Thézillieu
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| local community | Plateau d'Hauteville | |
| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Ain | |
| Arrondissement | Belley | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 54 ' N , 5 ° 36' E | |
| Post Code | 01110 | |
| Former INSEE code | 01417 | |
| Incorporation | 1st January 2019 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
Thézillieu a former's French community and today's commune Déléguée with 291 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Ain in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It belonged to the canton of Hauteville-Lompnes and the Arrondissement Belley . She was also a member of the Plateau d'Hauteville community association . It was merged with Hauteville-Lompnes , Hostiaz and Cormaranche-en-Bugey by a decree of December 12, 2018 and with effect from January 1, 2019 to form the Commune nouvelle Plateau d'Hauteville .
geography
Thézillieu is located at 870 m , about 20 kilometers east-southeast of the city of Ambérieu-en-Bugey and 45 kilometers southeast of the prefecture of Bourg-en-Bresse (as the crow flies). The farming village extends in central Bugey , slightly elevated on the eastern edge of a wide hollow of the High Jura , which is part of the Plateau d'Hauteville, between two wooded ridges at the foot of the Signal.
The area of the 26.25 km² former municipality covers a section of the southern French Jura. The central part is oriented by a broad in north-south direction trough (to an average of 820 m taken) having a syncline in Faltenjura forms. To the north, this hollow divides into two approximately 1 km wide depressions; in between rises the ridge of the Forêt de Rouge ( 1010 m ). While the northern part of the Thézillieu basin shows no surface runoff (the rainwater seeps into the porous limestone subsoil), the southern part is drained by the Arène brook to the Furans and further to the Rhône . In the middle of the basin there are two ponds, the Étangs du Genevray , which are used for fish farming.
To the east, the depression is flanked by the wooded ridge of the Forêt Domaniale de Gervais and the Forêt du Fays , with the highest elevation of Thézillieu being reached on the Signal at 1123 m . The western boundary is also formed by an elongated ridge with the Forêt Domaniale de Saint-Sulpice ( 1090 m ) and the Forêt de Ravière .
In addition to the actual village, Thézillieu also included various hamlets and farms, namely (from south to north):
- Pontieu ( 770 m ) in the Arène valley
- Le Genevray ( 830 m ) east of the Étangs du Genevray
- Les Catagnolles ( 805 m ) in the Thézillieu valley
- Sainte-Blaizine ( 850 m ) in the hollow north of the village
- Lavant ( 790 m ) in the depression at the eastern foot of the Forêt Domaniale de Saint-Sulpice
Neighboring towns of Thézillieu are Hauteville-Lompnes and Cormaranche-en-Bugey in the north, Sutrieu and Belmont-Luthézieu in the east, Virieu-le-Grand and Armix in the south and Prémillieu and Hostiaz in the west.
history
In 1149 the Cistercian monastery of Saint-Sulpice was relocated to the area of today's Thézillieu, which was called Theysiliacus in Latin documents . The monks cleared the area, made it arable and thus laid the foundation stone for the settlement of the Mulde and the development of the village of Thézillieu. The abbots were always the secular masters of Thézillieu, which had been under the suzerainty of the Counts of Savoy since the Middle Ages. With the Treaty of Lyon , the village came to France in 1601.
Attractions
The village church of Thézillieu was built in the 17th century and later redesigned several times. From the former monastery, which was looted and destroyed in 1793, ruins of the church and the convent buildings have been preserved.
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 325 |
| 1968 | 296 |
| 1975 | 254 |
| 1982 | 278 |
| 1990 | 297 |
| 1999 | 299 |
| 2006 | 310 |
| 2011 | 321 |
| 2017 | 291 |
With 291 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) Thézillieu was one of the small communities in the Ain department. After the population had decreased significantly in the first half of the 20th century, a slight population increase has been recorded again since the mid-1970s.
Economy and Infrastructure
Until well into the 20th century, Thézillieu was a village dominated by agriculture and forestry. Even today, the residents mainly live from their work in the first sector. Some workers are also commuters who work in the larger towns in the area.
The village is located off the main thoroughfares on a departmental road that leads from Virieu-le-Grand to Hauteville-Lompnes. Other road connections exist with Prémillieu, Longecombe and over the Col de la Lèbe pass with Belmont-Luthézieu.
In Thézillieu there is a state primary school ( école élémentaire ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Marie-Claude Guigue: Topography Historique du Département de l'Ain . Bourg-en-Bresse et Lyon, A. Brun, 1873, p. 392 (French, online [accessed January 18, 2014]).
- ↑ É. Philipon: Dictionnaire Topographique du Département de l'Ain . Imprimerie Nationale, 1911, p. 429 (French, online [PDF; accessed January 4, 2014]).
- ↑ Old Abbey of Saint-Sulpice in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Thézillieu - notice communal. In: cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved on June 14, 2015 (French, INSEE population from 1968 ).