Avenas
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| local community | Deux-Grosnes | |
| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Rhône | |
| Arrondissement | Villefranche-sur-Saône | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 12 ′ N , 4 ° 36 ′ E | |
| Post Code | 69430 | |
| Former INSEE code | 69015 | |
| Incorporation | 1st January 2019 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
| Website | Avenas | |
 Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption |
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Avenas is a formerly independent municipality ( commune Déléguée ) in today's southern French community Deux-Grosnes with 116 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in Beaujolais (today department Rhône ) in the region of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes .
location
The hamlet of Avenas is located about 30 km southwest of Mâcon in the cultural and wine landscape of the Beaujolais at an altitude of about 500 m .
Population development
| year | 1800 | 1851 | 1901 | 1954 | 1999 | 2016 | ||
| Residents | 264 | 333 | 223 | 120 | 106 | 120 | ||
| Sources: Cassini and INSEE | ||||||||
As a result of the phylloxera crisis in viticulture, the general mechanization of agriculture and the abandonment of small farms, the population of the place has decreased significantly in the 20th century.
history
The place probably developed around a medieval Cistercian monastery , of which only the Church of Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption remains . With effect from January 1, 2019, it was merged with several other villages to form the new large commune ( Commune nouvelle ) Deux-Grosnes .
Attractions
The apse of the monastery church, which was restored in the 1950s and consecrated to the Assumption of Mary , houses an extraordinarily richly designed and well-preserved Romanesque altar.
