Montrouge
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| region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Hauts-de-Seine | |
| Arrondissement | Antony | |
| Canton | Montrouge (main town) | |
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Métropole du Grand Paris and Vallée Sud-Grand Paris |
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 49 ′ N , 2 ° 19 ′ E | |
| height | 67-85 m | |
| surface | 2.07 km 2 | |
| Residents | 50,260 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 24,280 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 92120 | |
| INSEE code | 92049 | |
| Website | www.ville-montrouge.fr | |
Montrouge is a French commune with 50,260 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Hauts-de-Seine department in the Île-de-France region . It is located immediately south of the capital Paris and is therefore part of the Banlieue Parisienne .
history
The city takes its name from the name Munterubeus or Rubeo Monte after the red-yellow color of the soil. The name first appeared in 1194 in a text from the Saint-Lazare monastery. By the 13th century, one of the Benedictine religious orders of the Wilhelmites (French Guillemites or Guillemins ) named after Wilhelm von Malavalle (around 1100-1157, French Guilleaume de Maleval or Malaval ) set up in the area.
Around 1640, a game reserve for royal hunts was set up on the Montrouge plain.
In the course of the last incorporation of various suburbs into the city of Paris in 1860 , Montrouge lost the area called Petit-Montrouge , which from then on forms a quarter of the XIV arrondissement of Paris. Only the “Great Montrouge” remained. This reduced the area of the city from 305 hectares to 105 hectares. In 1875, the municipality gained a few hectares from the neighboring municipalities of Châtillon and Bagneux ( Haut-Mesnil district ). From 1925 the city experienced a significant industrial boom through numerous printing works and the settlement of the car manufacturer Moteur Messier and Schlumberger .
economy
The printing works and automobile manufacturers have now disappeared from the city. Today the most important employers are the service industries (survey institutes) and telecommunications ( orange ), and the many craft businesses have also disappeared.
Sports
The Buffalo Stadium was located in Montrouge from 1922 to 1957 . It had a cycling track and was used for football , rugby and boxing matches.
Culture
- Fête des Carrieres: this festival commemorates the old limestone quarries and takes place at the beginning of autumn.
- The Salon for Contemporary Art has been held every year since 1955.
Personalities
- Émile Boutroux (1845–1921), philosopher, member of the Académie française , born in Montrouge
- Raoul Pugno (1852–1914), pianist, organist, composer and music teacher
- Octave Lapize (1887–1917), racing cyclist, winner of the Tour de France 1910 , born in Montrouge
- Lucien Desvaux (1894-?), Racing car driver
- William Grover-Williams (1903–1945), British-French racing car driver and SOE spy, born in Montrouge
- Henri Mouillefarine (1910–1994), cyclist, born in Montrouge
- Robert Doisneau (1912–1994), photographer. Born in Gentilly , lived in Montrouge since 1937
- Marcel Chevalier (1921–2008), the last executioner in France, born in Montrouge
- Jacques Dynam (1923–2004), actor, born in Montrouge
- Claude Sautet (1924–2000), screenwriter and French director, born in Montrouge
- Gérard Brach (1927–2006), screenwriter, born in Montrouge
- Raymond Federman (1928–2009), American writer, born in Montrouge
- Coluche (1944–1986) (Michel Colucci), comedian, was born in Paris but spent his childhood in Montrouge
- Michel Pech (1946–2012), football player
- Jean-Jacques Goldman (* 1951), author, composer and singer, spent most of his life here and now lives in Marseille
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes des Hauts-de-Seine. Flohic Éditions, 2nd edition, Charenton-le-Pont 1993, ISBN 2-908958-95-3 , pp. 278-285.
Web links
- Official website of Montrouge (French)