Les Angles-sur-Corrèze

Les Angles-sur-Corrèze
Commune
A general view of Les Angles-sur-Corrèze
Coat of arms
Location of Les Angles-sur-Corrèze
Les Angles-sur-Corrèze Les Angles-sur-Corrèze
Coordinates: 45°18′28″N 1°47′51″E
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Corrèze
Arrondissement	Tulle
Canton	Naves
Intercommunality	CA Tulle Agglo
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Christian Dumond
Area 1	4.73 km2 (1.83 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	126
• Density	27/km2 (69/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC 01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC 02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	19009 /19500
Elevation	224–481 m (735–1,578 ft) (avg. 250 m or 820 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Les Angles-sur-Corrèze (French pronunciation: [le.z‿ɑ̃ɡl syʁ kɔʁɛz]; Occitan: Los Angles) is a commune in the Corrèze department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of central France.

Geography

Les Angles-sur-Corrèze is located some 7 km north-west of Tulle and 30 km south-west of Égletons. It is traversed by the A89 autoroute from west to east through the heart of the commune but there is no exit in the commune. The nearest exits are Exit 20 to the west of the commune and Exit 21 to the east. Access to the commune is by road D58 which branches off the D23 south of the commune and continues north to the village and continues north then east to join the D1089 highway which forms the south-eastern border of the commune. There are large areas of forest in the commune with some areas of farmland near the village. Apart from the village there is the hamlet of Le Massoulier towards the east.

The Corrèze river forms the northern and western borders of the commune as it flows south to join the Vézère west of Brive-la-Gaillarde. Many unnamed streams rise in the commune and flow into the Correze.

Toponymy

The locality appears in charters dated 1404 in the form Anguli. Its name is a reference to the shape of the village of a pointed wedge (like the head of a wood-chopping axe).

History

A Wayside Cross in Les Angles-sur-Corrèze

Heraldry

Arms of Les Angles-sur-Corrèze

Blazon: Azure, an escarbuncle of Or.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name
2001	2026	Christian Dumond

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 112 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 150 —     1800 153 0.28% 1806 130 −2.68% 1821 170 1.80% 1831 200 1.64% 1836 150 −5.59% 1841 150 0.00% 1846 142 −1.09% 1851 160 2.42% 1856 147 −1.68% 1861 164 2.21% 1866 133 −4.10% 1872 124 −1.16% 1876 132 1.58% 1881 135 0.45% 1886 130 −0.75% 1891 144 2.07% 1896 153 1.22%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 127 −3.66% 1906 135 1.23% 1911 123 −1.84% 1921 112 −0.93% 1926 91 −4.07% 1931 91 0.00% 1936 78 −3.04% 1946 78 0.00% 1954 66 −2.07% 1962 72 1.09% 1968 72 0.00% 1975 66 −1.24% 1982 94 5.18% 1990 111 2.10% 1999 108 −0.30% 2007 102 −0.71% 2012 105 0.58% 2017 112 1.30%
Source: EHESS and INSEE

Les Angles-sur-Corrèze War Memorial

Culture and heritage

The Church of the Nativity of Notre-Dame

Religious heritage

The Parish Church of the Nativity of Notre-Dame contains two items that are registered as historical objects:

• A Statue: Saint Apôtre (17th century)
• A Statue: Saint Roch (17th century)

Environmental heritage

The Village Square

The village square (with a well for animals) has a grouping of buildings of a Church, Town Hall, and School, all in stone. It is a few kilometres on foot from the village to the Corrèze river and to the left a path leads to the Gimel-les-Cascades waterfalls. Again in the village square in front of the well a small path leads over the hills towards the A89 autoroute with beautiful landscapes.

See also

• Communes of the Corrèze department

External links

• Les Angles-sur-Corrèze on the National Geographic Institute website (in French)
• Les Angles-sur-Corrèze on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
• les Angles on the 1750 Cassini Map