Leychert is a commune in the Ariège department in southwestern France.

Etymology based on 2 assumptions: dry lake or forest cleared (comes from the name of the old domain "les eychartelles" which once included a forest) The story depends Leychert until 1789 that of Roquefixade.

Having belonged to the Count of Toulouse and the lord of Saint Paul Bernard Amiel de Pailhès, Leychert be included, since half of the 13th century, in the province of Languedoc, and not in the County of Foix (the limit being at In River, on the town's current Soula).

The village was part of the castellany Roquefixade (and Nalzen, Soula, Saint Cirac and river).

After years of disrepair, the church was restored in the mid-1990s and is classified as a historical monument.