Avignonet
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{{Infobox French commune
|name = Avignonet
|commune status = Commune
|image = Lac de Monteynard 2.jpg
|caption = Monteynard Lake on the border with Monteynard
|arrondissement = Grenoble
|canton = Matheysine-Trièves
|INSEE = 38023
|postal code = 38650
|term = 2020–2026
|intercommunality = CC Trièves
|coordinates = {{coord|44.9597|5.6578|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation min m = 362
|elevation max m = 825
|area km2 = 8
|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
}}
Avignonet ({{IPA|fr|aviɲɔnɛ}}) is a commune in the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France.
Geography
Avignonet is located some 25 km south of Grenoble and 8 km north of Monestier-de-Clermont. Access to the commune is by the A51 autoroute (E712) which passes south through the western arm of the commune and has Exit {{Motorway exit|13}} Sinard on the commune border. Access to the village is by road D110A from Saint-Martin-de-la-Cluze in the north which comes down the western border of the commune to the village. The D110C goes east from Sinard to the dam through the south of the commune. Avignonet station has rail connections to Toulouse, Carcassonne and Narbonne. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of Le Cros and Le Mas in the south-east. There are large forests in the east of the commune with the rest of the commune farmland.[https://www.google.com/maps/place/Avignonet,+France/@44.9527252,5.6703526,6550m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x478a869fb581ac15:0x408ab2ae4be8180?hl=en Google Maps]
The eastern border of the commune is entirely formed by the Drac river and the large artificial Monteynard lake formed by the dam on the Drac river. Several streams rise in the commune and flow east to the lake including the Ruisseau d'Aiguettas, the Ruisseau de Mitraire, the Ruisseau de la Proche, and the Ruisseau des Vaux which forms part of the northern border.
=Neighbouring communes and villages=
{{Geographic location
|width=auto
|Centre = Avignonet
|North = Saint-Martin-de-la-Cluze
|Northeast = Monteynard
|East = La Motte-Saint-Martin
|Southeast = Marcieu
|South = Treffort
|Southwest = Sinard
|West = Saint-Guillaume
|Northwest = Miribel-Lanchâtre
}}
Administration
{{incomplete list|date=April 2021}}
| class="wikitable" | ||
| From | To | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 2007 | Camille Chatelard |
| 2007 | 2026 | Jérôme Fauconnier |
Demography
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Avignonetins or Avignonetines in French.[https://www.habitants.fr/isere-38 Le nom des habitants du 38 - Isère] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208051249/http://www.habitants.fr/isere-38 |date=8 December 2015 }}, habitants.fr In 2017 the commune had 197 inhabitants. In 1962 its population peaked at 951, which was due to construction workers for the Lac de Monteynard-Avignonet reservoir.{{cite journal|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/rga_0035-1121_1963_num_51_2_3131|title=Premier bilan du recensement de 1962 dans le département de l'Isère|author=C. Marie|journal=Revue de Géographie Alpine|volume=51|issue=2|year=1963|pages=292–293|doi=10.3406/rga.1963.3131|access-date=7 May 2024|archive-date=19 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240319143656/https://www.persee.fr/doc/rga_0035-1121_1963_num_51_2_3131|url-status=live}}
{{Historical populations
| align = none
| cols = 2
| percentages = pagr
| source = EHESS{{Cassini-Ehess|2185|Avignonet}} and INSEE[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-38023#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220924212324/https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-38023#ancre-POP_T1 |date=24 September 2022 }}, INSEE
|1793 |281
|1800 |279
|1806 |291
|1821 |280
|1831 |262
|1836 |285
|1841 |306
|1846 |259
|1851 |262
|1856 |247
|1861 |271
|1866 |266
|1872 |280
|1876 |270
|1881 |233
|1886 |230
|1891 |219
|1896 |209
|1901 |376
|1906 |209
|1911 |203
|1921 |136
|1926 |132
|1931 |143
|1936 |129
|1946 |110
|1954 |112
|1962 |951
|1968 |102
|1975 |87
|1982 |132
|1990 |146
|1999 |189
|2007 |222
|2012 |203
|2017 |197
}}
Culture and heritage
=Civil heritage=
- The Lac de Monteynard-Avignonet with its Dam and Hydro-electricity plant.
- Ruins of the Chateau d'Ars
- The Chateau des marceaux from the 17th century
;Former Chateaux:
- Chateau La Cluse
- Chateau des seigneurs du Gua
File:Monteynard11.jpg|View from the lake
File:Lac de Monteynard 4 - falaises.jpg|Escarpment on the lake
File:Mon lak.JPG|View of the lake
File:Moon from Lac De Monteynard- Avignonet edit1.jpg|The view east from the lake
File:Lac de Monteynard-Avignonet (38).jpg
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [http://www.visite-trieves.com/index.php?page=visite&village=Avignonet Photos of Avignonet] {{in lang|fr}}
- [http://clochers.org/Fichiers_HTML/Accueil/Accueil_clochers/38/accueil_38023.htm Bell Towers website] {{in lang|fr}}
- [http://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/accueil?c=5.6578,44.9597&z=7.92265E-5&l=GEOGRAPHICALGRIDSYSTEMS.MAPS.3D$GEOPORTAIL:OGC:WMTS@aggregate(1)&l=ADMINISTRATIVEUNITS.BOUNDARIES$GEOPORTAIL:OGC:WMTS(1)&permalink=yes Avignonet on Géoportail], National Geographic Institute (IGN) website {{in lang|fr}}
- [http://rumsey.geogarage.com/maps/cassinige.html?lat=44.9597&lon=5.6578&zoom=13 Avignonet on the 1750 Cassini Map]
{{Commons category|Avignonet}}
{{Isère communes}}
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