Agnin

Agnin
Commune
A street in Agnin
Coat of arms
Location of Agnin
Agnin Agnin
Coordinates: 45°20′28″N 4°51′28″E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Isère
Arrondissement	Vienne
Canton	Roussillon
Intercommunality	Entre Bièvre et Rhône
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Christian Monteyremard
Area 1	7.96 km2 (3.07 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	1,232
• Density	150/km2 (400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	38003 /38150
Elevation	167–331 m (548–1,086 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Agnin (French pronunciation: [aɲɛ̃]) is a commune in the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France.

The commune has been awarded one flower by the National Council of Towns and Villages in Bloom in the Competition of cities and villages in Bloom.

Geography

The entry to Agnin

Agnin is located some 25 km south of Vienne and 5 km north-east of Saint-Rambert-d'Albon. It can be accessed by the road D519 from near Chanas in the west passing through the southern part of the commune and continuing to Bouge-Chambalud. Parallel to this road in the north of the commune is the D51 road from Salaise-sur-Sanne in the west passing through the commune and the village and continuing to Anjou in the east. The D131 also comes from the Ville-sous-Anjou in the north joining the D51 west of the village. The Route de Bouge connects the village to the D519 in the south of the commune. The commune is mostly farmland with significant areas of housing in the north and some small areas of forest in the south.

An unnamed stream flows south forming the western border of the commune and another unnamed stream flows through the commune then forms the south-western border. They both join in the south-west and continue flowing west. The Dolon stream forms the southern border of the commune

Toponymy

Like the nearby town of Anjou the origin of the name Agnin comes from the name of a Roman noble Anianus who owned vast territory in that era. The name of the town changed a few centuries later to Agnino which was the name used in the 11th century to describe this commune. Then over the following centuries Agnino became the Agnin known today.

Heraldry

[[Image:|120px|center|Arms of Agnin]]

Blazon: Party per bend sinister, one of Or a local church soutenu at dexter by an inescutcheon with two keys saltirewise and sinister in chief a Vol all represented in lines; two of gules a dolphin of Or at dexter and a rose gules stalked and leaved in vert; in the cotice a bend sinister in Or charged with the letters AGNIN in sable debruised on the division.

Administration

The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors of Agnin

From	To	Name
2001	2008	Gérard Giraud
2008	2026	Christian Monteyremard

Population

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Agnitaires in French.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1800 459 —     1806 609 +4.83% 1821 738 +1.29% 1831 725 −0.18% 1836 696 −0.81% 1841 733 +1.04% 1846 717 −0.44% 1851 705 −0.34% 1856 589 −3.53% 1861 612 +0.77% 1866 588 −0.80% 1872 572 −0.46% 1876 564 −0.35% 1881 565 +0.04% 1886 544 −0.75% 1891 502 −1.59% 1896 512 +0.40% 1901 525 +0.50%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1906 536 +0.42% 1911 520 −0.60% 1921 503 −0.33% 1926 432 −3.00% 1931 402 −1.43% 1936 438 +1.73% 1946 457 +0.43% 1954 479 +0.59% 1962 460 −0.50% 1968 462 +0.07% 1975 505 +1.28% 1982 605 +2.61% 1990 648 +0.86% 1999 789 +2.21% 2007 903 +1.70% 2012 1,026 +2.59% 2017 1,106 +1.51%
Source: EHESS and INSEE

The War Memorial in the Church

Agnin War Memorial

Sites and Monuments

Agnin Church

Agnin Lavoir (Public Laundry)

• The portal and tower of Bâtie Manor are registered as historical monuments.
• Gaulas Castle
• A Church from the 12th century
• Typical houses
• Gallo-Roman remains at Golat

See also

• Communes of the Isère department

External links

• Agnin Official website (in French)
• Agnin on the old IGN website (in French)
• Agnin on the 1750 Cassini Map