See also: Saint-Wolf

Saint-Wolf-with-Saintonge is a common French, located in the department of the Charente-Maritime and the area Poitou-Charentes.

Geography

This commune of 1642 ha less comprises 273 inhabitants disseminated in step than 21 hamlets. Most important of enter them are the village of Goux with an about sixty inhabitants and the borough with about thirty inhabitants.

The territory of Saint Wolf is composed of Marais innondables (1/3 of the territory), of wet valleys and hills (alt. max.: 48m) for the remainder of the territory. Saint Loup is sprinkled by the Bibot, which is thrown in the Soie, which it even is thrown in the Trézence. Out of the commune then, Trézence will be thrown in the Boutonne which will join the Charente.

The commune backs an agricultural activity of mixed-farming and breeding. The quasi-integrality of the territory is covered with cereal or fodder culture (Maïs, Blé, Tournesol, Orge S, Colza, Fourragère S…). Some vines still testify to the wine past of the area. The breeding relates to especially the production Lait ière: 4 stockbreeders Bovine (races Prim' Holstein, Norman) and a Caprine stockbreeder . A breeding of Vache S with meat is also present (race Blonde of Aquitaine).

Life of the commune

A committee of the Fête S organizes the market with the Fleur S the second Week-end of May, where more than 300 people come to eat at midday the Sardine S roasted and the Entrecôte… the second weekend of August, the festival of the summer sees to clash teams representing the local communes and the estivants, in ludic tests, around a impromptu swimming pool where the nail of the spectacle is the contest of fishing to the Anguille with the hand.

The club of Football of common was created in 1936. It bears today the name of ACE Trézence. At the end of August, it organizes a semi-night excursion open to all which makes it possible to découvir the ways and the landscapes of the commune under the sunset, the course being decorated gastronomical stages where are served the Pineau, the Jambon roasted and mojhettes. The matches of the football team are important moments of the communal life, in particular the meetings headlights of the season which are the derbies against Landes and Tonnay-Buttons, common neighbors. In 2006, the selection saint-loupéenne was brilliantly essential 4-0 on the ground of ES Moors and beat the players of Tonnay-Buttons 6-0.

The heterogeneous territory of the commune predisposes it galement E with hunting, amply practiced with Saint-Wolf. The marsh in particular, avicolous high-place of migration, is strewn with tons or is practiced the Chasse of winter night. The marsh and its channels are also a known appointment of the sinners of the area.

History

On the commune are several home of which some played a part at the time of the French revolution. The inhabitants of Saint-Wolf (formerly much more) were very committed in the fight against the nobility and the village which bore the name of Saint-Luc before, was renamed the Epinay-Without-Breeches (see Sans-culotte) during the Révolution to take its final name thereafter. The extension “of Saintonge” almost marks the fact that the commune is in the north of the Saintonge, at the borders of the Aunis, also, this denomination allowed the travellers (Saint-Jacques-with-Compostelle for example) of knowing where they were (even thing for Aulnay or Holy Genis).

Remarkable, hostile and mysterious place of the commune, the marsh at summer drained by convicts (time?). It was found a submitted report/ratio with Louis XIV evoking this places like a flooded unhealthy marsh from September to June. If it were used, more or less anecdotiquement, for the extraction of the Tourbe, the grazing ground of the bovines and the culture of bean (famous the Mojhette), it is recently that the Maïs iculture allowed a real exploitation of this territory. The floods however remain annual, from October/December at February/April.

The inhabitants of the commune lived a long time of the wine production (Eau-de-vie, Pineau, Vin) and of oil of Noix. In the few water mills testify still existing (Goux). Following the destruction of the vineyards by the Phylloxéra in the years 1860, the Vendean influence pushed the buildings to turn more and more to the bovine breeding slags. This period marks also the beginning of the farm of the marsh like meadows of grazing ground.

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Tourist monuments and places

A church of XII-XVe century surmounts the borough with its double characteristic Clocher.

It is said that one of the bells attracts the Orage, and the other pushes back it. Formerly, an ecclesiastic was charged to thus play with the Météo with goodwill inhabitants, in exchange of a tax in products of the Jardin.

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External bonds

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