Saint-Agrève

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Saint-Agrève
Coat of arms of Saint-Agrève
Saint-Agrève (France)
Saint-Agrève
region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department Ardèche
Arrondissement Tournon-sur-Rhône
Canton Haut-Eyrieux
Community association Val Eyrieux
Coordinates 45 ° 1 ′  N , 4 ° 24 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 1 ′  N , 4 ° 24 ′  E
height 590-1,183 m
surface 48.56 km 2
Residents 2,353 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 48 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 07320
INSEE code
Website www.ville-saintagreve.fr

Place view

Saint-Agrève is a French town with 2,353 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Ardèche in the Region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It belongs to the Val Eyrieux municipal association .

geography

Saint-Agrève is on the departmental roads D120 and D9. The rivers Eyrieux and Sumène (a tributary of the Dordogne ) flow through the municipality. The place is considered the gateway to the Regional Natural Park of Monts d'Ardèche ( Parc naturel régional des Monts d'Ardèche ).

history

In Gallo-Roman times, a fortress was built on what was then called Mont Ursin , Mount of the Bear. The fortress was called Cinnacum , settlement of the Cinna. Over time, the name became Chinacum and the mountain was now called Mont Chiniac .

In the 7th century a bishop from Puy-en-Velay named Agrève tried to Christianize the area around what was then Chinacum . He founded a parish in Chinacum and died there on February 1, 602. In his memory, Chinacum was renamed Sanctus Agrippa , Saint-Agrève. He was buried in Saint-Agrève, but his bones were later brought to Puy-en-Velay.

Residents of the place belonged (along with those from many other places) from 1941 to 1944 to the supporters of the Jewish rescue actions around the couple Trocmé with the main town Le Chambon-sur-Lignon , which essentially comprised the whole Plateau Vivarais - Lignon , i.e. in the today's division of parts of the Haute-Loire departments on the eastern edge and Ardèche on the western edge.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2016
Residents 2349 2434 2718 2723 2762 2688 2588 2366
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Economy and Infrastructure

The image of the city is shaped by fields, pastures and forests. The main occupations of Saint-Agrèvois are agriculture and the breeding of domestic cattle, domestic pigs, domestic sheep and domestic goats. The picodon is one of the local products .

In Saint-Agrève there is a kindergarten, a primary school, the Saint-Joseph Catholic private school and the Louis Jouvet secondary school .

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 1er Février: S. Agrève (French)

Web links

Commons : Saint-Agrève  - Collection of images, videos and audio files