Le Bourget-du-Lac
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Savoie | |
| Arrondissement | Chambery | |
| Canton | La Motte-Servolex | |
| Community association | Grand Lac - Lac du Bourget | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 39 ′ N , 5 ° 52 ′ E | |
| height | 226-1,496 m | |
| surface | 20.05 km 2 | |
| Residents | 4,866 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 243 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 73370 | |
| INSEE code | 73051 | |
| Website | www.bourgetdulac.com | |
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Le Bourget-du-Lac is a French municipality with 4866 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Savoie in the region of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It is administratively assigned to the canton of La Motte-Servolex in the Arrondissement of Chambéry .
geography
Le Bourget-du-Lac is located at 241 m on the southern edge of Lac du Bourget about 12 km northwest of the prefecture of Chambéry and 80 km east of Lyon . Neighboring communities are Bourdeau in the north, Tresserve , Viviers-du-Lac and Voglans in the east, La Motte-Servolex in the south and Verthemex , Meyrieux-Trouet and Saint-Paul in the west.
The place stretches between the southern bank of Lac du Bourget , where the Leysse river flows into it, and Mont du Chat , an elongated, steeply towering summit ridge between 1,452 m and 1,500 m high, which is a section of the southernmost anticline of the French Jura -Mountain forms. The municipality includes a main town directly on the lake shore at the foot of Mont du Chat and a few hamlets on its slopes. In the east, the municipality has a section of the alluvial plain south of the lake, about two by two km long, on which the Chambéry-Savoie airport is located today . On the slope of Mont du Chat , the summit line of which forms the western boundary of the municipality, the municipality extends several kilometers further south. In this part are the hamlets of la Roche St-Alban ( 459 m ), la Serraz ( 346 m ) and les Fournaux ( 365 m ). There are also some hamlets in the north that have now grown together with the town center to form a continuous settlement area, including le Petit Caton , le Grand Caton , les Ciseaux , la Croix Verte and le Châtelard . Charpignat forms the built-up lakeshore line of Le Bourget.
history
After the shores of Lac du Bourget had already been settled in the Bronze Age , there had been a settlement in Le Bourget since the 7th century at the latest, which was mentioned as Brogae . In the Middle Ages, a parish was established there that belonged to the diocese of Grenoble and was first mentioned in the 11th century as ecclesia de Burgeto .
In 1050 the donated counts of Savoy , the Priory Saint-Maurice Bourget , which of Benedictines of the Cluniac order for the time being in the area of present-day hamlet matassine was built. In the 15th century it was moved to the center of Le Bourget and the Romanesque church there, of which the crypt is still preserved, was renovated as a priory church. The priory joined the Jesuit order in 1582 and came into the possession of the Franciscans in 1773 . In the 19th and 20th centuries, it was restored by private individuals and a French garden was added.
In the Middle Ages, Le Bourget had its own small rule, which was subordinate to the Counts of Seyssel from 1359 to 1524 . Count Thomas II of Savoy had a castle built on their territory in 1248, of which ruins are preserved today.
From 1936 to 1985, the base aérienne 725 of the French air force was on the territory of the municipality , so that the adjacent Chambéry-Savoie airport was used for both civil and military purposes. After the base was closed, the community set up the Technolac high-tech industrial park in the remaining infrastructure .
By the 1970s at the latest, the small river Leysse was no longer suitable as a receiving water for the partly still untreated sewage of the Aix – Chambéry area, which was growing rapidly at the time, and as a result the Lac du Bourget showed strong eutrophication . To remedy this, the polluter municipalities had a 12 km long, 5 m 2 wide sewage tunnel built through the foot of the Mont du Chat for 150 million FF , which begins in Le Bourget-du-Lac and flows into the Rhone below La Balme . It has been in operation since 1981 and uses the natural gradient between Leysse and Rhone to discharge the wastewater from the wastewater treatment plants in Chambéry and Aix-les-Bains directly to the stable and large drainage regime of the Rhone.
Attractions
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The monastery buildings from the 15th century and the adjoining Gothic church of Saint-Laurent from the 12th to 15th centuries have largely been preserved and are classified as Monument historique . In the church there are painted high reliefs from the 13th century, which were part of the rood screen in the Romanesque church building . The Romanesque crypt is under the choir of today's church. The priory includes a cloister , refectory and chapter house as well as a terraced baroque garden which was laid out in the 19th century. A few hundred meters further on, on the banks of Lac du Bourget, are the ruins of Château Thomas II .
The Château de la Serraz (privately owned) is also located on a small hill on the southern edge of the municipality . The entrance gate is medieval, the buildings are from the 17th and 19th centuries. They have been preserved in their original condition together with the facades and interior furnishings and are also inscribed as a monument historique.
The lake offers a range of activities for tourists, while the Mont du Chat is ideal for hiking.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2016 |
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| Residents | 1449 | 1849 | 1863 | 2098 | 2886 | 3945 | 4155 | 4866 |
| Source: INSEE and Cassini | ||||||||
Economy and Infrastructure
The municipality is home to the Technolac high-tech industrial park and faculties of the University of Savoy . A number of small and medium-sized businesses are active here and in other parts of the community. Due to the location on the lake, tourism also plays a certain role, so there is a hotel and a campsite.
The former formative agriculture plays only a subordinate role in Le Bourget-du-Lac today. Between the hamlets and new development areas there are still some fruit fields, including vineyards. The place is in the wine-growing region of Savoie . White wines made from the Altesse grape variety (locally called Roussette ) may be marketed under the protected designation of origin Roussette de Savoie . The AOC Vin de Savoie applies to white wines of other grape varieties and red wines .
The department road D1504 (former national road N504 ) runs through the village between Ambérieu-en-Bugey and Chambéry , which crosses under the Mont du Chat in a tunnel opened in 1932. In addition, the serpentine road D42, which is not accessible all year round, leads directly from Le Bourget via Mont du Chat to neighboring Saint-Paul. The next connection to the regional motorway network, i.e. the A41 and A43 motorways , is a few kilometers away on the northern edge of Chambéry.
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Parish partnership
Le Bourget is in partnership with the municipality of Moos (on Lake Constance) in Baden-Württemberg .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b JJ Vernier: Dictionnaire topographique du département de la Savoie . Imprimerie Savoisienne, 1896, p. 259, 260 (French, gallica.bnf.fr [accessed January 19, 2014]).
- ↑ a b Ancien prieuré in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ↑ Château de Thomas de Savoie (ruins) in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ^ Domaine de la Serraz in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ↑ Le Bourget-du-Lac - notice communale. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved October 10, 2014 (French).
- ^ Complete dossier on Le Bourget-du-Lac. In: INSEE . Retrieved October 2, 2014 (French).