Saint-Oyen (Savoie)
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| local community | Grand-Aigueblanche | |
| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Savoie | |
| Arrondissement | Albertville | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 30 ′ N , 6 ° 29 ′ E | |
| Post Code | 73260 | |
| Former INSEE code | 73266 | |
| Incorporation | 1st January 2019 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
| Website | www.saint-oyen.com | |
Saint-Oyen is a commune Déléguée in the French commune of Grand-Aigueblanche with 215 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Savoie in the region of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes .
geography
location
Saint-Oyen is located at 616 m , about 44 km east of the prefecture of Chambéry , 82 km south-southeast of the city of Geneva and 69 km east-northeast of the city of Grenoble (as the crow flies). The village is located on a slope above the Isère in the historic province of Tarentaise . Two neighboring communities, which are much larger in area, surround Saint-Oyen, these are La Léchère in the north and west and Aigueblanche in the east and south.
topography
The 2.11 km 2 area of the Commune déléguée covers a slope on the left flank of the Isère, which flows here between Moûtiers and Albertville in a north-westerly direction. The lower limit of the Commune déléguée runs about 50 m above the valley floor, while the highest point of the floor of the Commune déléguée is 1102 m in the foothills of the Lauzière massif. A small mountain stream, the Morel , runs along the southern border of the Commune déléguée. The settlement area is concentrated in the southern part of the Commune déléguée, while the northern part is densely forested.
history
The Tarentaise was already settled by the Celtic people of the Ceutrons before Roman times. Saint-Oyen was first mentioned in a document in the High Middle Ages at the same time as the surrounding towns, in 1170 as Ecclesia de Sancto Eugendo . In the 17th and 18th centuries, the spelling Saint-Hoyen (d) was common. The patron saint is St. Eugendus , abbot in the Condat Monastery ( Saint-Claude ) in the 6th century. In the Middle Ages and the Ancien Régime , Saint-Oyen was a small dominion that also included the villages of Doucy-en-Tarentaise (now part of La Léchère) and Le Bois .
The municipality of Saint-Oyen merged with Le Bois and Aigueblanche to form the Commune nouvelle Grand-Aigueblanche on January 1, 2019 . Since then it has had the status of a Commune déléguée. It belonged to the canton of Moûtiers in the Arrondissement of Albertville . The community was a member of the Vallées d'Aigueblanche community association .
Attractions
The village church of Saint-Oyen dates from the 14th century and was renovated in the 17th and 18th centuries.
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 116 |
| 1968 | 115 |
| 1975 | 143 |
| 1982 | 173 |
| 1990 | 200 |
| 1999 | 194 |
| 2006 | 211 |
| 2011 | 202 |
With 220 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2016), Saint-Oyen was one of the small communities in the Savoie department. After the population declined slightly in the first half of the 20th century (174 inhabitants were counted in 1901), the population has increased again since the mid-1970s. The local residents of Saint-Oyen are called les Saint-Oyennais (es) in French .
Economy and Infrastructure
There are a few local small-scale businesses in Saint-Oyen, including two farmers . Above all, the village has developed into a residential community whose employees go about their work in the larger localities in the area.
The village is not far from the main artery of the Tarentaise, the two-lane N90 national road on the opposite bank of the Isère with accesses in Aigueblanche and Château-Feuillet (part of La Léchère). This merges into the A430 motorway down the valley at Albertville . The secondary road D94 climbs of Aigueblanche from in tight switchbacks the slope of Saint-Oyenvon and opens up the districts Doucy-en-Tarentaise and Combelouviere of La Léchère. Stops on the Saint-Pierre-d'Albigny – Bourg-Saint-Maurice railway line are in Château-Feuillet and Moûtiers. Chambéry-Savoie (distance 82 km) and Geneva (123 km) are possible airports in the region .
Community partnerships
The place maintains partnerships with communities of the same name, namely with:
- the Italian municipality of Saint-Oyen in the autonomous region of Aosta Valley since 1986,
- the Swiss municipality of Saint-Oyens in the canton of Vaud since 1986,
- the French commune of Montbellet - one of its hamlets is called Saint-Oyen - in the Saône-et-Loire department since 2002.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ A. Gros: Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieu de la Savoie . Belley, Imprimerie Aimé Chaduc, 1937, p. 429 (French, limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ JJ Vernier: Dictionnaire topographique du département de la Savoie . Imprimerie Savoisienne, 1896, p. 662 (French, online on BNF [accessed January 19, 2014]).
- ↑ Saint-Oyen - notice communale. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved on December 16, 2014 (French, INSEE population from 1968 ).
- ^ Complete dossier on Saint-Oyen. In: INSEE . Retrieved December 17, 2014 (French).