Izenave
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Ain | |
| Arrondissement | Nantua | |
| Canton | Hauteville-Lompnes | |
| Community association | Haut-Bugey agglomeration | |
| Coordinates | ||
| height | 663-1,008 m | |
| surface | 13.04 km 2 | |
| Residents | 156 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 12 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 01430 | |
| INSEE code | 01191 | |
Izenave is a French municipality with 156 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Ain in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It belongs to the canton of Hauteville-Lompnes in the Arrondissement of Nantua .
geography
Izenave is located at 690 m , about 15 kilometers northeast of the city of Ambérieu-en-Bugey and 29 kilometers southeast of the prefecture of Bourg-en-Bresse (beeline). The farming village extends in central Bugey , on the southern edge of the wide valley of the Combe du Val in the Jura , on the Borrey River east of the Chaîne de l'Avocat.
The area of the 13.04 km² municipality covers a section of the southern French Jura. The central part is taken up by the 1.2 km wide valley of the Combe du Val oriented in north-south direction (on average at 680 m ), which forms a syncline in the Jura folds . This trough is drained by the Borrey to the north to the Oignin . In the east this depression is bounded by the anticline of the Crêt de Châtillon (up to 950 m ). To the west, the community area extends to the ridge of the Chaîne de l'Avocat , on which the highest elevation of Izenave is reached at 1008 m . The extreme west of the municipality is located in the deeply cut valley of the Bief de la Fouge .
The hamlet of Brouillat ( 669 m ) in the valley level of the Combe du Val and some individual farms belong to Izenave . Neighboring communities of Izenave are Cerdon and Vieu-d'Izenave in the north, Lantenay and Champdor-Corcelles with Corcelles in the east, Aranc in the south and Corlier in the west.
history
The municipality of Izenave was already settled in the Burgundian period; Several graves date from this era. Izenave is first mentioned in a document in the 12th century as the property of the Lords of Coligny . Later the village came under the rule of Rougemont. It had been under the sovereignty of the Counts of Savoy since the Middle Ages . With the Treaty of Lyon , Izenave came to France in 1601.
Attractions
The village church of Izenave was built in Gothic styles. The ruins of La Valière Castle from the 14th century have been preserved.
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 177 |
| 1968 | 169 |
| 1975 | 138 |
| 1982 | 117 |
| 1990 | 130 |
| 1999 | 146 |
| 2006 | 151 |
| 2011 | 166 |
With 156 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), Izenave is one of the small communities in the Ain department. After the population had decreased significantly in the first half of the 20th century (297 people were counted in 1896), a slight increase in population has been recorded since the beginning of the 1980s.
Economy and Infrastructure
Izenave 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 located off the major thoroughfares on a departmental road that leads from Saint-Martin-du-Frêne to Hauteville-Lompnes . Further road connections exist with Lantenay and Corlier. The closest connection to the A40 motorway is around 13 kilometers away.
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. 58–59 (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. 185 (French, online [accessed January 18, 2014]).
- ↑ French Statistics Institute ( www.insee.fr )
- ^ Izenave - notice communal. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved June 11, 2015 (French, INSEE population from 1968 ).