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Geography

Auterive is located on old the Trunk road 622 at 30 km at the south of Toulouse and 19 km Is of Muret on the Ariège in an alluvial plain of 4 km width which separates these slopes from those of the Volvestre.

Proximity of Toulouse which is not that to 35 km attracted activities and residents. This Agglomération is very well served by the transportation routes: Railroad and RN 20 where all the traffic connecting Toulouse to the the Pyrenees circulates, therefore with the Andorre and the Spain. The city is also crossed by a road way connecting the valleys of the the Garonne and Ariège to that making it possible to join Toulouse to the the Mediterranean.

History

The presence of a River as well as valley giboyeuse and easy to traverse very early attracted the prehistoric man. On the site of Auterive, one found tools of the Neolithic time. age of iron, remained to us burial S of the field type of ballot boxes.

After the Roman invasion, a company Gallo-Roman developed and thrived on the whole of the site.

Then christianization involved the construction of many churches. During the the Middle Ages, the city was divided between several lords. The principal part of the Baronnie, given to the counts de Foix in 1423, was attached has royal field by Henry IV in 1602. The city was partly destroyed during the Croisade against the Albigensians.

It was devastated by the Peste, the wars and the armed robbery during the 14th century and suffered cruelly from the wars of religion at the end of the 16th century. Its old bridge being broken down in 1599, Ariège had to be crossed by boat during all the Ancien Mode.

The rebuilding of the city, started as of the 17th century, continued at the next century with, inter alia, by the creation of a royal manufacture which exported in the East of cloths of great quality, then the enlarging and the embellishment of the Saint-Paul church. At the 19th next century, the new bridge as well as a Moulin and a Minoterie was built; the arrival of the railroad rang the knell of the port of Auterive.

The 20th century is marked by the irresistible expansion of the district of the Madeleine with the establishment of an industrial park which does not cease increasing.

Economy

The local economy rests on the Agriculture which developed on the fertile grounds of the plain that Lauragais. The other branches of industry are however quite present there: trade; Craft industry, services and especially industrial activities. The zone of activities installed along RN 20 does not cease increasing and new individual constructions make move back the limits of the city in all the directions.

The various rich person community life and installations (stages, Swimming pool discovered, Camp-site, Cinema, Theater, etc), offer a broad choice of sports activities, leisures or cultural. Very pleasant courses for walkers or sportsmen were arranged in edge of Ariège.

Administration

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Demography

Places and monuments

The Saint-Paul district, located on Right Bank of Ariège, is that of the old city.

The Saint Paul church with the Bell-tower wall, has a bell of the 15th century, one can appreciate there his murals, its organ, its high altar, its angels admirers, its support of communion, the bust and the statue of Paul saint. Its Retable is in Noyer 1607. The grids of communion are in Wrought iron are XVIIIe century.

In addition, of the remarkable buildings are visible in this district; inter alia, the house Ysalguier with a tower and a frontage with half-timberings, the Hotel-God-Saint-Jacques who shelters the Hearth of Popular education, the house of the Count or house Delpy, old Royal Manufacture, the vault Our-Lady-of-Castle, built to call upon a protection at the time of a departure in Crusade and old ramparts with the Cambolas tower.

The district of the Madeleine has a church and the old market was arranged as a theater. In the surroundings, draws up also the Pigeonnier of Vernière.

Museum of the Old Tools
Edge of the Ariège

Personalities related to the commune

Twinnings

See too

Common Maquis of Rieumes
of the Haute-Garonne
Old communes of the Haute-Garonne

External bonds

Archaeological

Auterive on the site of the national geographical Institute
Auterive on the site of INSEE
Auterive on the site of Quid
Localization of Auterive on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Auterive on Mapquest

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