Pardailhan

Pardailhan is a common French, located in the department of the Herault and the area Languedoc-Roussillon. Its inhabitants is called Pardailhanais.

Geography

Pardailhan is located at the Western end of the department of the Herault, in the mountainous chain of the Avants Mounts .
Prolonged by the Black Mountain, these reliefs form the first buttress of the southernmost end of the Massif Central.

The commune culminates in Pech Mage to 822 Mr.

On the geological level the zone constitutes a homogeneous unit: the Mounts of Pardailhan , which extend until the average valley from Orb and which limit to north and the south the faults of Jaur and of Saint-Chinian.

The commune, which extends on 4118 ha, counts ten hamlets Pardailhan (the chief town), Rodomouls, Coulouma, Rieussec, Pez, Catalo, Copujol, the Scrubland, Louvière and Pardailho.

Climate

The climate is of Mediterranean type but it is subject to the oceanic influence like that of altitude.

These characteristics result in a very high annual rainfall (1040 mm in 1982 - statement G. Rodriguez) compared to the Mediterranean plain (less than 600 mm).

The average annual duration of Ensoleillement is lower than 2000 hours (higher than 2500 hours in the area of Béziers).

The temperatures with Pardailhan are on average slightly lower by 4 to 5 degrees compared to the Mediterranean plain. Pardailhan is located in the most been windy zone of the department of Herault: The Tramontana is a dry wind of the very frequent North-West, often very intense. The Sailor (south-eastern) is a sometimes violent wind associated with passages disturbed in the Mediterranean; he is accompanied by a covered time and important rains.

History

Depending on the family of the Viscount of Minerve at the time of the Albigensian Crusade, Pardailhan is annexed by the royal field, for crime of heresy. During the Old Mode, the seigniory is in Paréage between the king and a Co-lord. The castle of Pardailho is occupied until the beginning of XVe century by a royal lord of the manor, representing the king (the castle is ruin in XVIe century).
At the XVIIe century, a new castle is built with the hamlet of Pontguiraud, by the seigneuriale family of Brugairoux.

The Sainte-Marie church (called also Holy-Euphémie) is transferred to the hamlet from Pontguiraud in 1752, which then takes indifferently the name of Pardailhan.
In 1789, the lord baron Thomas de Treil de Pardailhan takes part in favor of the Révolution and is elected appointed of Paris to the legislative Assemblée in 1791-92.

Pardailhan was famous for its race of Mouton, and its production of Navet S (started again since a few years).

Since 1908, the territory of Pardailhan is divided between the communes of Pardailhan and Saint-Jean-of-Pardailhan (then Saint-Jean-with-Minervois).

Between 1960 and 1963, an original experiment of Community life, the " Kibbutz of Pardailhan" gather the Parisian ones, come to settle in the commune to live agricultural work.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Ruins of the Castle of Pardailho

Castle of Pardailhan

Personalities related to the commune

Baron Thomas de Treil de Pardailhan, deputy of Paris to the Legislative Parliament (1791-1792)

Jean Miquel geologist and local scholar

See too

Common of Herault

External bonds

Pardailhan on the site of local history of Saint-Ponais
Pardailhan on the site of the national geographical Institute
Pardailhan on the site of INSEE
Pardailhan on the site of Quid
Localization of Pardailhan on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Pardailhan on Mapquest

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