Auris is a

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in the

Isère Isère ( , ; frp, Isera; oc, Isèra, ) is a landlocked department in the southeastern French region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Named after the river Isère, it had a population of 1,271,166 in 2019.department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

in the

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (ARA; ; frp, Ôvèrgne-Rôno-Ârpes; oc, Auvèrnhe Ròse Aups; it, Alvernia-Rodano-Alpi) is a region in southeast-central France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions; it resulted from the merger of Au ...

region of south-eastern

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. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Aurienchons'' or ''Aurienchonnes''.

Geography

Auris is an alpine commune some 30 km south-east of

Grenoble lat, Gratianopolis , commune status = Prefecture and commune , image = Panorama grenoble.png , image size = , caption = From upper left: Panorama of the city, Grenoble’s cable cars, place Saint- ...

and 5 km west of

Mont-de-Lans Mont-de-Lans () is a former commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Les Deux Alpes.

. Access to the commune is by the D211A road from La Garde in the west which passes through the commune by a tortuous route and continues east to Le Freney-d'Oisans. The D211E branches off the D211A in the commune to go to La Grand Combe. Apart from the village (which is solely the town hall) there is the hamlet of Les Cours to the north and Le Cert and Les Chatains to the south. The commune is rugged with alpine terrain and a large forest to the west of the village (La Forêt).Google Maps
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Romanche The Romanche () is a long mountain river in southeastern France. It is a right tributary of the Drac, which is itself a tributary of the Isère. Its drainage basin is .Drac at

Jarrie Jarrie () is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. It is part of the Grenoble urban unit The urban unit of Grenoble (french: unité urbaine de Grenoble) is a French urban unit centred on the city of Grenoble. An urban unit ...

. The Venéon river flows from the south through the south-western extension of the commune to join the Romanche there.

Neighbouring communes and villages

Toponymy

The commune is sometimes informally called ''Auris-en-Oisans''.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 190 inhabitants.

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage

*A Roman bridge *The Rural Museum

Religious heritage

*The Chapel of the Angels (17th century). The Chapel contains several items that are registered as historical objects: **2

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s on the main

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(17th century) **A Hand Bell (18th century) **The

and

Retable A retable is a structure or element placed either on or immediately behind and above the altar or communion table of a church. At the minimum it may be a simple shelf for candles behind an altar, but it can also be a large and elaborate structur ...

(17th century)Ministry of Culture, Palissy *The Chapel of Saint-Gerald (1497)

References

External links

Auris on Géoportail
National Geographic Institute (IGN) website
''Auris en Oysans'' on the 1750 Cassini Map
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