La Léchère
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Savoie | |
| Arrondissement | Albertville | |
| Canton | Moûtiers | |
| Community association | Vallées d'Aigueblanche | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 32 ' N , 6 ° 28' E | |
| height | 411-2,815 m | |
| surface | 134.54 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,586 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 19 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 73260 | |
| INSEE code | 73187 | |
| Website | www.lalechere.fr | |
 The thermal baths of La Léchère on the Isère |
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La Léchère is a French commune with 2,586 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Savoie in the region of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It belongs to the canton of Moûtiers in the Arrondissement of Albertville and is a member of the Vallées d'Aigueblanche community association .
It was created as Commune nouvelle of the same name with effect from January 1, 2019 by merging the former municipalities of La Léchère, Bonneval and Feissons-sur-Isère . On this occasion, in addition to Bonneval and Feissons-sur-Isère, six former municipalities, which had been associated with La Léchère since 1972 as Commune associée , received the status of a Commune déléguée in the new municipality . The administrative headquarters are in La Léchère.
structure
| District | former INSEE code |
Area (km²) | Population (2016) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bonneval | 73046 | 19.58 | 108 |
| Celliers | 73060 | 31.98 | 39 |
| Doucy | 73102 | 6.78 | 369 |
| Feissons-sur-Isere | 73112 | 12.10 | 570 |
| Naves | 73185 | 32.69 | 108 |
| Notre-Dame-de-Briançon (administrative headquarters) | 73187 | 5.29 | 463 |
| Petit-Coeur | 73199 | 2.97 | 561 |
| Pussy | 73209 | 17.53 | 325 |
geography
location
La Léchère is located at 453 m , about 43 km east of the prefecture of Chambéry , 82 km south-southeast of the city of Geneva and 68 km east-northeast of the city of Grenoble (as the crow flies). The municipality is made up of several villages in the central Isère valley in the historic Tarentaise province .
Neighboring municipalities of La Léchère are
- Rognaix , Feissons-sur-Isère , Cevins and Beaufort in the north,
- Granier , Aime , Montgirod , Hautecour in the east,
- Grand-Aigueblanche with Aigueblanche in the east and Saint-Oyen in the south,
- Les Avanchers-Valmorel and Saint François Longchamp in the south,
- Épierre , Argentine , Montsapey and Bonneval to the west.
topography
The area of the 134.54 km² municipal area comprises a section of the central Isère valley between Moûtiers and Albertville with long foothills extending deep into the adjacent mountain ranges of Beaufortain and Chaîne de la Lauzière . Its fragmented extension, which even forms an enclave in the southwest, is the result of a municipal merger in 1972. Before the incorporation of Bonneval and Feissons-sur-Isère in 2019, the municipality area was 102.86 km².
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The valley floor is built on throughout, while the steep slopes rising from the valley are densely forested and divided by various side valleys. In the Beaufortain (east side) these are the valleys of the Torrent de Glaize and the Grand Nant de Naves . On the opposite side, the Eau Rousse and Morel drain the municipal area and at the same time form the municipal boundaries on longer sections. In the side valleys, the communal soil rises rapidly, reaching heights of 2,455 m in the Beaufortin and at the other end enclosing the 2,829 m high Grand Pic de la Lauzière . This means that large parts of the municipality extend beyond the tree line , which is around 1800 m here . Overall, the proportion of forest in the municipal area is 40.6%, that with grass and low vegetation is 34.4%, rock and snow areas are 12.1%.
The valley of the Eau Rousse ends with a pass, the 1993 m high Col de la Madeleine . It separates the Massif de la Lauzière of the also over 2,800 m towering Cheval Noir and allows the transition from the Isère valley in the valley of the Arc at La Chambre . The entire north ascent, including several lifts, of the Valmorel ski area is part of the La Léchère enclave.
Community structure
Several villages and hamlets belong to La Léchère, some of which were previously independent municipalities. In the Isère valley floor at heights between 440 m and 450 m , these are starting from the south and in the direction of flow of the Isère La Léchère-les-Bains as the location of the thermal facilities, Petit-Cœur as a formerly independent municipality about 500 m from the river on the edge of a widening of the valley cut, followed by Château-Feuillet and Le Vernay and finally Notre-Dame-de-Briançon , the main town with dense industrial development.
In the Massif du Beaufortain east of the Isère are the places Molençon ( 1000 m ), Ronchat ( 1180 m ), Fontaine ( 1206 m ), and Grand Naves ( 1311 m ). West of the Isère in the Massif de la Lauzière lies the formerly independent municipality of Pussy (around 750 m ) and several hamlets in its immediate vicinity. Also on this side and on a neighboring ridge are Doucy Tarentaise ( 950 m ), Combelouvière ( 1270 m ) and Le Villaret ( 1000 m ).
The enclave on the eastern slope of the Massif de la Lauzière includes the formerly independent municipality of Celliers ( 1280 m ) as well as Celliers-Dessus and La Thuile .
history
Today's municipality of La Léchère was created on June 30, 1972 from the merger of the former municipalities of Celliers, Doucy, Naves, Notre-Dame-de-Briançon, Petit-Cœur and Pussy. At the same time, Notre-Dame-de-Briançon was renamed La Léchère. Their old mayor's offices are now branch offices (French: mairie-annexe ) of the La Léchère Citizens' Office.
The Tarentaise was already settled by the Celtic people of the Ceutrons before Roman times. There is a documentary mention of each of the formerly independent communities from the High Middle Ages , in detail these are:
- Briançon as Brianzone or Brianzo mentioned several times in the 12th century, Celtic or Ligurian name for settlements on a hill;
- Celliers as Ecclesia de Cellariis for the first time in 1170, probably the name for a dwelling used seasonally for agricultural purposes;
- Doucy as Dominus Johannes de Dauciaco for the first time in 1283 and with a church building in the 14th century;
- Naves as Ecclesia de Naves for the first time in 1170 or Ecclesia de Navibus 1184, an etymology otherwise widespread in the Iberian region based on Nava for a highland settlement or Nafa for sorcerers , which may have been introduced by the Saracens ;
- Petit-Cœur as Ecclesia de Cors for the first time in 1170, until the French Revolution Saint-Eusèbe de Cœur ;
- Pussy as Ecclesia de Puiseio , 1170, 14th century. Pussiacum , 18th century. Pussy .
Pussy and Doucy are based on proper names.
In Briançon there was a small manor in the Middle Ages which secured the passage through the lower Tarentaise with the well-protected Château de Briançon and a residential tower in Petit-Cœur. In the 12th and 13th centuries, the villages came under the sovereignty of the Counts of Savoy .
With the abundant availability of hydropower to generate electricity, the first chemical and metallurgical industries emerged in 1897, which peaked in the 1920s and 30s. At around the same time (1897) the thermal baths opened in La Léchère over a healing spring discovered in 1869. It specializes in phlebology and rheumatism . The facilities, which were expanded in 1987, housed the press center during the 1992 Winter Olympics .
On January 1, 2019, the two municipalities of Bonneval and Feissons-sur-Isère were incorporated into La Léchère. Since then, like the former municipalities from whose merger La Léchère was created in 1972, these have the status of a Commune déléguée within the Commune nouvelle La Léchère.
Attractions
In each of the formerly independent communities there is a village church, which replaced the previous medieval building in the 17th or 18th century. In the case of the 17th century Saint-André church in Doucy, the interior is protected as a monument historique , with wall paintings and altars in particular. The interior of the church in Fontaine is decorated in the Baroque style.
population
| Population development 1962 and 1968: sum of the then independent municipalities |
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 3,147 |
| 1968 | 2,699 |
| 1975 | 2,304 |
| 1982 | 2,092 |
| 1990 | 1.936 |
| 1999 | 1,774 |
| 2006 | 1,889 |
| 2011 | 1,899 |
With 2586 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), La Léchère is one of the smaller communities in the Savoie department. After the number of inhabitants in the individual communes, which were roughly the same size at the time, had hardly changed or had fallen only slightly in the 19th century and a total of 2,630 inhabitants were counted in the area of today's La Léchère in 1901, things changed in the first half of the 20th century the structure of the community is considerable: the outlying communities that are difficult to reach experienced massive migration, while industrialization brought growth to Briançon and Petit-Cœur in the Isère valley. The second half, on the other hand, was characterized by a continuous decline in population that only stopped in 2006. The local residents of La Léchère are called les Lécherain (e) s in French .
Economy and Infrastructure
Up until the beginning of the 20th century, La Léchère was mainly a village characterized by forestry and alpine farming. In addition, there are now various local small businesses and several industrial companies that are major employers in the area with several hundred jobs. In addition, the villages have also developed into housing estates whose employees work in the larger localities in the area.
At the Col de la Madeleine and in Combelouvière , which has itself been converted into a winter sports resort, there are lifts belonging to the Valmorel ski area. As a result of this and the thermal baths, tourism is also of economic importance, there are six hotels on the municipality (as of 2012), and a large proportion of the residential units are second homes or holiday apartments.
The village is located directly on the main artery of the Tarentaise, the two-lane national road N90 with accesses in front of and behind Notre-Dame-de-Briançon . This merges into the A430 motorway down the valley at Albertville . At the same time, the Saint-Pierre-d'Albigny – Bourg-Saint-Maurice railway crosses the municipality with two stops on its ground. At the bottleneck of Notre-Dame-de-Briançon, three different traffic routes are laid one on top of the other: a local connecting road runs through the pillar arches of the approximately one kilometer long Champ-du-Comte viaduct and is also crossed by a railway tunnel.
Department roads lead out of the valley to the various hamlets, the most important of which is the D212 via the Col de la Madeleine to La Chambre. Chambéry-Savoie (distance 78 km) and Geneva (111 km) are possible airports in the region .
education
There are four primary schools ( école élémentaire ) in La Léchère , two of which have integrated preschool classes.
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of La Léchère (French)
- Tourism in the district of Naves (French)
- Illustration of the community structure of La Léchère (PDF, 2.1 MB) ( Memento from September 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Decree of the Prefecture No. 73-2018-11-15-005 on the creation of the La Léchère nouvelle commune of November 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Population figures retrospectively from January 1, 2016
- ↑ 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 d e f g A. Gros: Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieu de la Savoie . Belley, Imprimerie Aimé Chaduc, 1937, p. 80, 89, 147, 166, 318, 381 (French, limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ A b JJ Vernier: Dictionnaire topographique du département de la Savoie . Imprimerie Savoisienne, 1896, p. 373, 544, 548, 602 (French, online on BNF [accessed January 19, 2014]).
- ↑ subsection son histoire ( memento of May 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on the official community website .
- ^ Eglise de Doucy in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ↑ French Statistics Institute ( www.insee.fr )
- ↑ La Léchère - notice communale. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved December 15, 2014 (French, INSEE population from 1968 ).
- ↑ Complete dossier on La Léchère. In: INSEE . Retrieved December 15, 2014 (French).
- ↑ - La Léchère viaduct. In: Structurae
