Leyssard

Leyssard is a common French of the department of the Ain. Its inhabitants do not have particular name.

Geography

Leyssard is located at center-is Département of Ain in the Top Bugey, in the Massif of the Jura. The communal territory, delimited by the communes of Sonthonnax-the-Mountain, Nurieux-Volognat, Peyriat, Gird, Shawl-the-Mountain, Serrières-on-Ain and Bolozon, stretches north in the south in the folds of the Berthiand Mounts on 9,61 km ². The commune includes/understands six agglomerations: Leyssard, Balvay, Chapiat, Écuvillon, Lie and Solomiat, for which it is necessary to add the northern part of the Mill of Cramans, located on Right Bank of the brook of the same name which is used as limit with Challes. The secondary road 979 (old RN 79) connecting Mâcon and Borough-in-Bresse to Geneva crosses the commune but any the villages composing it.

History

With the Middle Ages, Leyssard depended on Baronnie de Poncin. Passing successively under the dependence of the Counts de Bourgogne and Sirs de Thoire, Leyssard passes under Savoyard domination in 1402 and this until in 1601, date of fastening of the Countries of Ain in France, by the Treaty of Lyon. Before the Revolution, the village concerns the election of Belley, subdelegation of Nantua and mandement of Poncin. In 1790, during the creation of the Department of Ain, Leyssard and its almost 900 inhabitants becomes chief town of canton until in 1800. In 1828, four of its hamlets, Serrières, Sonthonnax the Vineyard, Merpuis and Malaval are detached from the commune to form that of Serrières-on-Ain.

Economy - Population

Formerly primarily agricultural the village and its hamlets, victims of the rural turning into a desert saw as from the Eighties the installation of new inhabitants working on the basins of use of Nantua - Oyonnax, Borough-in-Bresse and Poncin and of secondary residents.

Administration

Demography

Graph of evolution of the population 1794-1999 (until the census of 1820, Serrières-on-Ain is included/understood)

Curiosities

Church of Leyssard and vault of Solomiat.
Point of view on the throats of the Ain and Revermont, since the site of Balvay (starting track of parapentes)

See too

List of the Common of Ain

External bonds

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