La Rochette (Savoie)
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| local community | Valgelon-La Rochette | |
| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Savoie | |
| Arrondissement | Chambery | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 27 ' N , 6 ° 7' E | |
| Post Code | 73110 | |
| Former INSEE code | 73215 | |
| Incorporation | 1st January 2019 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
| Website | www.la-rochette.com | |
 The center of La Rochette is dominated by its castle |
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La Rochette is a commune Déléguée in the French community Valgelon-La Rochette with 3709 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Savoie in the region of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes .
geography
location
La Rochette is located at 349 m , about 19 km southeast of the prefecture of Chambéry and 42 km northeast of the city of Grenoble (as the crow flies). The village is located on the southwestern edge of the Savoie department in the Chaîne de Belledonne , a massif central in the French Western Alps . Neighboring communities of La Rochette were La Croix-de-la-Rochette and Rotherens in the north, Étables and Presle in the east, Arvillard and Détrier in the south and Villaroux in the west.
topography
The area of the 4.66 km 2 municipal area includes a section of the Chaîne de Belledonne in a deeply cut valley created by glaciers, which is drained by the Gélon river in a north-easterly direction. This valley runs exactly parallel to the western main valley of the Grésivaudan , which the Isère flows through in the opposite direction. The two valleys are separated by a long ridge, the Montraillant , which forms the north-western boundary of the municipality and on which the highest point in the municipality is reached at 807 m . The Gélon valley is a typical trough valley with a very flat alluvial floor on which the main settlement area of the village extends.
Community structure
The valley floor of La Rochette, which is densely built compared to the rural surroundings, is divided into the old town center and several residential areas, including:
- Saint-Maurice ( 340 m ) on the northern edge of the municipality,
- Les Rubates ( 349 m ) west of the old village center,
- La Grange-du-Four ( 360 m ) in the south, today extended by a workers' settlement.
The northern part of the village forms a continuous development with La Croix-de-la-Rochette.
history
In the Middle Ages there was a small lordship in La Rochette, which was first mentioned in the 12th century under the name Rocheta . In the 15th century, under the sovereignty of the Counts of Savoy , it went first to the Lords of Seyssel , then to Jacques de la Tour, Marshal of Savoy. From 1793 to 2015, the municipality was the capital (French: chef-lieu ) of the canton of La Rochette .
With industrialization, the paper industry settled in La Rochette after 1870 with a focus on cardboard production. At the same time, an intercity tram created the right infrastructure in 1895 . It connected Pontcharra, which has a station on the Grenoble – Montmélian railway line , with La Rochette and Allevard . In 1943 the meter-gauge line was converted to standard gauge for freight traffic and was completely discontinued in 1988.
The municipality of La Rochette merged with Étable on January 1, 2019 to form the Commune nouvelle Valgelon-La Rochette. Since then it has had the status of a Commune déléguée. The municipality of La Rochette belonged to the Arrondissement of Chambéry and the canton of Montmélian (until 2015 La Rochette ) and was a member of the Cœur de Savoie municipality .
Attractions
The Château de la Rochette is an 18th century castle on a rock about 50 m above the valley floor and the village. It stands on the site of the medieval fortified castle from the 11th century, which was destroyed in the 17th century. She controlled the passage through the Gélon valley at a strategically important point.
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 2,424 |
| 1968 | 2,926 |
| 1975 | 3,078 |
| 1982 | 3,190 |
| 1990 | 3.124 |
| 1999 | 3,098 |
| 2006 | 3,221 |
| 2011 | 3,546 |
With 3,696 inhabitants most recently (as of January 1, 2016), La Rochette was one of the medium-sized communities in the Savoie department. After the population remained constant at around 1200 in the 19th century and the following decades, it rose sharply to the values recorded today in the middle of the 20th century. The French Denomination of Origin for the inhabitants of La Rochette is Rochettois (es) .
Economy and Infrastructure
La Rochette had been an industrial village for centuries. Today it mainly houses production sites for two global cardboard manufacturers. One is the Canadian company Cascades , whose folding boxboard production is 160,000 tons per year. The second cardboard manufacturer is Europac from Portugal.
In addition, there are now various local small-scale businesses, while agriculture was already restricted in the past by the limited usable area and continues to lose importance today. Many employees go to work directly on site. The jobs of commuters from La Rochette are roughly equally divided between the Savoie and Isère departments.
The village is located on the D925 departmental road, which opens up the Gélon valley from Pontcharra and connects again to the road infrastructure in the Isère valley below Albertville . From it branch off further road connections uphill in La Rochette to the municipalities of Étables, Presle and Arvillard. In Pontcharra, 10 km away, there is both the nearest motorway connection to the A43 and the nearest train station with connections to the TER Rhône-Alpes . Possible passenger airports in the region are Chambéry-Savoie (42 km), Lyon-St-Exupéry (117 km) or Geneva (120 km).
education
In La Rochette there are two pre-schools ( école maternelle ), a primary school ( école primaire ) and a comprehensive school ( collège ).
Community partnerships
La Rochette has had a partnership with Mömlingen in Lower Franconia since 1992 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ JJ Vernier: Dictionnaire topographique du département de la Savoie . Imprimerie Savoisienne, 1896, p. 624 (French, online on BNF [accessed January 19, 2014]).
- ^ A b La Rochette - notice communale. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved October 10, 2014 (French, INSEE population from 1968 ).
- ^ Cascades developpe sa production en Savoie . In: Le Dauphiné Libéré online. Retrieved November 12, 2014 (French).
- ^ Complete dossier on La Rochette. In: INSEE . Retrieved October 2, 2014 (French).