Carignan (Ardennes)

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Carignan
Carignan's coat of arms
Carignan (France)
Carignan
region Grand Est
Department Ardennes
Arrondissement Sedan
Canton Carignan
Community association Portes du Luxembourg
Coordinates 49 ° 38 '  N , 5 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 38 '  N , 5 ° 10'  E
height 161-291 m
surface 14.01 km 2
Residents 2,885 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 206 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 08110
INSEE code

South-west side of the Notre-Dame church

Carignan is a French commune with 2885 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Ardennes department , Grand Est region . The city has an area of ​​14.01 km². It is located near the Belgian border at the foot of the Ardennes and not far from Sedan (approx. 20 km away). Carignan is twin town of the German city of Weinsberg .

history

Already in Roman times there was a fortified place with the Celtic name Epossium on the area of ​​today's Carignan , which was on the road to Augusta Treverorum (today's Trier ).

Carignan was called Yvois until 1662 . Until 1555 the city belonged to the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation , then to the Spanish Netherlands , from 1659 to France. During the Second World War , Carignan was 80 percent destroyed by French artillery in 1940 . Her German name was Ipsch .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2016
Residents 3403 3674 3724 3646 3359 3259 2987 2908
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Personalities

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Max Ihm : Epossium . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, Col. 251.