Dardilly

Dardilly
Dardilly

Coordinates: 45°48′23″N 4°45′13″E / 45.8064°N 4.7536°E / 45.8064; 4.7536Coordinates: 45°48′23″N 4°45′13″E / 45.8064°N 4.7536°E / 45.8064; 4.7536
Country France
Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Metropolis Metropolis of Lyon
Arrondissement Lyon
Government
 • Mayor (2014-2020) Michèlle Vullien (Independent)
Area1 13.99 km2 (5.40 sq mi)
Population (2012)2 8,519
 • Density 610/km2 (1,600/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code 69072 / 69570
Elevation 240–375 m (787–1,230 ft)
(avg. 348 m or 1,142 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Dardilly is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France.

Its inhabitants are called Dardillois

Geography

An undulating town to in the western lyonnais, Dardilly is crossed to the east by the A6 autoroute and the RN6 and to the west by the RN7. Marked by a pleasanter, greener and more rural lifestyle, Dardilly's center is only 20 minutes by car from the Lyons peninsula. (By TCL bus: lines 3, 89, and by train, from the Saint-Paul suburb, - Lozanne).

Dardilly, with its 13.99 km2 (5.40 sq mi), includes three valleys oriented north south: the valley of ruisseau de la Beffe to the west, the valley of the ruisseau des Planches and the valley of the ruisseau de Serres to the east. Its altitude varies between 260 and 390 metres, allowing exceptional views over the Monts d'Or, the Monts du Lyonnais and even on clear days the Alps, from Vercors to Mont Blanc.

The Town also possesses 1.73 km2 of leafy forests of ones and 6.46 km2 (2.49 sq mi) of farmland. Many paths for walkers, horseriders and mountain-bikers criss-cross these spaces:

Bordering communes include:

History

The name Dardilly may originate from the Gallo-Roman name Dardiliacus, if the town was founded in that period, but there is no historic proof for this hypothesis, although the remains of an aqueduct built by Claudius to bring the waters of the Brévenne River (a tributary of the Azergues, itself a tributary of the Saône) to Lyon have been found nearby. More likely, the name Dardilly originated at the time of its first surviving mention, in the 10th century cartulary of Ainay Abbey, which possessed several lands here.

In the Middle Ages, the village, constructed on a mound, was made up of a church dedicated to Saint Pancras, an adjacent cemetery and about twenty houses. In 1210, at the time of the feudal wars, the Count of Beaujeu tried to seize the city of Lyon and its then archbishop, Renaud II de Forez, fortified Dardilly as part of his defence of Lyon by building a wall and ditch around the existing settlement.

In the time of Jean-Marie Vianney - the late 18th and early to middle 19th centuries - Dardilly was an agricultural and wine-growing town, with some beautiful houses built by wealthy people from Lyons who spent the summer months here. The population was about 1500 inhabitants. At the end of the 19th century the vines were ravaged by phylloxera and many of the town's inhabitants left for Lyons to find work, bringing the population down to 982 in 1911. The vine-growers that remained went over to growing fruit.

In 1986 Pope John-Paul II visited Dardilly to see Vianney's birthplace on the occasion of the bicentenary of his birth.

Administration

List of mayors

From Name Party
June 1995 Michèle Vullien Independent
June 1990 Daniel Le Maire RPR
March 1989 Bernard Thomas Independent
March 1971 André Vialle Independent
Holders before this date are unknown

Demography

Historical population of Dardilly
Year19621968197519821990199920072012
Population17312010274346686688758984148519
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

The active population of Dardilly is 3546. Out of the employed residents of the commune, 25.6% work in Dardilly, 17.4% work in another TECHLID (Technopole économique de l'Ouest Lyonnais - Technopolis of West Lyonnais) commune, 52.3% work in another (non-TECHLID) commune within the département and 4.7% work outside the département.

Economic

Distribution by sector
Primary Secondary Tertiary Unknown
3.2 % 13.2% 82.4% 1.2%

Social

Dardilly has several social action groups :

Residences

The town had 1,700 buildings in 1982, compared to 2 821 buildings in 2005. Even though the town's buildings have remained very residential, with a majority being individually owned houses, many of its buildings are social housing.

Environment

Schools

Culture

People

Religion

The 2 churches, Saint Jean-Marie Vianney et Saint Claude, make up the Catholic parish of Dardilly.

Sights and monuments

Sport

About twenty sports associations and some businesses (e.g. a dance school) give a variety of sports opportunities in Dardilly. The town also has access to several sports facilities:

Twin towns

References

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