Cadole

Cadole is the name given to old the cants S in dry stones of the vineyards of Burgundy of the South, and more particularly of the Beaujolais. In the Mounts of Gold, one employs however cants and caborne .

Alternatives of the word

The term cadole , resulting from the Patois Lyons, is written also cadolle . One also finds the C-W communication cadeule .

Surface of extension of the word

Taken in the direction of “hut of dry stone vine”, the term cadole meets today mainly in Saône-et-Loire but also in certain communes of Coast-in Or (thus with Bruising and Hauteville-the-Dijon, with Flavigny-on-Ozerain).

It is also applied, thus besides that cabin , with the huts of vine of Barséquanais in the Aube.

One still finds it in the department of the the Rhone, in the area of Beaujeu, where it indicates small maisonnettes of vine, of rectangular plan, built out of stones built or Pisé and covered with a Bâtière of tiles.

History of the word

Historically, the term of cadole was not always associated with the use of materials into hard: it indicated the cabin in boards of the boats being used for fluviatile transport on the the Saone and the channel of Charolais (today channel of the Center) with XVIIIe and XIXe centuries (before the appearance of the barges). By Métonymie, the name had come from there to indicate the boat itself, vast boat assigned to the towing of the coal.

Origins

The cadoles out of dry stones have neither a great seniority nor a great longevity: their stones limestones are frost susceptible and, which more is, do not profit from liaisonnement from any mortar. Some cadoles dates from the great period of extension of the vine to the XVIIIe century, thus the cadole said “to Jean Guyot” with Mancey (Saône-et-Loire), but the majority go back to XIXe. Their construction perduré until in the years 1920.

Material

The cadoles were built with the withdrawn stones of the Vigne S during the creation or of the maintenance of these last. The most common stones were used to draw up the walled or Murger S , these walls low which delimited the pieces of vine. The stones most beautiful, punts, broad and easy to install, were reserved for the construction of the huts.

Function

Each cadole served a piece and was used as shelter with the Vigneron: he found there heat in winter, freshness in summer and refuge against the bad weather. Some cadoles comprised elements of comfort: bench, niche, carry to lock. Others, large-sized, were used as permanent dwelling with the poor ones.

Typology

Morphologiquement, it is necessary to distinguish large the cadole isolated, of circular or square plan and with cupola, of small the cadole included in a murger.

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