Concressault

Concressault
Commune
Coat of arms
Location of Concressault
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Coordinates: 47°29′24″N 2°34′37″E / 47.49°N 2.5769°E / 47.49; 2.5769
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Cher
Arrondissement	Bourges
Canton	Sancerre
Intercommunality	CC Pays Fort Sancerrois Val de Loire
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Antoine Fleuriet^[1]
Area ¹	7.45 km² (2.88 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2020)^[2]	201
• Density	27/km² (70/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	18070 /18260
Elevation	175–272 m (574–892 ft) (avg. 183 m or 600 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Concressault (French pronunciation: [kɔ̃kʁəso]) is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France.

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Geography

Concressault is a small farming village situated by the banks of the Sauldre river, 27 miles (43 km) north of Bourges at the junction of the D8 with the D11 and D21 roads.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	224	—
1968	261	+16.5%
1975	232	−11.1%
1982	216	−6.9%
1990	236	+9.3%
1999	214	−9.3%
2008	227	+6.1%

History

In the medieval period, Concressault was surrounded by fortifications and therefore had the status of "city". The village developed itself around a castle built some distance aside of the older village of Dampierre-en-Crot. The new village ended up, at some point in the past, being more important than the first one.^[3]

The castle

In his manuscript on the Berry,^[4] Nicolas de Nicolay gave up a description of the castle as it was in 1567. According to him, he fortress got ruined by the English during the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453). A short time after the destruction it got rebuilt in a more solid form by the Duke Jean de Berry (1340–1416). The castle had an hexagonal shape, with 32 meters high and 12 meters thick walls made of hard rocks. Buildings were built out of colored bricks and covered by slate. The moats were 32 meters large and 4 meters deep.

Sir John Stewart of Darnley, a Scottish nobleman, was awarded the title of "Lord of Concressault" thanks to his participation to the Battle of Baugé. In March 1423, he also becomes the Lord of Aubigny-sur-Nère. Under the reign of Charles VII (1422–1462) the castle was besieged again by the English who were not able to take control of it. Chased by the French, they mistook a narrow pit for the Sauldre river, that they thought they could pass through a ford. Many of them sank and the pit got called "la fosse aux Anglais" (literally: the pit of the English).

Sights

The church of St. Pierre, dating from the fifteenth century
The ruins of a fourteenth-century castle, destroyed by the English during the Hundred Years War
Two old watermills and ancient barns at the Domaine du Moulin au Riche
A museum, the Musée de la Sorcellerie

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2020". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 29 December 2022.
^ Archives départementales de l’Indre, Berry médiéval : à la découverte de l’Indre au Moyen Âge, catalogue d’exposition, Châteauroux, Archives départementales de l’Indre, 2009, p. 53
^ Description du Berry et diocèse de Bourges au XVI^e siècle, par Nicolas de Nicolay publié […] par Victor Advielle, Paris, 1865 (le manuscrit est daté de 1567).