Les Abrets

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Les Abrets
Delegated commune of Les Abrets-en-Dauphiné
SNCF train in Les Abrets
SNCF train in Les Abrets
Coat of arms of Les Abrets
Coat of arms
Location of Les Abrets
Map
Les Abrets is located in France
Les Abrets
Les Abrets
Les Abrets is located in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Les Abrets
Les Abrets
Coordinates: 45°32′15″N 5°35′09″E / 45.5375°N 5.5858°E / 45.5375; 5.5858
CountryFrance
RegionAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes
DepartmentIsère
ArrondissementLa Tour-du-Pin
CantonChartreuse-Guiers
CommuneLes Abrets-en-Dauphiné
Area
1
6.89 km2 (2.66 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)[1]
3,601
 • Density520/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code
38490
Elevation261–434 m (856–1,424 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Les Abrets (French pronunciation: [lez‿abʁɛ]; Arpitan: Los Âbrèts) is a former commune in the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Les Abrets-en-Dauphiné,[2] of which it became a delegated commune.[3]

Geography

Les Abrets is located some 30 km west of Chambery and 25 km east of Bourgoin-Jallieu. The commune can be accessed on the D1075 road from the north-west continuing through the commune and the village to La Bâtie-Divisin in the south. The D1006 highway comes from La Tour-du-Pin in the west and intersects the D1075 in the centre of the village then continues to Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin in the east. There is also the D142E road from the village going north-east, the D592 which goes north from the village continuing to Chimilin, and the D142 going north-west to Fitilieu. A railway passes through the commune from west to east with a station just outside the western edge of the commune. The urban area of Les Abrets covers a large portion of the commune with a belt of forest running north to south through the centre of the commune. With some forested areas in the east of the commune and some forest in the east, the balance of the land area is farmland.[4]

The Bievre stream flows south down the eastern edge of the commune. Other streams flow near the village and to the south.[4]

Neighbouring communes and villages

Source:[4]

Toponymy

The term Abrets comes from Albrez Albretum or Arbreta (from the Latin Arbor: relative to a tree). This wooded area was given to the "Poor Knights of Christ" in about 1124 who then became the Knights of the Temple of Jerusalem in 1128, known under the name of the Templars.

Heraldry

Arms of Les Abrets
Arms of Les Abrets
 Blazon:

Gules, a chevron debased in Or, in chief to dexter two weaver's shuttles of argent saltirewise, to sinister a dolphin the same, in base three firs vert the middle higher.



Administration

List of Successive Mayors of Les Abrets[5]

Mayors from the French Revolution to 1935
From To Name
1792 1804 Paul Morand
1804 1816 Louis Boissier
1816 1830 Jacques Novel
1830 1834 Louis Boissier
1834 1837 Clément Morand
1837 1864 Jacques Novel
1864 1870 Joseph Comte
1870 1871 Félix Jamet
1871 1876 Pierre Landier
1876 1884 Joseph Badin
1884 1889 Benoît Orcel
1889 1893 Elisée Deschaux
1893 1895 Clément Humbert
1895 1901 Firmin Rabatel
1901 1904 Hippolyte Falquet
1904 1918 Philippe Barrier
1918 1919 Antoine Fougier
1919 1935 Eloi Cuchet
Les Abrets Station in the 1900s
Mayors from 1935
From To Name Party
1935 1959 Pierre Collomb
1959 1965 Maurice Bernard
1965 1986 Jean Janin
1986 1992 Maurice Gaillard
1992 2008 Jean-Paul Gau
2008 2014 Jean-Pierre Chabert UMP
2014 2016 François Boucly

Population

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Abrésiens or Abrésiennes in French.[6]

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1793 763—    
1800 688−1.47%
1806 834+3.26%
1821 1,071+1.68%
1831 1,203+1.17%
1836 1,292+1.44%
1841 1,347+0.84%
1846 1,250−1.48%
1851 1,297+0.74%
1856 1,305+0.12%
1861 1,343+0.58%
1866 1,341−0.03%
1872 1,440+1.19%
1876 1,743+4.89%
1881 1,826+0.93%
1886 1,705−1.36%
1891 1,754+0.57%
1896 1,756+0.02%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1901 1,818+0.70%
1906 1,923+1.13%
1911 1,850−0.77%
1921 1,773−0.42%
1926 1,831+0.65%
1931 1,954+1.31%
1936 1,818−1.43%
1946 1,890+0.39%
1954 2,010+0.77%
1962 2,215+1.22%
1968 2,305+0.67%
1975 2,437+0.80%
1982 2,795+1.98%
1990 2,804+0.04%
1999 2,705−0.40%
2007 3,050+1.51%
2012 3,607+3.41%
2022 3,601−0.02%
Source: EHESS[7] and INSEE[8][1]

Sites and Monuments

  • A Church (19th century) contains a Chalice with Paten (17th century) which is registered as an historical object.[9]
  • The Domaine des Fauves (Abrets Zoological Park)
  • Path of Pilgrimage to Saint-Jacques de Compostela: Les Abrets is located on one of the pilgrims trails
  • The Bourgeat Factory makes catering equipment and stainless steel for professional kitchens
  • The Centre Jean Jannin is an establishment for people with disabilities founded in 1977
The Zoo Picture Gallery
  • A Mongoose
    A Mongoose
  • A Grand Duke African Owl
    A Grand Duke African Owl
  • A Bennett's Wallaby
    A Bennett's Wallaby

Notable People linked to the commune

  • Thomas Joseph-Armand Caillat, religious goldsmith, lived in the commune.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Populations de référence 2022" [Reference populations 2022] (PDF) (in French). INSEE. December 2024.
  2. ^ Arrêté préfectoral 30 December 2015
  3. ^ Commune déléguée des Abrets, INSEE
  4. ^ a b c Google Maps
  5. ^ List of Mayors of France (in French)
  6. ^ Le nom des habitants du 38 - Isère, habitants.fr
  7. ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Les Abrets, EHESS (in French).
  8. ^ Populations légales 2012, INSEE
  9. ^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM38000647 Chalice with Paten (in French)
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