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LA VILLE D'ONET

The town of Onet Le Château

www.onet-le-chateau.fr

Built around 1200 by the chapter of Rodez to protect the possessions it had just acquired, the castle flanked by four large towers served as an asylum and retreat for six canons during the wars.

Later, they made it their country house, the ogival door of the entrance opens between two turrets capped with stone pepperboxes. The facades are provided with loopholes.

Access to the house is via a 15th century door.

The chapel has become a parish church.

It contains a holy water font dug in a white marble capital dating from the Gallo-Roman period.

Seized during the revolution, his furniture was divided into 36 lots on December 17, 1792, then sold to 22 people for 1,328 pounds.

The Onet castle was sold in turn at auction on 5 Messidor An IV (23 June 1796), to Léonard Chivaille (auditor), and Antoine Chabbert (receiver of the registration), two Ruthenians, for the modest sum of 1800 books.

An estimate dating from 1810 indicates that the castle now belongs to the municipality of Onet le Château.

Around 1930, the castle served as both a presbytery and a school.

Onet-le-Chateau is a French town, located in the department of Aveyron and the region of Midi-Pyrenees. Its inhabitants are called the Castonétois and the Castonétoises.

The town covers 40.2 km² and has 12,600 inhabitants since the last population census dating from 2017.

With a density of 270.2 inhabitants per km², Onet-le-Château experienced a 9.4% increase in its population compared to 1999.

Surrounded by the municipalities of Rodez, Sébazac-Concourès and Sainte-Radegonde, Onet-le-Château is located 2 km north-east of Rodez, the largest city in the area.

Located at an altitude of 546 meters, the Aveyron river, the Fontanges stream, the Is stream are the main rivers that cross the town of Onet-le-Château.

The town is close to the Grands Causses regional natural park, about 21 km away.

The mayor of Onet-le-Château is: Mr. Jean-Philippe KEROSLIAN.