Saint-Martin-le-Pin

Saint-Martin-le-Pin
Saint-Martin-le-Pin
Commune
	The church in Saint-Martin-le-Pin
	Location of Saint-Martin-le-Pin
	Saint-Martin-le-Pin Saint-Martin-le-Pin
	Coordinates: 45°33′24″N 0°36′43″E / 45.5567°N 0.6119°E
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Dordogne
Arrondissement	Nontron
Canton	Périgord Vert Nontronnais
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Michèle Arlot
Area 1	15.54 km2 (6.00 sq mi)
Population (2021)	268
• Density	17/km2 (45/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	24458 /24300
Elevation	127–302 m (417–991 ft) ; (avg. 135 m or 443 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Martin-le-Pin (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ maʁtɛ̃ lə pɛ̃]; Limousin: Sent Martin lo Pench or Sent Martin lu Pench^[3] ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It is part of the Regional Natural Park Périgord Limousin.

Geography[edit]

Saint-Martin-le-Pin is situated along the D 94 about 5 kilometers northwest of Nontron. The boundary with Nontron to the southeast is the Ruisseau des Vergnes, a southwest-flowing right tributary of the Bandiat. The commune's territory reaches the Bandiat river itself in the southwest, forming a natural boundary with the neighbouring communes Saint-Martial-de-Valette in the south and Lussas-et-Nontronneau in the southwest. The commune's boundary to Javerlhac-et-la-Chapelle-Saint-Robert in the northwest and Le Bourdeix farther north is the Doue [fr] river, also a smaller right tributary of the Bandiat.

Saint-Martin-le-Pin can also be reached via the D 75 following the Bandiat valley from Nontron to Javerlhac.

Besides the main village there are many hamlets and single farms for example Ars, Blanchetière, Chantemerle, Chez Thomas, Crachat, Jourdonnières, La Borderie, La Combe au Cros, La Tuilière, Le Moulin de chez Jouanaud, Les Cazes, Lespinasse, Loradour, Mérignac, Pas Brouillet, Ribeyrolle, Talivaud, and Tranchecouyère.

Geology[edit]

The commune's territory is underlain in its totality by Variscan basement rocks (Piégut-Pluviers Granodiorite). Transgressing the basement from the West are liassic sediments belonging to the Aquitanian Basin. The base conglomerate can be seen near La Chapoulie. Stratigraphically higher follow arkoses, dolomites and limestones. A NW-SE striking fault zone originating in Nontron traverses the territory and raises the Northeastern basement block. Movements along this fault zone must have been going on well into the Pleistocene, because one can observe stream rejuvenation along some of the southwestward-draining creeks. This fault zone is strongly mineralised in mainly baryte, but there is also galena, sphalerite, pyrite and the rather rare cadmium mineral greenockite.^[4] This fault zone has been mined in the past, the shaft of the mine de la Mairie ^[5] still can be seen in the village. Associated with the ores is an intensive recrystallization and silicification of the country rocks along the fault line. Between 1825 and 1850 manganese was mined near Talivaud in the contact region between the arkoses and the overlying Sidérolithique, iron-rich Tertiary sediments.

The limestones sometimes develop karst phenomena like caves (near Blanchetière).

The floodplain of the Bandiat is infilled by alluvial Pleistocene sands with occasional intercalated layers of polished quartz pebbles.

History[edit]

The romanesque village church Saint-Martin dates back to the 12th century and has been classified in 1942 as Monument historique.^[6]^[7] Remarkable is its entry.

Before 1789 the commune was called Saint-Martin-le-Peint.^[8] Saint Martin therefore was not associated with the pine tree, but rather was "painted".

Population[edit]

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	405	—
1975	311	−3.70%
1982	292	−0.90%
1990	303	+0.46%
1999	305	+0.07%
2007	300	−0.21%
2012	289	−0.74%
2017	271	−1.28%
Source: INSEE^[9]

The population declined after 1968, but has remained stable since 1975.

Gallery[edit]

Entry
The Bandiat river downstream from the bridge near Ars

References[edit]

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 9 August 2021.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Occitan names of the communes in the Périgord, website of the Conseil général de la Dordogne
^ P. Didier. Les espèces minerales du Limousin.
^ Saint-Martin-le-Pin on mindat.org
^ Base Mérimée: Eglise Saint-Martin, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
^ "Romanesque church of Saint-Martin-le-Pin on route-romane.net". Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 17 October 2009.
^ Cassini map on Géoportail
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

[1] "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 9 August 2021.

[popleg2021-2] "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.

[3] Occitan names of the communes in the Périgord, website of the Conseil général de la Dordogne

[4] P. Didier. Les espèces minerales du Limousin.

[5] Saint-Martin-le-Pin on mindat.org

[6] Base Mérimée: Eglise Saint-Martin, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)

[7] "Romanesque church of Saint-Martin-le-Pin on route-romane.net". Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 17 October 2009.

[8] Cassini map on Géoportail

[pophist-9] Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

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