Saint-Hippolyte (Aveyron)

Geography

Official site of Saint-Hippolyte Commune located on the Goul

Between Aubrac and Cantal, between Country of Entraygues, and Carladez, the ex-county of princes de Monaco, Saint-Hippolyte is a commune of Aveyron, a little with share. A commune with several faces and several villages, that of Saint-Hippolyte at the top of the mountain or that of Pons, known since centuries for its market-gardeners because of his microclimate.

To the distinctive signs, roofing stones and sweet chestnuts, came to be added starting from the years 1950, the dam Couesque on Truyère, last act of a series of stoppings intended to overcome and channel water of impetuous Truyère which a such stone sculptor cleared a passage between the plate of Viadène and that of Carladez.

History

Saint-Hippolyte bears his name well. There are initially the Greek roots of the patronym: hyper which means above and lithographies, stone. However precisely the village is planted at the top, on a plate on the granitic ground from where he faces, since centuries, the waltz of the seasons. There is also the legend which says that Saint-Hippolyte was condemned by the Dèce emperor to be quartered by four horses into 235 (opposite the Martyr of saint-Hippolyte, Flemish school about 1480, Boston Museum off Fine Arts).

And it is true that the commune is found in contact with various influences. In north, the commune is subject to the influence of the country of Carladez, old possession of the Grimaldi family. In the west, the frontier Cantal attracts it with its prefecture of Aurillac, while with the south, the Country of Entraygues, that one calls country of Coustoubi here, magnetizes it administratively because it is after all, the canton on which it depends.

A commune built around a church With the whole beginning of the 12th century, Saint-Hippolyte did not exist. But from all the hamlets close populated to Truyère the need for a church emerged. Where to build it? The competition between those of in-high, those of the plate and those of in bottom, found - there still an occasion to be expressed! The legend tells that one relied finally on the Providence incarnated by two untamed bulls which one harnessed and which one released in nature. They stopped their mad dash, at the edge of the plate, in the middle of brambles. It is thus there that one built - not without evil, the church of Saint-Hippolyte. At the time, labor was voluntary, the schists were extracted from the hamlet of Sergeant, the granite of Couesques and the paving stones of Saint-Felix de Lunel. The whole was transported to back of mules. But work stopped because of disputes. The bishop of Rodez then which had to come in person to justify the voluntary ones. “The church left ground such as we know it today. Its architecture is simple. It represents the shape of a cross posed with ground, the top of the cross being turned towards Jerusalem. A curious bell-tower with comb is posed on the foot of the cross. The building belongs to one time of transition. It is a mixture of novel and Gothic.” Julienne Dales in the directory of Friendly of originating in Saint-Hippolyte wrote. After the church, was not long in leaving ground a presbytery then others firm and country households with their roofs of roofing stones, their, their cattle shed baker's ovens and their drier with sweet chestnuts, were blottir in their turn.

Pons and Saint-Hippolyte: A historical competition? One - Holy Hippolyte - is perched in top on the narrow plate between the valleys of Goul and Truyère, a plate swept by the winds and snow in winter. It is the Country of rye and chestnuts. The other - Pons - is with 500 meters lower. It is nested in a bosky bower where the goul widens. Its microclimate and its market-gardeners enabled him to feed the south of the Cantal since centuries out of early products. Here is for geographical contrast. Remain the history and its vicissitudes. Until the Revolution, Saint-Hippolyte depended on the parochial district of Pons, with Murols, Cross-Bar it, and Small valley. As elsewhere, the Revolutionists, will make clean slate of last and will transform Saint-Hippolyte into chief town of Canton. If this position were transitory, Saint-Hippolyte remained a commune. Contrary to Pons.

Zéfirin Bosc raised a description given by Mgr of Poicheprey which describes a soil “prone to the gullies caused by the storms, the fogs produced by the valleys of Goul and of Truyère, to the wind of southerly wind destroying the trees of the orchards”. At the time the breeding of the sheep, famous for their wool, was the principal production on the plates. In the slopes precipice, it was the culture of the châtaigner which dominated. In the shone upon slopes, the vine was exploited.

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