Wall-of-Bar

Wall-of-Bar is a common French, located in the department of the Aveyron and the area the Midday-Pyrenees. Its inhabitants is called Barreziens.

Geography

Photograph: C.Bellat

History

A Carolingian farmhouse is below attested the current site of Wall-of-Bar. A small borough is established then in the vicinity. But the habitat was, gradually, to move to the peak which overhung the original establishment.

Property of the counts of Rodez about 1217, the city was twice between the hands of English at the time of the One hundred Year old war (in 1373 and 1418) before undergoing the attack of the calvinists of 1574 to 1590. What generated the destruction of the castle in 1620 on order of Richelieu, fearing that the fortress does not contribute to support the expansion of a rebellion against the kingdom. The city offered a face then rather cossu; to the many fairs attracting commercial, traders and peasants of Carladez, but also of Rouergue and Auvergne, were added the linked activities to the presence of a certain number of religious institutions and of a local lower middle class lawyers and notaries.

In 1643, the Grimaldi of Monaco inherited the seigniory of Carladez, after having received that of Carlat on which it depended. Carladez remained property of Grimaldi until 1789. Two years later, the debate made rage between holding of a fastening of Bar (southernmost part of Carladez) at the new department of the Cantal, or with that of Aveyron. It is the position of the deputies Lambel and Bô which carried it, namely fastening in Aveyron: the seniority of the bonds woven with Rodez, the difficulty in reaching Aurillac, competence, the XVIIIe century, of Villefranche-with-Rouergue in political and financial matters played in this decision.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Registered site of the borough and the castle of Wall-of-Bar (since 1943)

Turn of Monaco : in spite of its name, testimony of the time (after 1643) where Wall-of-Bar (Carladez) had become a dependence of Princes de Monaco. The Turn of Monaco , turn-porch, is one of the rare remaining elements of the fortification of the city (1437 convention between Bonne of Berry and the inhabitants of Wall-of-Bar). The destruction of the fortifications and the castle is decided by Henri IV but will be carried out under Louis XIII by ordonnace of June 12th, 1620. The Tour of Monaco is classified Historic building.

Other vestiges of the fortifications are still visible: turns of angle (on both sides of the turn of Monaco ) and walls (western frontages of the city; with the right of the vault being next to the chorus of the church Saint-Thomas de Canterbury)

ruins of the castle-extremely : the destruction ordered by Richelieu left only some bases on the spot.

Site arranged with table of orientation and sight on Bar and the Plomb of the Cantal.

the church Saint-Thomas de Canterbury (XII-XIIIe and XVIIe centuries): classified Historic building.

Splendid lying out of keystone of the first span of the nave.

Have a chorus of the 17th century rebuilt following the dépradations made by Calvisniste.

The Family of Carlat (which gave its name to Carladez) was buried in her walls on the level of the transept.

Various houses Rebirth and 18th century , of the Tower of Monaco to the Castle:

The old consular house (current town hall) with the angle of the Place of the church, Renaissance style (1575)

Frontage registered with the Additional Inventory of the Historic buildings.

the Monastery Holy-Claire : Founded in 1651 per François d' Humières.

Always occupied by the sisters clarisses. Hotel trade of 30 rooms.

Personalities related to the commune

Antoine Bernardin Fualdès (1761-1817): lawyer Jacobin, imperial prosecutor, assassinated in Rodez under mysterious conditions (see also Business Fualdès).

See too

"Wall-of-bar in Carladez with the Wire of Histoire" by C.Bellat (48p. /10€/BNF 38893501)
Romance Church of Bromines
Church of Astronomical Sinhalac
Observatory of Frons (Groups/Contact: A.Foa/tel: 0565662974)
Complex Hydroelectric of Truyère
Peninsula of Laussac on the dam Sarrans
Castle of Messilhac, XIème and XVIème centuries
Castle of Small valley, XIIème Common century
of Aveyron

External bonds

Wall-of-Bar on the site of the national geographical Institute
Wall-of-Bar on the site of INSEE
Wall-of-Bar on the site of Quid
Localization of Wall-of-Bar on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plan on Wall-of-Bar on Mapquest
Site of the Inter-commune Tourist bureau of Carladez aveyronnais
Site of information on Carladez aveyronnais
Site of information on Chantillian Carladez
Site deprived on Carladez
WebCam of Wall-of-Bar

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