Chervettes | |
Arrondissement: | Rochefort |
Canton: | Saint-Jean-d'Angély |
Insee: | 17103 |
Postal Code: | 17380 |
Commune: | La Devise |
Coordinates: | 46.0522°N -0.7067°W |
Elevation M: | 25 |
Elevation Min M: | 13 |
Elevation Max M: | 32 |
Area Km2: | 3.98 |
Population: | 182 |
Population Date: | 2019 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Chervettes (in French pronounced as /ʃɛʁvɛt/) is a former commune in the Charente-Maritime department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France. On 1 January 2018, it was merged into the new commune of La Devise.[2]
The commune was located near Surgères, Rochefort, and Saint-Jean-d'Angély.
An old viticultural commune, Chervettes was marked by an old viticultural properties with a closed heart. Since the outbreak of phylloxera at the end of the 19th century, the commune subsisted three small areas of winery. The church known as Notre-Dame-de-l’Assumption was first constructed in the 15th century. Around the commune, Chiron features an 18th-century built mill.