Aiserey is a French commune located in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. It is a small town with around 1300 inhabitants. It is crossed by the Canal de Bourgogne. It is mainly known for hosting the only sugar refinery in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, and on this occasion for hosting the traditional Sugar Festival, which takes place on the 2nd Sunday of each September.
Located about twenty kilometers south of Dijon, the town of Aiserey is crossed by the departmental road 968 and the Burgundy Canal.
In 2010, the climate of the municipality is of the degraded oceanic
climate type of the Central and Northern plains, according to a study by
the National Center for Scientific Research based on a series of data
covering the period 1971-2000. In 2020, Météo-France publishes a
typology of the climates of metropolitan France in which the
municipality is in a transition zone between the altered oceanic climate
and the altered oceanic climate and is in the Burgundy climatic region,
Saône Valley, characterized by good sunshine (1,900 h / year), a hot
summer (18.5 ° C), dry air in spring and summer and weak winds.
For the period 1971-2000, the average annual temperature is 10.8 ° C,
with an annual thermal amplitude of 17.8 ° C. The average annual
cumulative rainfall is 805 mm, with 11 days of precipitation in January
and 7.5 days in July. For the period 1991-2020, the annual average
temperature observed on the nearest Météo-France weather station,
"Saint-Nic. Citeaux", in the town of Saint-Nicolas-lès-Cîteaux 10 km as
the crow flies, is 11.2 ° C and the average annual cumulative rainfall
is 813.8 mm. For the future, the climate parameters of the municipality
estimated for 2050 according to different greenhouse gas emission
scenarios can be consulted on a dedicated website published by
Météo-France in November 2022.
The two main monuments of Aiserey are :
its castle and
its
church, both located in the heart of the village.
Personalities
related to the municipality
Claude Bossuet d'aiserey, Bossuet's
uncle.
Stéphane Tarnier (1828-1897), an illustrious French doctor
born in Aiserey, who also has a street named after him in tribute.
The painter Camille Corot realized there around 1858, a painting
preserved today in Cincinnati
The name of the locality comes from its Latin form
Asziriacus and Aziriaca Villa in 763, it was known as Asiriacus
locus in 869.
Aiserey would derive from a Germanic
anthroponym Ansierius.
The town has an old station that has become an
SNCF passenger stopover on the Dijon-Ville line to Bourg en Bresse.
According to the terminology defined by INSEE and the zoning published in 2020, Aiserey is a rural municipality, because it does not belong to any urban unit. In addition, the town is part of the attraction area of Dijon, of which it is a town in the crown. This area, which includes 333 municipalities, is categorized in areas of 200,000 to less than 700,000 inhabitants.
The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the
population censuses carried out in the municipality since 1793. From
2006, the legal populations of the municipalities are published
annually by INSEE. The census is now based on an annual collection
of information, successively concerning all the municipal
territories over a period of five years. For municipalities with
less than 10,000 inhabitants, a census survey covering the entire
population is carried out every five years, the legal populations of
the intervening years being estimated by interpolation or
extrapolation. For the municipality, the first exhaustive census
coming under the new system was carried out in 2007.
In 2018,
the town had 1,425 inhabitants, an increase of 4.93% compared to
2013 (Côte-d'Or: + 0.65%, France excluding Mayotte: + 2.36%).
Aiserey is a rural municipality. It is indeed part of the
municipalities with little or very little density, within the meaning of
the municipal grid of density of the Insee.
In addition, the town
is part of the attraction area of Dijon, of which it is a municipality
of the crown. This area, which includes 333 municipalities, is
categorized into areas of 200,000 to less than 700,000 inhabitants.
The land use of the municipality, as it appears from the European
database of biophysical soil occupation Corine Land Cover (CLC), is
marked by the importance of agricultural territories (86.1% in 2018),
nevertheless decreasing compared to 1990 (89.4%). The detailed
distribution in 2018 is as follows: arable land (83.4%), urbanized areas
(10.1%), heterogeneous agricultural areas (2.7%), forests (2%),
continental waters (1.6%), environments with shrubby and/or herbaceous
vegetation (0.3%). The evolution of the land use of the municipality and
its infrastructures can be observed on the various cartographic
representations of the territory: the Cassini map (eighteenth century),
the staff map (1820-1866) and the maps or aerial photos of the IGN for
the current period (1950 to today).
Communication routes and
transport
The town has an old train station that has become an SNCF
passenger stopover on the line from Dijon-Ville to Bourg-en-Bresse.