Cergy
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| region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Val d'Oise | |
| Arrondissement | Pontoise | |
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Cergy-1 (main town) Cergy-2 (main town) |
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| Community association | Cergy-Pontoise | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 2 ′ N , 2 ° 4 ′ E | |
| height | 21-121 m | |
| surface | 11.65 km 2 | |
| Residents | 65,177 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 5,595 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 95000 and 95800 | |
| INSEE code | 95127 | |
| Website | http://www.ville-cergy.fr/ | |
Cergy is a French commune with 65,177 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Val-d'Oise department in north-west Paris . It is 27.8 kilometers from Paris city center and is located in the Cergy-Pontoise agglomeration . Cergy was founded in the 1960s and is the center of the new cities of Cergy-Pontoise with the greatest population density. The inhabitants are called Cergyssois .
Although the neighboring Pontoise is the official prefecture of the department , the administrative headquarters are in Cergy. On the other hand, the buildings of the sub-prefecture are in the Commune of Pontoise.
Surname
The name Cergy comes from the Middle Latin word Sergiacum and means "estate of Sergius" (a Gallo-Roman landowner).
Population development
When Cergy was chosen to be the center of the Ville nouvelle in Cergy-Pontoise , it was only a small village with 2895 inhabitants (1968). After that, the population developed rapidly, with over 10,000 residents in the mid-1970s and over 20,000 in the early 1980s. The population in 1990 was around 48,000, after which the population slowed down, but rose to 54,500 in 2004. In 2011 there were 58,300 inhabitants.
administration
Cergy is the capital of two cantons:
- The canton of Cergy-Nord is part of Cergy and the municipalities of Boissy-l'Aillerie , Osny , Puiseux-Pontoise (53,779 inhabitants).
- The canton of Cergy-Sud is part of Cergy and the municipality of Éragny (32,969 inhabitants).
Architectural monuments
See: List of Monuments historiques in Cergy
Town twinning
City partnerships exist with the cities
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Erkrath , Germany -
Columbia, Maryland , United States -
Liaoyang , People's Republic of China -
Porto-Novo , Benin
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Tres Cantos , Spain -
West Lancashire , UK
port
Port Cergy is a marina on the River Oise . It offers space for 103 ships from 5 to 22 m in length. The northern part of the harbor is reserved for restaurants and shops and was built around a small harbor basin.
traffic
Cergy has three railway stations on the RER A line and others on the Transilien : Cergy - Préfecture , Cergy - Saint-Christophe and Cergy - Le Haut .
The bus company STIVO operates 17 bus routes in Cergy.
education
- Cergy-Pontoise University
- ESSEC , Grande école (Management College)
- ENSEA , École Nationale Supérieure de l'Électronique et de ses Applications
- ITIN , business school (IT sector) ( École supérieure d'informatique, réseaux et systèmes d'information )
- EISTI , École internationale des sciences du traitement de l'information
- ENSAPC - École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy
crime
Cergy-Pontoise has 137.62 criminal incidents per 1000 inhabitants, well above the national average (83 per 1000) and higher than the crime rate of the Val-d'Oise department (88.15 per 1000). Cergy-Pontoise is the most dangerous city in Val-d'Oise after Argenteuil (186.43 per 1000).
In the movie
The French feature film I like Icarus by Henri Verneuil was partly shot in Cergy.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Val-d'Oise. Flohic Éditions, Volume 1, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-056-6 , pp. 126-134.
- Fiction
- Annie Ernaux : Les années. 2008; Übers. Sonja Finck : The years . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2017, p. 132ff. Relocation of the author to Cergy, characteristics of the place
