Mégevette

Mégevette is a commune in the French department of Haute- Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region.

Geography

Mégevette is located on 884 m above sea level. M., about 20 km south of the town of Thonon -les- Bains ( straight line ). The scattered settlement congregation extends an open upland valley of the upper cracks, at the eastern foot of the Pointe de Miribel, in the Savoy Alps.

The area of ​​21.65 km ² municipal area comprises cracks the top section of the Vallée du. The broad open valley extending in a north-south direction, several inflows obtained by short side streams and from cracks to Giffre and thus drained the Arve. The upper valley is closed off to the south the valley narrows at the Rocher de Culaz. It is flanked on the west by the heights of Pointe de Miribel ( 1581 m above sea level. M. ) and the Montagne d' Hirmentaz (1596 m above sea level. M. ). To the north of the municipality floor extends to the Col de Jambaz. The eastern boundary of the valley, forming the point of the Jottis ( 1546 m above sea level. M. ), the punch line of Folly (1713 m above sea level. M. ) and the Tête des Folly, on the altitude of 1764 m above sea level with. M. the highest elevation reached by Mégevette. A small part of the community area is located in the catchment area of ​​the Vallée du Brevon (tributary of Dranse ).

To Mégevette include various hamlet settlements, including La Culaz (880 m above sea level. M. ) Les Moulins (910 m above sea level. M. ) in the valley and Les Fornets (1000 m above sea level. M. ) on the eastern side of the valley. Neighboring communities of Mégevette are Bellevaux the north and east, and Mieussy Onnion in the south and Villard and Habère -Lullin in the West.

History

The high valley of tears to Mégevette was reclaimed in the Middle Ages by monks of the Abbey of Saint -Jean- d'Aulps. Only in 1923 moved from Mégevette Arrondissement of Thonon- les- Bains to the canton in the Arrondissement of Saint- Jeoire Bonneville.

Attractions

The village of Saint-Nicolas Church was built in the period 1872-1880 on the site of an earlier church. It shows a mixture of styles of Neo-Romanesque and Italian Renaissance.

Population

With 538 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) Mégevette is one of the small towns in the Haute-Savoie region. After the population had decreased markedly during the 20th century (1901 Mégevette still counted 1007 inhabitants), a population increase was recorded since the mid- 1980s again.

Economy and infrastructure

Mégevette was until well into the 20th century a predominantly coined by agriculture and forestry village. Today there are various businesses of the local small business sector. In the last decades also developed the summer and winter tourism, and it produced some tourist facilities.

The village lies along the road that leads from Thonon -les- Bains on the Col de Jambaz to Saint -Jeoire. Another road connection with Mieussy.