Les Abrets

Les Abrets 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]

Les Abrets
Part of Les Abrets-en-Dauphiné
SNCF train in Les Abrets
Coat of arms
Location of Les Abrets
Les Abrets
Les Abrets
Coordinates: 45°32′15″N 5°35′09″E
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
 (2017)[1]
3,470
 • Density500/km2 (1,300/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.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Abrésiens or Abrésiennes[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[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
 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
FromToName
17921804Paul Morand
18041816Louis Boissier
18161830Jacques Novel
18301834Louis Boissier
18341837Clément Morand
18371864Jacques Novel
18641870Joseph Comte
18701871Félix Jamet
18711876Pierre Landier
18761884Joseph Badin
18841889Benoît Orcel
18891893Elisée Deschaux
18931895Clément Humbert
18951901Firmin Rabatel
19011904Hippolyte Falquet
19041918Philippe Barrier
19181919Antoine Fougier
19191935Eloi Cuchet
Les Abrets Station in the 1900s
Mayors from 1935
FromToNamePartyPosition
19351959Pierre Collomb
19591965Maurice Bernard
19651986Jean Janin
19861992Maurice Gaillard
19922008Jean-Paul Gau
20082014Jean-Pierre ChabertUMP
20142020François Boucly

(Not all data is known)

Population

In 2012 the commune had 3,607 inhabitants.

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%
Source: EHESS[6] and INSEE[7]

Sites and Monuments
  • A Church (19th century) contains a Chalice with Paten (17th century) which is registered as an historical object.[8]
  • 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 Grand Duke African Owl
  • A Bennett's Wallaby

Notable People linked to the commune
  • Thomas Joseph-Armand Caillat, religious goldsmith, lived in the commune.

See also

References
  1. Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2017, INSEE
  2. Arrêté préfectoral 30 December 2015
  3. Inhabitants of Isère (in French)
  4. Google Maps
  5. List of Mayors of France (in French)
  6. Données Cassini, EHESS
  7. Populations légales 2012, INSEE
  8. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM38000647 Chalice with Paten (in French)
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