Bobigny
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| region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Seine-Saint-Denis | |
| Arrondissement | Bobigny ( prefecture ) | |
| Canton |
Bobigny (main town) Bondy |
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| Community association |
Métropole du Grand Paris and Est Ensemble |
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 55 ' N , 2 ° 26' E | |
| height | 39-57 m | |
| surface | 6.77 km 2 | |
| Residents | 53,640 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 7,923 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 93000 | |
| INSEE code | 93008 | |
| Website | http://www.bobigny.fr/ | |
Bobigny is a French commune with 53,640 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Seine-Saint-Denis department , of which it is the capital. It is located east of the capital Paris . Its inhabitants are called Balbyniens .
history
A Gallic settlement of the area has been proven since the fourth century BC. The name of the city comes from Balbinius , a Roman general who founded a settlement in what was then the Bondy forest .
At the end of the 19th century, industrialization began, which made the commune a stronghold of the labor movement : since 1919 - with the exception of the years of occupation during World War II - the communists had appointed the mayor here, and a candidate from the bourgeois-liberal UDI was elected until 2014 has been. Bobigny was also a stronghold for immigrants from the French colonies and overseas territories in the Caribbean , the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa very early on . In 1935 a hospital was founded here to care for the Muslims living in the capital region, which still exists today and bears the name Hôpital Avicenne .
Bobigny is seen as a pioneer of the ideas of a citizen commune .
traffic
Line 5 of the Métro Paris has ended at the Bobigny - Pablo Picasso station since 1985 . The penultimate station of Bobigny - Pantin - Raymond Queneau is also located in the municipality . In 1992 the place was reached by the tram line T1 , which runs on the first tram line put into operation in the greater Paris area after the Second World War . In Bobigny - Pablo Picasso it has a connection to the Métrolinie 5.
Attractions
See also: List of the Monuments historiques in Bobigny
- Archaeological excavations at Vache a l'aise . A wooden statue has already been found.
- The SNCF station grounds - Gare de Bobigny ( Grande Ceinture ) - (out of order; place of the deportation of Jews , 21 train transports of prisoners from Drancy began here) is a listed building
Twin cities
Personalities
- The singer Jacques Brel (1929–1978) died here.
- The boxer Jean-Marc Mormeck (* 1972) grew up here.
- The tennis player Gaël Monfils (* 1986) grew up here.
- The singer Wallen ( Nawell Azzouz ) (* 1978), the rapper Ménélik (* 1970) and the reggae singer Tonton David (* 1967) grew up here.
- Sprinter Muriel Hurtis (* 1979) was born here.
- The footballer Charles Itandje (* 1982) was born here.
- The author Faïza Guène (* 1985) was born here.
- The football player Habib Bellaïd (* 1986) was born here.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Seine-Saint-Denis. Flohic Éditions, 2nd edition, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-84234-133-3 , pp. 83–91.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Balbynien
- ^ City partnership Potsdam-Bobigny. Concrete projects agreed. In: Press Release No. 178. State Capital Potsdam, April 8, 2005, accessed on May 12, 2014 .