La Bridoire
| La Bridoire | ||
|---|---|---|
.svg)
|
|
|
| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Savoie | |
| Arrondissement | Chambery | |
| Canton | Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin | |
| Community association | Val Guiers | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 32 ' N , 5 ° 45' E | |
| height | 250-527 m | |
| surface | 6.18 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,272 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 206 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 73520 | |
| INSEE code | 73058 | |
 General view of La Bridoire |
||
La Bridoire is a French commune with 1,272 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Savoie in the region of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It belongs to the canton of Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin in the Arrondissement of Chambéry and is a member of the Val Guiers municipal association .
geography
location
La Bridoire is located on the western edge of the department at 285 m , about 15 km west of the prefecture of Chambéry , 75 km east-southeast of the city of Lyon and 38 km north of the city of Grenoble (as the crow flies). Neighboring municipalities of La Bridoire are Verel-de-Montbel and Dullin in the north, Saint-Alban-de-Montbel , Lépin-le-Lac (point of contact) and Attignat-Oncin in the east, Saint-Béron in the south and Domessin in the west.
topography
The area of the municipal area of 6.18 km 2 covers a section of the Avant-Pays Savoyard , the Savoyard foreland characterized by gentle elevations between the border river Guiers and the southern end of the main anticlines of the Jura . The area is traversed in a north-south direction by an approximately 300 m rising land step that separates the valley floors of the Rhone and Guiers from the plateau that the Lac d'Aiguebelette occupies east of the municipality. In the north part of the terrain, it forms an almost vertically rising rock face, while in the area of the village it is broken through by the valley of the Tier stream and set back to the east. The animal drained together with a further influx, the municipality and flows into Belmont-Tramonet in Guiers. The undeveloped municipal land consists of roughly equal parts of forests, agricultural land and meadows. Around 9% of the area is built on. The community is divided into an actual town center and a number of surrounding hamlets and farms, including Rochassieux on a ledge at a height of 310 m on the stepped terrain.
history
The village of La Bridoire first appeared in the documents as Villa de Bredoria in the High Middle Ages in 1142 , later name variants were Bridoria (1249), Brodueri (1288) and La Bourduire (1627). The name corresponds to the word “borderie”, which still exists in French today, for a small - cell lease . In the Middle Ages, La Bridoire belonged to the lords of Verel under the suzerainty of the Counts of Savoy . It was not until shortly before the French Revolution that La Bridoire also had a small lordship that was elevated to the status of a baronnie .
In the 19th century, several mills were built along the slope of the Tier, including a grain and a textile mill, the buildings of which are still preserved today. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Société Hydro-Electrique de la Bridoire was founded in La Bridoire , which built a hydroelectric power station between 1909 and 1911, which is still in function today. The power plant is located on the northern edge of the municipality at the foot of the step and is fed by the Tier stream, the outflow of Lac d'Aiguebelette . Via an underground pressure pipe, it uses the height difference of 125 m between the lake and the plain below the stepped terrain. The lake thus serves as a reservoir, the water level of which, however, may only fluctuate within a two meter area. At the beginning, the plant mainly supplied a local network and ensured the continued existence of the electrically operated mills. It was also part of the regional networks of the Société Grenobloise de Force et Lumière , which became the owner of the power plant in 1931. Today it belongs to EDF and has an installed turbine output of 8750 kW .
population
| Population development | |
|---|---|
| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 1,090 |
| 1968 | 1,027 |
| 1975 | 1.002 |
| 1982 | 1,035 |
| 1990 | 1,115 |
| 1999 | 1,088 |
| 2006 | 1,190 |
| 2011 | 1,185 |
With 1,272 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), La Bridoire is one of the smaller communities in the Savoie department. Since a sudden increase from 711 to 1132 inhabitants during the last quarter of the 19th century, the number of inhabitants has changed only slightly. The locals of La Bridoire are called Bridoirien (ne) s in French .
Economy and Infrastructure
Until well into the 20th century, La Bridoire was a village characterized by both agriculture and smaller industrial companies. Today, in addition to a few farms, there are various local small-scale businesses and two medium-sized industrial companies. In the meantime the village has also developed into a residential community. Many employed people are commuters who work in the larger towns in the area and in the neighboring departments.
The village is located away from the major thoroughfares on a department road that leads from Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin to Lac d'Aiguebelette. Further road connections exist with the surrounding neighboring communities. The next motorway connection to the A43 (Lyon – Chambéry) is eleven kilometers away at Saint-Genix. There are train stations on the little-traveled Saint-André-le-Gaz-Chambéry railway , which crosses the municipality, in the neighboring towns of Lépin-le-Lac and Saint-Béron. The airports in the region are Lyon-St-Exupéry (distance 69 km) and Chambéry-Savoie (24 km).
education
There is a primary school ( école primaire ) in La Bridoire .
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. Gros: Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieu de la Savoie . Belley, Imprimerie Aimé Chaduc, 1937, p. 72 (French, limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ JJ Vernier: Dictionnaire topographique du département de la Savoie . Imprimerie Savoisienne, 1896, p. 266, 727 (French, online at BNF [accessed January 19, 2014]).
- ↑ Centrale hydroélectrique de la Bridoire dite usine de la Vavre actuellement EdF. In: Patrimoine de Rhône-Alpes. Retrieved May 7, 2015 (French).
- ↑ French Statistics Institute ( www.insee.fr )
- ↑ La Bridoire - notice communale. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved on April 26, 2015 (French, INSEE population from 1968 ).
- ^ Complete dossier on La Bridoire. In: INSEE . Retrieved April 26, 2015 (French).
