Château-Thierry

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Château-Thierry
Coat of arms of Château-Thierry
Château-Thierry (France)
Château-Thierry
Country France
region Hauts-de-France
Department (no.) Aisne (02)
Arrondissement Château-Thierry
Canton Château-Thierry
Community association Communauté d'agglomération de la Région de Château-Thierry
Coordinates 49 ° 3 '  N , 3 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 3 '  N , 3 ° 24'  E
height 59– 222  m
surface 17.01  km²
Residents 15,351 (January 1, 2018)
Population density 902 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 02400
INSEE code 02168
Website www.ville-chateau-thierry.fr

City Hall (left) and Tour Balhan

Château-Thierry is a French municipality with 15,351 inhabitants (at January 1, 2018) in the region of Hauts-de-France . It is one of the sub-prefectures of the Aisne department and the seat of the Région de Château-Thierry municipal association .

geography

Château-Thierry is located on the Marne , about halfway between Paris and Reims .

Surname

According to the local legend, the city is named after a castle in which Karl Martell Theuderich IV is said to have been imprisoned. In the era of the French Revolution , the city was renamed Château Égalité in 1793, according to the fashion of the time . It was later renamed Égalité-sur-Marne , to finally return to the original name.

history

On February 12, 1814, the town and the surrounding area were the scene of the battle of Château-Thierry between the French on one side and the Russians and Prussians on the other during the winter campaign of 1814 .

Monument to the 30th Infantry Division of the US Forces

During the First World War , the city was reached by German troops during the Aisne-Marne offensive ( Blücher attack ) in May 1918. As a result, there were several months of fighting against units of the American Expeditionary Forces , which had been ordered to the front in support of the beleaguered French army. The Américain monument , erected above the city, commemorates these battles and the battle of Château-Thierry on July 18, 1918 .

Also in the western campaign of the Second World War , Château-Thierry was a site of fighting and suffered destruction when the Wehrmacht crossed the Marne here in the case of Rot .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2016
Residents 10,006 11,049 13,491 14,557 15,312 14,966 14,794 14,847

traffic

Château-Thierry station at the beginning of the 20th century
Quai de la Poterne on the right bank of the Marne with a meter- gauge narrow - gauge railway , before 1914
Grande Rue in the city center

Château-Thierry has a train station on the Paris – Strasbourg line , which was opened in this area on September 2, 1849 by the Compagnie des Chemins de fer de l'Est . In 1885 the branch to Breny was added. From 1910 to 1942 the place was the starting point of a narrow-gauge railway network of the Compagnie des chemins de fer du Sud de l'Aisne .

The former national road N 3 ("Route d'Allemagne"), which crosses Château-Thierry in an east-west direction, was downgraded to the departmental roads D 3 and D 1003. Runs from north to south in the department road D 1, the highway A 4 (Paris- Strasbourg ) tangent to the municipal area at the northern edge.

Tourist Attractions

  • Hôtel Dieu

  • town hall

  • Inside of the castle

  • Saint-Crépin church

Town twinning

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-Pierre Rigouard: Paris – Strasbourg. De la Compagnie de l'Est au TGV . 1st edition. Editions Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2006, ISBN 978-2-84910-550-4 , pp. 31 .
  2. ↑ Hôtel Dieu in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  3. ↑ Town Hall in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  4. ↑ Castle Château-Thierry in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  5. ^ Church of Saint-Crépin in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Web links

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