Boyeux-Saint-Jérôme
Boyeux -Saint- Jérôme is a commune in the French department of Ain, in the Rhône -Alpes.
Geography
Boyeux -Saint- Jerome is located at 537 m above sea level. Level, about 12 kilometers northeast of the city Ambérieu -en- Bugey ( straight line ) in the southern French Jura mountains about midway between Lyon and Geneva. The area of 16.9 km2 municipal area includes a strong in relief section of the southern French Jura. It is drained by the streams Marlieux and Riez to the river Ain westward. In the north, the area falls steeply to Fouge, along which runs the northern boundary of the municipality.
The Church is a merger of several hamlets:
- Boyeux (540 m above sea level. M. ) on a plateau between the deep valleys of the two streams Marlieux and Riez
- Saint- Jérôme (350 m above sea level. M. ) in a basin at Riez
- Châtillon -en - Cornelle (560 m above sea level. M. ) in the northern part of the township on a sunken between several mountain tops valley on the road connecting Jujurieux and Saint -Martin- du- Frêne
- Cornelle (430 m above sea level. M. ) below one of these hilltops
- Poncieux (538 m above sea level. M. ) on another plateau to the west of Marlieux.
Neighboring communities of Boyeux -Saint- Jérôme are Mérignat and Cerdon in the north, Corlier in the east, Nivollet - Montgriffon in the south and L' Abergement -de- Varey and Jujurieux in the West.
History
The history of each hamlet dates way back to the Middle Ages. Boyeux 1031 is first mentioned, and Saint- Jérôme in 1169 as Sanctus Jerome. Châtillon -en - Cornelle belonged in the 12th century to the possessions of the house of Coligny and his hilltop castle was conducted in 1327 as Castrum de Castellione in Cornella in the archives. Already in the 13th century the villages went to the house of La Tour- du-Pin, then belonged from 1337 to 1375 to the domination of Thoire -Villars and finally came under the suzerainty of the Counts of Savoy. Poncieux, mentioned in the 14th century as Ponciu, was also one of Châtillon -en - Cornelle, the parish church was subordinate to that of Jujurieux. The Treaty of Lyon the entire Bugey arrived in 1601 to France. Today's double name of the parish was in 1879, when Boyeux ascended to the main town, but the parish remained in Saint- Jérôme.
Attractions
The village church in Saint- Jérôme, whose construction began in the 13th century, has a church room with ribbed vaults and an entrance porch in the Renaissance style. It is the only building in the castle of Châtillon -en - Cornelle their chapel is preserved. It dates from the 16th century and has a rich interior with figures and decorated pillars.
Population
With 339 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) Boyeux -Saint- Jérôme is one of the small communities of the department of Ain. After the population had greatly declined during the 20th century (1901 759 persons were still counted ), a slight increase in population was recorded since the early 1990s again.
Economy and infrastructure
Boyeux -Saint- Jérôme was characterized in the past by agriculture, predominantly through the wine. Even today one of the community 16 wineries (as of 2014, see the website of the municipality ), who grow Poulsard and Gamay and produce a rosé sparkling wine under the protected designation of origin Cerdon. The not in viticulture workers are mostly commuters who engage in the larger towns in the vicinity of their work.
The departmental road D12 connects the municipality with Jujurieux and the valley of Ain and led further to Saint -Martin- du- Frêne in eastern Synklinaltal Combe du Val is a route from the well of Saint- Jérôme after Nivollet - Montgriffon and the Col du Cendrier after Corlier. Connections to the national motorway network consist in Pont- d'Ain ( A42 ) and Saint -Martin- du- Frêne (A40 ) in each case about 20 kilometers away.