Montaut-les-Créneaux

Montaut-les-Créneaux
Montaut-les-Créneaux
Commune
	A general view of Montaut-les-Créneaux
	Location of Montaut-les-Créneaux
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	Coordinates: 43°41′41″N 0°39′31″E / 43.6947°N 0.6586°E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Gers
Arrondissement	Auch
Canton	Gascogne-Auscitaine
Intercommunality	CA Grand Auch Cœur Gascogne
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Emmanuel Gallina
Area 1	26.23 km2 (10.13 sq mi)
Population (2021)	711
• Density	27/km2 (70/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	32279 /32810
Elevation	114–264 m (374–866 ft) ; (avg. 244 m or 801 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Montaut-les-Créneaux (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃to le kʁeno]; Occitan: Montaut) is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.

Geography

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	521	—
1968	474	−9.0%
1975	433	−8.6%
1982	510	+17.8%
1990	612	+20.0%
1999	618	+1.0%
2008	626	+1.3%

History

Montaut is an old fortified village (or castelnau in Gascony. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the lords of Montaut were also barons of Corrensaguet. In 1821, Montaut absorbed most of the old parish of Biane, located in the northeast, on the edge of the commune of Mirepoix to which it was formerly attached. All that remains is the Sainte-Catherine church and a dovecote, which was part of the castle which is now ruined.^[3]

Monuments

The Saint-Michel church dates from the 17th and 18th centuries. The bell tower dates from the 19th century. The building has been classified as a historic monument since 1995.^[4]
Chapel of Sainte-Catherine de Biane.
Église Saint-Barthélemy de Malartic.
The castle, which overlooks the north slope, is private and cannot be visited. It is its square keep with its battlements which gave its name to the commune, in 1917, to avoid confusion with the other Montaut du Gers, then called Montaut-d'Astarac.
The houses, several of which are half-timbered, on the central street which passes under the old market hall, have also been nicely restored.

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Courtès G., Communes du département du Gers, vol. I: Arrondissement d'Auch, Auch, Société archéologique et historique du Gers, 2003, 460 p.
^ Durliat M. L'église de Montaut-les-Créneaux, pp. 244-251, dans Congrès archéologique de France. 128e session. Gascogne. 1970, Société française d'archéologie, Paris, 1970.