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Saint-Offenge-Top is a common French, located in the department of the Savoy and the area the Rhone-Alps.

Geography

The commune of Saint-Offenge-Top is located on the Western slope of the Massif of the Wallows. This solid mass forms a vast rhombus between Lac of Annecy, Lac of Le Bourget and Vallée of Isere. Saint-Offenge-top is thus to 13 km of Aix-the-Baths and with a little less than 30 km of Annecy and Chambéry.

The common one belongs to the Regional natural park of the Solid mass of the Wallows.

History

Origins of Saint-Offenge, few things are known: it is thus necessary to seek how the commune falls under the history of the Wallows. The circumferences of the solid mass but also the heart of the Wallows delivered traces of human occupation as of the age of Iron, then at the time Gallo-Roman, finally during the Early middle ages: structures of habitat with mosaic to the Mound in Wallows, elements of Saint François amphoras and aqueduct the Dirty ones, burials, currencies, weapons. Thus, at Saint Offenge-Dessous were updated of the tombs under tiles containing a vase and currencies, gone back to 250 to 600 after Jesus-Christ.

At the end of XIIIème century, the area, the “Albanian country”, which is then famous to be the attic of Savoy, is the stake of a competition baited between two States: the County of Savoy and the County of Geneva. From Annecy to Chautagne, the undecided border ran of the Wallows to the Rhone, defended by a series of castles and thestrong ones, in Viuz, Gruffy, Cusy, Saint-Offenge-Top (Loëx), Grésy, Saint-Innocent, Sallières, Cessens, Biolle. With the liking of their fights or their bringings together, Savoy and Geneva dispute these places which change owners, which makes their history complex.

Administration

|- ! 1937!! Jean Magnin!! n.c. !! n.c. |- ! 1944!! Marcel Favrin!! n.c. !! n.c. |- ! 1947!! Anthelme Effrancey!! n.c. !! n.c. |- ! 1953!! Anthelme Effrancey!! n.c. !! n.c. |- ! 1959!! Emile Chanvillard!! n.c. !! n.c. |- ! 1965!! Gilbert Magnin!! n.c. !! farmer |- ! 1971!! Gilbert Magnin!! n.c. !! farmer |- ! 1977!! Guy Chanvillard!! n.c. !! n.c. |- ! 1983!! Guy Chanvillard!! n.c. !! n.c. |- ! 1989!! Christian Pernet!! n.c. !! n.c. |- ! 1995!! Christian Pernet!! n.c. !! n.c. |- ! 2001!! Christian Pernet!! n.c. !! n.c. |}

Demography

In the middle of the 19th century, Saint-Offenge-Top counted more than 400 inhabitants. But the emigration, the consequences of the First World War then, after 1945, the decline of the dairy breeding are at the origin of the demographic fall. For thirty years on the other hand, the commune, like the common neighbors, has made great strides related to the periurbanisation because of proximity of basins of active employment, Chambéry, Aix-the-Baths, Rumilly, Annecy.

Places and monuments

The church of the commune rebuilt starting from 1849 in the style néo-Sardinian, running then in Wallows and in Faucigny, sheltered a wood pietà carved and painted beginning of the 16th century. This pietà comes from a retable of the old church of Antonins in Chambéry; the giver is the count of Clermont-Mount-Saint-Jean. Today, she was entrusted to a museum.

Every year since about thirty years, the two communes of Saint-Offenge-Below and Saint-Offenge-Tops organize the third weekend of July the " Celebrates of Gruyère": in addition to the Emmenthaler cheese contest in which the many fruit-bearing ones of the area take part, Sunday is also marked by folk spectacles which associate the local group " Lou Cabro" with groups come from the whole world.

Starting from the hamlet of Combes, excursions give access to interesting sites: the cascade of Sierroz and its " pots of géants" , the collar of Cochette with a panorama on the Albanian and the lake of Le Bourget

Personalities related to the commune

Monseigneur François Joseph Chanvillard (1873-1951). Born on August 16th, 1873 with Saint-Offenge-Top, it was ordered priest in June 1899 in Lyon. He was successively professor at the Ozanam school of Lyon, professor to the great seminar of Nice and general vicar of Nice, finally prelate domesticates in 1927. He is deceased in Cannes on August 6th, 1951.

See too

Common of Savoy

External bonds

Saint-Offenge-Top on the site of the national geographical Institute
Saint-Offenge-Top on the site of INSEE
Saint-Offenge-Top on the site of Quid
Localization of Saint-Offenge-Top on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Saint-Offenge-Top on Mapquest

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