Antony

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Antony
Antony coat of arms
Antony (France)
Antony
region Île-de-France
Department Hauts-de-Seine
Arrondissement Antony ( sub-prefecture )
Canton Antony ( chief lieu )
Community association Métropole du Grand Paris and
Vallée Sud-Grand Paris
Coordinates 48 ° 45 '  N , 2 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 45 '  N , 2 ° 18'  E
height 45-103 m
surface 9.56 km 2
Residents 62,570 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 6,545 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 92160
INSEE code 92002
Website www.ville-antony.fr

Saint-Saturnin church in the historic town center

Antony is a commune south of Paris in the Hauts-de-Seine department in the Île-de-France region . Its 62,570 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) are called Antoniens .

geography

Location Antonys within the Petite Couronne

Antony is the southernmost commune of the Hauts-de-Seine department. It is located about twelve kilometers south-southwest of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral and thus on the outer edge of the Petite Couronne , ie the departments immediately surrounding the city of Paris .

Antony is the capital of the arrondissement of the same name . Until the territorial reform of the greater Paris area in 1968, the city belonged to the Seine department . Today it forms the southeastern tip of the Hauts-de-Seine department . On the municipal boundaries of Antony, this meets the departments of Essonne and Val-de-Marne . From 2003 to 2015 Antony was a member of the Communauté d'agglomération des Hauts-de-Bièvre , and since 2016 of the Métropole du Grand Paris and the Établissement public territorial Vallée Sud-Grand Paris .

Antony borders eight neighboring communities.

Part of the Parc de Sceaux lies on the municipal area on its northern edge. In its extreme west, the municipal area is crossed by the elongated local recreation area Coulée verte du Sud Parisien , which extends from Paris to Massy.

politics

City council

Local politics has been dominated by the civil right since the 1980s. All mayors since 1983 have belonged to parties in this direction, including Patrick Devedjian , who held the office four times in a row. Acting Mayor (since 2003) is Jean-Yves Sénant of Les Républicains .

Town twinning

Antony is twin town of:

Economy and Infrastructure

education

Institution of Sainte-Marie

In addition to numerous public schools Antony houses the private, from the Catholic Church -run institution Sainte-Marie . With more than 3,400 students from pre-school to Lycée, it is the largest private school in France.

Companies

The company Cire Trudon , founded in 1643 as Maison de Cire Trudon , the oldest wax manufacture in the world, operated in Antony until 1971.

traffic

Antony is connected to the Île-de-France local rail network via the Parc de Sceaux , La Croix de Berny , Antony , Fontaine-Michalon and Les Baconnets stations of the RER B and the Chemin d'Antony station of the RER C. The journey from Antony train station to Paris city center takes around 20 minutes. Both RER lines connect Antony with the TGV train station in neighboring Massy . There is also a direct connection to Orly Airport with the Orlyval driverless train from Antony RER station. Numerous bus lines from the RATP and the Paladin bus network operated by the municipal association also serve the urban area and connect it with neighboring towns and with Paris.

The road network is dominated by the Paris ring motorway A 86 , which runs through Antony at the north end of the city in an east-west direction, and the former national road N 20 Paris – Orléans (today on this section Route départementale 920), which the city center in north -South direction and crosses the A86 in the north of Antonys at the historical traffic junction La Croix de Berny . The A 6 Paris – Lyon and A 10 Paris – Orléans – Bordeaux motorways roam the urban area and have junctions in the immediate vicinity of Antony.

On the outskirts of the urban area, the Résidence universitaire Jean-Zay, which opened in 1955, is one of the largest social student housing complexes in Europe - at least at the time of its greatest expansion - and a social hotspot in the otherwise quiet Antony in the 1960s and 1970s. Since the 1980s, numerous buildings in the dormitory complex have been closed and several have been demolished; the corresponding areas were partially rededicated and newly built. The future of the remaining facility is uncertain.

Architectural monuments

See: List of Monuments historiques in Antony

Personalities

Nicola Sirkis (2013)

sons and daughters of the town

Connected to Antony

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes des Hauts-de-Seine. Flohic Éditions, 2nd edition, Charenton-le-Pont 1993, ISBN 2-908958-95-3 , pp. 33-47.

Web links

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