Mainxe

Mainxe is a common French, located in the department of the Charente and the area Poitou-Charentes.

Its inhabitants is Mainxois.

Geography

Located between Jarnac at north and Segonzac at the south, its territory is located in Grande Champagne, first vintage of cognac.

It is crossed of west in is on its southern part by the Way Boisné, portion of the Roman Voie driving of Saintes to Périgueux (VR 28).

Its economy is mainly centered on agriculture (mainly the Vigne for the cognac), the Distillation, the ageing of brandies, the cooperage.

The Sand and hones it Calcaire were lengthily extracted from sound Sous-sol in the zones inapt for the culture of the vine; nowadays, this activity is in sleep.

History

The name of Mainxe comes from a Latin name which wants to say relay .

This village is established in edge of the Roman Voie VR28, it was also a halt for the pilgrims on the way of Saint Jacques de Compostelle.

For beginning of proof, in edge of the Boisné Way, a place names the Jacquet Field.

Administration

Demography

Teaching

The school is a RPI between Gondeville and Mainxe.

Mainxe accommodates the elementary school and Gondeville the elementary school.

Places and monuments

Saint-Maurice Church: old diocese of Holy, this church was almost entirely rebuilt 1858 with 1862, as well as a vault, raised in the south of the nave, with the birth of the chorus. Its nave and its rectangular chorus form three spans, arched warheads. Two windows open in each span of the nave, two in the chorus, with mullions and networks flamboyants.

The frontage is limited by two buttresses on the angles; it is bored of a door to the broken clotheshanger, with two profiled curves, resting on posts and of a pink; a pinion finishes it. The walls of the nave carry each one two buttresses; in the South, one finds the vault whose angles, like those of the bedside, are supported by buttresses, mullioned windows exist in the east and the south. To North, a side bell-tower was assembled at the time modern, with bays in tierce point on the sides of its stage and raised an enough pyramidal arrow, out of frame, covered with slates;

In the post office (closed today) was found in the years 1970, at the time of renovation work, in the stone wall, behind a partition of doubling, a superimposed fountain made up of three scallops; lowest (which was used to pose the container) was crossed to let pass the aforementioned partition.
Cohabitation Protestant catholics during the Wars of religion and the particular geometry of the cemetery.
undergrounds.
the locality “Pierre Raised”.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Charente

External bonds

Mainxe on the site of the national geographical Institute
Mainxe on the site of INSEE
Mainxe on the site of Quid
Localization of Mainxe on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Mainxe on Mapquest

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