Le Grand-Abergement
Le Grand- Abergement is a commune in the French department of Ain, in the Rhône -Alpes.
Geography
Le Grand- Abergement is located at 810 m above sea level. Level, about 14 kilometers southwest of the town of Bellegarde -sur -Valserine (air line). The farming village extends in the eastern Bugey, in the valley of the upper Valromey, in a depression on the eastern slope of the valley of the Séran, at the foot of the broad ridge of the Cret du Nu.
The area of 31.92 km ² municipal area comprises a portion of Valromey. The Valromey forms a broad valley between two high, oriented in north-south direction Jura ridges. The western municipal boundary runs along the Séran, which cut into an erosion valley into the environment through the upper Valromey southward flows. Below the village, the valley widens out to the Valley of the Valromey. From the river, the municipality's area extends eastward across the hillside of Le Grand- Abergement up to the high plateau that connects west to the ridge of the Cret du Nu. To the north, the area extends to the extended, to an average of 1100 m above sea level. M. -lying plateau de Retord. This plateau is subdivided by several parallel wells ( mostly above ground septic sinks) and intermediate terrain ribs of hard limestone. Here coniferous and beech forests with wide open mountain meadows from. On the Plateau de Retord is with 1293 m above sea level. M. reached the highest elevation of Le Grand- Abergement.
At Le Grand- Abergement include numerous groups of farms and individual farms on the Jura plateau. Neighboring communities of Le Grand- Abergement are Le Poizat and Lalleyriat in the north, Châtillon -en- Michaille and Villes in the east, and Hotonnes Ruffieu in the south and Le Petit- Abergement and Les Neyrolles in the West.
History
The municipality of Le Grand- Abergement was settled very early. There wall foundations of a Roman villa have been found. First mentioned is the place in 1198 under the name Alberjament and Albergamenti; of 1365 the name Alber Gement is handed down. Since its first mention of Le Grand- Abergement formed a parish that was from Nantua monastery dependent. In the Middle Ages, the village was under the suzerainty of the Counts of Savoy. The Treaty of Lyon Le Grand- Abergement arrived in 1601 to France.
Attractions
The parish church of Saint- Amand was built in the Gothic style forms. In the center and on the Jura hills numerous farmhouses are obtained in a traditional style from the 17th to 19th centuries. The Chapelle de Vézeronce on the Plateau de Retord was restored in the 19th century.
Population
With 108 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) Le Grand- Abergement is one of the smallest municipalities of the department of Ain. After the population had decreased significantly in the first half of the 20th century, remained the population since the mid-1970s to nearly constant level.
Economy and infrastructure
Le Grand- Abergement was until well into the 20th century a predominantly coined by agriculture and forestry village. Even today, the inhabitants live mainly from the activity in the first sector. Some employed persons are also commuters who engage in the larger towns in the vicinity of their work.
The plateau of the Plateau de Retord has evolved in recent decades become a popular winter sports resort. It is aligned thanks to its large extent, especially in the Nordic skiing, but there are at Les Plans- d'Hotonnes (municipality Hotonnes ) and some short downhill slopes that are accessible by several ski lifts.
The village is located off the major thoroughfares on a secondary road that leads from Hotonnes after Nantua. Further road links exist with Le Petit- Abergement, Brénod and over the Plateau de Retord with Châtillon -en- Michaille.