Langogne

Langogne (Occitan Langònha ) is a common French, located in the department of the Lozere and the area Languedoc-Roussillon.

Its inhabitants is called Langonais .

Geography

Langogne is close to the Lake of Naussac With the crossroads of three departments (Ardeche, Lozere and Haute-Loire) but also of three areas (Languedoc-Roussillon, the Rhone-Alps and Auvergne), the basin of life of Langogne since was always a space of privileged trade. Indeed Langogne is located on the way of the Voie Régordane old Roman road, but also of the famous way of Robert Louis Stevenson.

History

Administration

This list comes from the files of the general advice of Lozere.

Demography

Heraldic

Tourist monuments and places

Remarkable buildings and public places

The market, classified historic building, massive, imposing, set up towards 1743, sheltered the important transactions of grains which were done at that time. Nowadays, it accommodates the weekly markets and various traditional demonstrations. From here, the heart of the city, start from minor rising roads. One of them, the High street, was undoubtedly a link of a Celtic way leading to the Oppidum Milan mount. It preserved some memories moving by its past: small windows with stained glasses with lead reinforcement, dates on the installed stone gates (1621, 1622, 1685, 1717, 1778), of the rusted signs, the iron rings where mountings were attached. They was the streets of the Tisserand S, of the Drapier S, the carders, the ropemaking machines. This textile activity gave, during centuries, a great animation with this district now deadened.

Religious buildings

The Romance church of Langogne was built at the 12th century, by the monks come from Saint-Chaffre, on the edges of the brook of Mercoire, tributary Allier with the foot of the hillock of Beauregard. It is destroyed at the 16th century. During the war of religion, Langogne was besieged, most of the monastery was burned and the church sudden of great destruction. It was necessary more than 30 years to repair the damage. The restoration made profound changes. Outside the watch tower S were not rebuilt and the gate was entirely remade in Gothic style blazing. The priory of Langogne being very related to that of the Chamalières-on-Loire, it could profit from the studies and the plans of the architects who directed the construction of the church of Chamalières. The two monuments were carried out with the same characteristics of the Burgundian Romance style. But their destiny was not identical, Chamalières remained almost in its country of origin while the church of Langogne was victim of the spite and the silly things of the men. The fire of 1784 made disappear the quadrangular bell-tower and was replaced by an octagonal bell-tower. The nave was repaired only in 1829. The bell-tower kept its four bells which recall the inhabitants by their tinkling the hour. At the 19th century the church was increased to answer the increase in the population.

Museums

The past more than thousand-year-old of Langogne is since always related to its river, Langouyrou, flow Allier: feeder water, water of the lavender fields, water healer, water of the tanneries, water allowing to actuate trip hammers and mills of the street of Calquières. It is since 1442 that one attests the presence of Moulin S: mills bladiers, fulling mills and it is here that at the 19th century, the ancestor of the Engles family came to install a spinning mill. To discover the spinning mill of Calquières, it is to join again with its roots, the wool past so rich in Gévaudan, it is to discover the history of water, the men and a trade. The spinning mill of Calquières, historic building, in edge of Langouyrou is fed out of water by a béal, derived from Langouyrou thanks to a dam 800 meters upstream.

Economy

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Events

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Personalities related to the commune

Pierre Victor Galtier (1846 - 1908), native of Langogne, which highlighted in the Années 1880 the rabies virus and succeeds in before Pasteur reducing the effects of them.
the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson made stage the September 23rd 1878 with Langogne at the time of its tour through the the Cevennes which he reports in Voyage with an ass in the Cevennes (1879).
the abbot Felix Viallet who was deputy and mayor of Langogne in 1956 is aggregate Letters known for its historical research carried out on the area of Langogne, bordering on the platau of Peyrebeille.
Herve Chabalier, born in Langogne the September 7th 1945, journalist and owner of the agency the documentary ones of topicality WRAPPED.
Serge Laget, born in Langogne - sports correspondent

See too

Common of Lozere
Path of great excursion GR. 4
GR. 700
Way of Stevenson GR. 70
Régordane Way or Way of St Gilles

External bonds

Langogne in Lozere.
Site of the tourist office of Langogne

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