Saint-Cyprien (Pyrénées-Orientales)
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Saint-Cyprien Sant Cebrià de Rosselló |
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Pyrénées-Orientales | |
| Arrondissement | Ceret | |
| Canton | La Cote Sableuse | |
| Community association | South Roussillon | |
| Coordinates | 42 ° 37 ′ N , 3 ° 0 ′ E | |
| height | 0-29 m | |
| surface | 15.80 km 2 | |
| Residents | 10,511 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 665 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 66750 | |
| INSEE code | 66171 | |
 The Saint-Cyprien marina with a large apartment block |
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Saint-Cyprien (in Catalan Sant Cebrià de Rosselló ) is a French commune with 10,511 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in the Occitania region . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Céret and the canton of La Côte Sableuse . Its inhabitants are called Cyprianencs .
The place is divided into two parts, Village and Plage. The original population lives in Village. Trade and commerce are also concentrated here. Plage is home to a mixed population of retirees who have moved in, including many foreigners, and pieds-noirs , as the French from the former French colonies in North Africa are called who returned to the mother country in the 1960s after the Algerian war .
geography
The coastal city is close to the Spanish border. St. Cyprien Plage is located directly on the Mediterranean Sea (Löwengolf / Golfe du Lion). The hamlet of Village is about four kilometers away inland.
history
Spanish Civil War
An internment camp was operated on the beach of Saint-Cyprien from 1939 to 1940 , which was officially called Camp de Concentration de Saint-Cyprien (Saint-Cyprien Concentration Camp ). Almost 90,000 people were detained there by the French authorities, overwhelmed by the large waves of refugees. In 1939 these were mostly internationalists who had fled neighboring Spain after Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War . Often the internees had to sleep on the bare ground, and simple barracks were only gradually built, although they were chronically overcrowded. Many of the internees were later taken to the Gurs internment camp or to the Drancy assembly camp , and finally to the Auschwitz concentration camp , where the vast majority of them were killed.
Second World War
The camp in Saint-Cyprien was maintained. In the months of May and June 1940 it filled again, this time with Germans and refugees from other nations, mostly of Jewish descent. Now the internees came from Belgium, which was overrun by the German Wehrmacht . They had been arrested by the Belgian administration and driven to France, where they were taken over by the French authorities and reached Saint-Cyprien after 18 days. There their property was confiscated and inventoried. An impressive contemporary document is kept in the archives of the Pyrénées-Orientales department: the “Lists of Saint-Cyprien” (152 pages). This document was drawn up between October 4th and 7th 1940 by the camp commandant Lieutenant Colonel Leclerc for the prefect in Perpignan . The inventory still allows us to estimate how many valuables were stolen from the refugees.
Other internment camps existed along the coast of Languedoc-Roussillon, for example in Agde , Rivesaltes and Argelès-sur-Mer (see map).
Infrastructure
The infrastructure is well developed. There is practically everything you need for daily life in St. Cyprien. Some larger supermarkets have also settled on the outskirts between St. Cyprien and Latour Bas Elne. Kindergartens and all types of schools are available. The number of doctors is sufficient. Specialists and hospitals can be found in Perpignan, about 16 km away. There are jobs in small and medium-sized companies in the industrial park. The largest employer is the municipal administration with its numerous services. The infrastructure is particularly demanding in July and August, when up to 200,000 vacationers and tourists are in Saint-Cyprien.
tourism
As part of a spatial planning project to promote tourism in the coastal areas of the Languedoc-Roussillon region, Saint-Cyprien was selected in the early 1960s, together with six other locations, as a priority municipality for the expansion of the tourist infrastructure. As a result, the city was expanded into a seaside resort. There are some medium sized hotels. Apartments and holiday homes predominate as holiday accommodation. The huge marina with more than 4000 berths and the wide and very long sandy beach, where there are still quiet places even in summer, are important.
Others
On November 27, 2008, an Airbus A320-200 crashed off Saint-Cyprien in the Mediterranean . He had started a test flight from the Airbus maintenance site at Perpignan Airport . All seven people on board were killed.
Personalities
- Karl Fischer (1918–1963), Austrian politician and resistance fighter , deported from Antwerp to the Saint-Cyprien camp in 1940; his second attempt to escape was successful. Then worked in the Resistance , prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp and Gulag prisoner.
- Kurt Julius Goldstein (1914–2007), was interned in the Saint-Cyprien camp from 1939 to 1940 and was later deported to Auschwitz. He survived the imprisonment as the only Jewish Kapo of the Jawischowitz concentration camp mine .
- Hans Joachim Hinrichsen (1909–1940), German lawyer and music publisher, interned in Saint-Cyprien in 1940, died in the camp.
- Fritz Kahmann (1896–1978), German farmer and politician, KPD member of the Reichstag, interbrigadist and GDR administrative cadre ( land reform ), interned in Saint-Cyprien in 1939/40
- Erwin Kramer (1902–1979), German interbrigadist and later Transport Minister of the GDR ; Interned in 1939 in the Saint-Cyprien camp
- Felix Nussbaum (1904–1944), German painter, interned in Saint-Cyprien in 1940 and murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944
- Abel Paz (1921–2009), Spanish resistance fighter and author, interned in Saint-Cyprien in 1939
- Erich Schmid (1908–1984), Austrian painter of Jewish origin, probably deported to this camp from Belgium in 1940
- Erich Weinert (1890–1953), German political poet, interbrigadist, interned in Saint-Cyprien in 1939. Camaradas - A Book of Spain (1951) contains a chapter on Saint-Cyprien.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See: http://www.floerken.de/cyprien/cyprien.htm
- ↑ 20 minutes of November 28, 2008 (French) , accessed January 28, 2014
- ↑ http://avherald.com/h?article=410c9cec (English), accessed on January 28, 2014