Bièvre (Seine)

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Bièvre
The Bièvre in Fresnes

The Bièvre in Fresnes

Data
Water code FR :  F70-0400
location France , Île-de-France region
River system His
Drain over Its  → English Channel
source in the municipality of Guyancourt,
48 ° 46 ′ 46 ″  N , 2 ° 3 ′ 59 ″  E
Source height 130  m
muzzle in the urban area of Paris in the Seine coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 42 ″  N , 2 ° 21 ′ 58 ″  E 48 ° 50 ′ 42 ″  N , 2 ° 21 ′ 58 ″  E

length 33 km
Flowing lakes Étangs de La Minière
Big cities Paris
Medium-sized cities Guyancourt , Massy , Antony , Fresnes , L'Haÿ-les-Roses , Cachan

The Bièvre is a river in France through the Île-de-France region , which flows into the Seine from the left and south in Paris .

etymology

The name is derived from the developed Gaulish word * bèbros , which is attested in late Latin in the form bèber and is related to an Indo-European root from which the German word beaver developed. The name was transferred from the rodent to the water it inhabits.

course

The 33-kilometer-long left tributary of the Seine rises in the Vallon des Bouviers , a valley at Guyancourt near Versailles , and crosses the departments of Yvelines , Essonne , Hauts-de-Seine and Val-de-Marne in the densely populated outskirts of Paris . From the urban area of Antony , the Bièvre continues to flow underground and reaches Paris under the so-called Poterne des Peupliers , a gate of the former fortifications named after the poplars that used to grow there. The Bièvre finally covers the last kilometers of its way through the underground of the 13th and 5th arrondissement and empties at the Quai d'Austerlitz into the collecting basin of the sewers of the Rive Gauche , which in turn pours into the large main basin of the Égouts , which finally into the Seine drains.

Places on the river

history

Upstream, the banks of the Beaver River remained , apart from the logging of the abbeys of Saint-Germain-des-Prés , Sainte-Geneviève and Saint-Victor as well as the coming Saint-Jean-de-Latran and the construction of the aqueduct of Buc in, commissioned by Louvois in 1686 the then royal domain of Buc , which fed the fountains of the Palace of Versailles , was almost untouched until the 18th century. The Bièvre was lined with numerous wash houses, drove several mills and in Jouy-en-Josas it crossed the grounds of the Toile-de-Jouy cloth factory owned by Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf .

In the suburban area, the Banlieue , the middle course of the river between Antony and Gentilly was first only partially canalized (Gentilly) and buried underground (Arcueil) from 1900, and finally completely sunk in the years 1930 (Cachan) to 1956 (Arcueil) and covered. The history of the lower course of the river in today's urban area of ​​Paris is more complex.

geology

Before the Quaternary (current Ice Age ), the Seine flowed through what is now Paris in a larger arch offset to the north, at the foot of the hills of Belleville , Montmartre and Chaillot , roughly the course of today's Grands Boulevards to Gare Saint-Lazare and the Rues de la Boétie and Marboeuf to the Pont de l'Alma followed. On its left bank, the Bièvre circled the Butte aux Cailles in the west, formed numerous ponds around the Rue de la Glacière, and at the lower end of the Rue Mouffetard gave way to the hill later known as Montagne Sainte-Geneviève in an easterly direction. From there she dug her bed across the grounds of the Botanical Garden and the Gare d'Austerlitz to the Chaillot Hill, where it flowed into the Seine.

When the Seine sought a shorter route across the Bièvre river bed in the Quaternary, the Marais formed on the right bank between the old and the new course of the Seine . The confluence of the two waters, which was now at the level of the Rue de Bièvre, shifted over the centuries to the level of the Pont de la Tournelle and finally in the 12th century in the area of ​​the Gare d'Austerlitz. A swamp formed on the left bank in the vicinity of today's train station, which was gradually filled in by river deposits, but the area - like the Marais district - is still considered to be flood-prone.

Planned developments

The upper course of the Bièvre is a popular local recreation area. In the suburbs, efforts are being made to expose the river again and to integrate it as Coulée Verte into the network of green walking and cycling paths . The first stretch of a good one kilometer was opened in 2000 between Verrières-le-Buisson and Massy. The project is coordinated by Syndicat d'Assainissement de la Vallée de la Bièvre in close cooperation with the Syndicat Intercommunal d'Aménagement de l'Agglomération Parisienne .

Web links

Commons : Bièvre  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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  • Alfred Fierro: Histoire et Dictionnaire de Paris . Editions Robert Laffont, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-221-07862-4 .
  • Jacques Hillairet: Dictionnaire Historique des rues de Paris . Editions de Minuit, Paris 1963, ISBN 2-7073-0092-6 .
  • Grand Larousse Encyclopédique . Larousse, Paris 1960.

Remarks

  1. ^ Etymology based on the Trésor de la langue française informatisé and Kluge , Etymological Dictionary of the German Language , Verlag De Gruyter, 22nd edition.
  2. ↑ The information on the length of the river is based on the information on the relevant website sandre.eaufrance.fr , accessed on September 14, 2009, rounded to full kilometers.