Neuville-sur-Ain
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Ain | |
| Arrondissement | Nantua | |
| Canton | Pont d'Ain | |
| Community association | Rives de l'Ain-Pays du Cerdon | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 5 ' N , 5 ° 22' E | |
| height | 242-427 m | |
| surface | 19.79 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,756 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 89 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 01160 | |
| INSEE code | 01273 | |
 The Château de Thol in the south of Neuville-sur-Ain |
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Neuville-sur-Ain is a French commune with 1,756 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Ain in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It belongs to the canton of Pont-d'Ain in the Arrondissement of Nantua .
geography
location
Neuville-sur-Ain is located at 294 m , about 18 kilometers southeast of the prefecture of Bourg-en-Bresse , 55 kilometers northeast of Lyon and 48 kilometers east-southeast of the city of Mâcon (as the crow flies). The village extends on the lower reaches of the Ain on the transition between the landscapes of Dombes in the west, Bugey in the east and Revermont in the north. Neighboring municipalities of Neuville-sur-Ain are Bohas-Meyriat-Rignat in the north, Poncin and Jujurieux in the east, Pont-d'Ain in the south and Druillat and Saint-Martin-du-Mont in the west.
topography
The area of the 19.79 km 2 municipal area comprises a section of the right bank of the Ain and the hilly foothills of the Revermont that adjoin it to the west. The Suran River emerges from the Revermont and flows parallel to the Ain a few kilometers away. The two valleys are separated in the southern half of the municipality by a plateau on which the old town center of Neuville is located. In the northern half the plateau rises to a forested chain of hills, on which the community reaches its highest point at 427 m . The western boundary of the municipality also includes the Suran valley and runs at an irregular distance from its meandering river. There are steep slopes in many places on the valley edges of both rivers. In Neuville, the Ain is dammed up by a weir to which a small power station is connected. The municipal area is divided into forests (35%), fields and other agricultural areas (33%) and meadows (26%).
Community structure
In addition to the actual town center, Neuville-sur-Ain includes other districts and hamlet settlements :
- Arturieux ( 290 m ) and Fromente ( 295 m ) on ridges in the eastern flank of the Suran valley
- Rappe ( 300 m ), Resignel ( 305 m ) and Planche ( 280 m ) on the opposite side of the valley on a level next to the deepening of the Suran
- Châteauvieux ( 260 m ) on the western edge in a small gorge of the Suran
- Saint-André ( 275 m ) west of the town center at the end of the small Suran gorge
- Le Port ( 256 m ) directly on the Ain below Neuville
- Thol ( 256 m ) in the south on a wide flood plain in the Ain valley
history
The traces of human presence in Neuville-sur-Ain go back to the Upper Paleolithic . In the layers of the soil of the Abri sous roche de la Colombière in the steep face on the right bank of the Ain, utensils and decorated bones from a Magdalenian culture were found in the 19th and 20th centuries . The Abri is classified as a monument historique .
Bricks, pottery shards and mosaic stones from ancient times came to light at sites in Saint-André and Neuville. In the High Middle Ages the place was called Novavilla , when the existence of a church was attested in 1112 ( Ecclesia de Novavilla, in pago Lugdunensi, supra ripam fluvii qui dicitur Ignis sita ). A chapel in the hamlet of Saint-André has survived from 1184. In Châteauvieux, Fromente and Thol there existed small lordships in the Middle Ages, which were first mentioned in documents in 1280, 1289 and 1330 and were under the suzerainty of the Counts of Savoy in the 13th and 14th centuries . The village of Neuville belonged to the Fromente (s) lordship.
The camp Camp de Thol was built 1939/1940 by the French army and served during the war in Algeria as an internment camp for supporters of the FLN , in 1961 as a penal institution. It was dissolved in the 1990s and the property became the property of the municipality.
Attractions
- The ruins of the Château de Thol on a 60 m high hill still tower over the plain of the Ain. The medieval castle has a square floor plan with two defense towers in the west and is surrounded by a moat.
- The Château de la Tour stands above Le Port and dates from the 19th century. It replaced a medieval building and has differently designed facades on its four sides. It is surrounded by a 17th and 18th century park.
- The castle in Châteauvieux received its present form in the 19th century and was converted into a hotel in 1986.
- On the Ain near Port and on the Suran near Fromente there are former water mills.
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 1469 |
| 1968 | 932 |
| 1975 | 979 |
| 1982 | 945 |
| 1990 | 1151 |
| 1999 | 1236 |
| 2006 | 1449 |
| 2011 | 1592 |
With 1,756 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) Neuville-sur-Ain is one of the smaller communities in the Ain department. After the population fluctuated between 1300 and 1500 in the 19th century (in 1901 there were still 1,351 inhabitants), it fell to around 900 in the first half of the 20th century. Since 1990 the population has increased again. The locals of Neuville-sur-Ain are called Neuvillois (es) in French .
Economy and Infrastructure
Neuville-sur-Ain is still an agricultural village today . There are 12 farms mainly active in the area of poultry farming. There are also various local small businesses and the civil engineering company Société Régionale de Construction Floriot with around 200 employees and an extensive construction yard on the left bank of the Ain. In the meantime the village has also developed into a residential community. Many workers are commuters who work in the larger towns in the area.
The village can be reached via the through road through the Ain valley, the former national road N84 , whose original route through Le Port and Thol is now a branch route. A junction leads through the center of Neuville and opens up the Suran valley to the northern neighboring villages. The municipal area is divided into two halves by the A40 motorway , but the next motorway entrance is only 7 km away in Pont-d'Ain. A few kilometers west of Neuville-sur-Ain is the Mâcon – Ambérieu line , on which the TER Rhône-Alpes trains run and stop at the stations of Saint-Martin-du-Mont and Pont-d'Ain. The airports in the region are Lyon-St-Exupéry (60 km) and Geneva (101 km).
education
In Neuville-sur-Ain there is a state école primaire (elementary school with an integrated preschool ).
Web links
- Neuville History Society website (French)
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. .
- ^ Abri sous roche de la Colombière in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ^ André Buisson: Carte Archéologique de la Gaule - Ain 01 . Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , 1990, ISBN 2-87754-010-3 , pp. 124 (French, limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ a b É. Philipon: Dictionnaire Topographique du Département de l'Ain . Imprimerie Nationale, 1911, p. 101, 184, 290, 431 (French, online [PDF; accessed January 4, 2014]).
- ^ Marie-Claude Guigue: Topography Historique du Département de l'Ain . Bourg-en-Bresse et Lyon, A. Brun, 1873, p. 85, 158, 395 (French, online [accessed January 18, 2014]).
- ↑ Arthur Grosjean: Internal Movement, emprisonnement et métropole guerre d'indépendance algérienne s: l'exemple du camp de Thol (1958-1965). Retrieved January 15, 2016 (French).
- ^ Château de Thol in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ^ Château de la Tour in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ↑ French Statistics Institute ( www.insee.fr )
- ^ Neuville-sur-Ain - notice communale. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved on August 26, 2015 (French, INSEE population from 1968 ).
- ↑ Commune de Neuville-sur-Ain - Complete dossier. In: INSEE . Retrieved August 26, 2015 (French).
