Histoiry & heritage
Beauzelle - Boauzelle from the local dialect – was formerly the name of the single humble cottage, which according to tradition stood in the middle of the surrounding forest and served as a stop-over for travellers.
From August 1898 to February 1899, exactly one hundred years ago, the famous painter Henri Matisse lived in Beauzelle with his wife Alexandrine Parayre born in Beauzelle on February 16 in 1872. Their first son John was born there too on January 10 - 1899.
From the fifties onwards, Beauzelle comes out of its lethargy.
- 1958: 285 inhabitants
- 1972: 1,750 inhabitants
- 1976: nearly 3,000 inhabitants
- 1990: 5,418 inhabitants
- 1999: 5,133 inhabitants.
- 2007: 5,054 inhabitants and in a fairly near future an arrival of 1,000 to 1,500 new inhabitants linked to the aerospace context and the creation of Andromède.
Since 2007 many property developers have made groups of dwellings with council houses that were not yet recorded in the last census (2007).
The houses occupy the space very fast, first against the old village then at the periphery where flourish groups of dwellings and housing estates of pretty detached-houses.
The business area of Garossos (Z.A.C) fitted west of Beauzelle on the other side of Grenade Road accommodates commercial and industrial activities.
The village gets a new blood, new couples settle down, the number of schools grow... Beauzelle, formerly an agricultural and market gardening village, has then become a town of residential character to be followed to anticipate the needs caused by a very fast development.
Today Beauzelle offers an image of a mature town, dynamic, even serene.
The lifestyle is pleasant and the associative network contributes to this quality of life offering numerous and various activities, witnesses of its vitality at the gate of Toulouse, the fourth largest city in France.
The church of St Julien
On the site of the old castle overlooking the Garonne the dwellings of the old village are juxtaposed and clustered around the church made of bricks whose most ancient parts date back from the 17th to the 19th century. This building has a wall bell-tower typical of “le pays toulousain”.
To see on the brick houses: friezes of antefixes made of earthenware which fit in well with the architecture and picture motives of flowers and scrolls.
The mill of Naudin
Gristmill powered by the current of the Garonne. There only remain the ruins of the central building; it probably owns its name to its owner who exploited it in the 19th century. Its access was via the neighbouring island: ”Pied de Bœuf”. It was the subject of debates between the different municipalities which claimed it.
News
- 11/04/2011 au 11/12/2011
Works of urbanization - November 19, 2011
Competition of painting
School catering meals
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