Saint-Auban-sur-l'Ouvèze
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Drôme | |
| Arrondissement | Nyons | |
| Canton | Nyons et Baronnies | |
| Community association | Baronnies en Drôme Provençale | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 17 ′ N , 5 ° 25 ′ E | |
| height | 564-1,352 m | |
| surface | 16.55 km 2 | |
| Residents | 213 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 13 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 26170 | |
| INSEE code | 26292 | |
 Saint-Auban-sur-l'Ouvèze - View of the town |
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Saint-Auban-sur-l'Ouvèze ( Occitan : identical) is a municipality and a town with 213 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Drôme in the southern French region of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . Since 2015 the place belongs to the Regional Nature Park Baronnies Provençales .
location
Saint-Auban-sur-l'Ouvèze is located in the historic landscape of the Baronnies about 100 m above the river Ouvèze at about 650 m above sea level. d. M. approx. 16 km (driving distance) east of the small town Buis-les-Baronnies .
Population development
| year | 1800 | 1851 | 1901 | 1954 | 1999 | 2013 |
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| Residents | 422 | 517 | 428 | 198 | 188 | 220 |
The population decline in the 20th century is mainly due to the remote location of the place and the loss of jobs as a result of the mechanization of agriculture .
economy
The inhabitants of the place lived for centuries as a self-sufficiency from agriculture (agriculture and cattle breeding). Wine was also grown; The place still has the right to market its grapes through the Appellations Comtés Rhodaniens , Coteaux des Baronnies , Mediterranée and Drôme ; but because of the altitude, wine is hardly grown any more. Instead, there are olive, apricot, cherry and apple trees to a lesser extent; there are also some lavender fields . Since the last decades of the 20th century, tourism has played an important role in the economic life of the place in the form of renting holiday apartments ( gîtes ) .
history
Since Carolingian times , the area of the baronnies belonged to the Kingdom of Burgundy , which fell to the Holy Roman Empire in 1033 . The name Villa Medullis is handed down for Saint-Auban in a document from 1070 . Around the year 1100 the area belonged to the barony of Mévouillon , which fell to the Dauphiné de Viennois at the beginning of the 14th century , who later became a French crown property. In the 15th century the place was fortified and surrounded by a multi-tower city wall. A hundred years later, part of the population joined the Protestant faith.
Attractions
- The village image is characterized by various buildings made of quarry stone or clad with quarry stone.
- Two towers and an unadorned gate ( porte basse ) are still preserved from the medieval city wall .
- The neo-Romanesque church dates from 1870/71.
- The place has a Protestant church ( temple ) and a Protestant cemetery.
- On the outskirts there is a wash house ( lavoir ) from the 19th century.
