Arbresle

Arbresle is a common French, located in the department of the the Rhone and the area the Rhone-Alps.

Geography

The arbresle is on Main road 7, to 27 km in the North-West of Lyon. The commune is located at the confluence of the Brévenne and the Turdine.

History

As of the Neolithic time , the site of Arbresle is occupied by the Homme, as attest it the polished Hache S and the points of arrow S out of flint found with the Muzard. This human occupation several times millenium, Arbresle owes it with its privileged site: it is a confluence of Rivière S isolating and protecting a Presqu'île dominated by a rock favourable with the refuge and defense like with the monitoring and control from the passages, with the Carrefour of the two valleys which are inevitable ways of penetration towards the mounts of the Lyonese and the Beaujolais wine.

The road is one of the keys of the development of the village arbresloise. As of the top the Middle Ages, Arbresle constitutes a halt on “French Main road” which is the shortest route and more attended connecting Paris to Lyon, and which will transform with the wire of time into “Main road of Paris to Lyon”, then in “Royal Road”, old names of our current Trunk road 7.

Also during centuries, Arbresle it is crossed by commercial S, the Soldat S, the pilgrims, the travellers famous or anonymous stopping for drinking, eating, to sleep in many inns and fashionable country inn, and to be made look after, or die sometimes, with the hotel God of the Madeleine.

The history of Arbresle merges with that of the abbey of Savigny of which it shares prosperity like the vicissitudes: the borough is strengthened by the abbot Dalmace at the 11th century and becomes one of the principal fortified towns protecting the Abbaye. The Château undergoes various attacks with the liking of the fights Féodal are, then Guerre One hundred Year old, and fall in ruins at the time of the decline of the abbey at the 17th century.

Near to Lyon, Arbresle attracts the middle-class men and the noble Lyoneses who make there build at the 16th century, of the houses in the style of the time Renaissance: thus, starting from 1660, the De Valous frequently remain “in their country house” arbresloise and supervise the management and the incomes of their meadows, vines, mills and cheneviers.

This same proximity of Lyon makes it possible Arbresle to profit as of 1815 from the expansion from Lyons weaving towards the campaigns. With the wire of the 19th century, the village still very agricultural takes the form of an industrial small town specialized in the weaving of the silk velvet, whose development is accelerated by the arrival of the railroad towards 1860.

; The factory of weaving Rock at the beginning of the 20th century. Starting from 1895, the Tissage with arm is gradually supplanted by the mechanical weaving which concentrates several hundreds of weaving looms in some large factories or small family workshops, often in residence. Peripheral activities with weaving (Unwinding, Warping, manufacture of Comb S to be woven) make live many arbrelois then. The era of weaving in Arbresle ends in the years 1960 and constrained all the working population with a painful reconversion.

Each one of these episodes of the history of Arbresle left still visible traces nowadays in the city: the Keep and carries it Savigny, the bridge of the Madeleine or the sign of the three Moors, the frontage of factory Roche the velvet like the weaving looms with the Museum, is as many witnesses who speak in the middle and with the memory and are the inheritance common to the arbreslois passed, present, and to come.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Economy

Events

Personalities related to Arbresle

Jean-Michel Aulas, French business men, president of the Olympic Lyonese.
Barthelemy Thimonnier, inventor of the sewing machine, was born with Arbresle in 1793, in the current mall.
Remi Keeps, former footballer of the Olympique Lyonese and Arsenal F.C.
Romain Beynié, French footballer born with Abresle

See too

Slopes of the Lyonese: Vineyard
Common of the Rhone

External bonds

Town hall of Arbresle
Site of the public college " Four vents"
Arbresle on the site of the national geographical Institute
Arbresle on the site of INSEE
Arbresle on the site of Quid
Localization of Arbresle on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane of Arbresle on Mapquest

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