Maussac

Maussac is a common French, located in the department of the Corrèze and the area the Limousin.

Geography

Located on the River Luzège

Common crossing in the East-West direction by the line of Railroad (ex PO) of Clermont-Ferrand to Brive (transverse south of Lyon-Bordeaux) and the highway A89. RN89 borders it in the south.

In addition to hamlets comprising of the farms, the commune is divided into three poles:

the borough itself with the church, the town hall-school, the place of the church and the cemetery,
with 500m in the south, the Post of Maussac , with the crossroads of RN89 and the road (D36) of Meymac with an artisanal zone and a hotel,
with 2km in north, Lapleau-Maussac , hamlet gathered around the station, old mine, Post office, of a school and some trade.

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

small church parochial belonging at the origin with the Priory of Bonnesaigne with parts of the 12th century, altered at the 15th century and restored at the 19th century:

Bell-tower - turn with the southern side of the nave established in 1880.
original cover in Slate S thick of Allassac. According to the municipality, these slates left a few years ago on the Château of Bity to Sarran and were replaced by small ordinary mechanical slates.

mines of coal of Lapleau: single in the the Limousin. First patent of mining claims granted in 1809. Mines worked until in 1943. They gave a fatty forge coal (30 tons/day) which fed the munitions factory of Tulle.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Corrèze

External bonds

Maussac on the site of the national geographical Institute
Maussac on the site of INSEE
Maussac on the site of Quid
Localization of Maussac on a chart of France and communes bordering
Maussac on Mapquest
Maussac on Google map

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