Villars-les-Dombes
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Ain | |
| Arrondissement | Bourg-en-Bresse | |
| Canton | Villars-les-Dombes | |
| Community association | Dombes | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 0 ′ N , 5 ° 2 ′ E | |
| height | 263-295 m | |
| surface | 24.65 km 2 | |
| Residents | 4,795 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 195 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 01330 | |
| INSEE code | 01443 | |
| Website | www.villarslesdombes.fr | |
 Church of the Église de la Nativité-de-la-Sainte-Vierge |
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Villars-les-Dombes is a French commune in the region of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes in the department of Ain . The municipality is assigned to the canton of Villars-les-Dombes and the arrondissement of Bourg-en-Bresse .
geography
With 4795 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), almost a small town , the place is in the Dombes countryside , halfway between Lyon (33 km) and Bourg-en-Bresse (29 km). In the area you can find a myriad of fish ponds , such as the Étang Turlet , which are very typical of the area. In the west, the municipality is traversed by the Chalaronne , a left tributary of the Saône .
history
Villars-les-Dombes (the name should actually Villars lès -Dombes loud) indicates that the place bordered on the former principality of Dombes, but without being part of it. The older name Villars-en-Bresse, on the other hand, emphasizes that the town used to belong to the Bresse landscape , which was dominated by the House of Savoy , as opposed to the Dauphiné , a province that was subject to the French crown early on.
The rule of Villars (first mentioned in a document in 940) grew in 1188 through marriage with the approval of the Roman-German King Henry VI. to the fief of Thoire and Villars, whose main town was the city of Trévoux around 1400 . From the family Thoire and Villars, whose most famous representative was Odo von Thoire and Villars , the rule changed again by marriage to Philippe de Lévis (1380-1440), Vicomte de Lautrec . René de Savoie , called le Grand Bâtard de Savoie ("the great bastard of Savoy"), followed him in 1497. In 1565, Villars was raised to margraviate under René's son Honorary II of Savoy .
Population development
The population growth of Villars-les-Dombes since the late 1950s has been very marked; it has only stagnated for a few years. The increase between 1962 and 2006 was 272%; in France it was only 32% in the same period.
| year | 1936 | 1946 | 1954 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2016 |
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| Residents | 1,397 | 1,358 | 1,334 | 1,583 | 1,842 | 2,344 | 2,796 | 3,415 | 4,190 | 4,303 | 4,628 |
Attractions
- The Poype de Villars is a 12th century moth . The ruin has been a listed building since 1905.
- The Romanesque church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin ( Église de la Nativité-de-la-Sainte-Vierge ) from the 12th and 13th centuries, later supplemented with Gothic elements, has been a listed building since 1927.
Bird park
The bird park of Villars-les-Dombes ( Parc des oiseaux de Villars-les-Dombes ) is 380 hectares ; 35 hectares are accessible to the public via a nature trail . The park, which opened in 1970, is now the largest crowd puller in the Ain department with over 300,000 visitors a year. The large aviary was inaugurated in 1977 and the penguin house in 1979 . More than 2000 mostly exotic birds, divided into around 400 species from all continents, inhabit the park. The institution, which is also supported by the state, is a member of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria and takes part in the European conservation breeding program. Particular attention at both the leaders and the audience get the Dalmatian pelicans , Humboldt penguins , bald ibis , vulture , Egyptian vulture , Andean condors , Edwards pheasant , Palawan peacock-pheasant , Moluccan cockatoos , Amazon parrots , Green-cheeked Amazons , Hyacinth Macaws , Little Green Macaw , Blaulatzaras and hornbills . The park has four restaurants.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marcel Pacaut and Pierre Guichard: Papauté, monachisme et théories politiques , Vol. 2, p. 772. Presses universitaires, Lyon, 1992.
- ↑ Louis Aubret and Marie Claude Guigue: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de Dombes , Vol. 1, p. 458. J.-C. Damour, Trévoux, 1868.
- ^ William Duckett: Dictionnaire de la conversation et de la lecture , Vol. 7, Michel Lévy frères, Paris, 1854.
- ↑ Georges Debombourg: Analysis historique des archives communales du Bugey , Vol. 1, afterword p. 10f. Auguste Arène, Nantua, 1855.
- ^ Samuel Guichenon: Histoire généalogique de la royale maison de Savoie , vol. 3, p. 239. Jean-Michel Briolo, Turin, 1778.
- ^ Samuel Guichenon: Histoire de Bresse et du Bugey , p. 169. Jean Antoine Huguetan & Marc Antoine Ravaud, Lyon, 1650.
- ↑ Parc des oiseaux de Villars-les-Dombes ( 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. at www.leszoosdanslemonde.com, accessed October 22, 2011.
