Barraux

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

The inhabitants are Barrolins.

Geography

Barraux is a village in top of the valley of the Grésivaudan, with the top of Pontcharra It is located at 3 km of Pontcharra (Trade, Collège, Lycée) Barraux is located at 22 km of Chambéry (100.000 hbt.) and at 35 km of Grenoble (650.000 hbt.)

Districts of Barraux

  • the Center Town

  • Cullier
  • Beauregard, Frettte
  • Fayet
  • the Trowel
  • the Square
  • the Cross
  • Rua

The quoted Districts all are urbanized (Where there are buildings). The Commune is divided into 3 villages (Hamlets) One called quite simply Barraux which gathers the following districts: The Center Town, the Square, Rua, Beauregard, the Hoop, the Cross and all lately attached to these districts by new allotments: Cullier (In the past a Hamlet), the Other called Fayet (Which gathers the districts of Fayet, of Beauregard " Forêt" , Top of the Hoop.)

The last named the Trowel gathers the districts of the Trowel Centers, the Top of the Trowel, Reneviers. This hamlet of Barraux was in the past a commune.

The Districts Center Town and Square were formerly a center of Manufacture of Gloves from where the street name of the Glove factory located at the Square which sheltered formerly the largest factory of Gloves of the Commune. A store with a small factory was located at the Beginning of the street of the Fort in the Center Town.

Communes bordering

History of Strong Barraux

  • Taken by Lesdiguières in 1598 with the duke of Savoy Charles-Emmanuel Ier, which had just made it build (1597).

Vauban transforms it into 1692 on order of Louis XIV to consolidate the defense of the Alps.

  • Camp of German captive officers between 1914 and 1918.

  • Camp of internment for the Jews, resistant and traffickers of the black-market of 1941 to 1948.

  • Ammunition dump of alpine Division until in 1988.

Administration

Demography

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Monuments

Religious heritage

  • neo-gothic Church of the XIXe century

Many Inhabitants

1720 in 2006

Twinnings

Barraux is twinned with the village of Lanhouarneau, in the Finistere.

Related articles

Common of Isere

External bonds

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