Drancy
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| region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Seine-Saint-Denis | |
| Arrondissement | Le Raincy | |
| Canton | Drancy | |
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Métropole du Grand Paris and Paris Terres d'Envol |
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 55 ' N , 2 ° 27' E | |
| height | 39-51 m | |
| surface | 7.76 km 2 | |
| Residents | 71,318 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 9,190 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 93700 | |
| INSEE code | 93029 | |
| Website | www.drancy.net | |
 Hotel de Ville |
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The French commune of Drancy is a city with 71,318 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) northeast of Paris , about ten kilometers from the city center. It belongs to the Seine-Saint-Denis department . The residents call themselves Drancéens.
The Drancy assembly camp was located here from 1941 to 1944 , from which the majority of French Jews , Roma and others were deported to the extermination camps , mainly to Auschwitz .
geography
The city of Drancy extends over an area of 776 hectares in the northeast of the Seine-Saint-Denis department. It borders La Courneuve to the east, Le Bourget to the north, Aulnay-sous-Bois to the west and Bobigny to the south .
Surname
The name Drancy comes from the medieval Latin Derenciacum previously Terentiacum , State of Terence , a Gallo-Roman landowner.
history
In the 17th century, Drancy was divided into two places: Drancy le Grand and Petit Drancy . Today's Village Parisien district stands on the former hamlet of Groslay, which was surrounded by the Bondy forest. In the 1930s, the first high-rise apartment buildings in Europe, the Cité de la Muette , were built there as a symbol of architectural modernism, which immediately after its completion became ingloriously known as the Drancy collection center . Today, as originally planned, there are social housing ( HLM ) there, at the same time it has also become a place of remembrance of the deportation: in 1976 a memorial by the sculptor Shlomo Selinger was erected there to commemorate the French Jews who came from this assembly camp Were deported east. The memorial wagon ( wagon témoin ) opened in 1988 is part of the monument .
Landmarks and monuments
Drancy has several sights, such as the Ladoucette Castle, in whose park the mausoleum of the Duchesse of Ladoucette is located, and the memorial in memory of the deported Jews.
traffic
Drancy has a station of the RER B .
Sports
The footballers of the Jeanne d'Arc de Drancy club, founded in 1903 , who have their venue in the Stade Charles Sage (capacity: 2,500 seats), rose from the tenth-highest to the fourth league, the Championnat de France Amateur , between 2003 and 2009 . In addition, they managed to make it into the round of the best 16 teams in the nationwide cup competition for the Coupe de France 2010/11 .
The chess players of the Cavalier Bleu de Drancy club even belonged to the top 16 , the top French division, for many years until 2010 ; In 2016 they played again in the top division, the top 12 . The two-time French champion Nicolas Giffard was a member of the club.
Personalities
Born in Drancy:
- Henri-Charles Oulevay (1834–1915), painter and illustrator
- Joseph Tellechéa (born 1926), footballer
- Raphaël Tellechea (1930-2008), footballer
- Mathias Kouo-Doumbé (* 1979), footballer
- Niels Brouzes (* 1981), racing cyclist
- Akrem Hamdi (born 1987), rugby player
- Jordan Bardella (* 1995), politician
Other personalities
- The de Séguier family - feudal lords in Drancy in the 17th century, whose coat of arms still bears the town today.
- Jean-Christophe Lagarde (* 1967) is mayor of Drancy and chairman of the UDI party
Town twinning
- Eisenhüttenstadt (Germany)
- Gorée (Senegal)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Willenhall (England, UK)
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Seine-Saint-Denis. Flohic Éditions, 2nd edition, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-84234-133-3 , pp. 133-141.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article in France Football
- ↑ Giffard at chessgames.com