Anglefort

Anglefort
Chautagne lock on the Rhone Chautagne lock on the Rhone
Anglefort
Location within Rhône-Alpes region Anglefort
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ain
Arrondissement	Belley
Canton	Seyssel
Government
• Mayor (2008–2020)	Bernard Thiboud
Area1	29.26 km2 (11.30 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	960
• Density	33/km2 (85/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	01010 / 01350
Elevation	238–1,524 m (781–5,000 ft) (avg. 251 m or 823 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Anglefort is a French commune in the department of Ain in the Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Clafordans or Clafordanes

Geography

File:As-Cy Grand Colombier Est 14.JPG

A steep stretch on the D120 through the Col du Grand Colombier.

Anglefort is a commune in Bugey on the right bank of the Rhone at the foot of the mountain of Grand Colombier which has a panorama of the Alps and the Jura mountains.

The commune is located 25 km south of Bellegarde-sur-Valserine and 30 km north by north-west of Aix-les-Bains. Access to the commune is by road D992 from Seyssel in the north passing through the length of the commune and the village to Culoz in the south. There is also access on road D120 which is a highly circuitous route from Lochieu in the west continuing to the village as the D120A and continuing south through the Col du Grand Colombier (1,501m) to Culoz. A railway line passes through the commune from north to south with a station to the east of the village.

The Rhone river runs south along the eastern border of the commune and Le Verdet stream flows from the north to the south of the commune into the Rhone.

Environment

The alluvial aquifer fed by the Rhone is threatened by an internal discharge created by the Pechiney Group. Foundry waste, metal dust, and recovered acid from filters have been buried in the Chautagnard marsh with a probable contamination by heavy metals and arsenic.

History

The Priory of Anglefort was located on the communal territory in the Middle Ages. In 1590 Guillaume Drujon was a priest and he became abbot in 1620.

Administration

List of mayors of Anglefort

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1995	2001	Michel Thiboud
2001	2008	René Perrier
2008	2020	Bernard Thiboud

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2008 Anglefort had 926 inhabitants (an increase of 3% compared to 1999). The town was the 10,104th largest at the national level, while it was 10,781st in 1999 and 166th out of 419 communes at the departmental level.

In 2009, the commune had 960 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses conducted in the town since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of municipalities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
1,021	2,251	1,091	942	1,107	962	1,223	1,205	1,166

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
1,186	1,084	1,127	1,110	1,118	1,135	1,075	1,000	1,000

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
995	964	895	752	676	630	565	548	507

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2009	-	-
438	528	697	714	687	772	960	-	-

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

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Population of Anglefort

Economy

The Électricité de France (EDF) Dam is on the Rhone river in the territory of the commune and there is a factory producing silicon. Formerly the property of the Pechiney Electro-metallurgy group, the factory has passed successively into the hands of Alcan (Canada), and the Anglo-Australian Rio Tinto at the whim of successive buy-backs of this former French industrial flagship.

Sites and monuments

• Two sites are registered as historical monuments in the commune:
  • The old Chateau of Anglefort (18th century) formerly the seat of the Lordship of Anglefort and rebuilt in 1741.
  • The Chateau of Mieugy Park
• The remains of the Chateau de la Rochette which dominates the Rhone was the seat of the Lordship of Rochette, mentioned in 1407.

Notable people linked to the commune

• Monseigneur Jacques-François Besson, born in Mieugy, Bishop of Metz from 1824 to 1842

See also

• Communes of the Ain department

External links

• Anglefort on Lion1906
• Anglefort on Google Maps
• Anglefort on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
• Anglefort on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Anglefort on the INSEE website (French)
• INSEE (French)