Cunlhat

Cunlhat is a common French located in the department of the Puy-de-Dôme and the area Auvergne.

The name of the commune decides: “ cun-ya ” (“” as in “perfume”).

Geography

Localities and variations

Alleyras Low, the Bard, Beauregard, Boscène, Bouchet, Bouffoux, the Borough , Bravardie, Brugère, Bruneilles, Brunelie, Cammas, Campines, Chabrol, Chalard, Chalendrat, Chapioux, Chardy, the Corner, the Dovecote, Coudeix, Courteisseire, the Cross-country race, Espinassière, Faidides, Do it, Fontbonne, Fontrias, Forest, Gatier, Gonteix, Gouttebessis, Grainetie, Grange, the Gravel pit (with horse on the commune of Auzelles), Guillaumie, Lacost, Lescure, Ligonie, Lossedat, Malberton, Mandet, Marèche, Mas of Bost, Grinding stones, Monneyroux, Montabrut, the Morel, Mounoux, Olagnier, Olme, Omaly, Pacher of Oxen, Palasse, Pénafet, the Perrier, Small Chignat, Small Verdier, Small Mouliche, Pines, the Bridge of Palasse, Prades (1), Prades (2), Prades (3), Rouchoux, Roussy, Ruinoux, Sagnes, Sardier, Terrol (castle), Vaissière, Verdier, Vernet, Vialatte, Vironne (2), Vironne (1).

Communes bordering

in the canton of Cunlhat:

Auzelles and the Vault-Agnon;

in the Canton of Saint-Lover-Rock-Savine (district of Ambert):

Saint-Lover-Rock-Savine;

in the Canton of Saint-Dier-in Auvergne (District of Clermont-Ferrand):

Ceilloux, Domaize and Turn-on-Meymont.

History

The origin of Cunlhat is probably related to the presence of a Roman villa gallo. The name of the commune comes from the Roman proper name " cumiliacus". Under the old mode, Cunlhat was a viguery and constituted one of the richest grounds of the seigniory of Montboissier. The borough was constituted around the Abbatiale become parish church. The monks Bénédictins founded the market which since XIII°s with always place Wednesday. Under the Revolution, Cunlhat knew insurrectionary days which led to the decapitation of the leader, the sior Coiffier de Terraules. Under the Third Republic, Cunlhat had as a mayor between 1882 and 1907 Mister Jean François Edmond Guyot Dessaigne. He was appointed of Puy de Dôme and several times minister. It is as a Minister of Justice of 1906 in December 1907 that it had to implement the law of 1905. During more than 10 years (1988 - 2001), Cunlhat accommodated the largest European gathering of Harley Davidson. Since 2002, it is organized a symposium of modern art, " Building sites of Art" , of international reputation.

Administration

Demography

Religious heritage

Church paroissiale.
Inscription on the additional Inventory of the historic buildings on May 2nd, 1912.
Movable ecclesiastic indexed by the Historic buildings:

Chalice (4th quarter of the XVIIIe century, carried out by the goldsmith Jean Charles Duchesne)
Chalice and patene (XVIIIe century, realized by the goldsmith Mathieu Vincent Delarbre)
Censer (1st half of the XIXe century)
the Trinity , group sculptor (XVIe century)
Bell (3rd quarter of XVe century)
Cross of furnace bridge (crucifix) (XVIIe century)
Strap hinges and Bolt (XIIIe century)

The church is in fact abbey which belonged to a monastery Benedictine.

Civil inheritance

Residence of Montboissier in the borough, 15th century (private building)
Mound castrale of Ramia .située close to Farmhouse-of-Bost on the course of excursion: the Way of the Year Millet.
Mound castrale of Chalard.
Mound castrale of Cunlhat: (with the top of the current place Lamothe (District of the Mound to the land register of 1819)). The Old people's home was built with XIXe instead of the old vault castrale dedicated to Notre Dame. The old people's home was entrusted to the congregation of the sisters Saint Vincent of Paul. It is a public corporation today.
Castle of Terrol: 15th century (private)
Castle of the verdier: 17th century, remains of the baillif de Montboissier (private)

The Residence of the Dovecote (XIXe century), old hotel, currently transformed into residence of artist with showroom the Dovecote

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