Saint-Didier-de-Formans
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Ain | |
| Arrondissement | Bourg-en-Bresse | |
| Canton | Trévoux | |
| Community association | Dombes Saône Vallée | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 57 ' N , 4 ° 47' E | |
| height | 179-258 m | |
| surface | 6.53 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,960 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 300 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 01600 | |
| INSEE code | 01347 | |
| Website | www.mairie-stdidierdeformans.fr | |
 Local government ( mairie ) of Saint-Didier-de-Formans |
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Saint-Didier-de-Formans is a French commune with 1,960 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Ain in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It belongs to the canton of Trévoux in the arrondissement of Bourg-en-Bresse and is a member of the Dombes Saône Vallée municipal association .
geography
location
Saint-Didier-de-Formans is located at 203 m , about 44 km southwest of the prefecture of Bourg-en-Bresse , 22 km north-northwest of the city of Lyon and 39 km south of the city of Mâcon (as the crow flies). The village stretches between the Saône valley to the west and the countryside and historic province of Dombes to the east. Neighboring communities of Saint-Didier-de-Formans are Jassans-Riottier and Frans (point of contact) in the north-west, Sainte-Euphémie in the north-east, Reyrieux and Trévoux in the south and Saint-Bernard in the west.
topography
The area of the 6.53 km² large municipal area includes a section at the transition between the Saône valley and the plateau of the Dombes with a terrain that is characterized by gently sloping foothills of the plateau. The name-giving stream Formans crosses the municipality from northeast to southwest and drains the municipal soil towards the Saône. Particularly in the east it has cut into the terrain with a trough-shaped, 500 m wide and 50 m deep valley. In the west, the municipal boundary extends to around 500 m from the banks of the Saône. The communal land is used intensively for agriculture (fields 30.5%, meadows 7%, other agricultural areas 45%). The rest is accounted for by the settlement area (around 19%).
Community structure
Saint-Didier-de-Formans is a scattered settlement , the development of which today mainly consists of single-family houses and farms. The main settlement areas stretch along both sides of the Formans, with a certain distance from the actual water. The oldest parts of the village can be found here with the church, municipal administration and school in the southern part and the cemetery in the northern part. Further developments and districts are along the streets and paths to the neighboring communities and along the municipal boundary with Trévoux. Here they form a continuous settlement area with that of Trévoux.
history
The banks of the Saône were already settled in Roman times. In the western part of Saint-Didier, the remains of a Gallo-Roman villa, building materials and paved paths have been excavated.
In the High Middle Ages , the place first appeared in the documents around the year 1000, namely as villa quae dicitur Vendonensa (992) with a parish church consecrated to Saint Desiderius of Vienne ( ecclesiam de villa in honore Sancti Desiderii consecratam , 1020). The name gradually changed to the current name in the following centuries: Sanctus Desiderius de Vendonissa (1066), Sanctus Desiderius juxta Riorterium (1243), Sanctus Desiderius in Donbis (1264) and finally Sanctus Desiderius de Formans (1325).
In the 11th century there were two mansions in the area of today's municipality, both of which belonged to the lords of Villars. One stood on the hills north of the Formans in today's Le Château district, together with the parish church, which was already recorded at that time. The other part in the south-east belonged to the fortified Château de Tanay , which had strategic importance for the lords of Villars as early as the year 1000, who gave it to the Tanay family as a fief. With the extinction of the male descendants of the Villars in 1187, Saint-Didier came to the House of Thoire-Villars, which placed the northern part under the suzerainty of the Archbishop of Lyon in 1243 . The latter attached it to his other properties on the left bank of the Saône, which later became the Franc-Lyonnais , a province endowed with exceptional tax privileges and immunity from the French king.
The initially influential small lordship in Tanay lost some of its importance in the following centuries in favor of the market town of Trévoux, located directly on the Saône, the new residence of the Lords of Thoire-Villars. This part of Saint-Didier was thus part of the principality of Dombes, and the border line along the Formans lasted until the French Revolution . Landmarks were even set up in the 18th century.
Until the second half of the 19th century, the settlement in Le Château, d. H. next to the castle, which was destroyed in 1822, the center of community life. In 1861, however, the local council decided to demolish the dilapidated church there and build a new church on the Tanay side. This also happened in 1866–1868, followed by the construction of a village school in 1898 next to the new church.
During the Second World War , the Gestapo carried out a shooting of members of the Resistance on June 16, 1944 in Saint-Didier-de-Formans . Of the 30 or so prisoners who were deported from Montluc Prison, two survived. The most prominent victim was Marc Bloch from Strasbourg , professor of economic history at the Sorbonne before the war . Two years later, the community inaugurated a memorial at the site of the shooting near the Roussille mill. Today the communal library in Saint-Didier is also named after Marc Bloch.
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 627 |
| 1968 | 648 |
| 1975 | 665 |
| 1982 | 992 |
| 1990 | 1,288 |
| 1999 | 1,544 |
| 2006 | 1,751 |
| 2016 | 1,944 |
With 1960 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), Saint-Didier-de-Formans is one of the smaller communities in the Ain department. In the 19th and 20th centuries the population remained constant between 500 and 700 (in 1901, for example, 515 inhabitants were counted). In the 1980s, the population began to rise sharply, which continues a little more cautiously in the 21st century. The local residents of Saint-Didier-de-Formans are called Désidérien (ne) s in French .
Economy and Infrastructure
Saint-Didier-de-Formans is still a predominantly agricultural village today . There are around 20 farms, mainly in the fields of animal production and field management . In addition, there are now various local small businesses. In the meantime the village has also developed into a residential community. Many workers are commuters who work in the larger towns in the Ain as well as in the greater Lyon area.
The village is located away from the larger thoroughfares and is connected to the surrounding neighboring communities via departmental roads. The closest motorway connection to the A6 is around 8 km away in Villefranche, whose train station on the Paris – Marseille line is the closest to Saint-Didier-de-Formans. The airport in the region is Lyon-St-Exupéry (43 km away).
education
In Saint-Didier-de-Formans there is a state école primaire (elementary school with an integrated preschool ).
Personalities
Marc Bloch (1886–1944), professor of economic history at the Sorbonne, died in Saint-Didier.
literature
- Charles Perrin: Dans la nuit et le brouillard. The massacre de Saint-Didier-de-Formans . Le Réveil du Lyonnais, 1947 (French, online [accessed 19 September 2015]).
Web links
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. .
- ^ André Buisson: Carte Archéologique de la Gaule - Ain 01 . Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , 1990, ISBN 2-87754-010-3 , pp. 147 (French, limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ A b Ensemble Communal de Saint-Didier-de-Formans. (PDF) In: Partimoine de Rhône-Alpes. Retrieved September 21, 2015 (French).
- ↑ a b É. Philipon: Dictionnaire Topographique du Département de l'Ain . Imprimerie Nationale, 1911, p. 375–376 (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. 340–341 (French, online [accessed January 18, 2014]).
- ^ Borne de juridiction in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ^ Monument aux morts des Martyrs de la Resistance in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ↑ French Statistics Institute ( www.insee.fr )
- ↑ Saint-Didier-de-Formans - notice communale. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved on September 21, 2015 (French, INSEE population from 1968 ).
- ↑ Commune de Saint-Didier-de-Formans - Dossier complet. In: INSEE . Retrieved September 13, 2015 (French).
