Ceignes
Ceignes is a commune in the French department of Ain, in the Rhône -Alpes.
Geography
Ceignes is situated 630 m above sea level. Level, about 19 kilometers southwest of the city Oyonnax ( straight line ) in the southern French Jura Mountains. The area of 10.01 km ² municipal area extends north Bugey on a plateau, which is formed by the anticlines between the Ain valley and the Combe du Val. On the eastern outskirts of the village begins a to Combe du Val open towards terrain incision. Together with the foothills of the valley of Cerdon on the southwestern edge of the community, he is a pass, the Col de Ceignes. Despite a slight relief structure, the municipality no above-ground rivers, because the rainwater seeps immediately in the porous limestone substrate.
The community consists of two spatially separated peasant villages, Ceignes and the somewhat higher ground Étables (704 m above sea level. M. ) on the western edge of the Verebnungsfläche. Neighboring communities of Ceignes are Peyriat in the north, Maillat in the West, Labalme in the south and Saint- Alban, Challes -la -Montagne and Leyssard in the West.
History
Is first mentioned Ceygnes in 1299 under the name Cyennies. It originally belonged to the parish as Hamlet Étables, which is first mentioned in 1225 as De Stabulis and a few decades later as Estables. From the 13th century to 1402 Étables belonged to the rule of Thoire -Villars, after which it came under the suzerainty of the Counts of Savoy. The Treaty of Lyon in 1601 it passed to France.
After the parish of Étables had been transferred to the more evolved with time Ceignes in 1809, the latter finally took over in 1879 to function as the main village.
Attractions
The village church of Saint- Laurent in Étables was built in the 12th century in the Romanesque style, and then remodeled in the 15th century gothic. It is registered as a monument historique since 1943 and is located at the highest point of Étables. The destroyed during the Revolution bell tower was rebuilt in the early 19th century.
Built in the Gothic Revival style church of Sainte -Catherine in Ceignes replaced the late 19th century a smaller predecessor.
Population
With 261 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) Ceignes one of the small communities of the department of Ain. After the population had decreased in the first half of the 20th century (1891 267 persons were still counted ), a significant population increase has been recorded since the early 1990s again.
Economy and infrastructure
Ceignes was until well into the 20th century a predominantly coined by agriculture, especially dairy farming and animal husbandry, and forestry village. Meanwhile, the village has also changed into a residential community, most workers are commuters who engage in the larger towns in the vicinity of their work. Jobs in the city caused mainly by the motorway service area ( aire de Ceignes ).
The village is located on the secondary road D1084, which runs from Pont d' Ain Nantua after. Further road links exist with Peyriat and Leyssard. The A40 motorway cuts through the municipal area also by the Col de Ceignes (646 m above sea level. M. ), the next port is located at a distance of about five kilometers in the neighboring village of Maillat. A tram stop in conjunction with Ceignes was from 1911 to 1951, whose distance Nantua Ambérieu -en- Bugey introduced as part of the Tramways de l' Ain about today's D1084.