Corenc

Corenc is a common French, located in the department of the Isere and the area the Rhone-Alps near Grenoble. Its inhabitants is called Corençais. This city is classified first in France (apart from the Paris region) for the income per capita (30.742 euros against an national average of 15.849 euros).

Corenc draws its name from kor , which means rock, height in Indo-European pre language to which a Gallic suffix ennum is added.

The pronunciation of Corenc approaches Coren, and not as it sometimes is heard, Corin or Corinque.

Geography

Corenc was a city very agricultural, wine, glaze of pastures, and timbered on the sides of the Rachais Mount and Saint-Eynard which dominate it. The ground is a marly zone, or marno-limestone, therefore prone to the slips and crumblings. The commune is marked by the rocks.

The altitude of the commune goes from 230 meters (Holy-Therese church) to 1328 meters (extremely of St-Eynard), the village being at 530 m (Saint-Pierre church).

Localities and variations

Communes bordering

Corenc is bordered by Meylan (Medialano, ground of the medium), by the Mug (name adopted with the Revolution replacing that of Ferjus Saint, bishop of Grenoble martyrized in VIIè century), name drawn from an old forest of which it occupies the site and who was killed (or " tranchée" or " truncata"), by Sappey-in-Chartreuse (of fir tree, fir plantations, was written Sappeys in year 8) and by Quaix-in-Chartreuse (perhaps stones - on an old register Quay was written)

History

In old writings, one finds Correnum, the year 732, and Corenes with the XI° century, like more recently Coren, Corentz, and Courenc, as that is engraved on a terminal installed which occurred of Eygala.

At the end of the XIXe century, its geographical position (proximity of Grenoble, directed in the south but with the shelter of the winds and in height), attracted the rich person Grenoble-native families who wished to flee Grenoble-native estival heat. Bouchayer-Viallet (electric turbines), Balthazar (limes) or Cartier-Millon (Lustucru pastes) thus bought or makes build second home on the commune.

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