Alboussière

Alboussière is a commune in the Ardèche department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southern France.

Alboussière
Commune
The Town Hall
Coat of arms
Location of Alboussière
Alboussière Alboussière
Coordinates: 44°56′42″N 4°43′46″E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ardèche
Arrondissement	Tournon-sur-Rhône
Canton	Haut-Vivarais
Intercommunality	Rhône-Crussol
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Philippe Ponton
Area ^1	18.39 km^2 (7.10 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	1,004
• Density	55/km^2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	07007 /07440
Elevation	234–774 m (768–2,539 ft) (avg. 548 m or 1,798 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Alboussiérois or Alboussiéroises[2]

Geography

Alboussière is located some 10 km west of Valence and 10 km east of Lamastre. It can be accessed by the winding D533 road from Valence which passes through the village and continues west to Saint-Barthélemy-Grozon. The D14 road from Vernoux-en-Vivarais in the south also passes through the commune to join the D533 just north of the commune. The commune is also covered with a network of small roads. There are nine other hamlets in the commune other than the village. These are: Aubert, Blanc, Les Chatanelles, La Chalaye, Bleizac, Le Mas, Le Vivier, Ponsoye, and Fialaix.[3]

There are numerous streams throughout the commune. The Ruisseau de Jergne forms most of the southern border and the Duzon forms much of the eastern boundary with large numbers of unnamed streams joining them.[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages

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Heraldry

Arms of Alboussière

Blazon: Party per pale, Azure a ram rampant Argent and barry of six Or and Vert.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors[4]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
2001	2014	Jacques Dubay	UDI
2014	Current	Philippe Ponton	DVD

(Not all data is known)

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
2006	873	—
2007	890	+1.9%
2008	907	+1.9%
2009	925	+2.0%
2010	938	+1.4%
2011	971	+3.5%
2012	1,004	+3.4%
2013	1,038	+3.4%
2014	1,059	+2.0%
2015	1,065	+0.6%
2016	1,035	−2.8%

Distribution of Age Groups

The age distribution of the population of the commune is similar to that of the department.

Percentage Distribution of Age Groups in Alboussière and Ardèche Department in 2017

	Alboussière		Ardèche
Age Range	Men	Women	Men	Women
0 to 14 Years	23.2	20.2	17.7	16.1
15 to 29 Years	10.4	10.0	14.4	13.0
30 to 44 Years	19.6	17.5	17.3	16.9
45 to 59 Years	20.5	18.5	21.6	20.7
60 to 74 Years	17.8	16.0	19.7	19.7
75 to 89 Years	7.9	13.3	8.5	11.2
90 Years+	0.6	4.3	0.9	2.4

Source: INSEE[5][6]

Sites and Monuments

• The Chateau Crozat was enlarged in the 17th century then transformed by the architect Louis Achille Tracol in the 19th century.
• The Chapel of St-Didier-de-Crussol
• The Church of Saint-André-de-Crussol contains a Statue: Saint-Evêque (19th century) which is registered as an historical object.[7]
• The Artificial lake

• 
  The Chateau Crozet
• 
  Modern village church
• 
  The Artificial lake at Alboussière
• 
  The Artificial lake at Alboussière

Notable people linked to the commune

• Edmond Ponsoye, pastor and historian, from a very old family who owned the hamlet of Ponsoye Alboussiere.
• Gerard Miller, psychoanalyst and member of the Ruquier Band, rented with his brother Stéphane a snack-bar at the edge of the Alboussière lake in the summer of 2011.[8]
• Louis-Balthazard du Bay was born in the castle on 3 November 1775. He was, among others, Lord of Cros, Baron of Boffre, Mayor of Saint-Péray, and a member of the electoral college of the department of Ardèche.[9]

See also

• Communes of the Ardèche department
• Cantons of the Ardèche department
• Arrondissements of the Ardèche department

Notes and references

Notes

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. Inhabitants of Ardèche (in French)
3. Google Maps
4. List of Mayors of France
5. Évolution et structure de la population en 2017: Commune d'Alboussière (07007)
6. Évolution et structure de la population en 2017: Département de l'Ardèche (07)
7. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM07001087 Statue: Saint-Evêque (in French)
8. Le Dauphine, 30 July 2011 (in French)
9. Chabeaussière - Courcelles - Saint-Pons - Lanz, Universal Nobility of France: or General Collection of historical genealogies of the noble houses of the kingdom, bureau du Nobiliaire universel de France, 1814, Vol. 2, Read online (in French)

External links

• Alboussière on the old National Geographic Institute website (in French)
• Alboussière on Lion1906
• Alboussière on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
• Alboigßiers on the 1750 Cassini Map