Cessenon-sur-Orb

Cessenon-sur-Orb is a common French, located in the department of the Herault and the area Languedoc-Roussillon. Its inhabitants is called Cessenonais.

Geography

Cessenon-sur-Orb is on bank of right-hand side of the Orb leant with several hills of low altitude. The plain, worked by the annual risings of the river, offers large cultivable grounds.

Administration

Demography

Origin of the name

The origin of the name is Celtic or ibère. “ Kess ” would be a Gallic name which signifirait Fort .

However, according to the picturesque worms of a poet of the soil, the name of the village would have very an other origin:

“Un day that a fort ouraché ennégrabo lou sky, Clouquié Amoun Al, sounnabou the campana. Campanié Lou, noummat Tantan lou biel, That Fez-native ressoundi lou side of the montagna Entendet una muds, that there disié “CEASE! ” Or if not by Satan, I make you the promise That the lightning at the moment will fall down on vous. Tantan that éro testut, there diguét: “That are aco Cesse? - Nou. ” Lou noum be demourat désempeï CESSENOU. Ajet not dich aco, that large a bruch of tonnéro, Accoumpagnat of iglaous, faguet trembled the téro And dins aquel moument lou campagnié Tantan Troubet empourtat sul porch of Tamben.”

History

The village of Cessenon-sur-Orb, ideally laid out between the river Orb and the mountain, has a very rich history which goes back to several millenia. The site is indeed occupied since the Préhistoire (Dolmen S, tumlus, Silex found not far from the farmhouse of Lugné), it then underwent a period Wisigothe and Sarrazine (Moslem tombs, Noria S, Chadouf) like one period Romaine (Amphore S, burials, fragment of low funerary relief, villa). The period of the Moyen-âge is nevertheless that which left the most vestiges including one great quantity of manuscripts as well as the ramparts and the keep which are the emblems of the village today.

Its inhabitants are proud to have named Philippe Pagès (a large jeweller) citizen of honor.

The Middle Ages with the Revolution

Châtellenie whose Cessenon was the chief town extended formerly on 29.805 hectares and was composed by 15 villages/masseries. One finds traces of this organization of the 10th century until the Révolution. The castle, or rather the Citadel, was definitively destroyed in 1633, under the ordinance, going back of October 6th, Louis XIII and Richelieu. The ruins of the ramparts and the keep, only vestiges of this glorious time, trônent in the center of the High Quartier .

At that time, the independent sources of income are agriculture and the breeding. The grounds, located in the plain of Orb, are favourable with the culture of cereals and offer large pastures for the animals (primarily of the Mouton S, of the Chèvre S). Most of the grounds is devoted to the orchards and for the plantations of olive-tree S. the most difficult grounds are reserved for the Vigne, but the rigorous winters of 1709 and 1789 which each time destroyed to it quasi totality of the olive-trees, whose oil is one of the independent sources of income, changed gradually gives it in favor of the vine more resistant to the conditions extrèmes.

Of XVIII^e in XX^e century

Cessenon underwent great upheavals of its economic activities, the industrial revolution started with the advent of cloth manufactures (as of 1720) which knew a great passion before sinking gradually until the middle of the 19th century. In same time, to deal with the wine overproduction the owners were constrained to distill their surplus of wine. Although this work was initially reserved for itinerant “burners” which passed in the villages with their material of distillation, of small Distillerie S permanent were built in the neighborhoods of 1810.

Cessenon-sur-Orb has a certain quantity of Minerai S: Marble, sandstone, Lignite, Clay. The red marble morello cherry of the career of Coumiac, exploited, according to the estimates, of the 15th century until 1975, is the best example of these richnesses. But the most important resource was the clay exploited in the burrows and which was used for very close tilery.

Most beautiful réuissite of the economy cessenonaise of this time was the tilery Cathala-Rich person which was founded towards 1860 and which will perdura, with a certain success, until in 1955. Products being exported towards Béziers via the railway network.

Economy

The current saving in Cessenon-sur-Orb is summarized primarily with the Viticulture and the Tourisme.

The wine field is divided into two parts: the AOC ( AOC Saint-Chinian and AOC Slopes of Languedoc ) and local wines ( Local wine of Cessenon and Local wine of Herault ). Moreover, most of the production of wine is exported for being built-in other wines (one speaks about “wine of cut”).

Tourism represents a big part of the incomes of the village, the municipal camp-site, placed on banks of Orb, the festivals of July 14th and of August 15th, and many activities (canoe-kayak, walks equestrian, etc) there are undoubtedly for something, as well as the panorama and the geographical location between sea and mountain.

The nautical base of Réals regularly accommodates tests of the championship of France of Canoe-kayak.

Places and monuments

The commune has an exceptional geological site, the career of Coumiac, where one can observe fossils in marble red morello cherry of color. This marble, very rare, was in particular used for the manufacture of the “red room” of the White House to Washington, cd..

The other characteristics of this commune are its fortifications, its bell-tower, last vestige of the castle, and its church dating from the 12th century.

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