Redortiers

Redortiers is a common French located in the department of the Alp-of-High-Provence and the area Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure.

Its inhabitants is called Redortiérins.

Geography

History

The borough of today is the meeting of the hamlets of Redortiers and the Contadour .

It is not located at the site of the old borough, which was abandoned.

Redortiers was created with the Early middle ages by inhabitants wanting to take refuge plunderers on the spur of Redortiers.

The oppidum became a strengthened village then and was yielded about the year 1000 to the powerful abbey of Montmajour. The lords of Simiane are probably at the origin of the construction of a castle and a keep of which there remain still some ruins.

The richness of the village rested on the forest sales but especially on its geographical position, left bottleneck, required passage for the immense herds of sheep in transhumance (Contadour is the place where one counts the sheep!), so much so that at the XVIIe century, Redortiers did not count less than 500 inhabitants. The decline arrived after the Revolution and the borough was gently abandoned in the middle of the XIXe century, its last living there died in 1918.

The ruins of the old borough of Redortiers are delivered today to an invading vegetation.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Church Saint Jean Baptist.

The commune of Redortiers - Contadour has a splendid town hall, counterpart almost perfect of the sheep-folds of the area.

On the heights of the village, it is the field as of stone architecture: shelters, cisterns and especially sheep-folds, built in vaults out of dry stone and built stone arcs. These sheep-folds form a closed unit, with hut, cistern collecting rainwater and sheep-fold in tunnel. Most known: sheep-folds of Fraches, the Grounds of Russet-red (see the photograph - registered with the inventory of the historic buildings).

Personalities related to the commune

Like many surrounding villages, the Redortiers old man, as it is indicated above, emptied his last inhabitants about the years 1920. A young bank clerk manosquin, Jean Giono, at the time of his rounds in the area, was moved by these villages which turned over to nature, for lack of inhabitants. He took as a starting point the history of Redortiers (which he named Aubignane) to make a novel of it, Regain .

Between 1935 and 1939 took place, around Jean Giono, become celebrates, and Lucien Jacques, the Meetings of Contadour.

See too

Common of Alp-of-High-Provence

External bonds

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

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