Villeneuve-de-Berg
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Ardèche | |
| Arrondissement | Largentière | |
| Canton | Berg-Helvie | |
| Community association | Berg et Coiron | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 33 ' N , 4 ° 30' E | |
| height | 208-494 m | |
| surface | 24.61 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,944 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 120 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 07170 | |
| INSEE code | 07341 | |
| Website | www.villeneuvedeberg.fr | |
 Villeneuve-de-Berg from the southwest ( Ibietal ) |
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Villeneuve-de-Berg is a French commune with 2944 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the south of the Ardèche department .
geography
Villeneuve-de-Berg is located on a ridge, and the Ibie river rises nearby and later flows into the Ardèche .
history
In the Middle Ages , the site of today's Villeneuve-de-Berg was assigned to the Cistercian Abbey of Mazan by a lord of Vogüé . Villeneuve-de-Berg was founded as a royal bastide in 1284 through a treaty ( paréage ) between the French monarch Philip III. the Bold and Foulques, the Abbot of Mazan Abbey. The citizens of the new city received great privileges, such as tax breaks, and were independent of the feudal rulers of Vivarais and Languedoc . Villeneuve-de-Berg first became the location of the court of a royal Bailli , later that of a seneschal and the location of a forestry office. During the Huguenot Wars , the city was taken by surprise in 1573 by the Protestants, in whose hands it remained until 1621, when Marshal Montmorency seized it. Viticulture and the silk industry were the most important industries.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2017 |
| Residents | 1283 | 1501 | 1624 | 1992 | 2290 | 2429 | 2765 | 2944 |
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Personalities
- Olivier de Serres (1539–1619), agronomist, to whom a statue created by Pierre Hébert was erected in the main square of Villeneuve-de-Berg in 1858
- Jean de Serres (1540–1598), Calvinist pastor and historiographer, brother of the previous one
- Antoine Court (1696–1760), Protestant pastor and historian
- Augustin Barruel (1741-1820), Jesuit and publicist
