Artemare

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

Geography

Village of the Valromey located at 16 km of Belley and 8 km of Culoz and of the Rhone in the department of Ain, Artemare is exposed to the south between two links of the Massif of the Jura: Planachat in the west and the Dovecote which culminates with the Large-Dovecote (1538 m of altitude) in the east. It is thus a village bugist, with the contact between Bas-Bugey and Haut-Bugey, not far from Savoy and of Isere. Artemare is sprinkled by a network of three rivers: the river of Yon, channeled to cross the village, actuated formerly sawmills and always feeds the fish ponds with trouts of the Michallet hotel. It is thrown in the Flax comb, itself flow from the Rhone which it joined close to Culoz. The hamlet of Cerveyrieu gave its name to a cascade, falls of the Flax comb of about fifty meters, and is located at the west of the third river, Arvière that here, everyone calls Groin and who forms a confluence with the Flax comb. Face mask and Flax comb deeply notched the calcareous relief, the first ground fate on the commune of Vieu - in-Valromey, in a spectacular intermittent source, before forming a deep canyon quite visible with the Pont of the Devil , second dug cascade of beautiful Cerveyrieu upstream potholes where water whirls… when the Flax comb is not dry. Village located 1 kilometer from Gift (Common of Vieu).

History

According to Louis Berthelon, Artemare was not, with the whole beginning that “an small group of dwellings located above the hill called Molard” and it is its “admirable situation dominating the vast marshes extending from Le Bourget with Cerveyrieu which was worth its name of Altemare to him, or High-Sea”, become later Artemare. Does the tradition want that holy Martin évangélisé the area which was devoted until there to pagan worships (Yon = Io?), in any case, the church of Artemare is dedicated to him and it gave its name to a close locality, Saint Martin's day de Bavel. Louis Berthelon was pharmacist of his trade, but historian deeply attached to the village, it reported in his work " Artemare at times anciens" appeared in 1948, religious, political and administrative history of the locality since the Prehistory: Gallic and Roman period, Gallo-Roman villas at the origin of the current place names, in particular those in - ieu (for example, Talissieu comes from Talussus, the name of his/her Donnus son gave Don etc), invasions in particular that of the " sarrazins" occupying the plate of Fierloz (a locality always bears the name " under Carraz"!), plagues of the the Middle Ages etc After having been a direct field of the counts then dukes of Savoy, Valromey is occupied of 1536 to 1559 by François Ier and Henri II, and of 1595 to 1601 by Henri IV, it becomes definitively French at the same time by the Traité of Lyon of January 17th, 1601 as the Bresse, the Bugey and the Country of Gex and well before close Savoy which will be attached to France by Napoleon III only in 1860. In 1612, Honore d' Urfé, the author of " Astrée" , while inheriting her mother, born Renee of Savoy, becomes the first marquis of Valromey, Verromey, in local patois; this name appears in the texts under the names of Verrumensi in 1110, Veromensi (1142), Verrometum (1169) and undoubtedly derives from Venetonimagus or in the past from Vernemetonimagos (Gone of the Large Sanctuary?). The etymology " Vallis Romana" , Roman valley, would be the invention of scholars Latinists. Cerveyrieu, Yon, Artemare and Ameyzieu, parish which included Artemare until the French revolution, were still of small villages until the dissolution of the commune of Ameyzieu in 1862 (now common of Talissieu) and the formation of that of Yon-Artemare, “it was not any more question but of Artemare” starting from January 1st, 1886. Artemare, or more exactly at the time Yon and Cerveyrieu, was known for its manufacture of flat-bottomed boats making it possible to join by the Flax comb the wearing of Culoz on the Rhone, in particular for the trade of wood. A " tram of Bugey" (small steam train) functioned between Virieu-the-Large and Ruffieu, via the " grimpette of Artemare" , of 1898 to 1933. December 29th, 1923, an accident with Faverge (Champagne), caused the death of the mechanic and the driver. As point out it the war memorials commune, Artemare paid its tribute with the two wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945; at the time of the Second world war, Kommandantur sat at the hotel Bérard (today Michallet) and the inhabitants of Artemare knew the Deportation, the captivity, Resistance (maquis of high Valromey, groups of the secret army, ACE), a " Building site of jeunesse" (attacked by the maquis to get equipment) and collaboration. A monument in edge of the road of the collar of Lèbe, close to Bioléaz (Belmont-Luthézieu), and a score of steles or plates, on the spot where the Resistant ones were held or cut down, testify some in Artemare and in the surroundings.

Like writes it Louis Berthelon quoting Ovide to conclude his work, “they are piles labor to write the history of his country”!.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Closed Lambert, formerly strong house of the knights of Seyssel, replaced by a house Rebirth in second half of 16th century century, today E.S.A.T. (Establishment and Services of Assistance by Work). Roof, hollow, a small house of the 16th century and a beautiful window with Meneau X have escaped with the vicissitudes of the history!
Cascade of Cerveyrieu, very spectacular in period of believed of the Flax comb.
Tank in Balthazar, beautiful pit of the Face mask between Gift and Artemare, unfortunately, a microphone-power station having been built just below, the taking away of water upstream decreases the flow part of the year.
Castle of Machuraz (16th, restored 19th), its round tower dominates the entry of the village when one arrives by the west. Its vineyard developed by the abbey of Saint-Sulpice provided one of the famous wines of Bugey.
In Cerveyrieu: house of 16th, in restoration for several years for the part of the internal court and the hexagonal tower, the other part being alas in bad condition and with the abandonment, its tower polygonal has still carried the date of 1572; restored baker's oven and laundrette.
Virgin of Fierloz. The buildings pronounce " Fiarle" , it is about beautiful a Lapiaz on which the traces of the mysterious camps " are; sarrazins" about which L. Berthelon speaks and who would remain to be dated. Who were thus these Carraz (pronounce /kara/)? Historians, your lights are the welcomes!
Castle of Antioche, in full heart of Gift.
Source of the Face mask with Vieu; to surprise the water emerging of resurgence certain days is an intense pleasure but which is deserved because it is necessary to be there at the good moment!
Sugar loaf (calcareous concretion) of Champagne in Valromey.
rural Museum of Valromey with Lochieu.
Garden ethnobotanic of Arvières (plants of the Neolithic at the 15th century).
Ruins of Châteauneuf between Songieu and Bassieu.
Poisieu: together architectural of 3 monuments (fountain, martyrdom and furnace).
Large Dovecote (1538 m) one day Excursion for the sportsmen. Splendid point of view on all the area with table of orientation.
Châteaufroid (19th) in Talissieu.
Marsh of Lavours (one hour of walk along the Flax comb): 480 hectares classified Natural reserve since 1984, with rare plants like the spiranthe of summer and the Liparis de Loesel, more than 400 butterfly S, of which the Azuré fens and the Cuivré marshes, a dozen Amphibien S the such nimble Grenouille or the clamping plate Sonneur with yellow belly, Reptile S like the Couleuvre of Esculape, more than 200 Oiseau X, among which the Throat-blue with mirror, the ashy Curlew or the Circaète Short-toed eagle and of the Mammalian S such as the beaver of Europe or the Stag Elaphe. A path on Piloti S (long 2.400 meters) and the House of the marsh (04-79-87-90-39) facilitate the discovery of it.
In short: Artemare is the ideal starting point for walks with foot and excursions of any level and remember that you are in the country of the gastronome Brillat-Savarin, author of the Physiologie of the taste and born in Belley in 1755, the specialities bugists and valromeysannes are thus of rigor!

Personalities related to the commune

Adolphe Appian - Painter of the Lyons School (1818-1898) passed from many summers to Artemare and painted many sites of Valromey. Some of its tables are exposed to the museum of the monastery of Husks.

See too

Common of Ain

External bonds

http://www.valromeyretord.com
history of Artemare (monograph)
Artemare on the site of the national geographical Institute
Artemare on the site of INSEE
Artemare on the site of Quid
Localization of Artemare on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Artemare on Mapquest

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