dwellings downwards.
a church dedicated to Saint-Etienne built to 12th and 16th centuries.
Frontages of the XVII and 18th century.
Several dwellings troglodytes on the heights of the village which were the refuge of Vaudois with 16th. This habitat troglodyte was occupied until in 1960.
Notre-Dame Vault of the Angels.
Several fountains and laundrettes:

Low Fountain 1535 and laundrette
High fountain 1545: cast iron masks (flower vats)
Fountain and laundrette of the Paddle 1740
Fountain of the Market 1806: obelic, 4 dolphins
Fountain of Lombardy 1806 and laundrette
Baude Fountain 1806
Fountain of Héraults 1806 and laundrette 1726
Fountain " with the Peas chiches" 1830
Fountain of the Small square 1848
Laundrette under vault 1850, avenue Gambetta
Fountain " in Osiers" 1860
Fountain 1937, place de la Mairie
Fountain of the Drum 1992.

" The Drum of Arcole" , statue of Andre Estienne out of bronze (sculpture of Amy) which was set up in 1894.
the Castle of Collongue
Museum of the Basket making with presentation of creations of basket makers in Cane and Wicker.

Personalities related to the commune

Elzear de Savran, suzerain de Cadenet, canonized by Urbain V.

Born in Cadenet

Félicien David (1810-1876), Musician
Dry Joseph (1715-1794), main carpenter
Ellian of Cadenet, troubadour
Andre Estienne, “the small drum of Arcole” (1777-1838)

Died with Cadenet

Jean-Daniel Pollet (1936-2004): Scenario writer

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