La Chapelle-des-Pots

La Chapelle-des-Pots
Commune
A general view of La Chapelle-des-Pots
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 45°45′38″N 0°32′22″W
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Charente-Maritime
Arrondissement	Saintes
Canton	Chaniers
Intercommunality	CA Saintes
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Pierre-Henri Jallais
Area 1	10.27 km2 (3.97 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	1,003
• Density	98/km2 (250/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	17089 /17100
Elevation	19–88 m (62–289 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

La Chapelle-des-Pots (French pronunciation: [la ʃapɛl de po]) is a commune in the center-east of the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France, in the former province of Saintonge.

History

La Chapelle-des-Pots is a village where potters make ceramics for more than eight centuries. Many woods, brooks and local clay allowed the creation of ceramics. Bernard Palissy even worked with local potters.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 898 —     1800 824 −8.2% 1806 742 −10.0% 1821 854 +15.1% 1831 880 +3.0% 1836 833 −5.3% 1841 824 −1.1% 1846 825 +0.1% 1851 804 −2.5% 1856 715 −11.1% 1861 679 −5.0% 1866 643 −5.3% 1872 633 −1.6% 1876 621 −1.9% 1881 562 −9.5% 1886 531 −5.5% 1891 535 +0.8%

Year Pop. ±% 1896 471 −12.0% 1901 468 −0.6% 1906 472 +0.9% 1911 442 −6.4% 1921 425 −3.8% 1926 425 +0.0% 1931 394 −7.3% 1936 489 +24.1% 1946 492 +0.6% 1954 633 +28.7% 1962 510 −19.4% 1968 550 +7.8% 1975 694 +26.2% 1982 823 +18.6% 1990 890 +8.1% 1999 875 −1.7% 2008 918 +4.9%

Places and monuments

In the center of the town: a fountain covered with a dome made of cut stone and thrown into a wash-house, the church of Saint-Front (1786), whose foundations use stones from the old potters' chapel (Municipal Bulletin). A ceramic kiln built in 2006 of the chain type located near the town hall, an old ceramic kiln, call Varoqeau kiln, inscribed in historical monuments.

A school group inaugurated in 1955.

The municipality had an interesting regional museum: the Saintongean Ceramics Museum, where collections of local pottery from XIIIe to XXe. This museum, founded under the mandate of Raymond Viollier was closed by the current municipality.

Exterior of the borough: old seigniory, several small stone washhouses, numerous hiking trails VTT and pedestrian.

Environmental Heritage

The GR 4 which runs from Royan to Grasse crosses the town and runs along the fountain of the center of the town.

Gallery

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  La Chapelle-des-Pots Neoclassical church
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  Lavoir
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  Oven

See also

• Communes of the Charente-Maritime department
• Cognac, France

External links

• Media related to La Chapelle-des-Pots at Wikimedia Commons