Corcelles (Ain)
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| local community | Champdor-Corcelles | |
| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Ain | |
| Arrondissement | Belley | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 2 ' N , 5 ° 34' E | |
| Post Code | 01110 | |
| Former INSEE code | 01119 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2016 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
 Saint Martin Church |
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Corcelles is a former French commune with the last 227 inhabitants (2013) in the department of Ain in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It belonged to the canton of Hauteville-Lompnes and the Arrondissement of Nantua . In addition, she was a member of the community association Plateau d'Hauteville .
geography
Corcelles is located at 850 m , seven kilometers north-northwest of Hauteville-Lompnes , about 19 kilometers east-northeast of the city of Ambérieu-en-Bugey and 33 km southeast of the prefecture of Bourg-en-Bresse (as the crow flies). The village extends in central Bugey , on the western edge of a wide valley of the High Jura , which is part of the Plateau d'Hauteville, at the foot of the Crêt de Châtillon.
The area of the 14.16 km² municipal area covers a section of the southern French Jura. The main part is occupied by a broad basin oriented in north-south direction (on average at 830 m ), which forms a syncline in the Jura folds . This basin is drained to the south by the Albarine , along which the eastern border runs. In the west, this depression is flanked by the partly wooded and partly willow ridge of the Crêt de Châtillon ( 1017 m ). To the west of this anticline, the community area extends down into erosion valleys, which were created by side streams of the Borrey . The northern boundary runs on the ridge of the Grande Montagne , on which the highest elevation of Corcelles is reached at 1090 m .
Corcelles includes the hamlet of Cléon ( 870 m ) in a basin south of the Crêt de Châtillon, as well as several groups of farms and individual farms. Neighboring municipalities of Corcelles are Vieu-d'Izenave in the north, Brénod and Champdor in the east, Aranc in the south and Izenave , Lantenay and Outriaz in the west.
history
The remains of a Gallic pottery as well as a Bronze Age burial place indicate early settlement. Corcelles is first mentioned in the 12th century as the property of the Counts of Savoy . The place name goes back to the Latin word corticella (small courtyard). In the 13th century, a small priory was founded near Cléon, which was dependent on the Blyes monastery. With the Treaty of Lyon , Corcelles came to France in 1601.
Attractions
The Gothic village church of Saint-Martin was built in the 14th century and restored and redesigned in the 17th and 18th centuries. Corcelles was fortified in the Middle Ages; Remains of the former walls are still visible today.
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 268 |
| 1968 | 241 |
| 1975 | 207 |
| 1982 | 211 |
| 1990 | 207 |
| 1999 | 221 |
| 2006 | 198 |
| 2011 | 248 |
With 227 inhabitants most recently (as of January 1, 2013) Corcelles was one of the small communities in the Ain department. After the population had decreased significantly in the first half of the 20th century (461 people were still counted in 1896), only relatively minor fluctuations have been recorded since the beginning of the 1970s. The local residents of Corcelles are called Corcellan (e) s in French .
Economy and Infrastructure
Corcelles was a village dominated by agriculture , especially dairy farming and cattle breeding, well into the 20th century . Even today, the residents live mainly from their work in the first sector. Outside the primary sector there are few jobs in the village.
The village is off the major thoroughfares on a departmental road that leads from Vieu-d'Izenave to Champdor. Further road connections exist with Aranc and Brénod. The closest connection to the A40 motorway is around 15 kilometers away.
In Corcelles there is a state école primaire (elementary school with an integrated preschool ).
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. 58 (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. 115 (French, online [accessed January 18, 2014]).
- ^ Corcelles - notice communal. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved June 11, 2015 (French, INSEE population from 1968 ).