Saint-Didier-in Aussiat

Geography

Located at 8 km, the south-west of Montrevel-in-Bresse on which it is bordering, the commune is crossed by the C.D. 26 (Marlieux with Pont-de-Vaux), the C.D. 92 (Saint-Sulpice with Viriat), the C.D. 26 has and the C.D. 47 in limit of the commune in Reveyriat.

The relief is typical plate bressan, i.e. undulating, altitude varying from 192 m to 221 m in Belouzes.

Water is divided on two slopes: to the south, they move towards a small valley where several ponds follow one another, since the Pétrus pond where Menthon takes its source, before joining Veyle by the level of the Attack. In north, they gain Reysouzet which forms the limit with Montrevel-in-Bresse, and is grown bigger by the brook of Bruelles, the level Bracan itself supplied with the level of Carniers. The brooks of Lioux and Loëze join Reyssouze.

The grounds belong to the tertiary sector (ferruginous silt on the heights, sands and marnes blue on the slopes) and to quaternary (alluvia deposited in the funds of valleys).

The surface of the commune reaches exactly 1521,72 ha divided into 2577 pieces, the habitat there being very dispersed (about thirty hamlets and detached houses); this territory is very stretched of ouset in is on 10 km, whereas one counts only 1 km 200 between the limits north and south.

The dominant activity is still agriculture associating mixed-farming and breeding.

History

The name of the parish, if it refers constantly since 1163 with the character of Saint-Didier , hesitates more as for the writing of what seems to have been the starting point of a community of inhabitants: Ouciacum or Auciacum or Oncieux (1096) or Arciacum (1266) Ouciaci (1415) then Auxiaci (1444) to arrive at Auxiat (1496) Aussiaz (1636) with still Oucia (1510) or even Oussiat (1784), jointly besides with Aussiat, not retained by the revolutionists.

At the time Gallo-Roman, a way which connected Borough-in-Bresse to Bâgé-le-Châtel and Mâcon crossed the current commune by Valetta, Tribaudière, Gottex, Couarles, the locality Chatelet (could evoke the existence of a fort). This way was used until the XVIIIe century: the old land register indicates it like " the old road of Borough-in-Bresse with Mâcon" and that and there of the vestiges was found. In the same way, in several points, the ground delivered fragments of Roman tiles. Lastly, the hamlet of Collonges does not evoke it some " colon" Roman?

In the Middle Ages, several strongholds developed: Coissiat, Clermont, Collonges and Belouzes, these two last still existed in 1784 and had thestrong ones. Belouzes dépenaient at the origin of the lords de Bâgé, it was attached then to the marquisat of Saint Martin's day.

The hamlet of Reveyriat has a curious origin. Indeed, the localities known as of Montbarbon and Montcrosier formed part by alternation one year of Dommartin, the other of Saint-Didier-in Aussiat and the nickname familiarly, " Reveyriat" , remained to him, because of the distance of the village. Reveyriat formed a community having its own role of imposition (1666, 1789). At the XVIIe XVIIIe centuries a clear transformation of the land and buildings occurs: noble and privileged ones sell their goods ux inhabitants of the place.

That explains perhaps, at least partly, the fact that the Revolution has evil to mobilize the population, certainly, one demolishes the castle of Belouzes, but that is done in confusion, on the other hand, one makes warm welcome with the refractory priests, there is no candidate to train the jury and the municipality: everyone is outgoing and the requisitions are refused. Stability returned under Napoleon 1st. But if the martérielle situation improves somewhat, it is however not flourishing. The Austrians also left a quite bad memory at the time of their passage in 1814, during the 1st quarter, requisitioning them too.

The roadway system was a constant preocupation for the municipality during all the XIXe century. It was necessary to prevail to require the repairing of walks on somewhat abandoned during the period révolutonnaire and at the beginning of the empire. The departmental road alignment n° 26 required several years. The improvement of the highway network allowed the development and the opening on outside, the farmer did not live any more in autarky. In 1888, there were five fields of more than 60 hectares. Since 1853, a trade union is built by the residents for the clearing out of the Bracan level; thereafter various trade unions, mutual insurance companies, are created. At present, community life always is very developed.

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See too

List of the Common of Ain

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