Oullins

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Oullins
Coat of arms of Oullins
Oullins (France)
Oullins
region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department Métropole de Lyon
Arrondissement Lyon
Coordinates 45 ° 43 '  N , 4 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 43 '  N , 4 ° 48'  E
height 163-253 m
surface 4.40 km 2
Residents 26,273 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 5,971 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 69600
INSEE code 69149
Website www.ville-oullins.fr

Hôtel de ville (town hall)

Oullins is a French city with 26,273 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Métropole de Lyon in the region of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . The inhabitants call themselves Oullinois (es) .

geography

Oullins is six kilometers southwest of Lyon . The Yzeron flows through the municipality and the Rhône flows between Oullins and Lyon.

history

Oullins was mentioned for the first time in 855 in a document from Lothar I as Aulanius . The city was on the old Roman road that connected Lyon with Narbonne .

Oullins was devastated in the Huguenot Wars (1562–1598). Until the Industrial Revolution , the main industries in Oullins were agriculture and trade. In 1847 Alphonse Clément-Désormes set up a company to manufacture locomotives. The plant was closed after the Second World War .

Oullins was part of the canton of Oullins until 2015 .

Attractions

Part of the Roman aqueduct of Gier (one of the four aqueducts of Lugdunum / Lyon) crosses the Yzeron near Oullins. The "Aqueduct of Beaunant" is named after a hamlet that lies between Oullins and Chaponost .

Town twinning

Since 1962 there has been a twinning with Nürtingen in Germany and since 1996 with Pescia in Italy . The partnership with Nürtingen was one of the first city partnerships in France.

Others

Three types of fruit are named after the place:

  • Kalvill from Oullins, an apple variety
  • Oullins Reineclaude , a Reneklode that is very common in Germany
  • Angoumois d'Oullins, a variety of apricots

Personalities

Personalities who worked in Oullins

  • Sonngard Leopold (1943–2019), long-time chairwoman of the Nürtingen town twinning association

Web links

Commons : Oullins  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oullins on annuaire-mairie.fr (French). Retrieved October 27, 2009
  2. ↑ Histoire on ville-oullins.fr in French.
  3. ^ Pont-siphon sur l'Yzeron
  4. ↑ site Oulins - Les jumelages , accessed on November 22, 2016
  5. ↑ Louis Charles Émile Lortet (1836–1909), un médecin naturaliste éclairé ( Memento of the original of September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / museetl.univ-lyon1.fr
  6. ^ Victor Orsel in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in French.