Courbefy
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Courbefy | |
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Hamlet | |
.JPG) The Chapel of Courbefy | |
 Interactive map of Courbefy | |
| Coordinates: 45°35′40″N 1°03′08″E / 45.5945°N 1.0521°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
| Department | Haute-Vienne |
| Commune | Bussière-Galant |
| Elevation | 530 m (1,740 ft) |
| Population (2012) | |
• Total | 0 |
| Postal Code | 87230 |
Courbefy (French pronunciation: [kuʁbəfi]) is a hamlet in the Bussière-Galant commune in the Haute-Vienne department of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France.
On an auction on 21 May 2012, the abandoned village was bought by Yoo Byung-eun for €520,000 (US$663,000).[1][2][3][4][5] Yoo had seen it on CNN,[6] and wanted to set up an "environmental, artistic and cultural" project in the village.[7][8][9]
Courbefy is a small hamlet located at an altitude of c.530 metres (1,740 ft) in the Bussière-Galant commune in the department of Haute-Vienne. It is about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) south of the town of Bussière-Galant itself. The hamlet of Saint-Nicolas-Courbefy is located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) to the southeast.
The village occupies a vaguely oval space and is totally surrounded by woods, with the exception of the southern part.
History
The village of Courbefy initially had a medieval royal fortress, but it became a den of thieves, and the castle was destroyed in the sixteenth century by order of the consuls of Limoges.
During the French Revolution, Courbefy was a separate municipality. It merged in 1800 with Saint-Nicolas to form Saint-Nicolas-Courbefy. Bussière-Galant absorbed Saint-Nicolas-Courbefy in 1974.
In the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century, the last resident of Courbefy bought one by one all the houses and lands of the village, after having built a hotel and restaurant in the 1990s. In 2008 he went bankrupt and left the village. In February 2012, a judicial procedure assigned his property to a creditor bank, which then put the whole hamlet up for auction. On 21 May 2012, the village was acquired by Yoo Byung-eun for €520,000 (US$663,000).
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