Lagnieu

History

According to a Latin text of the seventh century, Lagnieu derives from a landowner named Latinus, giving his name to the district and become Latiniacus. Around 1430, the inhabitants of Lagnieu seized six oxen belonging to the monks of the Carthusian monastery of Portes and ravaged their crops by releasing their pigs. During the French Revolution, Lagnieu took the revolutionary name of Fontaine-d'Or. In 1957, during the passage of a metal element intended for the Marcoule nuclear power plant, the "centipede", the Lagnieu fountain was accidentally destroyed.

Geography

Lagnieu is located in the south of the department of Ain, on the right bank of the Rhone, 50 km northeast of Lyon and 37 km south of Bourg-en-Bresse. The town belongs to the canton of Lagnieu, of which it is the seat, and the arrondissement of Belley. Attached to the foothills of southern Jura (Bugey), it belongs to the natural region of the plain of Ain, also name of the industrial park established about ten kilometers west of the town. Its territory has an altitude ranging from 192 m to 643 m, the town hall is 212 m.

Most-observed species

• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,634
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,574
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,147
• European Robin

  Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,129
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,124
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,105
• Eurasian Blackcap

  Sylvia atricapilla (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  933
• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  871

Most recent

• M 3.3 — 2025-05-06
  8 km W of Chapareillan, France
• M 4.5 — 2022-03-12
  3 km S of Faverges, France
• M 3.2 — 2017-11-17
  10 km NNE of Saint-Rémy-de-Maurienne, France
• M 3.4 — 2013-04-06
  1 km SSW of Poisy, France
• M 2.8 — 2008-10-31
  5 km NE of Boëge, France
• M 2.5 — 2008-08-30
  2 km NNE of Saint-Martin-Bellevue, France