Ceignes
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Ain | |
| Arrondissement | Nantua | |
| Canton | Pont d'Ain | |
| Community association | Haut-Bugey agglomeration | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 7 ' N , 5 ° 30' E | |
| height | 580-862 m | |
| surface | 10.01 km 2 | |
| Residents | 254 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 25 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 01430 | |
| INSEE code | 01067 | |
 View of the hamlet of Étables |
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Ceignes is a French municipality with 254 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Ain in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It is assigned to the canton of Pont-d'Ain and the Arrondissement of Nantua .
geography
Ceignes is located at 630 m , about 19 kilometers southwest of the city of Oyonnax (as the crow flies) in the southern French Jura Mountains . The area of the 10.01 km² municipal area extends in northern Bugey on a high plateau formed by the anticline between the Ain valley and the Combe du Val . At the eastern edge of the municipality begins a cut into the terrain open to the Combe du Val. Together with the foothills of the Cerdon valley on the south-western edge of the municipality, it forms a pass, the Col de Ceignes . Despite a slight relief structure, the municipality has no surface running water because the rainwater seeps away immediately into the porous calcareous subsoil.
The community consists of two spatially separated farming villages, Ceignes and the somewhat higher Étables ( 704 m ) on the western edge of the leveling area. Neighboring communities of Ceignes are Peyriat in the north, Maillat in the west, Labalme in the south and Saint-Alban , Challes-la-Montagne and Leyssard in the west.
history
Ceygnes is first mentioned in 1299 under the name Cyennies . It originally belonged as a hamlet to the parish of Étables, which was first mentioned in 1225 as De Stabulis and a few decades later as Estables . From the 13th century to 1402 Étables belonged to the rule of the Thoire-Villars, after which it came under the suzerainty of the Counts of Savoy . With the Treaty of Lyon it came to France in 1601.
After the parish of Étables had been relocated to Ceignes, which had grown stronger over time, in 1809, the latter finally took over the function of capital in 1879.
Attractions
The village church of Saint-Laurent in Étables was built in the 12th century in Romanesque style and then redesigned in Gothic style in the 15th century. It has been registered as a monument historique since 1943 and is located at the highest point of Étables. The bell tower, which was destroyed during the revolution , was rebuilt at the beginning of the 19th century.
The church of Sainte-Catherine in Ceignes, built in neo-Gothic style, replaced a smaller previous building at the end of the 19th century.
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 131 |
| 1968 | 124 |
| 1975 | 114 |
| 1982 | 136 |
| 1990 | 160 |
| 1999 | 230 |
| 2006 | 282 |
| 2011 | 261 |
With 254 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) Ceignes is one of the small communities in the Ain department. After the population had decreased in the first half of the 20th century (267 people were still counted in 1891), a significant increase in population has been recorded since the beginning of the 1990s. The local residents of Ceignes are called in French Ceigneurs or Ceigneuses .
Economy and Infrastructure
Until well into the 20th century, Ceignes was primarily a village characterized by agriculture , especially dairy farming and cattle breeding, as well as forestry. In the meantime the village has also turned into a residential community, most of the employed people are commuters who work in the larger towns in the area. Jobs in the area were created primarily through the motorway service station ( Aire de Ceignes ).
The village is on the D1084 departmental road from Nantua to Pont-d'Ain . Further road connections exist with Peyriat and Leyssard. The A40 motorway also cuts through the municipality through the Col de Ceignes ( 646 m ); the next connection is around five kilometers away in the neighboring municipality of Maillat. A tram connection with a stop in Ceignes existed from 1911 to 1951 as part of the Tramways de l'Ain , whose route Nantua– Ambérieu-en-Bugey led over today's D1084.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ É. Philipon: Dictionnaire Topographique du Département de l'Ain . Imprimerie Nationale, 1911, p. 78, 165 (French, online [PDF; accessed January 4, 2014]).
- ↑ La chapelle Saint-Laurent d'Étables in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ↑ French Statistics Institute ( www.insee.fr )
- ↑ Ceignes - notice communal. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved January 22, 2014 (French, INSEE population from 1968 ).
- ↑ St Martin et sa région: Historique et descriptif ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on the official website of Saint-Martin-du-Frêne (French, accessed January 2014).
