Les Neyrolles
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Ain | |
| Arrondissement | Nantua | |
| Canton | Nantua | |
| Community association | Haut-Bugey agglomeration | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 9 ' N , 5 ° 38' E | |
| height | 510-1,118 m | |
| surface | 9.50 km 2 | |
| Residents | 639 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 67 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 01130 | |
| INSEE code | 01274 | |
 The historic ice works on Lac de Sylans near Neyrolles |
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Les Neyrolles is a French municipality with 639 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Ain in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It belongs to the canton of Nantua in the Arrondissement of Nantua .
geography
Les Neyrolles is located at 525 m , about three kilometers southeast of Nantua , 13 km south of the city of Oyonnax and 32 km east-southeast of the prefecture of Bourg-en-Bresse (as the crow flies). The village extends in the Haut- Bugey , in the Jura , in the deeply incised Cluse de Nantua , a transverse valley through the Jura chains, on the brook Doye (tributary of the Lac de Nantua ).
The area of the 9.50 km 2 municipality covers a section of the southern French Jura. The central part of the area is occupied by the Cluse de Nantua, which is oriented towards the southwest-northeast. It forms a transverse valley that stretches from Nantua to the Valserine catchment area through the chains of the Upper Jura. The valley floor at Les Neyrolles is around 500 m wide and rises towards the northeast to the Lac de Sylans . After a landslide in the 16th century, this lake was dammed and has an underground drain. Its water reappears in the Source de la Doye near Les Neyrolles.
The Cluse de Nantua near Les Neyrolles is flanked on both sides by up to 500 m high steep slopes, which are criss-crossed by striking rock faces. North of the transverse valley are Mont Cornet and Mont Burdet , south of which are the heights of Les Monts d'Ain and Mont Pommier ( 1053 m ). To the south, the municipality extends into the boggy basin of La Béroude and the forest tops of the Forêt des Moussières , on which the highest elevation of Les Neyrolles is reached at 1118 m .
Several farm groups on the Jura Heights belong to Les Neyrolles. Neighboring municipalities of Les Neyrolles are
- Charix in the north,
- the Commune nouvelle Le Poizat-Lalleyriat ,
- Haut-Valromey with Le Grand-Abergement in the east and Le Petit-Abergement in the southeast,
- Brénod in the south,
- Nantua to the west.
history
Les Neyrolles is first mentioned in a document in 1309 under the name De Neyrollis . Over time, the spelling changed via In Neyrolis (1350) and Les Neyroles (15th century) to the current name, which is first documented in 1604. The place name goes back to the Latin word nucariolum (walnut grove ).
Les Neyrolles has been under the sovereignty of the Counts of Savoy since the Middle Ages. With the Treaty of Lyon , the village came to France in 1601. The Doye's hydropower has been used to power mills, including a paper mill, since the 18th century.
Attractions
The village church of Les Neyrolles was built in 1830 in the neoclassic style. The townscape is shaped by the Viaduc de Nantua , opened in 1988 , a bridge on the A40 motorway , which spans the valley west of the village at a height of about 90 m. At the Aire de Repos de Sylans rest area is the Musée de l'Autoroute A40 , which shows the history and construction of the motorway.
The site of the former ice works Glacières de Sylans has been equipped with numerous information boards that provide information about the company's more than 50-year history.
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 392 |
| 1968 | 383 |
| 1975 | 466 |
| 1982 | 526 |
| 1990 | 615 |
| 1999 | 617 |
| 2006 | 671 |
| 2016 | 636 |
With 639 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), Les Neyrolles is one of the small communities in the Ain department. A significant increase in population has been recorded since the beginning of the 1970s. The local residents of Les Neyrolles are called Neyrollan (e) s in French .
Economy and Infrastructure
For a long time, Les Neyrolles was predominantly a village characterized by agriculture and forestry, but it also lived on the income from the traffic through the Cluse de Nantua. Today there are some local small and medium-sized businesses. This includes bottling mineral water from the Source de la Doye. Many workers are commuters who work in the larger towns in the area.
The village is very well developed in terms of traffic. It is located on the D1084 department road, which leads from Bellegarde-sur-Valserine via Nantua to Pont-d'Ain . Further road connections exist with Brénod and Le Grand-Abergement. The closest connection to the A40 motorway is around 3 km away. Les Neyrolles owned a train station on the railway line from Bellegarde via Nantua to Bourg-en-Bresse . The track is in 2010 as TGV - line skin-Bugey been reactivated (without stopping in Les Neyrolles).
In Les Neyrolles there is a state école primaire (elementary school with an integrated preschool ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ É. Philipon: Dictionnaire Topographique du Département de l'Ain . Imprimerie Nationale, 1911, p. 291 (French, online [PDF; accessed January 3, 2014]).
- ^ Noms de lieux de Suisse Romande, Savoie et environs - letter "N". In: henrysuter.ch. Retrieved November 16, 2011 (French).
- ↑ French Statistics Institute ( www.insee.fr )
- ↑ Les Neyrolles - notice communal. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved on June 14, 2015 (French, INSEE population from 1968 ).
- ↑ Cristaline, ça coule de la Doye. In: Tribune Republicaine de Bellegarde . Retrieved January 19, 2014 (French).