Asprières

Asprières is a commune in the Aveyron department in the Occitanie region of southern France.

Asprières
Commune
Asprières War Memorial
Coat of arms
Location of Asprières
Asprières
Asprières
Coordinates: 44°32′48″N 2°08′44″E
CountryFrance
RegionOccitanie
DepartmentAveyron
ArrondissementVillefranche-de-Rouergue
CantonLot et Montbazinois
IntercommunalityGrand-Figeac
Government
 • Mayor (2014-2020) Alain Casterot
Area
1
17.09 km2 (6.60 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
733
 • Density43/km2 (110/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
12012 /12700
Elevation167–546 m (548–1,791 ft)
(avg. 430 m or 1,410 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aspriérois or Aspriéroises.[2]

Geography

Asprières is located some 10 km south-east of Figeac just east of Capdenac-Gare. Access to the commune is by the D40 road from Bouillac in the north-east passing south-west through the heart of the commune and the village and continuing south-west to Salles-Courbatiès. The D994 road from Capdenac-Gare passes down the western border of the commune then east to the village and onwards to Les Albres in the south-east. The tortuous D144 road from Bouillac to Les Albres passes through the neck of the commune in the north-east. A railway runs along the northern border of the commune going east from Capdenac-Gare but there is no station in the commune. The nearest station is in Bouillac. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of Bor, Vernet le Haut, La Coustille, Labrol, Querbes, Paysan, and La Montjouvie - all in the north of the commune - and La Marmiesse east of the village. The commune is mixed forest and farmland with particularly large forests in the north and north-east.[3]

The Lot river forms all of the northern border of the commune with the department of Lot on the other side of the river. The Lot flows from east to west eventually joining the Garonne north of Bordeaux. Several streams rise in the commune and flow north to join the Lot including the: Ruisseau de Prat Rigal, Ruisseau de Querbes, and the Ruisseau de Roucayrol. The Ruisseau de l'Estang forms the south-eastern border of the commune as it flows south-west to join the Ruisseau de Tournac which forms the southern border of the commune as it flows west.[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages

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History

In 1790 Asprières was the capital of a canton. In 1922 it lost its status as capital which was transferred to Capdenac-Gare.

Heraldry
Arms of Asprières
 Blazon:

Azure, a tower of Argent turreted, masoned in Sable with port of Gules.

Administration
The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors[4]

FromToNamePartyPosition
17951799Pierre Frechet
18001834Jean Baptiste Escudie
18341838Joseph Gabriel Raynal
18381839François Escudie
18391843Jean Joulie
18431848Jean Baptiste Andrieu
18481848Augustin Delbies
18481852François Escudie
18521871Jean Baptiste Andrieu
18711877Léon Piales
18781892Auguste Escudie
18921896Victor Aussel
18961900Théophile Gazeau
20012008Robert Marty
20082013Alain Combes[5]
20132014Jean Pierre Cantaloube
20142020Alain Casterot

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 733 inhabitants.

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1793 578—    
1800 685+2.46%
1806 1,418+12.89%
1821 1,512+0.43%
1831 1,443−0.47%
1836 1,459+0.22%
1841 1,464+0.07%
1846 1,643+2.33%
1851 1,620−0.28%
1856 1,674+0.66%
1861 1,656−0.22%
1866 1,821+1.92%
1872 1,857+0.33%
1876 1,816−0.56%
1881 1,193−8.06%
1886 1,256+1.03%
1891 1,201−0.89%
1896 1,088−1.96%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1901 989−1.89%
1906 912−1.61%
1911 896−0.35%
1921 883−0.15%
1926 859−0.55%
1931 774−2.06%
1936 715−1.57%
1946 675−0.57%
1954 678+0.06%
1962 655−0.43%
1968 634−0.54%
1975 650+0.36%
1982 672+0.48%
1990 691+0.35%
1999 707+0.25%
2007 705−0.04%
2012 701−0.11%
2017 733+0.90%
Source: EHESS[6] and INSEE[7]
A street in Asprières

Sites and monuments
The Church of Saint Martial

In the Parish Church of Saint-Martial is an item registered as a historical object:

  • Painting and its frame: The last communion of Saint Jerome (1885)[8]

Bibliography
  • Christian-Pierre Bedel, preface by Jacques Dournes, Capdenac, Los Aures, Asprièras, Balaguièr, Bolhac, Causse-e-Diège, Foissac, Naussac, Salas, Sonnac / Christian-Pierre Bedel e los estatjants del canton de Capdenac, Rodez, Mission départementale de la culture, 1996, Al canton collection, 240 pages, ill., cover ill., 28 cm, ISBN 2-907279-23-8, ISSN 1151-8375, BnF 36688708h (Occitan) (in French)

See also

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. Inhabitants of Aveyron (in French)
  3. Google Maps
  4. List of Mayors of France (in French)
  5. The Mayor Alain Combres is deceased, 6 August 2013, ladepeche.fr website, consulted on 16 October 2013 (in French)
  6. Données Cassini, EHESS
  7. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  8. Ministry of Culture, Palissy IM12000210 Painting and its frame: The last communion of Saint Jerome (in French)
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