{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2025}} {{Expand French|date=January 2009|Beynat|topic = geo}} {{Infobox French commune |name = Beynat |commune status = Commune |image = Beynat2.jpg |caption = Town hall |image coat of arms = Blason_ville_fr_Beynat_(Corrèze).svg |arrondissement = Brive-la-Gaillarde |canton = Midi Corrézien |INSEE = 19023 |postal code = 19190 |mayor = Jean-Michel Monteil<ref>{{Cite news |date=27 March 2026 |title=Beynat - Une second mandat de maire pour Jean-Michel Monteil |work=La Vie Correzienne |pages=39 |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|website=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=5 May 2026|language=fr}}</ref> |term = 2026&ndash;32 |intercommunality = Midi Corrézien |coordinates = {{coord|45.1239|1.7239|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |elevation min m = 189 |elevation max m = 581 |area km2 = 34.84 |population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}} |population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}} |population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}} }}

'''Beynat''' ({{IPA|fr|bɛna}}; {{langx|oc|Béinat}}) is a commune of the Corrèze department in central France.

==History== The commune was found to have been inhabited during the Merovingian period with discovery of coinage from that period.<ref name=Au01/>{{rp|34}} During the end of the Carolingian period, the 900s, a viguerie controlled the commune.<ref name=Au01/>{{rp|34}} By the 1200s, the commune was under the control of the Viscounts of Turenne with a castle near the church.<ref name=Au01/>{{rp|34}} A military commandery, the Order of Malta settled at the Puy de Noix.<ref name=Au01/>{{rp|34}}

On April 2, 1944, the Brehmer division rounded up 35 people who were deported.

On July 29, 1944, in the village of Perrier, a group of maquisards was ambushed by a motorized company of the 95th German Security Regiment.<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 January 2015 |title=Le journaL municipaL de Beynat |url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http://www.beynat.fr/la-cle-des-champs.html?file=files/beynat/documents/la-cle-des-champs.pdf/index.html#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url |access-date=2025-11-29 |website=archive.wikiwix.com}}</ref>

==Population== {{Historical populations |align=left |1962|1408 |1968|1336 |1975|1132 |1982|1101 |1990|1068 |1999|1152 |2008|1233 }} {{clear left}}

==Local culture and heritage== ===Natural heritage=== * L'étang de Miel.<ref name="Au01">{{Cite book |title=Corrèze. Vallée de la Dordogne |publisher=Les Éditions du Laquet |isbn=2-91033377-9 |location=Martel |language=fr}}</ref>{{rp|34}} ===Cultural heritage=== * The dolmen known as the fairies' hut (Cabane de la Fée) is located near the hamlet of Brugeilles.<ref name=Au01/>{{rp|34}} Classified as a historic monument in 1910.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dolmen dit La Cabane de la Fée |url=https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/merimee/PA00099684?mainSearch=%22cabane%20des%20f%C3%A9es%22&ou=%5B%22Beynat%22%5D&last_view=%22list%22&idQuery=%222bad5-fa2-016b-0b5-c326e4c314f3%22 |access-date=2025-11-28 |website=pop.culture.gouv.fr}}</ref> * L'église Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens, a church from the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, houses many paintings and objects. including a painting by Charles-Henri Michel. * During the 1960s and 1970s, the Château de Sabeau was a holiday camp centre belonging to the Astra Calvé company, which sold the castle in 1985. It is now owned by Edencourt SA, a real estate investment company. Around this castle, a project turned it into a holiday village, 60% of the accommodation would be accessible to people with reduced mobility. The castle opened its doors on 4 August 2007. * In the village of Perrier, there is a monument in honour of young French Resistance members who fell in June 1944. * Puy de Noix, former Knights Templar and then Hospitaller commandery.

===Personalities linked to the commune=== * Pierre Dumoulin-Borie (1808-1838), priest of the foreign missions of Paris, executed in Đồng Hới, Tonkin, was canonized in 1988. * François Marty (1901-1944), priest, prison chaplain and resistance fighter. * Victor Feltrin (1909-1993) was a sculptor who lived in the commune. * Kurt Cobain (1967-1994) before becoming famous, the singer spent several summer stays during his childhood with his grandparents in the town.<ref>{{Cite web |title=KC beynat.pdf |url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rS0ej6hbDm0VqkVSdqzAHHHl0gVRBIsx/view?usp=embed_facebook |access-date=2025-11-28 |website=Google Docs}}</ref>

==See also== *Communes of the Corrèze department

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