Fons (Ardèche)
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Ardèche | |
| Arrondissement | Largentière | |
| Canton | Aubenas-2 | |
| Community association | Basin d'Aubenas | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 35 ′ N , 4 ° 21 ′ E | |
| height | 232-492 m | |
| surface | 4.03 km 2 | |
| Residents | 329 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 82 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 07200 | |
| INSEE code | 07091 | |
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Fons is a French commune in the Ardèche department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region with 329 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).
geography
The municipality is located about five kilometers southwest of the canton's capital Aubenas on the southeastern border of the Monts d'Ardèche Regional Nature Park , in the so-called Piémont Cévenol . Fons lies on the edge of the valley of the Ardèche river . The western part of the municipality is mostly overgrown with forest, the eastern part is used for agriculture and is mainly drained by the Ruisseau de Valgrand , which first flows into the Auzon and then into the Ardèche.
Neighboring municipalities are Saint-Sernin in the north and east, Lachapelle-sous-Aubenas in the south and Ailhon in the west and northwest.
history
The place name Fons is derived from the Latin fontana = source, well.
The Resistance will - according to research by the journalist Gabriel Domenech from the year 1950 - the 42-meter shaft of a mine in Fons for disposal of the bodies used by 292 people, mostly of alleged collaborators and several German soldiers killed during the cleanup should have been. The shaft is filled with unslaked lime and stones. During excavation work by a company from Gleysal on behalf of the German War Graves Commission in 1959, 34 skeletons were unearthed. It is unclear how many bodies are still in the shaft.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2016 |
| Residents | 93 | 128 | 116 | 133 | 212 | 264 | 279 | 331 |
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