Jujurieux

Jujurieux is a commune in the French department of Ain, in the Rhône -Alpes. It is the seat of the municipal association Rives de l' Ain - Pays du Cerdon.

Geography

Jujurieux is located on 307 m above sea level. Level, about 23 kilometers southeast of the city of Bourg -en- Bresse ( straight line ) in the southern French Jura Mountains.

Neighboring communities of Jujurieux are Poncin and Mérignat in the north, Boyeux -Saint- Jérôme in the east, L' Abergement -de- Varey and Saint -Jean -le- Vieux in the south and Pont- d'Ain and Neuville- sur- Ain in the West.

The area of ​​15,39 km2 municipal area includes a section on the left bank of the River Ain in the landscape Bugey. From the Jura Äusläufern Coming drain two streams, the Ecotet the north and the Riez in the south, the municipality and highlight sections of its limits. They open into the Ain. On the hilltop Sur Cret on a plateau near the hamlet Vieillard is 633 m above sea level. M. reached the highest elevation of Jujurieux.

In addition to the municipal seat is available on the municipal area the following Weiler ( from north to south ):

• Chenavel ( 357 m above sea level. M. ) on a steep emporragendem from the valley of the Ain plateau
• La route ( 255 m above sea level. M. ) on the road from Poncin to Saint -Jean -le- Vieux through the valley of the Ain
• Vieillard (. . 495 m asl ), Le Bévieur (. 347 m asl ) and Cossieux (. 317 m asl ) are all located in the small erosion valley of Vieillasseux east from the center Jujurieux: Vieillard at the upper end in a valley, Le Bévieur in the middle and at the end of the valley Cossieux
• Chaux (482 m above sea level. M. ) in the hills above Jujurieux
• La Combe (350 m above sea level. M. ) in the hills above Jujurieux
• Cucuen (308 m above sea level. M. ) north-east district of Jujurieux
• La Courbattière (285 m above sea level. M. ) south-east of the district Jujurieux
• Lhuire ( 338 m above sea level. M. ) at the end of which projects into the valley of Saint- Jérôme lobe of the municipal territory.

History

The village Jujurieux was already inhabited in Roman times. Coins found near Roman house foundations and bricks show emperor portraits dating from the 3rd and 4th century. On a field above Lhuire remains of a necropolis were found from the Burgundian.

Middle Ages

In the 11th or 12th century, Benedictine monks founded a priory of Ambronay in the place of 1115 is mentioned by name Jusiriacum. The village Jujurieux counted in the Middle Ages only a few yards and was part of the reign of Varey. Chenavel formed its own government, which was under the Lords of Thoire -Villars. The lands to the east of the church today, Vieillard and the castle Châtelard -de- Luyre were part of the property of Châtillon -en - Cornelle ( seat of power in today's neighboring community Boyeux -Saint- Jérôme ). The various lands came during the 14th century under the suzerainty of the Counts of Savoy. The Treaty of Lyon the entire Bugey finally fell in 1601 to France.

Industrialization

In the wake of the Industrial Revolution in Jujurieux was a part of the mainly centered in Lyon French silk industry. The silk producer Claude -Joseph Bonnet opened in his birthplace Jujuriuex 1836 a second factory of his already successful existing since 1810 in Lyon company. He had built a complex of buildings, which also included a boarding school for several hundred workers, a chapel, a school, and building for water and power supply in addition to the actual factory. The factory was conducted over several generations of the family and graduated in 2001 From 1898 to 1933 there was a connection via overland tram ( Tramways de l' Ain) with the neighboring town of Pont- d'Ain and the track Ambérieu -en- Bugey -. Cerdon. They supplied the silk factory in goods and labor, and has expanded into the Riez Valley to a lime and cement factory.

Viniculture

A further contribution to the development in the 19th century was created by the winery, which extended at peak times to over 300 ha of fields and hillsides in Jujurieux, and to which agriculture had almost completely concentrated. The phylloxera crisis at the end of the 19th century also met Jujurieux with full force, so that the area under cultivation after the first World War and the Great Depression, including the original reduced to less than one tenth. The vineyards are now concentrated in the high-quality, south-facing slopes. The efforts resulted in 2009 in recognition as a protected designation of origin Bugey.

Attractions

The buildings of the disused silk factories of the 19th Century are now classified as a monument historique because of their importance for the industrialization of formerly rural villages.

In Jujurieux Castles are in exceptionally high number for a town of this size. From the Middle Ages three castles have been preserved, which defended the various lands and thoroughfares in the area of ​​today's community. These came in the 19th century entrepreneur villas from the vicinity of the Bonnet family, built in the style of Renaissance palaces and surrounded by spacious gardens.

Population

With 2124 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) Jujurieux is one of the medium sized communities of the department of Ain. After the population had decreased significantly in the first half of the 20th century (1901 2652 people were still counted ), it has been increasing since the 1990s, again slightly.

Economy and infrastructure

Jujurieux was until the opening of the silk factory an embossed through farming village. However, it was not possible to locate so in the 20th century other industries that this could compensate for the loss of jobs due to the decline of the French silk industry. Today there are a number of small and medium-sized enterprises, but the largest part of the labor force works in the surrounding towns, so that Jujurieux has turned into a residential community. The residents of the place small farms are predominantly winemakers whose vineyards fall about halfway under the protected designation of origin. There are mainly the varieties Poulsard and Gamay grown, together with those of rosé sparkling wine Cerdon is produced.

The village is located off the major thoroughfares on a secondary road that leads from Saint -Jean -le- Vieux through the valley of Riez and Marlieu Châtillon -en - Cornelle and Corlier. About the D1084, which crosses the municipal area in the northwest, there are connections with Pont- d'Ain and Nantua. An A42 motorway junction is located about 6 kilometers from Pont- d'Ain.