Avon (Seine-et-Marne)
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| region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Seine-et-Marne | |
| Arrondissement | Fontainebleau | |
| Canton | Fontainebleau | |
| Community association | Pays de Fontainebleau | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 25 ′ N , 2 ° 44 ′ E | |
| height | 42-100 m | |
| surface | 3.83 km 2 | |
| Residents | 13,886 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 3,626 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 77210 | |
| INSEE code | 77014 | |
| Website | www.avon77.com | |
Avon is a French city with 13,886 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Seine-et-Marne in the region Ile-de-France , the about 65 kilometers south of Paris in the Arrondissement Fontainebleau is located. The name of the city is derived from the Celtic word Avo (water).
Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Avon (Seine-et-Marne)
- Church Saint-Pierre , the oldest building in town, built around 1100th Before Fontainebleau Castle was built in the neighboring town of the same name in the 16th century , the French kings used the church to attend church services in the woods near Fontainebleau before hunting . Inside the church there is a tombstone and probably also the tomb of Marquis Giovanni Monaldeschi , who was executed in 1657 by Queen Christina of Sweden in Fontainebleau Castle.
- Carmelite monastery , the buildings were built in the 17th century by the French Queen Anna of Austria (1601–1666) around an old water mill as a hospital and have been used as a Carmelite monastery since 1920. From 1934 to 1960 the Petit College d'Avon was also located here, a Catholic boys' school with an attached boarding school.
- Bel Ebat - a mansion with a park, from the 19th century, belonged to the music publisher August Durand, who welcomed famous musicians such as Claude Debussy , Camille Saint-Saëns and Maurice Ravel here
- Railway viaduct , was built from 1847 to 1852 and was used by Napoleon III. opened.
- Prieuré des Basses Loges , former Carmelite monastery
Twin cities
Transport links
The cities of Avon and Fontainebleau have a common train station on the Paris – Marseille railway line . There is a connection from this to Paris via the Transilien priority trains . Travel time to Paris- Gare du Lyon train station is around 40 minutes.
Personalities
- Rémy Dumoncel (1888-1945) became mayor of Avon in 1935. During the Second World War he joined the Resistance , issued false papers to persecuted Jews and helped them to flee to the south of France. He was arrested by the Gestapo on May 4, 1944 at the Fontainebleau-Avon train station and deported to the Neuengamme concentration camp , where he died on March 15, 1945. He was honored as " Righteous Among the Nations " in Yad Vashem .
- Père Jacques - full name of the order Père Jacques de Jésus (1900-1945) - was a Father of the Carmelite Order and director of the Petit College d'Avon . During the Second World War he supported the Resistance by hiding Jewish children under false names from the Nazi occupation forces in France in his boarding school. He was arrested on January 15, 1944 and deported to the Gusen I concentration camp . Shortly after the end of the war, he died of exhaustion and illness on June 2, 1945 in Linz. He was honored as "Righteous Among the Nations". He became world famous for the film Au revoir les enfants ( Goodbye, children ), which was made in 1987 by his former student Louis Malle .
- Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) was a New Zealand - British writer who lived the last phase of her life in Avon and died here of tuberculosis in 1923 . She is buried in Avon Cemetery.
- Georges I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) was a controversial Greek - Armenian esotericist , author , choreographer and composer who became known as a teacher of the Fourth Way . He lived and worked in Avon from 1922 to 1933 and was buried in the cemetery there after his death.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Seine-et-Marne . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-100-7 , pp. 561-565.
- Camille Vayer: Avon . Michel Chabosy, Fontainebleau 1934.
Web links
Commons : Avon - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Avon at annuaire-mairie.fr (French)
- Information about Avon on the Fontainebleau Tourist Office website
- Avon Carmelite Monastery website (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ In detail: Blazek, Matthias: “Die Priorei der Basses-Loges”, in: Kameradschaftliches from Fontainebleau - Bulletin of the Friends of German Military Plenipotentiaries in France , No. 14, June 1999, Fontainebleau 1999, p. 14 f.