Jacob-Bellecombette

Jacob-Bellecombette is a common French, located in the department of the Savoy and the area the Rhone-Alps.

It makes party of the agglomeration chambérienne and Chambéry Métropole.

Geography

Located at the south of Chambéry, Jacob-Bellecombette occupies the first slopes of the solid mass of Large Chartreuse. Residence of the Alps, with 290m in the North-West, the commune rises up to 490 m in Grobelle, in south-east. It knew, while developing, to preserve many green areas, meadows, quickset hedges, small woods… in spite of its modest surface (247 ha). Its cascade, place of walk known and appreciated in all the area, confers the charm of a preserved nature to him.

History

In the cartulaires of St Hugues, bishop of Grenoble, written between 1081 and 1132, it is mentioned church of Jacob. With the Middle Ages, Jacob depended on the Priory of Lémenc and Bellecombette, which belonged to the parish of Montagnole, depended on the seigniory of Villeneuve with Cognin.

In 1497, the two villages were joined together to train Jacob-Bellecombette. Very early, of rich person chambériens, noble and middle-class, fields acquired on the sunny slopes close to the city, as the land register of 1738 attests it. In addition to the incomes of the tenant farming, they offered to their owners the charm of the countryside in summer. Little before the French revolution the commune obtained its stamping against the sum of 2.174 L.

The revolutionary period was rather calm with Jacob-Bellecombette. October 14th, 1792, the general meeting of the inhabitants expressed the will to request the meeting of Savoy from France.

The 19th century century is marked by the rebuilding of the parish church St Maurice, thanks to the determination of the Georges abbot, priest of the parish of 1844 to 1879. Prince Royal (future king Humbert Ier of Italy) posed the first hones on May 29th, 1850 and offered the white marble high altar. Of neo-gothic style, it is characterized by its harmonious proportions, its stained glasses offered by the Queen Mother Marie-Therese Albertine of Tuscany and its furniture. It was restored in 1999. It is during this century also that the Sisters of St Joseph settled in Bellecombette, thanks to the legacy of Louise Borrel. " The Convent of the Sisters " built in edge of the road of the Mont Granier is familiar to the Jacobins. Jacob-Bellecombette counted two large craftsmen of the Annexation of Savoy in France in 1860, both lawyers and members of the Court of Appeal of Chambéry, Claude-Amédée Greyfié de Bellecombe, owner of Chaney and Charles Dupasquier, owner of Villard. This last was named governor of Savoy at the time of the annexation.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

The castle of Peysse, of which the oldest parts date from the XIV° and XV° centuries, the church St Maurice, built in the middle of the XIX° century and the town hall-school built the day before the 2nd world war are the buildings of most remarkable Bellecombette Jacob.

A commune under development full

Jacob-Bellecombette saw, like all the communes of the periphery chambérienne, his population quickly to increase during the last decades, from 562 inhabitants in 1936, it passed to 3.623 inhabitants in 1999. Become residential, the commune is characterized by its dispersed habitat which combines multifamily apartments and houses. Formerly rural, Jacob-Bellecombette counts today only two farms, trade, banks, craft industry, liberal professions… are his other poles of activity. Almost the whole of the credits work outside. The common one developed, thanks to the lawyer Grand, benefactor of the hospitals, at last century its hospital vocation. It counts three old people's homes. It is also one of the large poles of the University of Savoy, its campus accommodates some 6.000 students in right, letters, languages and social sciences. Community life there is active and profits from the beautiful whole of Jacobelle.

Green areas, cascading water, sun and panorama privilege this small town where it makes good things in life.

See too

Common of Savoy
the Official site of Jacob Bellecombette

External bonds

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

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