Ambérieux-en-Dombes
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Ain | |
| Arrondissement | Bourg-en-Bresse | |
| Canton | Villars-les-Dombes | |
| Community association | Dombes Saône Vallée | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 0 ′ N , 4 ° 54 ′ E | |
| height | 265-302 m | |
| surface | 15.92 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,689 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 106 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 01330 | |
| INSEE code | 01005 | |
| Website | www.amberieux-en-dombes.fr | |
 Donjon of Ambérieux Castle |
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Ambérieux-en-Dombes is a French commune with 1,689 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Ain in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It belongs to the canton of Villars-les-Dombes in the arrondissement of Bourg-en-Bresse and is a member of the Dombes Saône Vallée municipal association .
geography
location
Ambérieux-en-Dombes is located at 300 m , about 34 km southwest of the prefecture of Bourg-en-Bresse , 27 km north of the city of Lyon and 34 km south of the city of Mâcon (as the crow flies). The village is located in the middle of the lake landscape and the historical province of Dombes in the southwest of the Ain department. Neighboring municipalities of Ambérieux-en-Dombes are Sainte-Olive in the northeast, Lapeyrouse in the east, Monthieux , Saint-Jean-de-Thurigneux and Rancé in the south and Savigneux and Villeneuve in the west.
topography
The area of the municipal area of 15.92 km 2 comprises a section of the western Dombes, a high plateau crossed by countless lakes and bodies of water between the Saône valley in the west and the Jura in the east. With altitudes between 290 m and 302 m , most of the community is almost flat, only on the western edge does a slight slope towards the Saône valley begin. This part and the immediate vicinity of the village are used intensively for agriculture, while the strings of lakes and ponds (French: étang ) that are typical of the Dombes begin on the north and east . The Étang du Cérisier is also located in the village . The proportional land cover of the municipal area is divided into fields with 49%, meadows with 18% and other agricultural areas with 12%. The water areas of the étangs make up almost 12%, while the settlement area takes up about 7%.
From the historic village center, several settlement arms extend along the access routes. The village is also surrounded by a variety of homesteads and lieu-dits .
history
No finds in the area of Ambérieux are known from Roman times , but the Ambariacum of that time was already of great importance during the Burgundian period . It is recorded as the place where the Burgundian king Gundobad issued title 42 of the Burgundy law in 501 ( Data Ambariaco in conloquio sub die III. Nonas Septembris, Abieno viro clarissimo consule ). Further mentions followed in the 6th, 9th and 10th centuries and the place name finally changed to Ambaireu (1226) and Ambérieu (1402) in the Middle Ages .
The village church of Saint-Maurice was first mentioned in a document in 972. The castle of Ambérieux from the 14th and 15th centuries was one of the heavily fortified castles of the Dombes under the rule of the Thoire-Villars and possibly stands on the remains of the old Burgundian manor.
Attractions
Three towers and the 19 m high donjon are still preserved from the medieval castle and classified as monument historique . Today they are part of the development in the village center and encompass an area in the center of which the village church was later built. It is a new building in the neo-Romanesque style from the 19th century.
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 588 |
| 1968 | 627 |
| 1975 | 756 |
| 1982 | 848 |
| 1990 | 1,156 |
| 1999 | 1,408 |
| 2006 | 1,436 |
| 2011 | 1,600 |
With 1689 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), Ambérieux-en-Dombes is one of the smaller communities in the Ain department. After the number of inhabitants remained constant between 800 and 900 in the second half of the 19th century, it decreased in the first half of the 20th century. This trend was reversed in the 1960s and the population began to grow rapidly and continues to this day. The local residents of Ambérieux-en-Dombes are called Ambarrois (es) in French .
Economy and Infrastructure
Ambérieux-en-Dombes is still a predominantly agricultural village, whose farms are active in animal production and agriculture . In addition, there are now various local small businesses and some small industrial companies. In the meantime the village has also developed into a residential community. Many workers are commuters who go to work in the larger localities in the area, partly also in the greater Lyon and Villefranche-sur-Saône areas .
The village is located at the intersection of two regional connecting roads that are no longer part of today's main traffic routes in Rhône-Alpes. These are the former national road and the current D904 between Villefranche and Ambérieu-en-Bugey and the D66 between Saint-Trivier-sur-Moignans and Lyon. The nearest motorway connections to the A6 or A46 are around 15 km away. The airport in the region is Lyon-St-Exupéry (43 km).
education
In Ambérieux-en-Dombes there is a state école primaire (elementary school with an integrated preschool ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2006 data from CORINE Land Cover , available e.g. B. at www.statistiques.developpement-durable.gouv.fr ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ^ André Buisson: Carte Archéologique de la Gaule - Ain 01 . Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , 1990, ISBN 2-87754-010-3 , pp. 136 (French, limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ a b É. Philipon: Dictionnaire Topographique du Département de l'Ain . Imprimerie Nationale, 1911, p. 8 (French, online [PDF; accessed January 4, 2014]).
- ↑ Information in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ↑ French Statistics Institute ( www.insee.fr )
- ↑ Ambérieux-en-Dombes - notice communale. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved September 29, 2015 (French, INSEE population from 1968 ).
- ^ Complete dossier on Ambérieux-en-Dombes. In: INSEE . Retrieved September 29, 2015 (French).
