Corneilla-LED-Vercol

Geography

* 8 km in the South of Perpignan * 5 km of the sand beaches * 25 km of Spain

Corneilla-LED-Vercol is located at the South of Perpignan (8 km) near the Mediterranean (3 km). In the middle of a space of greenery which dominates the Canigou mount, it is built on a small height (20 meters) around the medieval castle and of the church Saint Christophe.

History

The origins of Corneilla are old since vestiges of a human presence to the Neolithic era were very recently discovered. The village owes its name with the presence of a Roman villa property of the family of Cornélius. Vercol (at the Berchale origin) is an old forest of oaks of the first millenium which occupied all space between Tech and Réart.

Corneilla del Vercol, located in plain, did not preserve vestiges of the remote prehistoric time. It should be said that its site, on a too acid ground, in a zone remained marshy strong a long time, did not allow the conservation of bones nor even of tools. In addition, the erection of dolmens or menhirs was done only in zones of medium mountainss (Aspres, Conflent).

The first inhabitants of the area were invaded during the previous millenia our era by the ibéros-Ligurians, then towards -500 by the Celts and finally the Romans (conquest in -121). Those, organized particularly well, structured the grounds on the basis of agricultural domains and it is there that is the origin of Corneilla del Vercol. (see the etymology higher) With the fall of the Roman Empire, neither the Visigoths (412), nor buckwheats (735) left traces on the site. It should be said that these two people almost did not build and their remainders are very rare.

It will thus be necessary to await the arrival of the Carolingians into 811 so that is born the feudal system. The soldiers of Charlemagne having conquered the territory, they made come from the monks, most of the time from the empire buckwheat in the South, to build large abbeys which, with the wire of time, essaimèrent vaults a little everywhere in the area. The first mention of Corneilla appears in this context, in a written document which dates from IXe century. But it is into 1087 that we can be sure existence of a church.

In 1205 the lord of Corneilla, Raymond, did not have a descent, also bequeathed T it his stronghold to the hospital of the poor.

The village was protected very early by a castle built in XIe century. It is classified historic building. The current church, dedicated to St Christophe, is recent, it dates from the XIXe century. It contains some interesting statues (St Jacques and St Pierre, XIXe, St Christophe, XVIIIe) as well as a processional cross of the XVIIe silver century.

Administration

LIST ASSISTANTS

1st Associated: BOUSQUET Henri

Person in charge of the Hydraulic commission and Environment

2nd Associated: RAMIREZ Anne-Marie

Person in charge of the commission Social security - Elderly

3rd Associated: SABARDEIL François

Person in charge of the commission School life - Youth and sport

Delegated titular of the Community of Commune of the sector of illibéris

4th Associated: TORRES Jean-Louis

Person in charge of the commission Town planning - Work

Delegated titular of the Community of Commune of the sector of illibéris

5th Associated: LIRONCOURT Agnes

Person in charge of the commission Information - Association

Demography

Places and monuments

Notre Dame of the Paradise

The Notre Dame vault of the Paradise is on the territory of the commune of Corneilla del Vercol, with one kilometer in the North-East of the city.

Quoted the first time in 1215 under the name of Sancta Maria de Corniliano, it is possible that it is about the first church of the village, which would have moved thereafter but without one having the proof of it. One finds this church at the century following in 1341 (Sancta Maria de Paradiso alias del Vilar), then in 1596: Ermita de Nostra Senyora de Paradis.

It is thus into 1596 that one with the proof of the presence of a hermit with Notre Dame of the Paradise. This practice, which was born as of the Carolingian era, had remained marginal until the XVIIe century, time of the rise of the eremitism.

From the end of the XVIIe century, the majority of the Catalan hermitages were founded, often on the remainders of an old parish or a vault castrale. Here it was about a given up religious building, little isolated (as opposed to what one can usually imagine). It should be said that the hermits were members of the Catalan company: One respected them, they were listened like people holding wisdom, the knowledge. (see the File on the hermits)

Our hermitage then appears in 1688 pennies the term Hermita de Nostre Senyora de Corneilla dels Aspres, then it will follow the traditional history of the hermitages without big events, at least until the French revolution.

It is indeed into 1790 that the laws were promulgated declaring the goods of the Church like state-owned properties. All the religious buildings which were not parishes were sold like goods of State, the hermits being requested to melt itself in the civil society. Notre Dame of the Paradise did not escape the rule, but the hermitage which been able to reopen her doors in 1829 thanks to the easing of the laws anticlericals. It was besides the case for many of other hermitages, the majority of those which did not reopen are today ruins some, forgotten of all.

A little later in 1859, the vault undergoes a restoration, which was supplemented in several stages at the XXe century between 1965 and 1973, financed on a purely particular basis by the family Jonquères d' Oriola. Following the gift of the vault to the commune by Mr Christophe Jonquères d' Oriola, an association created in 1971, " Friends of the Notre Dame vault of Paradis" deal with this building. In addition, Notre Dame of the Paradise accommodates in her walls interesting Retable gone back to 1850.

The castle: Property of the family Jonquères d' Oriola, the castle is not visited. It is an imposing building built essentially in XIVe and XVe centuries, with quadrangular turns of angle.

Personalities related to the commune

Pierre Jonquères d' Oriola
Jean-Louis Vigier (Corneilla-LED-Vercol 1914 - Soler 1993), organizer of the Maurice network in Resistance, deputy then senator de Paris.

See too

Common of the Eastern Pyrenees

External bonds

the site of the town hall (regularly updated)
Corneilla-LED-Vercol on the site of the national geographical Institute
Corneilla-LED-Vercol on the site of INSEE
Corneilla-LED-Vercol on the site of Quid
Localization of Corneilla-LED-Vercol on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Corneilla-LED-Vercol on Mapquest

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