Pont-de-Veyle
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Ain | |
| Arrondissement | Bourg-en-Bresse | |
| Canton | Vonnas | |
| Community association | Veyle | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 16 ' N , 4 ° 53' E | |
| height | 172-179 m | |
| surface | 1.94 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,625 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 838 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 01290 | |
| INSEE code | 01306 | |
| Website | www.pont-de-veyle.fr | |
 The castle of Pont-De-Veyle |
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Pont-de-Veyle is a French commune with 1,625 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Ain in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It belongs to the canton of Vonnas in the Bourg-en-Bresse arrondissement .
geography
location
Pont-de-Veyle is located at 175 m , about 27 kilometers west-northwest of the prefecture of Bourg-en-Bresse , 56 kilometers north of the city of Lyon and 6 km southeast of the city of Mâcon (as the crow flies). The village extends in the south-western part of the historical Bresse province . Neighboring communities of Pont-de-Veyle are Crottet in the north, Saint-Jean-sur-Veyle in the east, Laiz in the south and Grièges in the west.
topography
The area of the 1.94 km 2 municipal area includes a section on the left bank of the Veyle , a tributary of the Saône . The Veyle flows westward in a lowland deepened about 20 m into the Bresse plain, which is about two kilometers wide here and in which the Veyle splits into several arms. Its main arm forms the northern boundary of the municipality; another tributary, the Petite Veyle , flows through the village. In the south, the municipal boundary runs along the small Bief de Malivert canal .
Community structure
The village is built up in a closed manner, and newer settlement areas adjoin the old town center to the west, which has the shape of a street village. The old town center is divided into the main part Grand Faubourg and the northern continuation on the other bank of the Veyle, Petit Faubourg . The newer part on the western edge is called Les Gabonnières . In the north and south, the development on both sides of the D933 continuously merges into the settlement areas of the neighboring communities of Crottet and Liaz. Outside the settlement area there are mainly meadow areas.
history
Ornaments and graves from the Latène period have been found in the soil of Pont-de-Veyle . In the High Middle Ages the place was owned by a family of the same name, whose representative Umfredus de Vela was first documented in 1096. From about 1182 to 1272 it belonged to the Lords of Bâgé and then came to the county of Savoy when the Bâgé family died out in the male line and the sole heiress Sibylle de Bâgé brought her lands as a dowry in the marriage with Amadeus V of Savoy. Until 1561, the place remained under the sovereignty of the Savoy and came with the Treaty of Lyon in 1601 to the Kingdom of France. In the Middle Ages and Ancien Régime there are a number of different spellings for "Veyle", including Vela (1186), Veila (1297), Vele (1370), Veyle (1536), Voille (1572), Voyle (1573), Vesle ( 1580) and Veylle (1683).
In Pont-de-Veyle there was a priory and a chapel from 1227 , which were assigned to the parish in Laiz. Later Laiz and Pont-de-Veyle formed a common parish ( Parrochia de Lays et Pontis-Vele , 1443).
In 1857 the Mâcon – Ambérieu-en-Bugey railway was opened with a station in Pont-de-Veyle.
From 1793 to 2015 Pont-de-Veyle was the main town (French: chef-lieu ) of the canton of Pont-de-Veyle , which was dissolved when the French cantons were reorganized nationwide. The municipality association Canton de Pont-de-Veyle , founded in 1998, has its administrative headquarters in the village.
Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Pont-de-Veyle
- The Notre-Dame village church of Pont-de-Veyle was built in 1747–1755 to replace a previous building that had become too small. The church has a single nave with a wide nave divided into three bays . This is followed by a transept, the crossing of which is vaulted by a dome decorated with paintings. The building is inscribed as a monument historique .
- To the west of the Château is the public Parc du Château, whose paths cross the Veyle and its tributaries with several artistically designed bridges.
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 1,037 |
| 1968 | 1,144 |
| 1975 | 1,177 |
| 1982 | 1,253 |
| 1990 | 1,421 |
| 1999 | 1,484 |
| 2006 | 1,496 |
| 2011 | 1,597 |
With 1625 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), Pont-de-Veyle is one of the smaller communities in the Ain department. After the population was almost always around 1400 in the 19th century, it decreased at the beginning of the 20th century and leveled off around 1000 inhabitants. The population has increased again since the mid-1960s. The local residents of Pont-de-Veyle are called Pont-de-Veylois (es) in French .
Economy and Infrastructure
Pont-de-Veyle is a village that has been shaped by its centuries-long role as the capital of a rural canton. As central facilities for the surrounding villages there are schools, a police station and fire station , bank branches, a hospital and an old people's home, so the place offers several hundred jobs in the service sector. In addition, there are now various local small businesses and some farms that cultivate the surrounding fields. In the meantime the village has also developed into a residential community. Many employees are commuters who work in roughly equal proportions in the Mâcon area and in the Bourg-en-Bresse area.
The village borders the D933 , which connects the villages on the eastern bank of the Saône via several departments, but is no longer important as a regional thoroughfare today. To the north and south of the community there are branches to the neighboring towns, and a side road leads directly to Grièges. The nearest motorway connection to the A406 (Mâcon ring road) is around 4 km away. Pont-de-Veyle has a train station on the Mâcon – Ambérieu-en-Bugey railway , a few meters outside the municipal boundary in the area of Crottet. This is where the TER Rhône-Alpes trains stop and the line from the LGV Sud-Est to the old line ends on the TGV Paris-Geneva route . An industrial track from the train station through Pont-de-Veyle to Laiz has been closed. The airport in the region is Lyon-St-Exupéry (80 km).
education
In Pont-de-Veyle there is a pre-school ( école maternelle ), a state primary school ( école élémentaire ), a comprehensive school ( collège ) and a secondary school ( lycée ).
Community partnerships
The 12 communities in the Canton de Pont-de-Veyle community association form a Franco-German community partnership with Straubenhardt in the northern Black Forest .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ André Buisson: Carte Archéologique de la Gaule - Ain 01 . Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , 1990, ISBN 2-87754-010-3 , pp. 130, 131 (French, limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ a b É. Philipon: Dictionnaire Topographique du Département de l'Ain . Imprimerie Nationale, 1911, p. 322–323 (French, online [PDF; accessed January 4, 2014]).
- ^ Église Notre-Dame in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ↑ French Statistics Institute ( www.insee.fr )
- ↑ Pont-de-Veyle - notice communale. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved on February 9, 2016 (French, INSEE population from 1968 ).
- ↑ Commune de Pont-de-Veyle - Dossier complet. In: INSEE . Retrieved February 8, 2016 (French).