Guéreins
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Ain | |
| Arrondissement | Bourg-en-Bresse | |
| Canton | Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne | |
| Community association | Val de Saone Center | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 7 ' N , 4 ° 47' E | |
| height | 169-232 m | |
| surface | 4.51 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,452 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 322 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 01090 | |
| INSEE code | 01183 | |
| Website | www.guereins.fr | |
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Guéreins is a French commune with 1,452 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Ain in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It belongs to the canton of Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne in the Bourg-en-Bresse arrondissement .
geography
location
Guéreins is located at 183 m , about 36 kilometers west-southwest of the prefecture of Bourg-en-Bresse , 39 kilometers north of the city of Lyon and 22 kilometers south of the city of Mâcon (as the crow flies). The village extends on the banks of the Saône on the western edge of the Ain department, in the countryside and historical province of Dombes . Neighboring municipalities of Guéreins are Taponas in the north, Genouilleux and Peyzieux-sur-Saône in the northeast, Montceaux and Montmerle-sur-Saône in the south and Belleville-en-Beaujolais in the west.
topography
The area of the 4.51 km 2 municipal area includes a section in the Saône valley, which flows through the Bresse-Saône rift in a north-south direction. The western municipal boundary runs along the middle of the river. From the river level at 169 m , the riverside landscape rises slightly to the east, but this rise is divided into two halves by the Kerbtal of a small tributary, the Calonne. In the northern half the ascent is steeper and at 232 m it reaches the highest point of the municipality in the northeast. The southern hill goes up to about 200 m . Almost 54% of the communal land is largely used for agriculture. The development mainly with single-family houses takes up 29% followed by wooded areas (7%) especially on the Calonne.
Community structure
The historical center of Guéreins is grouped around the crossing of the Calonne. That there has expanded north and south and includes the settlements:
- Charme ( 225 m ) on the hill in the northeast,
- La Guillotière ( 177 m ) south of the town center,
- La Croisée ( 179 m ) at the junction for Belleville.
history
In the Middle Ages, in 1285, Guéreins was first mentioned as the site of a church ( Parrochia de Guirrens ). Over time, the spelling changed via Guierreins (1418), Guierrans (1498), Guerrins (1662) and Guereins (1850) to today's Guéreins. The parish church was assigned to the Archdiocese of Lyon , the collature was exercised by the Saint-Pierre Abbey in Lyon, which had a priory built in Guéreins before 1245.
In the Middle Ages, Guéreins was a market town in the lands of the Lords of Beaujeu around the town of Chalamont . They expanded their possessions in the 14th century and thereby created the principality of Dombes, which was under the suzerainty of the Bourbons for several centuries from 1406 . In 1596 Guéreins was given as a fiefdom to the lordship of La Bâtie, which had its seat in the Château de la Bâtie on the border between the present-day communities of Montceaux and Chaneins . It was not until 1762 that Guéreins came to France together with the rest of the Principality of Dombes.
In the administrative structure after the French Revolution , Guéreins was first assigned to the Arrondissement Trévoux and after its dissolution in 1926 to the Arrondissement Bourg-en-Bresse . At the constituency level, Guéreins belonged to the canton of Thoissey from 1801 to 2015 , since its abolition it has been assigned to the canton of Chatillon-sur-Chalaronne.
From 1897 to 1936, the Trévoux – Jassans regional tram ran through Guéreins as part of the Tramways de l'Ain and served one stop.
Attractions
- The village church of Saint-Marcelin dates from 1851 and replaced a Romanesque church from the high Middle Ages.
- The former post office from the 17th and 19th centuries is inscribed as a monument historique .
- The Château des Charmes is a 19th century country house .
- The Sâonebrücke to Belleville is a truss bridge from the years 1904 to 1906. It was built at the same place after the collapse of a previous single-lane bridge from 1832.
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 559 |
| 1968 | 535 |
| 1975 | 589 |
| 1982 | 776 |
| 1990 | 995 |
| 1999 | 1,065 |
| 2006 | 1,184 |
| 2011 | 1,341 |
With 1,452 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), Guéreins is one of the smaller communities in the Ain department. In the 19th century the population fluctuated between 422 and the high of 938 inhabitants, which was recorded in 1851. Then began a population decline that lasted until the middle of the 20th century. A significant increase in population has been recorded since the 1980s. The local residents of Guéreins are called Guerinois (es) in French .
Economy and Infrastructure
Until well into the 20th century, Guéreins was a village dominated by agriculture , but due to the small area of the municipality, only a few businesses are still active today. There are also various local small businesses. In the meantime, the village has also developed into a residential community whose employees go about their work as commuters in the larger towns in the area and especially in the neighboring department of the Rhône.
The village is on the D933 , which connects the villages on the eastern bank of the Saône across several departments, but is no longer important as a regional thoroughfare today. In the south of the municipality there are branches to Montceaux and via the Saône to Belleville. With 16,000 vehicles per day, this bridge connection is now an important connection for commuters. The next motorway connection to the A6 is 4 km away in Belleville. The nearest train station on the Paris – Marseille line is also located there . The airport in the region is Lyon-St-Exupéry (60 km).
education
There is a private école primaire (elementary school with an integrated preschool ) in Guéreins .
Parish partnership
Guéreins has had a partnership with the Swiss municipality of Bottens since 1993 .
Web links
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 c É. Philipon: Dictionnaire Topographique du Département de l'Ain . Imprimerie Nationale, 1911, p. 202 (French, online [PDF; accessed January 4, 2014]).
- ^ Marie-Claude Guigue: Topography Historique du Département de l'Ain . Bourg-en-Bresse et Lyon, A. Brun, 1873, p. 177 (French, online [accessed January 18, 2014]).
- ↑ a b Guéreins - notice communale. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved April 25, 2016 (French, INSEE population from 1968 ).
- ↑ Route of the Trévoux – Saint-Trivier line. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 25, 2016 ; Retrieved April 26, 2016 (French). 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.
- ↑ Relais de poste in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ↑ a b Belleville: RD37 - Travaux sur le pont franchissant la Saône. In: Département Rhône . Retrieved April 26, 2016 (French).
- ↑ French Statistics Institute ( www.insee.fr )
- ↑ Commune de Guéreins - Dossier complet. In: INSEE . Retrieved April 25, 2016 (French).
- ↑ Contact N ° 57 - Jumelage Bottens-Guéreins 20 ans. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Website of the community of Bottens. Pp. 8–9 , archived from the original on April 26, 2016 ; Retrieved April 26, 2016 (French). 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.
