Bellignat
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Ain | |
| Arrondissement | Nantua | |
| Canton | Nantua | |
| Community association | Haut-Bugey agglomeration | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 14 ' N , 5 ° 38' E | |
| height | 516-983 m | |
| surface | 7.83 km 2 | |
| Residents | 3,624 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 463 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 01100 | |
| INSEE code | 01031 | |
| Website | www.bellignat.fr | |
Bellignat is a French municipality with 3624 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Ain in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It belongs to the canton of Nantua in the Arrondissement of Nantua .
geography
Bellignat is located at 522 m , about three kilometers southwest of the city of Oyonnax and 31 kilometers east of the prefecture of Bourg-en-Bresse (beeline). The village extends in the north of Bugey , in the wide valley of the Ange in the Jura , between the heights of the Forêt de Châtelard in the west and the Forêt Noire in the east.
The area of the 7.84 km² municipal area covers a section of the southern French Jura. The central part is taken up by the valley of the Ange, which has a width of about 1.5 kilometers and forms a syncline in the Jura folds . The valley basin is drained towards the south to the Oignin . To the west, the municipal soil extends to the ridge of the Châtelard ( 725 m ). To the east of the valley basin, the municipal area extends over a densely wooded slope ( Forêt Noire ) to the anticline of Mont Jora. On the Haut Crêt , which slopes steeply towards the east to a spring valley of the Ange, the highest point of Bellignat is reached at 983 m .
Neighboring communities of Bellignat are Oyonnax in the northeast, Apremont in the southeast, Groissiat in the southwest and Géovreisset in the northwest.
history
The discovery of a bronze age tumulus suggests a very early settlement of the municipality of Bellignat. In the 12th century the village formed its own small lordship. The sovereignty of the area passed to the Counts of Savoy in 1402 . With the Treaty of Lyon , Bellignat came to France in 1601. From the second half of the 19th century, Bellignat, together with the other communities in the Oyonnax valley, experienced an economic boom through the introduction of industry (silk industry, comb manufacture and later plastics processing).
Attractions
The village church of Saint-Christophe originally dates from the 11th century, but was later changed several times; she has a Gothic choir.
population
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 |
| Residents | 837 | 832 | 1,077 | 2,602 | 3.233 | 3,488 | 3,488 | 3,590 |
With 3624 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) Bellignat is one of the medium-sized municipalities in the Ain department. A significant increase in population has been recorded since the late 1960s. During this time the population of the village has quadrupled. In the meantime, the settlement area of Bellignat has almost completely merged with that of Oyonnax. The local residents of Bellignat are called Renouillus in French .
Economy and Infrastructure
For a long time, Bellignat was primarily a village characterized by agriculture and forestry. Thanks to its proximity to Oyonnax, various companies have also set up shop in Bellignat since the first half of the 20th century. Today there are two large commercial and industrial zones with a total of more than 60 companies in the valley between Bellignat and Oyonnax and south of the old town center. The important branches of industry include plastics production and the precision engineering industry. Bellignat is the location of the Lycée Arbez Carme, a university for the plastics industry with a scientific and technological center for plastics and accessories.
The village is very well developed in terms of traffic. It is close to the main road that leads from Montréal-la-Cluse via Oyonnax to Saint-Claude . Other road connections exist with Izernore and Thoirette . The nearest connection to the A404 motorway (Saint-Martin-du-Frêne - Oyonnax), which crosses the municipality, is around one kilometer away. Bellignat has a train station on the railway line from Bourg-en-Bresse to Oyonnax .
Bellignat has two pre-schools ( école maternelle ), two elementary schools ( école élémentaire ) and one upper secondary school ( lycée ).
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. 119 (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. 29 (French, online [accessed January 18, 2014]).
- ↑ French Statistics Institute ( www.insee.fr )
- ↑ Bellignat - notice communal. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved on June 14, 2015 (French, INSEE population from 1968 ).