Chanaz
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Savoie | |
| Arrondissement | Chambery | |
| Canton | Bugey savoyard | |
| Community association | Grand Lac - Lac du Bourget | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 49 ′ N , 5 ° 48 ′ E | |
| height | 220-572 m | |
| surface | 6.75 km 2 | |
| Residents | 512 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 76 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 73310 | |
| INSEE code | 73073 | |
| Website | www.chanaz.fr | |
 Chanaz on the Canal de Savières |
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Chanaz is a French municipality with 512 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Savoie in the region of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It belongs to the canton of Bugey Savoyard in the Arrondissement of Chambéry .
geography
Chanaz is located at 232 m , near Culoz , about 29 kilometers north-northwest of the city of Chambéry (as the crow flies). The town extends in the far north-west of the Savoie department, near the Lac du Bourget , at the mouth of the Canal de Savières into the Rhone . It is located at the northern foot of Mont Landard , which forms the edge of an anticline in the southern French Jura , which continues with the Mont du Chat and the Chaîne de l'Épine to the south and borders the Lac du Bourget in the east.
The area of the municipal area of 6.75 km² includes a section of the Rhone Valley. The Rhone flows here in a wide valley from north to south. The western border runs along the Rhone, which is dammed below the village by a weir ( Barrage de Savières ). Therefore, their water is divided into a canal and a wide oxbow river bed. From the course of the river, the community area extends eastward to the wooded ridge of Mont Landard (at 583 m, the highest elevation of Chanaz) and to its northern foothills, Le Communal ( 515 m ). Along the Canal de Savières, the area extends into Chautagne and almost as far as Lac du Bourget.
In addition to the actual town center, Chanaz also includes several hamlet settlements and farms, including:
- Flandre ( 250 m ) slightly elevated on the southern edge of the Chautagne plain
- Sindon ( 390 m ) on the northern foothills of Mont Landard above Lac du Bourget
- Landard ( 400 m ) on a plateau at the foot of Mont Landard
- part of Portout ( 240 m ) north of Lac du Bourget
Neighboring municipalities of Chanaz are Vions in the north, Chindrieux , Conjux and Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille in the east, Lucey in the south and Lavours and Culoz in the west.
history
The municipality of Chanaz was already settled during Roman times. Portout was a small trading port with a pottery center in the 5th century . Chanaz was first mentioned in a document in the 11th century. The place name goes back to the old French word chaisne (oak). In the 13th and 14th centuries the place was the seat of a Kastlanei of the House of Savoy. Chanaz achieved its importance as an important customs post on the water and land routes through the Rhone Valley.
Attractions
The parish church of Chanaz was built in the 19th century and has rich furnishings that come from the previous building. The Romanesque chapel Orgeval is located near the Rhone .
Chanaz has a medieval town center with numerous houses from the 15th and 16th centuries. The town hall, once a manor house, was built in the 16th century and is inscribed as a monument historique . In the 19th century it came into the possession of General Benoît de Boigne and was remodeled, giving it the name Maison de Boigne . An oil mill dates from 1868. In the former Gothic chapel of Notre-Dame de Miséricorde is now the Musée Gallo-Romain, which shows artefacts that were discovered during the excavations of a Roman settlement near Portout.
Boat launch on the Canal de Savières
Center of Chanaz with promenade
Pedestrian bridge over the Canal de Savières
Church of Sainte-Apolline in Chanaz
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 269 |
| 1968 | 263 |
| 1975 | 276 |
| 1982 | 323 |
| 1990 | 416 |
| 1999 | 442 |
| 2006 | 483 |
| 2011 | 506 |
With 512 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), Chanaz is one of the small communities in the Savoie department. After the population declined in the first half of the 20th century, there has been a significant increase in population since the mid-1970s. The local residents of Chanaz are called Chanazien (ne) s in French .
Economy and Infrastructure
Until well into the 20th century, Chanaz was a village dominated by agriculture and retail trade. Viticulture on the slopes of Mont Landard is particularly important . In addition, there are now various local small businesses. In the meantime the village has also developed into a residential community. Many workers are commuters who work in the larger towns in the area, especially in the Aix-les-Bains and Chambéry areas. Thanks to its medieval character and its location on the Rhone and Canal de Savières, Chanaz benefits from tourism.
The village is located off the main thoroughfares on a department road that leads from Yenne to Ruffieux . There are other road connections with Chindrieux and Conjux. The closest connection to the A41 motorway is around 24 kilometers away.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ C'est la petite Venise savoyarde. In: Le Dauphiné libéré. Retrieved September 1, 2014 (French).
- ^ Maison de Boigne in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ↑ French Statistics Institute ( www.insee.fr )
- ↑ Chanaz - notice communale. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved on August 28, 2014 (French, INSEE population from 1968 ).
- ^ Complete dossier on Chanaz. In: INSEE . Retrieved August 22, 2014 (French).