Pontamafrey-Montpascal

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Pontamafrey-Montpascal
Pontamafrey-Montpascal (France)
Pontamafrey-Montpascal
local community La Tour-en-Maurienne
region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department Savoie
Arrondissement Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
Coordinates 45 ° 19 ′  N , 6 ° 21 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 19 ′  N , 6 ° 21 ′  E
Post Code 73300
Former INSEE code 73203
Incorporation 1st January 2019
status Commune déléguée

Mairie Pontamafrey-Montpascal

Pontamafrea-Montpascal is a commune déléguée in the French commune of La Tour-en-Maurienne in Savoy in France with 301 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).

The municipality of Pontamafrea-Montpascal merged with Le Châtel and Hermillon to form the Commune nouvelle La Tour-en-Maurienne on January 1, 2019 , and has had the status of a Commune déléguée ever since. The municipality Pontamafrea-Montpascal belonged to the Region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes , the Savoie department , the district Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and Canton Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne .

Geography, infrastructure

The territory of the Commune déléguée consists of two separate parts. In the Arc Valley , surrounded by the neighboring communities of Montvernier in the north, Le Châtel in the northeast and east, Hermillon in the southeast, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne in the south, Jarrier in the southwest and Sainte-Marie-de-Cuines in the west and in the Northwest, is the village of Pontamafrey. The north-east of Montpascal borders on Saint François Longchamp with Montaimont in the north, on Saint-Jean-de-Belleville in the north-east, on Le Châtel in the east and south-east and on Montvernier in the south-west and west.

Pontamafrey is passed by the Culoz – Modane railway line . This “only” contains a ghost train station there . As a result of multiple floods, the rail traffic is routed by the SNCF over a new line. The nearest train stations are Saint-Avre - La Chambre and Épierre - Saint-Léger .

  • Pontamafrey; in the background the Lacets de Montvernier

  • Montpascal

  • The one at 1533 m. ü. M. located Col du Chaussy

  • A SNCF freight train near Pontamafrey

  • Flood bridge in Pontamafrey

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2014
Residents 178 182 189 197 301 350 344 318

geology

Decauville Railway during the construction of the Mur Protection Canal near Pontamafrey , 1936–1938

Above Pontamafrey was a moving wireline winches 1936-1938 Decauvillebahn the construction of mudflow protection channel Torrent de Pontamafrey used. There, especially on July 2, 1924 and in the early summer of 1965, severe debris flows occurred after water-saturated rock material began to slide.

Attractions

  • Chapel Immaculée Conception de Pontamafrey
  • Chapel on the Col du Chaussy
  • Saint-Michel church

  • Chapel Immaculée Conception de Pontamafrey

  • Chapel on the Col du Chaussy

  • Saint-Michel church

Web links

Commons : Pontamafrey-Montpascal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ François Gex: La lave de Pontamafrey (Maurienne), 2 June 1924. In: Revue de Géographie Alpine, 1924, No. 12-3. Pp. 469-478.
  2. ↑ L. Anchierri: Les crues du torrent de Pontamafrey en 1965. In: Revue de Géographie Alpine. 1966, No. 54-1, pp. 15-42.