Balbins

Balbins () is a former commune in the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Ornacieux-Balbins.

Key facts

French commune.name: Balbins
French commune.image: Le cimetière de Balbins - Jongkind.jpg
French commune.caption: The Balbins Cemetery oil painting in 1888 by Johan Barthold Jongkind
French commune.arrondissement: Vienne
French commune.canton: Bièvre
French commune.INSEE: 38025
French commune.postal code: 38260
French commune.commune: Ornacieux-Balbins
French commune.elevation m: 150
French commune.elevation min m: 347
French commune.elevation max m: 530
French commune.area km2: 7.26
French commune.population: 458
French commune.population date: 2022

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Official name: Balbins
Population: 386
Area: 7.26
Elevation: 379
Official website: www.communedebalbins.fr
Image: Château d'Armanet 1913.jpg

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Commons category: Balbins
postal code: 38260
dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 2018-12-31
P8168: Fritz Arlt

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Geography
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Administration
Demography
Sites and monuments
Notable people linked to the commune
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Balbins () is a former commune in the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Ornacieux-Balbins.

==Geography== Balbins is located some 40 km north-west of Grenoble just west of La Côte-Saint-André. Access to the commune is by the D73 from La Côte-Saint-André which passes through the commune just south of the village and continues west to Penol. The D518A passes through the east of the commune linking the D71 south of La Côte-Saint-André to the D518 north-west of La Côte-Saint-André. The commune is almost entirely farmland with urban area of the village merging with that of Ornacieux.