Truck driver (Aude)

Routier (in Languedocien Occitan Reed maker ) is a common French, located in the department of the Aude and the area Languedoc-Roussillon. The village is anchored in the middle of the Razès, in the Canton of Alaigne, with 10km in the west of Limoux. Its inhabitants is called Routiérois.

Key geography and figures

Population of Routiérois: 245 with the census of 2005.

The village of Truck driver rises on a hill culminating with 255m.

The fields, like some waste lands and of rare wood, occupy approximately 40% of them. The remainder constitutes the exclusive stronghold of the vine particularly developed on stony and dry surfaces of the oriental party.

In the south, the chain of the the Pyrenees is which one can admire when the sky is released. In north, one notices the position of the Vignoble leant with the Massif of Malepère, and finally, beyond, barring the horizon, the dark mass of the Black Montagne.

Toponymy

The name of the village evolved/moved during the centuries and its orthography will remain fluctuating until the 19th century. It is in 1130 qu ' appears the first mention in the form manor house of Riut , which follows one another, in 1120, castrum of Ruterio in 1226, Riuterium and, in 1229, Rupterium . One will meet then the names of Riucenum (1312), of Rutio (1360), Reuterium (1377), Rentier or Reutier (1503), Rieutier (1594), Routie (1594) and finally Routier, under his current form in 1639.

Doctor Jacques Lemoine, is based on the denomination of Rupterium , to establish the etymology of the toponym. According to him, Rupterium is a derivative of Latin via rupta , expression which evokes a crossing of ways. This assumption seems to be confirmed by the fact that the term occitan reed maker indicates a short cut. But according to Benedicte and Jean-Jacques Fénié, Routier would come from the Germanic name Rotharius .

History

The Village of was constituted with the Xe century and is characterized by the presence of remainders of medieval ramparts and especially by its splendid parochial church dating from the XIIIe century, strengthened, with a Clocher - characteristic and visible wall by far. It is the vastest church of Razès. It is necessary to also note the curiosity of the Cimetière distant from 800 meters of the village and located on the site which this last occupied before the XIIe century

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Places and monuments

Church St-Laurent :

It is at the end of the 13th century, after the taking possession of the village by the archbishop of Narbonne, which was built the parish church dedicated at Saint Laurent. With believing the oral tradition, the stone of it, of bad quality, which the builders used would have been extracted in Routier even, in the north of the village. The masonry was mentioned the first time in 1319. Contemporary of the defensive enclosure of the village, the church forms integral part of the fortifications on the northern side. The wall-belfry of this building semi-novel semi-Gothic, bored at the top of four openings to arcs of semicircular arch, is flanked of a hexagonal tower furnished with meutrière who underlines her defensive function. The principal main door, located at the west, is surmounted by a warhead of stripped style. Close to the other carries opened a puit, which ensured the autonomy of the " fort". Inside the church is a Retable Baroque of the end XVIIe gilded to gold. The church of Truck driver is largest of Razès.

Castle of Truck driver :

At the end of the 16th century, Madailhan settle in Routier. They make build, outside the strengthened village, a castle with architecture rebirth which are connected with those of Couiza, of Villarzel-of-Razès and of Serviès-in-Valley. In the beginning, the castle had four turns whose walls were bored of mullioned window. Today, there remains only two turns unequal height because the upper part of lowest crumbled at the beginning of the 20th century. The last mullioned window was destroyed in 1969.

the old castle :

In spite of the construction of the new castle, from Renaissance style, at the 16th century, the old castle did not disappear. This imposing square masonry located in the center of the village, of austere aspect, is definitely higher than the surrounding houses.

the silo S :

In the old houses and even in the fields are underground pits where the grains were deposited, vegetables… to preserve them. They are silos called Sièges in the country .

Personalities related to the commune

Lazare Escarguel

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