Le Petit-Abergement
Le Petit- Abergement is a commune in the French department of Ain, in the Rhône -Alpes.
Geography
Le Petit- Abergement lies 750 m above sea level. Level, about 15 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 hollow on the west slope of the Séran, at the foot of the ridge of the Forêt des Amortais.
The area of 26.95 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 eastern 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 westward across the hillside of Le Petit- Abergement up on the adjacent ridge in the area of the Col de Cuvillat and the Forêt des Amortais (1100 m above sea level. M. ). On a hilltop of the Forêt de Quatre Sauts is with 1168 m above sea level. M. reached the highest elevation of Le Petit- Abergement.
To the north, the area extends to the extended, to an average of 1000 m above sea level. M. -lying plateau in the headwaters of Séran. 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. The western boundary is the ridge of the Forêt des Moussières ( Grand Ouillon 1129 m above sea level. M. ).
At Le Petit- Abergement near the hamlet Jalinard (910 m above sea level. M. ) include numerous groups of farms and individual farms on the Jura plateau. Neighboring communities of Le Petit- Abergement are Le Grand- Abergement the north and east, the south and Ruffieu Champdor and Brénod in the West.
History
Is first mentioned Le Petit- Abergement in 1345 under the Latinized name Parvum Albergamentum. Ecclesiastical, the village belonged to the parish of Le Grand- Abergement. In the Middle Ages, the village was under the suzerainty of the Counts of Savoy. The Treaty of Lyon Le Petit- Abergement arrived in 1601 to France.
Attractions
The village church of Saint -Étienne was built in the second half of the 14th century in the Gothic Flamboyant style, and extended the ship in the 17th century.
Population
With 137 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) Le Petit- 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 early 1980s to nearly constant level.
Economy and infrastructure
Le Petit- 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 village is located off the major thoroughfares on a secondary road, leading from Arte Mare to Brénod. Located on the other side of the Séran neighboring Le Grand- Abergement is accessible via a transverse valley cut by the road. Further road links exist on the Col de Belle Roche Les Neyrolles and over the Col de Cuvillat with Champdor, both have mountain passes around 1050 m and are not accessible all year round.