Le Poizat
Le Poizat is a commune in the French department of Ain, in the Rhône -Alpes.
Geography
Le Poizat is located at 880 m above sea level. M., with nearly seven miles west-northwest of the town of Bellegarde -sur -Valserine (air line). The farming village extends in the Haut- Bugey, in the Jura, on a sloping north slope below the crest of the Grande Montagne, south of the deep cluse de Nantua, a Quertals by the Jura chain.
The area of 17,90 km2 municipal area includes a portion of the southern French Jura. The northern boundary is the cluse de Nantua. This forms a transverse valley, stretching from Nantua to the catchment area of the Valserine by the chains of the high Jura. In close Taldurchbruch the Lac de Sylans which was dammed by a landslide in the 16th century and is drained underground to the west is. Just east of the lake is the Talwasserscheide.
From the cluse de Nantua, the municipality's area extends southward through a steep slope on the adjacent plateau of Le Poizat, which rises further to the south. The plateau is bisected by the erosion valley of Combet (tributary of Semine ). On the south of the area, the crest of the Forêt de moment are ( 1162 m above sea level. M. ) and the rise in terrain of the Grande Montagne, which leads on to the Plateau de Retord. On the Grande Montagne is at 1200 m above sea level. M. reached the highest elevation of Le Poizat.
At Le Poizat addition to the actual site also includes several hamlets, groups of farms and individual farms, namely:
- Le Replat (850 m above sea level. M. ) west of the valley of Combet at the foot of Forêt de moment
- Le Sougey (880 m above sea level. M. ) on the plateau south of the cluse de Nantua
- Les Granges du Poizat (920 m above sea level. M. ) on the plateau south of the cluse de Nantua
Neighboring communities of Le Poizat are Charix in the north, Lalleyriat in the east, Le Grand- Abergement in the south and Les Neyrolles in the West.
History
It is first mentioned in the 12th century Le Poizat as a basic property of the monastery Nantua. In the 13th century, the village became part of the dominion of the Thoire -Villars and came up with this in 1402 under the suzerainty of the Counts of Savoy. The Treaty of Lyon Le Poizat arrived in 1601 to France. 1827 the village was separated from Lalleyriat and collected for independent community.
Attractions
The village church of Saint- Félix was built in 1830.
Population
With 430 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) Le Poizat is one of the small communities of the department of Ain. After the population had decreased significantly in the first half of the 20th century (1891 606 persons were still counted ), a population increase was recorded since the early 1980s again.
Economy and infrastructure
Le Poizat was until well into the 20th century a predominantly coined by agriculture, especially livestock and dairy farming, as well as by the forestry village. In addition, there are today some of the local small business enterprises. Meanwhile, the village has also changed into a residential community. Many workers are commuters who engage in the larger towns in the vicinity of their work.
In winter profits Le Poizat from tourism, if cross-country trails are groomed on the plateaus in the area. The hillside above the village is accessible by a ski lift. In summer, the landscape is all Le Poizat as a popular recreation area.
The village is located off the major thoroughfares on a secondary road that leads from Saint- Germain -de- Joux Le Grand- Abergement. The nearest links to the A40 motorway is located at a distance of about ten kilometers.