Saint-Claude, Jura

Saint-Claude

Coat of arms
Saint-Claude

Coordinates: 46°23′16″N 5°51′50″E / 46.3878°N 5.8639°E / 46.3878; 5.8639Coordinates: 46°23′16″N 5°51′50″E / 46.3878°N 5.8639°E / 46.3878; 5.8639
Country France
Region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department Jura
Arrondissement Saint-Claude
Canton Saint-Claude
Intercommunality Val de Bienne
Government
  Mayor (2014–2020) Jean-Louis Millet
Area1 70.19 km2 (27.10 sq mi)
Population (2013)2 10,346
  Density 150/km2 (380/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
  Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code 39478 / 39200
Elevation 360–1,222 m (1,181–4,009 ft)
(avg. 441 m or 1,447 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.

Saint-Claude (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃klod]) is a commune in the Jura department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

The town was originally named Saint-Oyand after Saint Eugendus. However, when St. Claudius had, in 687, resigned his Diocese of Besançon and had died, in 696, as twelfth abbot, the number of pilgrims who visited his grave was so great that, since the thirteenth century, the name "Saint-Claude" came more and more into use and has to-day superseded the other.[1]

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
17933,657    
18063,525−3.6%
18214,463+26.6%
18315,222+17.0%
18415,270+0.9%
18515,897+11.9%
18616,316+7.1%
18727,083+12.1%
18818,216+16.0%
18919,782+19.1%
190110,449+6.8%
191112,022+15.1%
192112,631+5.1%
193113,436+6.4%
194610,749−20.0%
195411,301+5.1%
196212,114+7.2%
196812,486+3.1%
197513,511+8.2%
198212,715−5.9%
199012,704−0.1%
199912,303−3.2%
200611,950−2.9%
201310,346−13.4%

Sights

Saint-Claude Cathedral, former seat of the Bishops of Saint-Claude, is located here.

Personalities

See also

References

  1.  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "St. Eugendus". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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