Crempigny-Bonneguête
Crempigny - Bonneguête is a commune in the French department of Haute- Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Geography
Crempigny - Bonneguête is located at 501 m above sea level. M., approximately 18 km west-northwest of the city of Annecy ( straight line ). The double municipality extends in a short northern tributary of Fier, in the hills on the eastern foot of the Montagne des Princes, in Genevois.
The area of 5.82 km ² municipal area includes a portion of the western Genevois. The area occupied by undulating relief of the hill between the valleys of Fier in the south and in the north Usses. To the west, the municipality's area extends to the wooded crest of the Montagne des Princes, on the 857 m above sea level. M. the highest elevation of Crempigny - Bonneguête is achieved.
The municipality consists of the villages Crempigny (501 m above sea level. M. ) on a ridge east of the Montagne des Princes, Bonneguête (480 m above sea level. M. ) also on a ledge, and the hamlet of Bellefontaine (450 m above sea level. M. ) on eastern foot of the Montagne des Princes. Neighboring communities of Crempigny - Bonneguête Clermont are in the north, Menthonnex -sous -Clermont and Versonnex in the east, Val -de- Fier in the south and Droisy in the West.
History
In the 11th century a priory was founded in Bonneguête. In 1973 the previously separate small communities Crempigny and Bonneguête merged to today's double municipality.
Attractions
The village church of Saint- Quentin in Crempigny was built in 1886 in the style of neoclassicism. The Church of Bonneguête was rebuilt in the 19th century on the site of a Gothic previous building, with some parts of the former house of worship were included. Among the remarkable secular buildings include the medieval castle (later remodeled several times ) in Crempigny, the Château Le Fey, the mill of Bellefontaine and the houses of the traditional Savoyard style Bonneguête ( 15th to 18th century).
Population
With 274 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) Crempigny - Bonneguête one of the small towns in the Haute-Savoie region. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the population steadily increased due to high levels of emigration from (1861 were still 211 residents counted in Crempigny - Bonneguête ). Since the early 1980s, however, a significant increase in population was recorded again.
Economy and infrastructure
Crempigny - Bonneguête is a predominantly coined by farming village today. There are also some plants of the local small business sector. Some of the working population commuters who engage in the larger towns in the area as well as in space Annecy their work.
The village is located off the major thoroughfares of a link road that leads from Clermont to Saint -André. Another road connection with Menthonnex -sous -Clermont. The nearest links to the A41 motorway is located at a distance of around 20 km.
Bloye | Boussy | Crempigny - Bonneguête | Étercy | Hauteville- sur- Fier | Lornay | Marcellaz - Albanais | Marigny -Saint -Marcel | Massingy | Moye | Rumilly | Sales | Saint- Eusèbe | Thusy | Val -de- Fier | Vallières | Vaulx | Versonnex
- Commune in the department of Haute- Savoie
- Place in Rhône -Alpes