Savigna

Savigna is a common French, located in the south of the department of the the Jura and thus in the southernmost part of the area Franche-Comté.

Geography

The rural district of Savigna is located in the country of the Petite Mountain, in the basin of Valouse, halfway between Orgelet and Arinthod. It is made up of 3 hamlets: Savigna, Ugna and Givria.

Nearly 100 ha of forests, in majority of the leafy trees, occupy its territory. In addition to Valouse, its principal affluent, Valouson, also crosses this commune.

History

The village was in the past called Savigna-lez-Ugna. The origin of the name would come from Latin Sabinus and the suffix - iacum (indicating the membership of a field to a man), Sabiniacum probably indicates an agricultural domain given to a former legionary.

The first known mention of the existence of the village dates from the 13th century. It was separated from the seigniory of Nancuise with 18th. The communes of Givria and Ugna were plain in Savigna in 1822.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • church with Gothic belfry of style of the 15th century, decorated of four pinnacles, and arched blazing vault warheads

  • house seigneuriale (in top of the village)
  • statue of Madonna (on the coast dominating the village)
  • old station of Ugna-Savigna, vestige of the line of the Secondary lines of the Jura between Lons-the-Salt maker and Arinthod, active of 1901 to 1938
  • laundrette with original frame (in Ugna, in direction of Marigna-on-Valouse)
  • stage of Martelet on which are organized the most important concerts of the Festival of Word of mount

Personalities related to the commune

See too

  • Common of the Jura

External bonds

  • the Small Mountain

  • the network of the C.F.V of the Jura

  • Geology of the area of Orgelet in the Jurassic system

  • Some origins of place names in Franche-Comté

  • Savigna on the site of the National Geographical Institute

  • Savigna on the site of INSEE
  • Savigna on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Savigna on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Savigna on Mapquest

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