Avenue de Versailles
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ' N , 2 ° 16' E
| Avenue de Versailles | |
|---|---|
| location | |
| Arrondissement | 16. |
| quarter | Auteuil |
| Beginning | Place Clément-Ader |
| The End | Place de la Porte-de-Saint-Cloud |
| morphology | |
| length | 2080 m |
| width | 26 m |
| history | |
| designation | February 1, 1877 |
| Original names | Route de Versailles Route de la Reine Route nationale 10 |
| Coding | |
| Paris | 9728 |
The Avenue de Versailles is a 2,080-meter-long street in the neighborhood Auteuil of the 16th arrondissement of Paris .
location
The street begins at Place Clément Ader in the immediate vicinity of Radio France and the Pont de Grenelle to the east , which leads over the Seine and the Île aux Cygnes with the Statue of Liberty to the neighboring 15th arrondissement , and ends at the Porte de Saint-Cloud .
The street has two connections to the Paris Métro : in its first section the Mirabeau station on the route and at its end the Porte de Saint-Cloud station , which is served by the.
Name origin
The street got its name because this was the usual route taken by the French kings on the way between Paris and the residence at Versailles .
history
The street was formerly called "Route de Versailles" or "Route de la Reine", but on February 1, 1877, it was given its current name, Avenue de Versailles. It was part of Route Nationale 10 .
Originally it led over the area of Auteuil and came in 1860 with the incorporation on Parisian territory and was added to the directory of Parisian streets on May 23, 1863 ( French Réseau viaire de Paris ).
Attractions
- No. 25: A residential building built around 1930 by the architects Jean Ginsberg and Berthold Lubetkin , which was declared a monument historique .
- No. 77: Pavillon de l'eau , an information point on Paris's water supply
- No. 123: A plaque reminds us that the operetta diva Hortense Schneider (1833–1920) lived here.
- No. 142: The Jassédé house (Monument historique), built between 1903 and 1905 under the direction of Hector Guimard .
- No. 185: Lycée René Cassin
No. 25
Pavilion de l'eau.
Jassedé house (1903).
Badge on No. 123
Lycée René Cassin, No. 185
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Philippe Siguret, Bertrand Lemoine : Vie et histoire du XIVe arrondissement (Edition Hervas, Paris 1991), p. 151
- ^ Structurae - International database of civil engineering structures: 25 avenue de Versailles
- ↑ The Modernist: Berthold Lubetkin - Architect (English)
- ↑ a b cf. also cultural monuments of the 16th arrondissement