Chambery

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Chambery
Chambéry coat of arms
Chambéry (France)
Chambery
region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department Savoie ( prefecture )
Arrondissement Chambery
Canton Chambéry-1 (main town)
Chambéry-2 (main town)
Chambéry-3 (main town)
Community association Chambéry Métropole-Cœur des Bauges
Coordinates 45 ° 34 '  N , 5 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 34 '  N , 5 ° 55'  E
height 245-560 m
surface 20.99 km 2
Residents 58,919 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 2,807 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 73000
INSEE code 73065
Website www.mairie-chambery.fr

View of the city from Les Monts
Saint-François-de-Sales cathedral

Chambery (German obsolete Kamrach ) is a city in the region Auvergne Rhone-Alpes in France . It is the prefecture (administrative seat) of the Savoie department .

The city forms a settlement center in the Sillon alpin , has an airport and is home to the University of Savoy . 58,919 inhabitants live in an area of ​​20.99 km² (as of January 1, 2017).

Chambéry was named Alpine City of the Year 2006 and is officially a city ​​of art and history .

geography

The city lies at 270 m at the foot of the Savoy Alps . Not far away is the Chartreuse Regional Nature Park in the southwest and the Massif des Bauges Regional Nature Park in the northeast , with which the municipality is associated as an access point. In the south are the vineyards of the Coteaux de la Combe de Savoie , in the north the Lac du Bourget is four kilometers from Chambéry, in the west is the smaller Lac d'Aiguebelette .

The Lac du Bourget is the largest natural lake in France and is mostly fed by the Leysse River, which crosses the urban area from south to north.

In the center of Chambéry is the Place Saint-Léger with many representative houses, mainly from the 18th century. Originally these buildings were built around a small island formed by the Albanne River . In the second half of the 19th century the Albanne was relocated, so that the area of ​​the square was gained in the city. The Albanne (the name means «the white one») now flows a little further east into the Leysse. The Hyère flows into the Leysse to the west of the city center .

Rue de Boigne has been running right through the city center since the first half of the 19th century . It was created in the course of the so-called Haussmannisierung and broke through the small-scale urban structures and brought upscale residential and commercial buildings to the old town. The road leads from the river crossing over the Leysse in a straight line to the castle of Chambéry.

In the large urban area outside the old town there are several suburbs and villages. The city consists of the quarters:

  • Biollay: Hôpital, Maché
  • Bissy: Challot, Chamoux, Charrière-Neuve, la Labiaz, les Landiers, ZI Bissy
  • Center: Angleterre, Bellevue, la Cassine, le Covet, la Gare, le Grand Verger, Montjay, le Stade
  • Laurier: Buisson-Rond, Curial, les Charmettes, Joppet, Lémenc, les Monts, Mérande
  • Chambéry-le-Vieux: Les Bois, le Carré, le Fromaget, Morraz, Putigny, Saint-Ombre
  • Hauts-de-Chambéry: Beauvoir, Chantemerle, les Châtaigniers, la Chenavière, les Combes, la Croix-Rouge, le Mollard, le Piochet, Pugnet .

In the current urban geography of Savoy, thanks to the regional settlement and economic development, one speaks of the coherent area of ​​the "Basin of Chambéry", which, in addition to the central city, also includes the communities of Barberaz , Bassens , Cognin , Jacob-Bellecombette , La Motte-Servolex , La Ravoire , Saint -Alban-Leysse , Sonnaz and Aix-les-Bains .

history

The Romans already had a settlement on the site of today's Chambéry, which they called Lemencum . Chambéry first appears in documents as Camberiacum in 1029 and was an independent county from the 11th to the 13th centuries. In 1232 it was acquired by Count Thomas I of Savoy , who granted the inhabitants important privileges. Count Amadeus V made Chambéry the capital of the county of Savoy in 1295 , which it retained until 1563.

The Dukes of Savoy kept the Turin Shroud after they had acquired it in 1453 from a descendant of Geoffroy de Charnys , with interruptions in Chambéry and finally permanently from 1502 to 1578 in the Sainte-Chapelle of Chambéry. During the fire of the Sainte-Chapelle on December 4th, 1532, the shroud was damaged and has had the cigarette holes visible today since then. In 1578 Duke Emanuel Philibert of Savoy had the relic of Chambéry transferred to his new residence, Turin, in the Turin Cathedral .

Between 1536 and 1713, Chambéry was occupied several times by the French. The Peace of Utrecht gave it back to Savoy. In 1730 King Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia settled here after resigning from his government. In 1742 Chambéry was captured by a Franco-Spanish army. From 1792 to 1814, the city was again under French rule and was the capital of the Mont-Blanc department . The First Peace of Paris on May 30, 1814, had left Chambéry with France; so it came back to Sardinia in the Second Peace of Paris on November 20, 1815. In 1860 it was finally ceded to France with Savoy.

During the Second World War , Chambéry station was a target of the bombing on May 26, 1944 . Because of the large spread, numerous bombs fell on the city center, destroying three hundred buildings; 120 people were killed and over three hundred were injured.

In 1961 the city merged with the former neighboring communities of Bissy (Savoy) and Chambéry-le-Vieux .

politics

In 2020 Thierry Repentin was elected mayor from the left-hand list LDVG. He won against the conservative incumbent Michel Dantin , who had held this office since 2014.

Attractions

Castle of the Dukes of Savoy

See also: List of the Monuments historiques in Chambéry

Culture

A comic festival has been held in the city once a year since 2003 .

Sports

The handball club Chambéry Savoie HB is one of the top clubs in the French 1st division.

In 1989 the UCI Road World Championships took place in Chambéry.

Twin cities

Chambéry has had a partnership with the Italian city of Turin in Piedmont since 1997 and a partnership with Albstadt in Baden-Württemberg since 1979 . There are also friendly relations with Carouge in the Swiss canton of Geneva and with Blainville (Québec) in Canada. There is a cooperation with the city of Ouahigouya in Burkina Faso.

economy

There are or were several industrial companies in the city: Pechiney (now part of Alcan ), Transalpine, Cafés Folliet, Placoplatre, Opinel , Vetrotex .

In the 1950s, the industrial group Saint-Gobain built a production plant in the new industrial zone of Chambéry.

The SNCF railway company runs a regional maintenance facility near Chambéry.

Chambéry is one of the major French cities that have received the state label French Tech for their important start-up economy .

traffic

Chambéry-Savoie Airport is located near the city, in the La Motte-Servolex commune and on the Lac du Bourget .

The Chambery station - Challes-les-Eaux is on the TGV - high-speed connected -Netz. It is located on the Culoz – Modane railway and is the terminus of the Saint-André-le-Gaz – Chambéry railway . The bus station , which is also operated by long-distance buses and operated by Transdev , is located near the train station .

The N 201 expressway runs through Chambéry and a short stretch of the A 43 motorway is in the city to the north .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Connected to the city

  • Thomas I of Savoy (1178–1233), the second founder of the Savoy State, city lord of Chambéry since 1232.
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Geneva writer, philosopher and educator lived in Chambéry from 1729 to 1742. A monument and a media library in the city are dedicated to him.
  • Amélie Gex (1835–1883), Franco-Provencal-French writer.

Web links

Commons : Chambéry  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Chambery in the Topographia Palatinatus Rheni (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang von Stromer, The Nuremberg trading company Gruber-Podmer-Stromer in the 15th century , Nuremberg 1963, page. 146, footnote 25
  2. ↑ Résultats des élections municipales: Chambéry at francetvinfo.fr, accessed on July 5, 2020
  3. ↑ Official website of the comic festival (French)
  4. ↑ Chambéry website