The Mound-Servolex
the Mound-Servolex is a common French, located in the department of the Savoy and the area the Rhone-Alps.
It belongs to the agglomeration chambérienne and Chambéry Métropole.
Its inhabitants are called Motterains .
Geography
the Mound-Servolex is a commune of Savoy located in the agglomeration chambérienne. It is member of the Communauté of agglomeration Chambéry Métropole.
History
The name carried by the commune results from the union, decided in 1794 by the decree of Albitte, of the two parishes hitherto independent one of the other: The Mound-Montfort and Servolex. By its civil baptism, this new entity received name with drawers of: Plain the Servolex Mound-Montfort. This name was used until 1807. Considered to be uncomfortable with the writing, and perhaps exciting still one relent of old mode by Montfort, one links in a term simplified La Motte with Servolex by a hyphen, and this since 1808.
The first part of this made up name returns to a hillock (or hillock as certain tourist guides of the beginning of the century write it). The second part of the name comes from Servolex, very whole parish included in the territory of the Mound-Montfort. The first mention of Cervollay goes back to approximately 1100. This parish was dedicated to Saint-Etienne. The church was sold like a national good and disappeared about 1805.
Administration
Demography
The Mound-Servolex is the second commune most populated Agglomération (after Chambéry) and the fourth of the department (behind Chambéry, Albertville and Aix-the-Baths). Its growth demography is very fast since the Années 1970.
Activities
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residential Suburbs of Chambéry, one finds there also marketing activities, artisanal and agricultural S.
- the Mound-Servolex comprises four nursery schools and primary, two colleges and two colleges.
Places and monuments
The most remarkable monuments of the commune are the war memorial and the church Saint-Jean-Baptist. The latter was flanked until the beginning of the century of a priory of the 11th century. Its base, of square form, still has on the first floor of the elements of defense which make it possible to date it like a Romance vestige altered at various times. Decapitated in 1794, it was rebuilt in 1809, then equipped with a belfry for two bells. This church was the subject of modifications and successive enlargings. In 1829, in the fields of the architect Trivelli, brother-in-law of the general of Boigne, the central nave which is of Gothic style 13th century is prolonged by a new chorus; the old one, which was to comprise a flat bedside, then becomes the presbytery on which are grafted in north the vault of Costa de Beauregard and, in the south, the vault of the Virgin.
The Mound-Servolex is also a city of the castles, which all practically belong to private owners. Some preserve the traces of a particular history. In the locality of Ronjoux , a castle having belonged to François Buloz, founder of the Review of the Two Worlds, accommodated Georges Sand and of many personalities of his time. With Pingon , the castle builds in 1515, belonged inter alia to the Countess of Buttet, then with the family of Boigne. Finally the Reinach castle is the floret of the vast domain of Reinach. In 1936, it is given to the department of Savoy which transforms it into médico-teaching center, then in observation sanatorium and Agricultural college.
Twinning
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since 1974
Personalities related to the commune
See too
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Common of Savoy
External bonds
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Official site of the city
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the Mound-Servolex on the site of the national geographical Institute
- the Mound-Servolex on the site of INSEE
- the Mound-Servolex on the site of Quid
- Localization of the Mound-Servolex on a chart of France and communes bordering
- Plane of the Mound-Servolex on Mapquest
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Servolex La Motte on www.chambe-aix.com left and practical informations