Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin (Savoie)
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Savoie | |
| Arrondissement | Chambery | |
| Canton | Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin (main town) | |
| Community association | Val Guiers | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 32 ' N , 5 ° 40' E | |
| height | 232-303 m | |
| surface | 1.83 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,074 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 1,133 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 73330 | |
| INSEE code | 73204 | |
| Website | www.lepontdebeauvoisin.fr | |
 Bridge over the Guiers |
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Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin is a French commune with 2,074 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
The municipality is located at 240 m on the right (eastern) bank of the River Guiers , which here forms the border between the Savoie and Isère departments . It is connected by a bridge to the eponymous municipality of Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin in the neighboring department of Isère. It is about 20 km away from the prefecture of Chambéry to the east, and 40 km as the crow flies from the city of Grenoble to the south . Neighboring communities of Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin are Domessin in the north and east, Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin (Isère) in the south and west and Romagnieu in the north-west.
topography
The area of the 1.83 km 2 municipal area belongs to the Avant-Pays savoyard , the Savoyard foreland between the border river Guiers and the southern end of the main anticlines of the Jura, characterized by gentle elevations . Two chains of hills from the foreland protrude into the municipality up to the valley of the Guiers, which is here about 500 m wide and is occupied by the historic centers of the two Le Pont-de-Beauvoisins. Due to its small size, the community consists largely of built-up areas, including 37% residential buildings and 18% industrial and commercial areas. The rest is taken up by meadows (31%) and other agricultural areas (15%).
history
In the High Middle Ages , the place was initially only called Le Pont (1065) and was the location of a parish ( Ecclesia de Ponte , 1142) on the left bank of the Guier. The name referred to a bridge that had been built some time before to replace the downstream bridge connection at Romagnieu on the Roman road from Aoste to Chambéry . From 1115 ( Pons Bellivicini ) the addition Beauvoisin appeared in the sense of "good neighbors", although the place was not yet cut in two by a national border at the time. In Le Pont there was a small lordship that came under the sovereignty of the Counts of Savoy in the 13th century, who in 1288 granted the place certain rights of freedom. The 1355 Treaty of Paris between the Counts of Savoy and the Dauphin made the Guiers the border between Savoy and France for the next 500 years and divided the village into two parts, which still exist today as separate neighboring communities of the same name in different departments.
The division led to practical problems, for example with the administration of the bridge toll and the organization of the parish with its seat and church on the opposite side of the river. The situation improved in the 15th century with the building of its own church, financed largely by the Counts of Savoy and under the spiritual supervision of the Carmelites . After the closure of the monasteries during the French Revolution , it became a parish church. The originally wooden bridge construction was replaced by a stone arch bridge under the French King Francis I during his attack on Savoy in 1536. This bridge was blown up in 1940 during the Second World War by French soldiers before the advancing Germans and rebuilt in the same style the following year.
Attractions
The Carmelite Church ( église des Carmes ) was built over a long construction period from 1419 to 1497 and stands on the banks of the Guier. It was modified in the 16th, 17th and 19th centuries and is classified as a monument historique . In the historic center of the village, houses from the time of the Duchy of Savoy have been preserved, including one from the 16th century that is inscribed as a monument historique.
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 1.106 |
| 1968 | 1,412 |
| 1975 | 1,403 |
| 1982 | 1,605 |
| 1990 | 1,426 |
| 1999 | 1,572 |
| 2006 | 1,841 |
| 2011 | 2,000 |
With 2074 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin is one of the medium-sized communities in the Savoie department. The population fluctuated more and more in the 19th and 20th centuries, reaching the 2,000 mark for the first time in 2011. The local residents of Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin are called Pontois (es) in French .
Economy and Infrastructure
Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin has always been a village characterized by trade, the small area of which also did not allow significant agriculture. Today there are various local small businesses and several medium-sized trading companies and service providers. In the south on the banks of the Guier there is an industrial park. In the meantime the village has also developed into a residential community. Some of the workforce are commuters who work in the larger towns in the area and in the neighboring Isère department.
The village is located on the D1006 department road and the former N6 national road from Lyon to Chambéry. It runs right through the town and over the rebuilt historic bridge. Other road connections exist with Novalaise , Saint-Genix-sur-Guiers and Saint-Albin-de-Vaulserre . The regional A43 motorway (Lyon – Chambéry) can be reached via a connection 7 km away at Belmont-Tramonet . The airports in the region are Lyon-St-Exupéry (distance 65 km) and Chambéry-Savoie (35 km).
In Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin there is a state école primaire (elementary school with an integrated preschool ).
Parish partnership
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 b A. Gros: Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieu de la Savoie . Belley, Imprimerie Aimé Chaduc, 1937, p. 365 (French, limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ JJ Vernier: Dictionnaire topographique du département de la Savoie . Imprimerie Savoisienne, 1896, p. 588 (French, online on BNF [accessed January 19, 2014]).
- ↑ Historique. (No longer available online.) In: www.lepontdebeauvoisin.fr (municipal website ). Archived from the original on April 14, 2018 ; accessed on May 20, 2015 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Eglise des Carmes in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ^ Maison Rivoire in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ↑ French Statistics Institute ( www.insee.fr )
- ↑ Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin - notice communal. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved on April 26, 2015 (French, INSEE population from 1968 ).
- ^ Complete dossier on Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin. In: INSEE . Retrieved April 26, 2015 (French).
