Saint-Chamond

Saint-Chamond
region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Loire
Arrondissement	Saint-Etienne
Canton	Saint-Chamond (main town)
Community association	Saint-Étienne Métropole
Coordinates	45 ° 29 ′ N , 4 ° 31 ′ E Coordinates: 45 ° 29 ′ N , 4 ° 31 ′ E
height	326-1,051 m
surface	54.88 km 2
Residents	34,967 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	637 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	42400
INSEE code	42207
Website	www.saint-chamond.fr
	; Aqueduct at Saint-Chamond

Saint-Chamond [ sɛʃamɔ ] is a French city with 34,967 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Loire in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes southwest of Lyon . The city's residents call themselves Couramiauds or Saint-Chamonais .

geography

Saint-Chamond is located in the valley of Gier between the mountains des Lyonnais and Mont Pilat , the distance to Saint-Etienne is 12 kilometers and to Lyon 45 kilometers. The municipality is located on the edge of the Pilat Regional Nature Park and is associated with it as an access point.

history

Saint-Chamond was built on the aqueduct of the Roman aqueduct to Lugdunum (Lyon) via greed. The city owes its name to the Bishop of Lyon St. Ennemond , whose name changed through St. Annemond and Sanchamond in Saint-Chamond .

In 1628 half of the population fell victim to the plague . The castle of Saint-Chamond, ancestral seat of the military commander Melchior Mitte de Chevrières , marquis de Saint-Chamond et de Montpezat, comte de Miolans, comte d'Anjou, premier baron de Lyonnais et de Savoie, baron de Jarcieu, was founded in 1792 during the French Revolution pillaged and destroyed by the residents of the city. At that time the valley of Gier was called the Rousseau valley, because Jean-Jacques Rousseau had lived here for a long time. 1854 held with the founding of Compagnie des Hauts Fourneaux, Forges et Aciéries de la Marine et des Chemins de Fer , the heavy industry moving into the city. In 1964 the third largest city in the Loire department was created through incorporations.

Population development

year	1789	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2007
Residents	5,000	17,107	37,728	40,267	40,267	38,878	37,378	35,500

The demographic development of the city reflects the dynamic development of heavy industry and the subsequent closure of many factories.

economy

Saint-Chamond is an industrial city in which mainly weapons (such as the St. Chamond tank in World War I ), metals and textiles ( silk ) were produced. The steel industry benefited from the nearby hard coal mining .

traffic

railway station

Saint-Chamond has had a train station on the Saint-Étienne – Lyon railway line, the second railway line in France , since 1832 . This line was later integrated into the Moret-Veneux-les-Sablons-Lyon-Perrache railway . Today he is by trains of TER Auvergne Rhône-Alpes the link Saint-Etienne-Châteaucreux - Lyon-Perrache served.

The A47 motorway to Lyon is used for long-distance traffic. The nearest international airport is in Lyon, regionally there is the Saint-Étienne - Bouthéon airport from which London is also directly accessible. Urban transport is handled by the Société de Transports de l'Agglomération Stéphanoise .

District

Fonsala
Izieux
Le Creux
Lavieu
Saint Ennemond
Saint Julien en Jarez
Saint Pierre
Chavannes

Les Palermes
La Chabure
Clos Marquet
La Varizelle
La Valette
Saint-Martin-en-Coailleux
Saint-Chamond center

Attractions

Botanical Garden

sons and daughters of the town

Marcellin Champagnat (1789–1840), priest and founder of an order
Ravachol (1859-1892), anarchist
Edmond Locard (1877–1966), criminalist
Antoine Pinay (1891–1994), politician and prime minister
Roger Planchon (1931–2009), filmmaker, actor, playwright and theater director
Alain Prost (* 1955), automobile racing driver
Laurent Redon (* 1973), racing car driver

Town twinning

Grevenbroich , Germany
Sant Adrià de Besòs , Spain

Individual evidence

^ Pierre Roger Gaussin: Maisons de Dieu et hommes d'église. florilège en l'honneur . Université de Saint-Etienne, 1992, ISBN 978-2-86272-023-4 , p. 369ff.
↑ David Andress: The Terror. The merciless war for freedom in revolutionary France . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2006 ISBN 978-0-374-27341-5 , p. 287.
^ Colin Lucas, Gérard Palluau: La structure de la Terreur . Université de Saint-Etienne 1990, ISBN 978-2-901559-36-8 , p. 6.

Web links

Commons : Saint-Chamond - Collection of images, videos and audio files

[1] Pierre Roger Gaussin: Maisons de Dieu et hommes d'église. florilège en l'honneur . Université de Saint-Etienne, 1992, ISBN 978-2-86272-023-4 , p. 369ff.

[2] David Andress: The Terror. The merciless war for freedom in revolutionary France . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2006 ISBN 978-0-374-27341-5 , p. 287.

[3] Colin Lucas, Gérard Palluau: La structure de la Terreur . Université de Saint-Etienne 1990, ISBN 978-2-901559-36-8 , p. 6.