Aulnay-sous-Bois

Aulnay-sous-Bois
region	Île-de-France
Department	Seine-Saint-Denis
Arrondissement	Le Raincy
Canton	Aulnay-sous-Bois (main town)
Community association	Métropole du Grand Paris and ; Paris Terres d'Envol
Coordinates	48 ° 56 ' N , 2 ° 30' E Coordinates: 48 ° 56 ' N , 2 ° 30' E
height	40-78 m
surface	16.20 km 2
Residents	85,740 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	5,293 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	93600
INSEE code	93005
Website	www.aulnay-sous-bois.fr
	; town hall

Aulnay-sous-Bois [ ɔlnɛsubwa ] is a French city located around 15 kilometers northeast of Paris in the Seine-Saint-Denis department . It was called Aulnay-lès-Bondy (or even earlier Aulnay-les-Bondies) until 1903. The inhabitants are called Aulnaysia .

It has 85,740 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), of which around 55,000 live in Aulnay-sous-Bois-Nord and around 25,000 in Aulnay-sous-Bois-Sud. This makes it the fourth largest city in the department.

politics

Aulnay-sous-Bois gained national fame in November 2005 due to the unrest that originated in this region.

economy

The car manufacturer Citroën set up a factory in 1973 on the municipality's territory. The Citroën SA was taken over by the competitor Peugeot SA in December 1974 , since April 1976 the company PSA is called Peugeot Citroën . The plant employed around 3,000 people. Production was stopped on October 26, 2013, and the factory closed the following December. From 1973 to 2013 around 8.5 million vehicles were produced in Aulnay-sous-Bois.

The community was also the site of the Compagnie des Freins & Signaux Westinghouse in the Second after the war from 1945 to 1949 the "European" transistor of Herbert F. Mataré and Heinrich Welker was developed "Le Transistron" said.

traffic

Aulnay-sous-Bois is connected to public transport in the greater Paris area with two stations on line 4 of the Paris tram : through the Rougemont - Chanteloup station and one of the line's terminus, Les Moulineaux , where there is also a connection to the RER B rapid transit line . There are also numerous bus routes available for local public transport.

Attractions

Saint Sulpice Church ( Monument historique ), built from the 12th century
Hôtel de Ville , built in 1934
Villa Chansonia, built in 1907

Personalities

Jean-Claude Abrioux (1931–2011), French politician ( UMP )
Yves Albarello (* 1952), French politician
Didier Monczuk (* 1961), former French football player
Olivier Dacourt (* 1974), French professional footballer, grew up here
Alice Diop (* 1979), French documentary filmmaker
Alou Diarra (* 1981), French professional footballer, grew up here
Sefyu (* 1981), French rapper
Aya Nakamura (* 1995 in Mali), French-Malian singer, moved here with her family as a child

literature

Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Seine-Saint-Denis. Flohic Éditions, 2nd edition, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-84234-133-3 , pp. 51–59.

Web links

Commons : Aulnay-sous-Bois - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Last Citroën rolled off the line in the PSA plant. handelsblatt.com, October 25, 2013, accessed February 15, 2014
↑ L'actualité Alstom à Belfort ravive l'amertume des anciens de PSA à Aulnay at lemonde.fr, accessed on February 4, 2017
^ Armand Van Dormael: The “French” Transistor. Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Conference on the History of Electronics, Bletchley Park, June 2004.

[1] Last Citroën rolled off the line in the PSA plant. handelsblatt.com, October 25, 2013, accessed February 15, 2014

[2] L'actualité Alstom à Belfort ravive l'amertume des anciens de PSA à Aulnay at lemonde.fr, accessed on February 4, 2017

[Dormael-CHE-2004-3] Armand Van Dormael: The “French” Transistor. Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Conference on the History of Electronics, Bletchley Park, June 2004.