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Murat
Murat
Commune
	The church and surrounding buildings, in Murat
	Coat of arms
	Location of Murat
	Murat Murat
	Coordinates: 45°06′38″N 2°52′10″E / 45.1106°N 2.8694°E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Cantal
Arrondissement	Saint-Flour
Canton	Murat
Intercommunality	Hautes Terres Communauté
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Gilles Chabrier
Area 1	20.26 km2 (7.82 sq mi)
Population (2021)	1,792
• Density	88/km2 (230/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	15138 /15300
Elevation	868–1,163 m (2,848–3,816 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Murat (French pronunciation: [myʁa]) is a commune in the Cantal department in the Auvergne region in south-central France. On 1 January 2017, the former commune of Chastel-sur-Murat was merged into Murat.^[3] Murat is the administrative seat of this new commune.

History

Hamburg, Memorial of Neuengamme concentration camp: memorial area, monument for the deported and murdered Maquis of Murat (Cantal)

On 24 June 1944, during World War II, 120 Muratais were deported, 80 never returned.

The French people from Murat were deported via Compiègne to the Neuengamme concentration camp and most of them had to work in the subcamp (in German: Außenlager) Farge concentration camp. At begin of June, 2012 a monument in the Memorial wood on the gardening area of former concentration camp was established: It was donated by the city of Murat, to remember what happened in Murat and to commemorate the deported and murdered inhabitants.^[4]^[5]^[6] The columns of basalt remember July 1944 when the Maquisards from Murat, Cantal were deported and afterwards murdered in the Neuengamme concentration camp and its affiliates. In total 75 men out of 103 died in the concentration camp.^[7]

Geography

Location

Murat is situated on the eastern edge of the Mounts of Cantal, in the valley of the Alagnon, a tributary of the Allier, which was the principal route for crossing the Massif Central. It is surrounded by three basalt outcrops, the vestiges of former volcanoes, the Rocher de Bredons, where there is a priory church dating from the 12th century, the rocher de Bonnevie, where there is an 8-metre high statue of the Virgin Mary known as Notre-Dame de la Haute-Auvergne, and the Rocher de Chastel, where the 12th century chapel of St Antoine stands. A market is held every Friday.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	2,741	—
1975	2,731	−0.05%
1982	2,541	−1.02%
1990	2,509	−0.16%
1999	2,249	−1.21%
2009	2,161	−0.40%
2014	1,999	−1.55%
2020	1,815	−1.60%
Source: INSEE^[8]

Population data refer to the commune in its geography as of January 2023.

Administration

Mayor (maire in French) of the municipal council:

Name	Start	End	Notes
Martine Mahtouk	2001	2008
Emmanuel Grèze	1983	2001	Former General councillor(Conseiller général^[9]); Conseiller Régional
Jean Meyniel	1977	1983
Antoine Tabayse	1969	1977
Joseph Constant	1968	1969
Hector Peschaud	1946	1968
Antoine Combes	1944	1946
Hector Peschaud	1928	1944
Gabriel Peschaud	1897	1928	Député
Raymond Teissèdre	1896	1897
Leon Auguste Teillard Chabrier	1895	1896
Maurice guibal^[10]	1881	1895	républicain General councillor (conseiller général)
Pierre Hector Veisseyre	12 February 1878
Joseph Léon Dubois	3 November 1874
Félix Robert	13 February 1874
Pierre Hector Veisseyre	19 June 1871
Alfred Talandier Espinasse	29 September 1856
Identité=Emile Teissèdre	24 July 1852
Jean Baptiste Rhodes	11 November 1848
Pierre Duclos	2 May 1848
Jules Teillard Laterisse	29 December 1843
François Escaille	10 July 1833
Antoine Talandier Lespinasse	11 October 1830
Jean baptiste Marcombes	30 December 1825
Identité=Pierre Maynobe	16 June 1819
Jean Raymond Rancillac de Chazelles	11 November 1815
Antoine Gazard	5 July 1815
Claude Amable Tournier	5 June 1815
Antoine Gazard	messidor an X
Cérice Bonaventure Teillard Chambon	1st prairial an VII
Municipalités de canton	From An IV to An VIII
Joseph Dubois	11 brumaire an III
François Teillard Beynac	2 December 1792
Cérice Bonaventure Teillard Chambon	28 October 1792
Antoine Dominique Chabanon	15 May 1791
Antoine Roux	15 July 1790
Etienne de Montreuil de Charmanière	9 February 1790