Île Barbe
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The 'Île Barbe is an island situated in the middle of the Saône, in the 9th arrondissement de Lyon, the quartier Saint-Rambert-l'Île-Barbe (a former-commune annexed in 1963). Its name comes from the Latin insula barbara, "Barbarians' Island", suggesting that it was one of the last locales to be occupied (two centuries after the banks of the Saône at the foot of the hill of Fourvière).
An abbaye was founded on the island in the 5th century. This was the first monastic establishment in the Lyon region and one of the oldest in all of Gaul. Charlemagne gave it a beautiful library.
The monastery, pillaged several times – (in 676 and 725 by the Saracens, and in 937 by the Huns), adopted the Rule of Saint Benedict règle de saint Benoît in the 9th century and gradually was enriched.
In 816, Louis the Pious (Louis le Pieux) awarded to the monastery:
At the beginning of the 16th century, the abbey passed into the ownership commende of the bénéfice of the Albon family famille d'Albon.
In 1549, the abbey was secularised and the monts became a college of canons chanoines (collégiale).
In 1562, it was looted and burned by Protestant troops troupes protestantes of the Baron des Adrets baron des Adrets.
The chapter of canons chapitre des chanoines finally was suppressed in 1741, and an establishment for aged or infirm priests was established, which was suppressed in its turn in 1783. At the Revolution, everything remaining on the island was sold and dispersed.
Porte Sainte-Anne illustrated by Joannès Drevet (1854–1940).
L'Île-Barbe at the beginning of the 19th century.
The Ile barbe at Lyon today.
In the 17th century, or in 1734, the architect Cotton constructed a wooden bridge which provided access to the Ile Barbe In 1827, a suspension bridge replaced it (it is the oldest in Lyon still in service). It is reached from the passerelle Masaryk and the passerelle Saint-Vincent), crossing the island at the level of its southern point and permitting the juncture of the left and right banks of the Saône, the villages of Saint-Rambert (today Lyon 9e) and of Caluire-et-Cuire. For more information about this suspension bridge one may consult the page here dedicated to Bridges of Lyon Ponts de Lyon. During the years 1870–1880, three well-reputed rowing clubs were located here: the Aviron Club de Lyon-Caluire, the Aviron Union Nautique de Lyon (6e club français) and the Cercle de l'Aviron de Lyon (5e club français).
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