Romestaing

Romestaing
Commune
The town hall in Romestaing
Location of Romestaing
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Coordinates: 44°25′05″N 0°00′14″E
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Lot-et-Garonne
Arrondissement	Marmande
Canton	Les Forêts de Gascogne
Intercommunality	Coteaux et Landes de Gascogne
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Pierre Grange[1]
Area ^1	15.46 km^2 (5.97 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	158
• Density	10/km^2 (26/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	47224 /47250
Elevation	56–167 m (184–548 ft) (avg. 183 m or 600 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Romestaing (French pronunciation: [ʁɔmɛstɛ̃]; Occitan: Romestanh) is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne département in south-western France.

Its inhabitants are called Romestaingais (male) or Romestaingaises (female), as French is a gendered language, no non-gendered name exists for them. [3]

Toponymy

The name of the commune comes from the Latin Romana Sattio, an important junction of Roman roads. A second hypothesis suggests that the name Romestaing is derived from the surname Hromstang. The commune has been known under its present name, which appeared in the Regista Clementis P.P.V. in 1312, since the Middle Ages.[4]

In Gascon, the commune is known as Romestanh.

Twinning

Romestaing is twinned with Obersaasheim, a village in the French département of Haut-Rhin, Alsace. At the start of the Second World War, the inhabitants of Obersaasheim were evacuated to Lot-et-Garonne, to the communes of Guérin and Romestaing, until autumn 1940 when they were ordered by the occupying Germans to return to their villages.[5]

Sites and monuments

• Église Saint-Christophe (Saint Christopher's church), built in the 12th century, is the sole remnant of a Knights Templar commandery.[6] It has been listed since 1965 as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.[7] In the old charters of the commandery, it is recorded that Amanieu de Coutera and his grandsons, Forton et Bernard, ceded their land at Romestang to the Templar's commander of Cours.[8]
• Château Bonneau

See also

• Communes of the Lot-et-Garonne department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
2. "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
3. Gentilé sur habitants.fr
4. Romestaing on the web site Visites en Aquitaine - Région Aquitaine. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
5. Haut-Rhin & Lot-et-Garonne - 70 années de tradition d’accueil 1939-2009. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
6. Dubourg, Jacques (2003). "La commanderie de Romestaing". Revue de l'Agenais (in French). 130 (2). Société académique d'Agen: 127–144.
7. Base Mérimée: Eglise Saint-Christophe, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
8. templiers.net: Département du Lot-et-Garonne. Retrieved 15 March 2016. (in French)