Anglefort
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Ain | |
| Arrondissement | Belley | |
| Canton | Hauteville-Lompnes | |
| Community association | Usses and Rhône | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 55 ' N , 5 ° 49' E | |
| height | 238-1,524 m | |
| surface | 29.26 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,115 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 38 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 01350 | |
| INSEE code | 01010 | |
| Website | www.anglefort.fr | |
 Hydroelectric power station (left) and sluice in the municipality of Anglefort |
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Anglefort is a French commune with 1,115 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Ain in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It belongs to the canton of Hauteville-Lompnes in the Belley arrondissement .
geography
Anglefort is located at 251 m , six kilometers south of Seyssel and about 24 kilometers west of the city of Annecy (as the crow flies). The village extends in the broad valley of the Rhone , west of the river, between the mountain ranges of Grand Colombier in the west and Montagne du Gros Foug in the east.
The area of the 29.26 km² municipal area covers a section of the Rhône valley. The Rhône flows here in a wide valley from north to south and is dammed by a weir above Anglefort. Therefore, their water is divided into a canal and a wide oxbow river bed. The eastern border runs roughly in the middle of the valley on the Île de la Malourdie located between the two arms of the river . To the west, the community area extends over the wide, flat valley floor and the steep and mostly densely wooded Jura slope up to the subsequent ridge of the Grand Colombier. From a geological point of view, this ridge forms an anticline consisting of sediments from the Upper Jurassic period . There are extensive mountain pastures above around 1200 m . At 1531 m , the highest point in Anglefort is reached on the summit of the long ridge of the Grand Colombier.
In addition to the actual village, Anglefort also includes various villages, hamlets and farms, including:
- Champriond ( 260 m ) at the east foot of the Grand Colombier
- Chevrier ( 270 m ) at the east foot of the Grand Colombier
- Bouilloux ( 280 m ) at the east foot of the Grand Colombier
- Boursin ( 270 m ) slightly elevated in the Rhône Valley
- Mieugy ( 350 m ) on the lower eastern slope of the Grand Colombier
- Bezonne ( 680 m ) on a ledge on the eastern slope of the Grand Colombier
- Moiret ( 960 m ) on the eastern slope of the Grand Colombier
Neighboring communities of Anglefort are
- Corbonod , Seyssel (Ain) and Seyssel (Haute-Savoie) in the north,
- Motz and Serrières-en-Chautagne in the east,
- Culoz in the south,
- Arvière-en-Valromey with Virieu-le-Petit and Lochieu to the west.
history
The municipality of Anglefort was already settled during Roman times, which was proven by the discovery of graves from this time.
Anglefort goes back to a Benedictine priory founded in the 12th century , which was first called Enflafol . In the Middle Ages , the village formed its own small lordship.
Attractions
The parish church of Anglefort was built in the 18th century. In the 19th century, it was enlarged and its steeple was restored, which had been demolished during the French Revolution . Its location is further away from the Rhône than the original church from the 13th century, which had to be abandoned due to frequent floods. Remains of the former priory (from the 14th and 15th centuries) are visible next to the church.
There are several mansions in the municipality: the Château d'Anglefort (18th century), the manor of Boursin (originally from the 13th century, later restored) and the ruins of La Rochette castle (13th and 14th centuries). The staircase of the Château d'Anglefort is inscribed as a monument historique . The town houses de Marmoz (18th century), de Fontany and de la Saulce in the district of Mieugy are also worth seeing.
population
| year | Residents |
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| 1962 | 438 |
| 1968 | 528 |
| 1975 | 697 |
| 1982 | 714 |
| 1990 | 687 |
| 1999 | 769 |
| 2006 | 900 |
| 2011 | 1,031 |
| 2016 | 1,124 |
With 1115 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) Anglefort is one of the smaller communities in the Ain department. A significant increase in population has been recorded since the early 1960s. The locals of Anglefort are called Clafordan (e) s in French .
Economy and Infrastructure
Anglefort was a predominantly agricultural village until well into the 20th century . Even today, the fertile valley is used intensively for agriculture, with use being concentrated on around ten holdings. However, viticulture has almost completely disappeared, although the slopes north of Anglefort are part of the Bugey Denomination of Origin .
In addition to a few local small businesses, Anglefort has a production facility for metallurgical silicon . It is part of the FerroPem company, which employs just over 100 people and produces 35,000 tons of silicon and 13,000 tons of silica dust annually in two 33 MW electric melting furnaces . In the meantime, the village has also turned into a residential community. Many of the employed people are commuters who go to work in the larger towns in the area.
The Rhône Canal on the Anglefort site is used for both electricity supply and inland navigation . The run-of-river power station Centrale hydroéléctrique de Chautagne , which was completed in 1981 and has an installed capacity of 90 MW, is located on about half of the canal . In the summer of 2010, the Écluse de Chautagne lock system was opened next to the power station . It enables inland vessels of the Péniche class to pass through two locks with a drop height of 10 and 7.3 m and increases the navigability of the Rhône by around 50 kilometers (together with another lock structure upstream).
The village is very well developed in terms of traffic. It is located on the D992 department road, which leads from Seyssel to Culoz. Anglefort has a train station on the Lyon – Genève railway line , but it is no longer served.
In Anglefort there has been a state École primaire since 1894 . H. a primary school with an attached École maternelle (kindergarten).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ André Buisson: Carte Archéologique de la Gaule - Ain 01 . Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , 1990, ISBN 2-87754-010-3 , pp. 121 (French, limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Marie-Claude Guigue: Topography Historique du Département de l'Ain . Bourg-en-Bresse et Lyon, A. Brun, 1873, p. 8 (French, online [accessed January 18, 2014]).
- ^ Château d'Anglefort in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ↑ French Statistics Institute ( www.insee.fr )
- ^ Anglefort - notice communal. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved June 10, 2015 (French, INSEE population from 1968 ).
- ^ Caves & Vignerons. In: Website of the Vins du Bugey association . Retrieved March 1, 2014 (French).
- ↑ FerroPem. (No longer available online.) In: Own information on the website of the parent company FerroAtlántica. Archived from the original on March 5, 2014 ; accessed on February 27, 2014 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Barrage de Chautagne. In: Structurae
