Arrondissement (Paris)
The French capital Paris has been subdivided into 20 city districts since 1860 , the arrondissements (German district , literally: rounding, rounding off ).
Administrative structure
The arrondissements are numbered from 1 to 20, often shortened with Roman numerals. The sequence of numbers begins on the right bank of the Seine in the center and continues in a spiral to the outside. The spiral begins with four arrondissements in the historic city center , the area around the Louvre , the Palais-Royal and the Forum des Halles , and ends after two and a half clockwise turns in the east of the city. The spiral arrangement of the arrondissement is popularly called l'escargot de Paris (the Parisian snail or Parisian snail shell).
Each arrondissement is headed by a mayor ( Maire d'Arrondissement) who resides in the mayor's office in his district.
Each arrondissement itself consists of four quarters (city quarters), which are numbered from 1 to 80: Quarters 1 to 4 belong to the 1st arrondissement, quarters 5 to 8 to the 2nd arrondissement and so on.
Area and population of the arrondissements
Arrondissement | Surname |
Area (ha) |
population | Population density / km² | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1872 | 1954 | 1999 | 1872 | 1954 | 1999 | |||
I . | Louvre | 183 | 74,286 | 38,926 | 16,888 | 40,593 | 21,271 | 9,228 |
II . | Bourse | 99 | 73,578 | 43,857 | 19,585 | 74,321 | 44,300 | 19,783 |
III . | Temple | 117 | 89,687 | 65,312 | 34,248 | 76,656 | 55,822 | 29,272 |
IV . | Hotel de Ville | 160 | 95.003 | 66,621 | 30,675 | 59,377 | 41,638 | 19,172 |
V . | Pantheon | 254 | 96,689 | 106,443 | 58,849 | 38,067 | 41,907 | 23,169 |
VI . | Luxembourg | 215 | 90.288 | 88,200 | 44,919 | 41,994 | 41,023 | 20,893 |
VII . | Bourbon Palace | 409 | 78,553 | 104,412 | 56,985 | 19.206 | 25,529 | 13,933 |
VIII . | Elysee | 388 | 75,796 | 80,827 | 39,314 | 19,535 | 20,832 | 10.132 |
IX . | Opéra | 218 | 103,767 | 102.287 | 55,838 | 47,600 | 46,921 | 25,614 |
X . | Entrepôt | 289 | 135.392 | 129,179 | 89,612 | 46,848 | 44,699 | 31,008 |
XI . | Popincourt | 367 | 167.393 | 200,440 | 149.102 | 45,611 | 54,616 | 40,627 |
XII . | Reuilly | 637 | 87,678 | 158,437 | 136,591 | 13,764 | 24,872 | 21,443 |
XIII . | Tapestries | 715 | 69,431 | 165.620 | 171,533 | 9,711 | 23.164 | 23,991 |
XIV . | Observatoire | 564 | 69,611 | 181.414 | 132,844 | 12,342 | 32,166 | 23,554 |
XV . | Vaugirard | 848 | 75,449 | 250.124 | 225,362 | 8,897 | 29,496 | 26,576 |
XVI . | Passy | 791 | 43,332 | 214.042 | 161,773 | 5,478 | 27,060 | 20,452 |
XVII . | Batignolles-Monceau | 567 | 101,804 | 231.987 | 160,860 | 17,955 | 40,915 | 28,370 |
XVIII . | Buttes-Montmartre | 601 | 138.109 | 266.825 | 184,586 | 22,980 | 44,397 | 30,713 |
XIX . | Buttes-Chaumont | 679 | 93.174 | 155.028 | 172.730 | 13,722 | 22,832 | 25,439 |
XX . | Ménilmontant | 598 | 92,772 | 200.208 | 182,952 | 15,514 | 33,480 | 30,594 |
intra muros | 8,699 | 1,851,792 | 2,850,189 | 2,125,246 | 21,287 | 32,765 | 24,431 | |
Bois de Boulogne | 846 | (to Arrondissement XVI , Passy ) | ||||||
Bois de Vincennes | 995 | (to Arrondissement XII , Reuilly ) | ||||||
Paris | 10,540 | 1,851,792 | 2,850,189 | 2,125,246 | 17,569 | 27,042 | 20.164 |
Trivia
The frequently encountered anecdote that the French anatomist and surgeon Claude Couinaud based the numbering of the liver segments on the spiral numbering of the Parisian arrondissements has meanwhile been unmasked as a modern legend .
Footnotes
- ↑ 7072 - Loi sur l'extension des limites de Paris (du 16 June 1859) , Bulletin des lois de l'Empire français , Volume XIV, XI. Series, No. 738, pp. 747-751
- ↑ Jean-Nicolas Vauthey, Giuseppe Zimmitti, Junichi Shindoh: From Couinaud to molecular biology: the seven virtues of hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery . In: HPB . tape 14 , no. 8 , p. 493-499 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1477-2574.2012.00502.x , PMID 22762396 , PMC 3406345 (free full text) - ( elsevier.com ).