Esserts-Blay
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Savoie | |
| Arrondissement | Albertville | |
| Canton | Albertville-1 | |
| Community association | Arlysere | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 37 ' N , 6 ° 26' E | |
| height | 345–2,080 m | |
| surface | 15.51 km 2 | |
| Residents | 809 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 52 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 73540 | |
| INSEE code | 73110 | |
| Website | www.esserts-blay.fr | |
 The Château de Blay after its restoration into a communal ballroom |
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Esserts-Blay is a French municipality with 809 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Savoie in the region of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It belongs to the canton of Albertville-1 in the Albertville arrondissement .
geography
location
Esserts-Blay is located at 480 m in the historical province of Tarentaise , about 40 kilometers east of the prefecture of Chambéry , 69 kilometers south-southeast of the city of Geneva and 73 kilometers northeast of the city of Grenoble (as the crow flies). The neighboring municipalities of Esserts-Blay are Albertville and Tours-en-Savoie in the north, La Bâthie in the east, Saint-Paul-sur-Isère in the south and Notre-Dame-des-Millières (point of contact), Monthion and Grignon in the west.
topography
The area of the municipal area of 15.51 km 2 includes a section of the bank in the Isère valley and juts out from the river in a wedge shape into the northern foothills of the Massif de la Lauzière , the northernmost part of the Vanoise massif . It extends almost to the 2111 m high La Grande Lanche summit , where it has its highest elevation at 2080 m . In the area of the municipality, the Isère valley forms a trough valley , on the shoulder of which here, about 80 m above the valley floor, fertile soil was deposited during the last ice age and the actual village is located. The entire valley flank is drained by small water channels distributed over its entire width towards the Isère and is almost entirely forested. As a result, the forest area accounts for 85.7% of the community area. Alpine meadows above the tree line make up 4% and fields and meadows on the valley floor and in the area of the settlements together make up 6.3%.
Community structure
In addition to the actual town center, Esserts-Blay also includes several hamlet settlements and farms, including:
- Saint-Thomas , La Verne and Le Ferlay ( 350 m ) on the valley floor on the banks of the Isère and on the northern edge of the municipality,
- Le Fay ( 558 m ) above Saint-Thomas,
- Chariondet ( 501 m ) above Le Ferlay,
- La Fuettaz ( 650 m ) on the slope directly opposite La Bâthie,
- La Poyat ( 577 m ) on the slope directly opposite La Bâthie,
- La Duit ( 1180 m ) with a group of clearings and small lakes in the middle of the slope above the town center,
- La Bruyère and Les Cours ( 450 m ), districts right next to the town center.
history
The municipality of Esserts-Blay was created in 1794 from the merger of the two villages of Saint Thomas des Esserts and Blay and was first called Saint Thomas des Esserts et Blay or Esserts et Blay before the hyphenated spelling established itself from around 1830.
The parish of Saint Thomas des Esserts broke away from the one in Saint-Paul-sur-Isère in the period before 1344 and after 1170, when the previously existing parishes in the Tarentaise were first recorded. It was mentioned in the 14th century as Ecclesia de Exteriis alias Essertis and goes back to the word essarter (to make arable). The first written mention of Blay occurred in 1257. The place name, which later appeared as Castellania Blesii (1535), corresponds to the proper name Blasius or Blaise .
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In the Middle Ages, the municipality belonged to the Lords of Avallon, who resided in Saint-Paul, whose lands included the villages of Saint Paul, Blay and Saint-Thomas and who were under the sovereignty of the Counts of Savoy . They built Blay Castle between 1390 and 1418, which was destroyed by fire in 1609 and the outer walls of which are still preserved today. The parishes were so divided that Saint-Thomas was independent while Blay belonged to the parish of Saint-Paul until 1803. At the end of this period, the inhabitants of Blay were many times more numerous and financially stronger due to the alpine farming, so that in 1803 they received an independent parish and a few years later expanded their chapel into a parish church.
Attractions
The Château de Blay , built between 1390 and 1418, had been left to decay since it burned down in 1609, until it was repaired and rebuilt by the municipality in 2008 so that it now serves as a communal ballroom. The village church of Blay stands on the site of a former chapel, a side wall of which was integrated into the new building, which was built from 1826 to 1834.
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 663 |
| 1968 | 590 |
| 1975 | 622 |
| 1982 | 578 |
| 1990 | 615 |
| 1999 | 654 |
| 2006 | 707 |
| 2011 | 752 |
With 809 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) Esserts-Blay is one of the small communities in the Savoie department. After the population had declined since Savoy was annexed to France (887 inhabitants were counted in 1861), a slight population increase has been recorded again since the mid-1990s. The local residents of Esserts-Blay are called in French Blaychérains et les Blaychéraines .
Economy and Infrastructure
Esserts-Blay was a predominantly agricultural village well into the 20th century . In addition, there are now various local small businesses. In the meantime, the village has mainly developed into a residential community. Many workers are commuters who go to work in the larger towns in the area, especially in the Albertville area.
The village is a bit off the N90 , the main thoroughfare through the Tarentaise, which runs along the opposite bank of the Isère . Side roads connect Saint-Thomas and the surrounding area with Tours-en-Savoie and Esserts-Blay with La Bâthie and Saint-Paul-sur-Isère. Down the valley at Albertville, the N90 merges into the A430 motorway and connects to the regional motorway network. The Saint-Pierre-d'Albigny – Bourg-Saint-Maurice railway also runs through the Isère Valley and has a larger train station in Albertville. Chambéry-Savoie (distance 69 km) and Geneva (101 km) are possible airports in the region .
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Esserts-Blay (French)
- Révision du Plan Local d'Urbanisme de la commune d'Esserts-Blay - Diagnostic (French, PDF, 8.2 MB)
- Monograph on Esserts-Blay (by Jean-Marc Mollet, French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2006 data from CORINE Land Cover , available e.g. B. at www.statistiques.developpement-durable.gouv.fr ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ a b Esserts-Blay - notice communale. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved on March 17, 2015 (French, INSEE population from 1968 ).
- ↑ a b A. Gros: Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieu de la Savoie . Belley, Imprimerie Aimé Chaduc, 1937, p. 65, 177 (French, limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ a b c See web links: Plan Local d'Urbanisme , pp. 51–60.
- ↑ French Statistics Institute ( www.insee.fr )
- ^ Complete dossier on Esserts-Blay. In: INSEE . Retrieved March 17, 2015 (French).
