Etival
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| region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Department | law | |
| Arrondissement | Saint-Claude | |
| Canton | Moirans-en-Montagne | |
| Community association | Jura Sud | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 30 ' N , 5 ° 48' E | |
| height | 759–1,027 m | |
| surface | 13.83 km 2 | |
| Residents | 308 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 22 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 39130 | |
| INSEE code | 39216 | |
Étival is a commune in the French department of Jura in the region Bourgogne Franche-Comté .
geography
Etival is located at 805 m , about 14 kilometers north-northwest of the city of Saint-Claude (as the crow flies). The farming village extends in the Jura , in a hollow, in the wooded area of the Forêt de la Joux in the western High Jura.
The area of the 13.37 km² municipality covers a section of the French Jura. The landscape is characterized by terrain structures such as ridges and hollows, which are oriented towards south-south-west-north-north-east in accordance with the direction of the fold of the Jura in this area. The basin layers do not have any surface drainage, as the rainwater seeps into the porous calcareous subsoil. To the east of the village are the two lakes Petit Lac and Grand Lac , which lie in a depression.
The western boundary runs on the ridge that separates Étival from the headwaters of the Cimante (tributary of the Ain ). To the east of this is the Etival hollow (on average at 800 m ). This in turn is flanked by a stepped terrain that leads to the densely wooded ridge of the Forêt des Piards and the Forêt de Prénovel . On a crest of this ridge, the highest elevation of Etival is reached at 1025 m . The municipality is part of the Upper Jura Regional Nature Park (French: Parc naturel régional du Haut-Jura ).
The hamlet of Les Ronchaux ( 800 m ) in the Mulde south of the Grand Lac and some individual farms belong to Etival . Neighboring municipalities to Étival are Châtel-de-Joux in the north, Les Piards in the east, Les Crozets and Moirans-en-Montagne in the south and Meussia in the west.
history
The municipal area of Étival was already settled in Roman times. The Roman camp Estiva castra was located here . The place was first mentioned in a document in the 12th century. Ronchaux formed its own small rule since the Middle Ages. Together with the Franche-Comté , Étival came to France with the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678. The area changed in 1822 when the previously independent Les Ronchaux merged with Étival.
Art history
On October 26, 1912, Marcel Duchamp , Francis Picabia and Guillaume Apollinaire from Paris arrived in Etival after an adventurous drive in Picabia's car, a Peugeot Type 141A Sport, under pouring rain. They paid a visit to Gabrièle Buffet , Picabia's wife, herself a pianist and patron of many artists, as well as the author of a highly acclaimed book about the most important artists of the time "Ères abstraites". Gabrièle Buffet had been visiting her mother's house for a few weeks. Apollinaire worked there on his great poem "Zone" (from the volume "Alcool"), which he named after the so-called "zone franche", which was established between Switzerland and France at the time. Traces of this journey can be found in Duchamp's notes from "la boîte verte". At the time, Duchamp was the youngest participant on the trip at the age of 25.
Patrick Bailly-Cowell, grandson of Francis Picabia and Gabrièle Buffet, himself an artist and lives in the family house in Etival, planned a major exhibition with international artist friends for 2012 for the 100th anniversary of the "Route Jura - Paris". After his sudden death in January 2012, his wife Armelle Bailly-Cowell and his daughter Gillian-Joy took over the project. The exhibition curated by Benoît Tremsal with a side program of top-class lectures was opened on October 5, 2012 throughout the village. The Etival community took the opportunity to implement Patrick Bailly-Cowell's idea: four streets in the village were ceremoniously renamed after the three artists from Paris and Jean Challié, painter and relative of G. Buffet, then based in Etival.
Attractions
The current village church of Étival was built in the 19th century. The two lakes of Étival are among the natural attractions.
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 416 |
| 1968 | 429 |
| 1975 | 395 |
| 1982 | 351 |
| 1990 | 307 |
| 1999 | 285 |
| 2004 | 298 |
With 308 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), Étival is one of the small communities in the Jura department. After the population in the first half of the 20th century had always been around 360 people, a slight increase in population was recorded in the 1960s. Since then the number of inhabitants has decreased significantly.
Economy and Infrastructure
Until well into the 20th century, Étival was primarily a village characterized by agriculture , in particular cattle and dairy farming, and forestry. In addition, there are now some local small businesses. In the meantime, the village has also turned into a residential community. Many workers are commuters who work in the larger towns in the area.
The village is located off the major thoroughfares on a departmental road that leads from Clairvaux-les-Lacs to Saint-Lupicin . Further road connections exist with Meussia and Les Piards.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Various authors: Route Jura - Paris . In: Aéropage (ed.): Lectures and catalog . tape 2 . Editions Aéropage, Lons le Saunier (F) 2012, ISBN 978-2-908340-99-0 .