Balbigny

Balbigny
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Quốc gia	Pháp
Vùng	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Tỉnh	Loire
Quận	Roanne
Tổng	Néronde
Liên xã	Communauté de communes de Balbigny
Chính quyền
• Thị trưởng (2008–2014)	Jean-Marc Regny
Diện tích1	16,98 km2 (656 mi2)
Dân số (2006)	2.546
• Mật độ	1,5/km2 (3,9/mi2)
• Mùa hè (DST)	CEST (UTC+02:00)
Mã bưu chính/INSEE	42011 /42510
Độ cao	314–482 m (1.030–1.581 ft)
1 Dữ liệu đăng ký đất đai tại Pháp, không bao gồm ao, hồ và sông băng > 1 km2 (0,386 dặm vuông Anh hoặc 247 mẫu Anh) và cửa sông.

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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