Balbigny

Balbigny
Balbigny
Hành chính
Quốc gia	Pháp
Vùng	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Tỉnh	Loire
Quận	Roanne
Tổng	Néronde
Xã (thị) trưởng	Jean-Marc Regny (2008–2014)
Thống kê
Độ cao	314–482 m (1.030–1.581 ft)
Diện tích đất1	16,98 km2 (6,56 dặm vuông Anh)
Nhân khẩu2	2.546  (2006)
- Mật độ	150/km2 (390/sq mi)
INSEE/Mã bưu chính	42011/ 42510
1 Dữ liệu địa chính Pháp loại trừ các hồ và ao lớn hơn 1 km² (0.386 dặm vuông hoặc 247 acre) cũng như các cửa sông.
2 Dân số không tính hai lần: cư dân của nhiều xã (ví dụ, các sinh viên và quân nhân) chỉ tính một lần.

Balbigny là một xã trong tỉnh Loire miền trung nước Pháp.

History

Balbigny owes its name to a Roman general named Balbinius who based himself here in order to conduct a war. Nothing survives from this period. The earliest identified traces of Balbigny date from 1090.

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, before the Loire was channelled, Balbigny was a village of boatmen, known for flat bottomed boats known as Rambertes which were used to transport the coal mined at Saint-Étienne. The loaded Rambertes arrived from Saint-Rambert and stopped off at Balbigny where the boat crews were changed, taking the boats to the next change-over point at Roanne. All this changed in August 1832 with the arrival of the third oldest railway line in France which connected Andrézieux-Bouthéon with Roanne, passing Balbigny en route. An extension of the rail network in 1913 saw Balbigny connected with Saint-Germain-Laval và Régny. The coal was therefore transported by rail, but the railway also gave farmers in the district access to a wider range of markets for their produce.

The road bridge crossing the Loire was destroyed in 1940 in order to hold back advancing German troops, and a ferry service was introduced to permit the river to be crossed. The bridge was rebuilt in 1950 and continues in existence in 2010.

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