Labruguière

Labruguière is a common French, located in the department of the Tarn and the area the Midday-Pyrenees.

Geography

1. Benchmarks

Labruguière is a city located on the Thoré at 75km at the east of Toulouse, 7km in the south of Castres, sub-prefecture of the department.

2. Communes bordering

The commune of Labruguière is bordering in North with those on Lagarrigue and Castres; in the North-East Valdurenque; in the North-West Navès; in the East Caucalières; in South-east Aiguefonde and Mazamet; in the South with communes of the department close to the Aude: Laprade, Martys and Cuxac-Cabardès; in South-west Escoussens; in the West Fish ponds and Saint-Affrique-the-Mountains.

3. Natural big spaces

The town of Labruguière is located at the foot of the septentrional slope of the black Montagne, last southern relief of the Massif Central. The old village core is built on left bank of Thoré near a ford. The river constitutes the border between the plate Calcaire of the Causse (altitude maximum in the east of 277m) and the primary formations of the black Mountain. The latter is an old solid mass raises at the time of the Pyrenean Orogenèse which made a step of faults of it. Altitude is relatively important (glance of more than 800m) compared to the southern slope which is presented tilted inclined.

This situation made it possible the village to develop since the Xe century, date of the first mention in the files (985, under the name of Bruguiera). The site of the city has many advantages: the meander of Thoré ensures the first urban core an elevated position making it possible to supervise the ford, constituting a natural defense and to be located on a crossroads of North-South ways (Castrate - Carcassonne) and East-West (Mazamet it Lauragais).

4. Nature of the landscapes

In contact with several fields Geological S, the commune proposes very diverse landscapes. Country of mountain very wooded, chataigners, beeches, oaks, conifers, the Black Mountain offers to Labuguière the forests of Fontbruno and Galaube. Landscape of relief hercynien, eroded, present of the metamorphic grounds (Schist S, Granite, Gneiss…). The altitude which rises with more 1000m makes it possible to see a staging of the vegetation.

In the North-East of the commune, the Causse, deeply notched by the river Thoré (cliffs), present of the landscapes more the Mediterranean NS: forms of Garrigue S côtoient holm oaks and boxwood, whose popular legend claims that they were planted by Jules César itself!

West present of the softer and more open landscapes which approach those of Lauragais: hills undulated along Thoré.

Several rivers cross the commune: Thoré receives water of Montimont and Bernazobre whose course changes direction brutally. This last by digging its course released from the pilot hillocks which are Quiquiriqui and the Rock of the Devil.

5. Typology of the occupation of the grounds

In the field of the Black Mountain dominates the coniferous forest of Feuillus and , whose dark color, especially the days of Vent of Southerly wind and Orage, gives its name to the Montagne.

The Causse, calcareous plate, consist of scrubland and not very fertile meadows, favourable with the ovine breeding. These grounds are also used by the soldiers of Castrate (8th RIMA) for the drive. Lastly, a airport replaced the aerodrome in 1991. An air line connects the south of the department of the Tarn to Paris.

The remainder of the territory of the commune consists of agricultural land that the Polyculture and the breeding Bovin are divided.

Today Labruguière is in the urban orbit of the agglomerations of Mazamet and especially of Castrate, sub-prefecture of the Tarn. In spite of activities in crisis during the end of the XXe century, the periurbanisation from these two Agglomération S ensures a stabilization and a light rise of the population, visible currently by the construction of many allotments in the commune.

History

Administration

Demography

Personalities related to the commune

Arthur Batut, father of the air Photography by Kite.
Negro Serge, Adventurous, Photographer, bearded, preserving (of museum), progressist (of ideas), writer, editor, president, cervolist, slightly handicapped by a problem of drop, lecturer, stitcher (of buttocks).
Thomas Arquier, champion of France of Rugby to XV with the Castrate Olympic in 1996.

See too

Olympique Labruguiérois XV
Aéroport of Castrate-Mazamet
Communes of the Tarn
Aupillac, small Hameau with the variation:

Aupillac is a hamlet of the commune of Labruguière (Département of the Tarn) in France.

Located at the limit of the commune of Aiguefonde, it is primarily agricultural. Traditionally, like all the villages with the foot of the Black Mountain, its inhabitants were often tisserands for wool cloth manufacturers or hosiers.

Until the XVIIIe century, the brook of Aupillac actuated a Moulin fuller, disappeared today.

Between 1600 and 1750, two Protestant families shared the essence of the soil around the village. Mathieu Bellesaigne member of the one of them, chooses to exile himself in Ireland in 1751. He was the associate of a cloth manufacture of Castres and Saint-Albi.

The other family was the Armengaud family, also cloth manufacturers, but more turned in their business towards the town of Mazamet.

At the XIXe century, Armengaud settled with Aiguefonde, then with Mazamet. Among them Elie Armengaud (1850-1923) was wool purchaser with Buenos Aires between 1880 and 1885. His/her brother Felix Armengaud (1836-1908) founded in 1886 the factory of Délainage of the Pre-of-Bridge in the valley of Arnette with Mazamet.

External bonds

Labruguière on the site of the national geographical Institute
Labruguière on the site of INSEE
Labruguière on the site of Quid
Localization of Labruguière on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Labruguière on Mapquest
Marriages of the Registry office of Labruguière

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