Saint-Breaking-of-wood

Saint-Breaking-of-Wood is a common French, located in the department of the Charente-Maritime and the area Poitou-Charentes.

Geography

History

Administration

Demography

Intercommunality

The the Community of Common Vineyards and wooded Valleys of the Country Buriaud include/understand the nine of the ten communes of the canton of Burie: Burie, Chérac, Dompierre-on-Charente, Migron, Saint-Breaking-of-Wood, Saint-Césaire, Saint-Saving, Seure and Villars-the-Wood.

Taxation

The taxation is of a rate of 7,75% for the tax from dwelling, 11% on the land frame, 35,02% on not built and 10,53% of professional tax, and as the community of communes takes on all four tax, respectively 1,67%,3,25%,8,06% and 3,07% that gives on the whole and before the department and the area are added to it, 9,42% for the tax of dwelling, 14,25% on the land frame, 43,07% on not built and 13,60% of professional tax (figures 2007).

Places and monuments

The Abbey of Fontdouce: The Abbey is a single case in the area taking into account the buildings which still exist: if the abbey church were destroyed, the places of life of the monks, them, remained in state. The monastery is rested by the Benedictines in 1111. It counts with its apogee a hundred monks, then rocks gradually in the lapse of memory starting from the Wars of religion. Sold like “National Good” after the Revolution, it belongs to the same family since nearly two centuries. The Abbey of Fontdouce was used as farm until in 1970, the monastic buildings, partly hidden under one fill meter, are used at the same time of wine storehouses, hangars or handing-over. As from 1970, the current owners, taken by the passion of the old stones, undertake a series of excavations intended for the restoration of the Abbey of Fontdouce. They gradually make find at the Abbey, year after year, part of its splendor of origin. They revive the very beautiful chapter house and the Gothic visiting room, the two superimposed Romance vaults and several other vestiges. This whole of buildings testifies in an original way of the many transformations which the site underwent with the wire of time. In addition to its conventual buildings, the attraction of Fontdouce is also due to its environment. The abbey is located at the variation of the main roads, in the middle of a green small valley emphasized by gardens at the Frenchwoman and basins of clear water.

Key dates of restoration: 1958: Classification of the chapter house and the auditorium on the official list of the Historic buildings 1970: Work of clearing of the arcades Is scriptorium 1973: Clearing of the visiting room-corridor 1974: Beginning of the clearing of the chapter house 1976: Clearing of the low vault 1984: Restoration of the windows of the dormitory of the monks 1986: Clearing on the Northern side of the low vault 1994: Restoration of the bedside of the high vault and a door of the low vault 1996: Gardens with the Frenchwoman reconstituted and opening of the visiting room side garden 2003: Restoration of the vault of the Abbey church (Absidiole) 2004: Preventive excavations of scriptorium 2006: Excavate scriptorium which becomes the room of the monks

Internet site of the Abbey of Fontdouce

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Charente-Maritime
Path of great excursion GR. 4

External bonds

Saint-Breaking-of-Wood on the site of the national geographical Institute
Saint-Breaking-of-Wood on the site of INSEE
Saint-Breaking-of-Wood on the site of Quid
Localization of Saint-Breaking-of-Wood on a chart of France and communes bordering Saint-Breaking-of-Wood
Plane on Mapquest
the site of the abbey of Fontdouce

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