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| region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Department | Doubs | |
| Arrondissement | Besançon | |
| Canton | Besançon-5 | |
| Community association | Grand Besançon | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 12 ' N , 6 ° 10' E | |
| height | 425-666 m | |
| surface | 11.49 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,775 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 154 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 25620 | |
| INSEE code | 25364 | |
 Mamirolle train station |
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Mamirolle is a French commune with 1,775 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in Doubs in the region Bourgogne Franche-Comté .
geography
Mamirolle is located at 490 m altitude about eleven kilometers east-southeast of the city of Besançon (as the crow flies). The village extends in the western Jura on the so-called first plateau on the southern edge of the Saône basin at the foot of Mont Bon.
The area of the 11.49 km² municipality covers a section of the western French Jura. The northern part of the area is occupied by the wide first Jura plateau, which is an average of 440 m. It forms a wide basin with no surface drainage because the rainwater seeps into the karstified subsoil. In the area of Mamirolle, the plateau is predominantly made up of arable and meadow land, and partly also of forest. To the south, the community area extends over the slope of Mamirolle to the wooded ridge of Mont Bon, on which the highest point in the community is reached at 662 m. The eastern boundary is in the Combe de Lavaudans .
Neighboring municipalities of Mamirolle are La Chevillotte in the north, Naisey-les-Granges in the east, L'Hôpital-du-Grosbois , Trépot and Le Gratteris in the south and Saône in the west.
history
The municipal area of Mamirolle was settled very early. A tumulus dates from the Hallstatt period and traces of a presumably Gallo-Roman settlement have been discovered.
Mamirolle is mentioned for the first time in 1120 as a church with the name Mamirollis . Over time, the spelling changed via Mimiroles (1150), Memiroules (1267) and Memiruelles (1350) to today's Mamirolle, which is first documented in 1547. Mamirolle has belonged to the Montfaucon dominion since the Middle Ages . Together with Franche-Comté , the village came to France with the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678. Mamirolle was devastated several times by major fires, for example in 1709, 1825 and 1893.
Attractions
The Saint-Pierre church, which dates back to a medieval chapel, was rebuilt in 1775 and was last extensively restored in 1985. Various farmhouses in the characteristic style of Franche-Comté from the 17th to 19th centuries have been preserved in the town center.
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 568 |
| 1968 | 607 |
| 1975 | 746 |
| 1982 | 999 |
| 1990 | 1254 |
| 1999 | 1451 |
| 2016 | 1773 |
With 1775 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), Mamirolle is one of the medium-sized communities in the Doubs department. After the population in the first half of the 20th century had always been in the range between 400 and 500 people, a striking population growth has been recorded since the beginning of the 1960s. Since then, the number of inhabitants has roughly tripled. Numerous new single-family houses were built outside the old town center.
Economy and Infrastructure
Until well into the 20th century, Mamirolle was a village characterized primarily by agriculture (arable farming, fruit growing and cattle breeding) and forestry. Since the 1970s, commercial zones have developed on the outskirts. Various companies from the food processing, construction, micromechanics and electronics industries have settled here. In the meantime, the village has also turned into a residential community. Many workers are commuters who work in the nearby agglomeration of Besançon. Mamirolle is the location of the École Nationale de l'Industrie Laitière (national cheese-making institute), which was founded in 1888 and is now the municipality's most important employer.
The village is well developed in terms of traffic. It is close to the four-lane main road N57, which leads from Besançon to Pontarlier , and has been relieved of through traffic since it opened. There are other road connections with Saône, Naisey, Trépot and Le Gratteris. Mamirolle has a train station on the railway line from Besançon to Le Locle, inaugurated in 1884 .
Personalities
- François-Xavier Donzelot (1764–1843), politician and general
