Saint-Jean-du-Gard
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Gard | |
| Arrondissement | Alès | |
| Canton | La Grand-Combe | |
| Community association | Alès agglomeration | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 6 ′ N , 3 ° 53 ′ E | |
| height | 164-813 m | |
| surface | 41.64 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,433 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 58 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 30270 | |
| INSEE code | 30269 | |
| Website | www.ville-saintjeandugard.fr | |
 Le pont Vieux , MH -classified stone bridge over the Gardon de Saint-Jean |
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Saint-Jean-du-Gard is a commune in the Mediterranean south of France in the arrondissement of Alès in the Gard department in the Occitanie region .
geography
The municipality of Saint-Jean-du-Gard is located in the peripheral zone of the Parc National des Cévennes , on the southern edge of the Cevennes , in the valley of the Gardon de Saint-Jean , a right tributary of the Gardon . From the town center, Alès , seat of the sub-prefecture of the Alès arrondissement , can be reached after around 25 kilometers by road, Nîmes , seat of the prefecture of the Gard department, after around 60 kilometers by road and Montpellier after around 80 kilometers by road.
The municipalities bordering St-Jean-du-Gard are Mialet , Peyrolles , Sainte-Croix-de-Caderle and Thoiras in the same department, and Moissac-Vallée-Française and Saint-Étienne-Vallée-Française in the Lozère department .
population
On January 1, 2017, Saint-Jean-du-Gard had 2,433 inhabitants; they are called Saint-Jeannais (es) .
In the 1960s and 1970s, the population shrank slightly due to structural upheavals (migration from the countryside to the city), but grew again slightly in the 1980s and significantly in the 1990s and 2000s.
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traffic
The closest autoroutes (motorways) that can be reached from Saint-Jean-du-Gard are the A 75 in the west, the A 7 in the east and the A 9 in the south .
The branching off from the N 106 at Les Hauts-de-Nîmes , northern district of Nîmes, and u. a. On Montagnac, Lédignan, Lézan and Anduze leading department road D 907 runs over Saint-Jean-du-Gard, from where they Peyrolles, L'Estréchure, Saumane, Saint-André-de-Valborgne, Rousses and Vebron to Florac in neighboring Lozère department is enough where it meets the N 106 again.
In the west of Saint-Jean-du-Gard, the D 260 branches off from the D 907 as a feeder to the D 9 , the Corniche des Cévennes . This high-altitude road mainly runs along the Cévenolian mountain ridges between the Vallée Borgne and the Vallée Française , partly through chestnut forests , and forms part of the border between the departments of Gard and Lozère. It is an ancient route, first a cattle route, then a trade route followed by mules, and was expanded at the beginning of the 18th century for the execution of dragons as access for the dragoons of the Sun King Louis XIV. To the territory of the rebellious camisards . The route runs over the Col de St-Pierre (597 m), the Col de l'Exil (704 m), Saint-Roman-de-Tousque , Le Pompidou , the Col des Faïsses (1026 m), L'Hospitalet ( 992 m) and Saint-Laurent-de-Trèves , until it finally ends on the southern edge of Florac. The route was formerly known as the Route Royale de Nîmes à Saint Flour .
Other départementale routes (departmental roads) leading away from Saint-Jean-du-Gard are:
- Head northwest on the D 983 via Moissac-Vallée-Française, Sainte-Croix-Vallée-Française, Pont-Ravagers, Molezon, Barre-des-Cévennes and Saint-Laurent-de-Trèves until you get to the D 907 after crossing the Tarnon meets
- towards the northeast, later bend to the southeast, the D 50 via Mialet and Luziers to Générargues
- in the south / southwest of the D 153 via Sainte-Croix-de-Caderle, Lasalle, Colognac and Saint-Roman-de-Codières to Sumène
St-Jean in ending Le Puy-en-Velay in the neighboring region Auvergne its output participating long-distance path (Sentier de Grande Randonnée) GR 70 . It almost corresponds to the Chemin de Stevenson , which the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson described in his 1879 travelogue Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes ( A journey with the donkey through the Cevennes ) with his rented packhorse Modestine .
In the 16th century there was a transformer station for horses on a stagecoach route between Nîmes and Florac in the middle of the village . Nowadays, a noticeably high structure can still be seen on the site, which is named after the rare edible mushroom Oronge (German Kaiserling ) and which is now used as a hotel. Here Robert Louis Stevenson ended his hike.
The Train à vapeur des Cévennes of the Compagnie Internationale des Trains Express à vapeur (CITEV), also known as "Trans-Cévenol" , which has been in use since 1909 as the "Seidenexpress", ends at the station in Saint-Jean- you-gard.
Several regular and school bus routes of the public transport of Nouveau Transport en Commun Cévenol (NTecC) connect Saint-Jean-du-Gard with the other parts of the agglomeration Grand Alès.
administration
Since January 1, 2002, Saint-Jean-du-Gard has been one of 16 parishes in the Community of Greater Alès ( Communaute d'agglomeration du Grand Alès en Cevennes ).
Parish partnership
There is a partnership with the municipality of Chaumont-Gistoux in the French-speaking province of Walloon Brabant in Belgium.
Personalities
In what was then called Saint-Jean-de-Gardonnenque were born:
- Jean du Caylar de Saint-Bonnet, Marquis de Toiras (1585–1636), Marshal of France
- Pierre Laporte (1680–1704), called Rolland , one of the leaders of the Camisards
Those later born in Saint-Jean-du-Gard include:
- Francis Lacassin (1931–2008), journalist, writer and screenwriter
Municipality of Saint-Jean-du-Gard as seen from Saint-Roman-de-Tousque
Gardon de Saint-Jean , right tributary of the Gardon , low water level
The Gardon de Saint-Jean , which runs parallel to the D 907 , soon dried out in places in summer
Tour de l'horloge , the clock tower in St-Jean built in the 12th century and protected as Monument historique (MH)
Château de Saint-Jean-du-Gard, the 16th century mansion of the landlords of St-Jean
Office de Tourisme (tourist office) and Post office with Postbank in L'hôtel du Chevalier d'Algues
Stevenson's journey with Donkey Modestine on the Chemin de Stevenson is depicted on a fountain in St-Jean
St-Jean train station, the final stop of the "Trans-Cévenol" (Train à vapeur des Cévennes)
Corniche des Cévennes , section of the ridge road between St-Jean and the Col St-Pierre pass
literature
- Gerhard Bauer: Unconventional guide for voyages of discovery in the Cévennes, Causses and Lower Languedoc . Guhl, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-88220-154-1 (secondary title: Guide Languedoc . Information on the sheep lane Chemin de César [Cäsarsweg] from St-Jean-du-Gard).
- Gisela Buddée: Languedoc-Roussillon . Discover and experience Languedoc-Roussillon; Merian top ten, sights, places and landscapes from A – Z, Merian tips and phrasebook. In: Merian live! 1st edition. Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7742-0638-4 , pp. 48, 58 .
- Axel Patitz: Languedoc-Roussillon . Travel with insider tips. In: Marco Polo . 1st edition. Mairs Geographischer Verlag, Ostfildern 1998, ISBN 3-89525-564-5 .
- Klaus Simon: Languedoc-Roussillon . In: Polyglot Travel Guide . 1st edition. tape 850 . Polyglott-Verl., Munich 1999, ISBN 3-493-59850-5 , p. 15 (description of the Camisard Wars and the role of St-Jean-du-Gards in them).
- Heidemarie Tisseyre-Drechsler: Languedoc-Roussillon . In: Goldstadt travel guide . 3. Edition. tape 71 . Goldstadtverl.ag, Pforzheim 1997, ISBN 3-89550-071-2 (including descriptions of places and cities).
- Ralf Nestmeyer : Languedoc-Roussillon . 5th edition. Michael-Müller-Verlag, Erlangen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89953-597-6 (including descriptions of places and cities).
Web links
- Ville de Saint-Jean-du-Gard - La Commune, la Mairie de Saint-Jean-du-Gard et sa ville en France, Languedoc-Roussillon (Saint-Jean-du-Gard in the list of French Mairies )
- Site officiel de la Mairie de Saint-Jean du Gard (official website of the mayor's office)
- Localization Interactive, Orthodromie et Navigation (LION) (localization of Saint-Jean-du-Gard, linear distances and navigation to other municipalities)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Insee - Populations légales 2007 - 30269-Saint-Jean-du-Gard. Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE), accessed on March 12, 2010 (French).
- ^ Heidemarie Tisseyre-Drechsler: Languedoc-Roussillon . Pforzheim 1997, p. 73 .
- ↑ Axel Patitz: Languedoc-Roussillon . Ostfildern 1998, p. 35 .
- ↑ Le Pompidou, village des Cévennes (48110). (No longer available online.) GAL Espace Cévennes, archived from the original on February 2, 2009 ; Retrieved March 12, 2010 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Journey with the donkey through the Cévennes . 2nd Edition. Ed. La Colombe, Bergisch Gladbach 2008, ISBN 978-3-929351-28-6 (English: Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes . Translated by Christoph Lenhartz).
- ↑ a b Gisela Buddée: Languedoc-Roussillon . Munich 1999, p. 48, 58 .
- ↑ Train à Vapeur des Cévennes. Compagnie Internationale des Trains Express A Vapeur (CITEV), accessed on March 12, 2010 (French).
- ↑ Le Train A Vapeur Des Cevennes. (No longer available online.) Office de Tourisme et Syndicat d'Initiative (OTSI) Saint Jean du Gard, archived from the original on October 20, 2013 ; Retrieved October 17, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ LIGNE 81 Alès Saint-Jean-du-Gard. (PDF; 35 kB) Syndicat mixte de transport du bassin d'Alès, accessed on October 17, 2013 (French).
- ↑ Lignes régulières des zones 2 & 3. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: ntecc.fr. Syndicat mixte de transport du bassin d'Alès (SMTBA), formerly in the original ; accessed on May 10, 2013 (French, Saint-Jean-du-Gard can be reached via bus routes 72, 81, 710 and 715 as well as 76s, 78s and 712s.). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Intercommunalité du Département du Gard. Retrieved on July 18, 2012 (in French, information in the French town hall portal about associations of municipalities in the Gard department).
- ↑ Presentation du Grand Alès. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 27, 2012 ; Retrieved July 18, 2012 (French, presentation by Groß-Alès). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ La commune de Saint-Jean-du-Gard. Ville jumelée avec Saint-Jean-du-Gard. Retrieved July 19, 2012 (French, twin town of Saint-Jean).
- ↑ Château de Saint-Jean-du-Gard in the French-language Wikipedia
- ↑ Chateau De Saint Jean Du Gard. Bernard Andre, accessed March 12, 2010 (French).
