Croze

Croze
Commune
Coat of arms
Croze Location within Nouvelle-Aquitaine region Croze
Coordinates: 45°49′11″N 2°09′42″E / 45.8197°N 2.1617°E / 45.8197; 2.1617Coordinates: 45°49′11″N 2°09′42″E / 45.8197°N 2.1617°E / 45.8197; 2.1617
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Creuse
Arrondissement	Aubusson
Canton	Felletin
Intercommunality	CC Creuse Grand Sud
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Didier Ternat
Area1	22.16 km2 (8.56 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	185
• Density	8.3/km2 (22/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	23071 /23500
Elevation	518–841 m (1,699–2,759 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.

Croze is a commune in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France.

Geography

Croze is an area of forestry and farming, comprising the village and a couple of hamlets, located at the confluence of the Creuse River with the Gioune, some 10 miles (16 km) south of Aubusson at the junction of the D35 and the D982 roads.

Population

Notable sites

• A twelfth-century church of St. John at Montel-Guillaume.
• The fifteenth-century chapel of St. Antoine.
• The nineteenth-century château de Mas-Laurent, which replaced an earlier building.

Personalities

• Lucien Le Cam, mathematician, was born here.

See also

• Communes of the Creuse department
• Creuse

References

• INSEE

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Croze.

• Croze on the Quid website (in French)