Rennes-the-Castle

See also: Rennes (homonymy)

Rennes-the-Castle ( Rènnas LED Manor house in Occitan) is a common French, located in the department of the Aude and the area Languedoc-Roussillon. Rennes-the-castle is known thanks to a mystery which surrounds celebrates it cleaned, the Abbé Salt box which would have found a treasure.

Geography

Rennes-the-castle is located in the south of the Département of the Aude a few kilometres from Couiza. The village is perched on a rock piton dominating the natural area of the Razès, old county attached to the county of Carcassonne.

Armorial bearings

Blazon nement of the commune: Of azure to the gold edge.

History

Like the majority of the cities and villages of Europe, Rennes-the-Castle has a complex history which was spread in successive layers, having been a camping Préhistorique, a Roman colony then a medieval fortress. First of all the Gaulois found the first village which is invaded by the Romain S. Rennes-the-Castle comes from Latin Rhedae . At the time of Charlemagne, the city is (according to the legend) as important as Narbonne and Carcassonne. One even claims that it is the seat of the kingdom Visigoth of 6th and 7th century but there is no proof of this point. It is also the chief town of the Razès at the 8th century.

The day before the French revolution, the village, by a complicated succession of marriages endogames, had passed between the hands of the family of Hautpoul of which one of the members raised the title of marquis de Blanchefort fallen out of stopper rod i.e. on the side from the heiress Marie de Whitebait Négre, high Lady of Blanchefort. The Saunière abbot arrives at the village of Rennes-the-Castle in 1885. He starts to renovate many buildings like the church Sainte-Marie Madeleine. He builds also the Béthania villa, the Tour Magdala, a gallery, a tower of glass and gardens. A rumor runs on the discovery of a treasure by the Saunière abbot.

Administration

Demography

Religious heritage

The small commune was affluent of two churches. Only one is preserved: Holy-Marie-Madeleine, altered Romance building, inter alia by the Abbot Salt box which equipped it at the beginning with the XXe century with a decoration sulpician.

Civil inheritance

  • Turn Magdala
  • Castle of Hautpoul dating from the 16th century
  • Villa prehistoric Béthania
  • Block close to the town hall

An association, the APARC (Association for the Safeguarding of the heart of Rennes-the-Castle), was created in September 2006 by Jean-Luc Robin. " The purpose of this association is to contribute to the safeguarding of the inheritance of Rennes-the-Castle, to fight by all the legal means necessary against the disfigurations brought to the site and all the initiatives blocking its development harmonieux". One finds among his members the writer English Henry Lincoln.

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