Andelat

Andelat
The Château du Sailhant The Château du Sailhant
Andelat
Location within Auvergne region Andelat
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Cantal
Arrondissement	Saint-Flour
Canton	Saint-Flour-Nord
Intercommunality	Planèze
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Daniel Miral
Area1	21.05 km2 (8.13 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	436
• Density	21/km2 (54/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	15004 / 15100
Elevation	796–1,083 m (2,612–3,553 ft) (avg. 830 m or 2,720 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Andelat is a French commune in the Cantal department in the Auvergne region of south-central France.

Geography

Andelat is located some 4 km north-west of Saint-Flour. It can be accessed by the D679 road which passes through the east of the commune going north from Saint-Flour to Talizat. The D40 road also goes north-west from Saint-Flour passing just south of the village and continuing north-west through the commune to Coltines. The D404 road also comes south from Talizat to intersect the D40 road in the commune then continues south to Roffiac. Andelat village can only be reached by small country roads from the D40 and the D679. There are a number of other villages and hamlets in the commune. These are: Barret, Pagros, Sebeuge, and Le Sailhant. Apart from a number of small forests (the Bois du Sailhant, Bois de Ferval, Les Bessieres) and some scattered areas of trees the commune is entirely farmland.

A railway line passes through the commune from Saint-Flour in the south east and continuing to the north.

The Ander river flows through the commune from west to east just south of the village and continues south-west to join the Truyere near Anglards-de-Saint-Flour. The Ruisseau de la Souche rises in the north of the commune and flows south-west to join Le Babory which flows from the north of the commune. The Ruisseau de Ferval also joins Le Babory further downstream. Le Babory continues south to join the Ander in the commune.

History

Andelat was chosen by King John to be, since 1360, the seat of the Bailiwick of the Auvergne Mountains. He knew the name of the particular jurisdictions and made it subordinate to the Seneschal of Riom. The magistrates found that the village was unworthy of their offices and made it a traveling seat holding hearings in rented rooms at Chaudes-Aigues and Roffiac, and sometimes at the royal castle at Bredon, now in ruins, in the current commune of Albepierre-Bredons. The seat was transferred by François I in 1491 to Murat without reuniting it with its bailiwick and retained its name of Bailiwick of Andelat.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name	Party	Position
2001	2008	Marc Bellot
2008	2014	Daniel Miral

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2009 the commune had 436 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
687	681	715	679	692	716	641	660	597

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
610	576	530	575	583	715	610	604	616

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
612	558	510	481	460	426	436	411	369

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2009	-
334	343	304	325	350	335	384	436	-

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Sites and monuments

• The waterfall and Sailhant Castle
• The Saint Cirgue Church from the 12th, 13th, and 15th centuries

See also

• Communes of the Cantal department
• Community of Communes of the Planèze website (French)
• INSEE (French)