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région: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
département: 58, Nièvre

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Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire is situated at an elevation of 252 m on the right bank of the Loire at its confluence with the Nohain, about 50 km northwest of Nevers, the chef-lieu of the département Nièvre, and about 160 km west of Dijon, the capital of the région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The municipality of Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, which as of 2021 has a population of about 9,400, was formed in 1973 out of the formerly independent municipalities of Cosne-sur-Loire and Cours.

In 596, the regulation of Saint Aunaire, 18th bishop of Auxerre, included Cosne (Cône) in the thirty main parishes of the diocese. Around the 17th century, the town began to develop thanks to the metallurgical industry and navigation on the Loire, where the various objects of this prosperous industry at the time were transported. From 1860, the forges began to decline with the arrival of the railway, which gradually replaced the waterways. The forges closed definitively in 1872, but the metallurgical industry remained of great importance until today.

The bridge across the Loire [left, no. 4683], emblematic of the town, is a suspension bridge spanning the river between Cosne-sur-Loire in the département Nièvre (région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) and the département Cher (région Centre-Val de Loire). Requests for the construction of a bridge were mentioned as early as 1789 due to accidents, floods and the exorbitant price of ferries used by ferrymen. A first, wooden, suspension bridge was put in operation in 1833. The first concrete bridge was built in 1928, but was destroyed by bombings in 1940 during World War II. Replaced by several temporary footbridges from 1940 to 1960, the bridge of today, then called new, was built in 1959.

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