Arbignieu

Arbignieu
Arbignieu
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Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ain
Arrondissement	Belley
Canton	Belley
Intercommunality	Bugey Sud
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Charles Berger
Area1	13.07 km2 (5.05 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	471
• Density	36/km2 (93/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	01015 / 01300
Elevation	221–495 m (725–1,624 ft); (avg. 300 m or 980 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Arbignieu is a French commune in the Ain department in the Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arbignolans or Arbignolanes^[1]

Geography

The commune is located 4 km south-west of Belley and 30 km north-west of Chambery. It is traversed by the Tour du Bugey trail. It lies in the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) zone for wine from Bugey with the label "Roussette du Bugey-Arbignieu".

The commune can be accessed on the D69 from Belley in the north-east which continues west to Colomieu. The D100 road also branches from the D49 at the northern edge of the commune and goes south along the eastern side of the commune joining the D10 which passes through the commune from the D992 in the east through the hamlet of Peyzieu then south-west to Saint-Bois. There are three hamlets in the commune other than Arbignieu: Thoys, Slignieu, and Peyzieu. The commune is approximately half farmland and half forest with most of the forest along the western border.^[2]

The Furans river forms the eastern border of the commune and then flows east to join the Rhone. The Ruisseau d'Armaille flows from west to east across the commune into the Furans.^[2]

File:Furans Neige.JPG

The Furans near Peyzieu

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

Administration

List of mayors of Arbignieu^[3]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1995	2014	Daniel Girardet
2014	2020	Charles Berger

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 480 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses conducted in the town since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of municipalities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
717	740	769	757	861	826	856	888	970

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
947	858	849	852	845	814	794	771	730

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
736	702	650	602	554	512	489	470	445

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2007	2008
391	321	317	363	387	431	464	469	473

2009	2010	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
471	480	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

File:Population - Municipality code 01015.svg

Population of Abignieu

Sites and monuments

The Ball of Gargantua (stone cups)
The ruins of the Chateau of Longecombe, a former Fief owned by the Luyrieu Family in the 14th century.
The Fortified house of Thoy or Thuey
General Parra's House (18th century) at Sillignieu
The Church of Peyzieu, a hamlet in Arbignieu

Notable people linked to the commune

Césaire Nivière (1799-1879), agronomist, was born in Peyzieu in the current territory of the commune.

Notes and references

Notes

↑ At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002 [1], the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" which allow, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For municipalities with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these municipalities is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References

[4] At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002 [1], the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" which allow, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For municipalities with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these municipalities is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

[1] Inhabitants of Ain (French)

[Google-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Google Maps

[3] List of Mayors of France (French)

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