Ermont

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Ermont
Coat of arms of Ermont
Ermont (France)
Ermont
region Île-de-France
Department Val d'Oise
Arrondissement Argenteuil
Canton Canton of Ermont (main town)
Community association Val Parisis
Coordinates 49 ° 0 ′  N , 2 ° 16 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′  N , 2 ° 16 ′  E
height 43-65 m
surface 4.16 km 2
Residents 29,108 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 6,997 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 95120
INSEE code 95219
Website http://www.ville-ermont.fr/

Ermont town hall

Ermont one is French municipality with 29,108 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Val-d'Oise in the region of Ile-de-France . The city is assigned to the canton of Ermont (of which it is chef-lieu ) and the arrondissement of Argenteuil . The inhabitants are called Ermontois .

geography

Ermont located 17 kilometers northwest of the city center of Paris and of the French capital on the motorways A15 / A115 to achieve. In addition, the city has developed into an important hub in rail traffic and today has four train stations. The largest, Gare d'Ermont-Eaubonne , is on the line from Saint-Denis to Pontoise and was completely renovated in 2005. From this train station, the main Parisian train stations Gare du Nord and Gare Saint-Lazare can be reached in around 20 to 25 minutes. In terms of population, Ermont is the second largest city in the small region of Vallée de Montmorency after Franconville . The municipality is heavily urbanized.

history

The area was probably populated as early as the Neolithic . The name of the city is derived from the Gallo-Roman proper or place name Ermedon . A Gallo-Roman settlement on the Roman road Chaussée Jules César , which led from Lutetia (Paris) to Lillebonne (near Le Havre ), is proven. It was destroyed by Germanic tribes before the actual migration at the end of the 3rd century and rebuilt in the 4th century. The place prospered under the Merovingians in the 6th and 7th centuries.

Ermedonis was first mentioned in a document in 835 in a document from the Abbey of Saint-Denis . Also in the 9th century, a Christian place of prayer was built on the site of the Merovingian necropolis . At that time the place was called Ormont until the 13th century. Under the reign of Philip Augustus , the parish belonged to a secular person named Jean de Giron . The hamlet of Cernay , which is connected to Ermont and a commander of the Knightly Order of the Maltese , developed parallel to the village. In 1269 the Knights Templar settled in Cernay, and a little later an offshoot of the royal Abbey of Saint-Victor was added; it was followed by the Cölestines of Rouen and finally the Bois-Saint-Père priory . Nevertheless, in 1471 the village community had no more than forty inhabitants. Like all the villages in the Vallée de Montmorency, Ermont suffered greatly from the Jacquerie of 1358 and the Hundred Years War .

In the 16th century the Grand Prior of France (→ History of the Order of St. John ) held the manorial power. During the Fronde Civil War (1648–1653), Ermont was destroyed. The most important branch of the economy until the 18th century was viticulture , which was then gradually replaced by fruit growing and vegetable growing .

With the advent of the railroad , the cityscape of Ermont has changed a lot. Urbanization first developed along the railway lines. The advancing industrialization and strong population growth in the 19th century pushed agriculture back and finally made it disappear. Today Ermont has the following four train stations: Ermont-Eaubonne , Cernay , Ermont-Halte and Gros Noyer-Saint Prix .

coat of arms

In the center a torn vine on a red background, a silver stalk and silver leaves, three golden grapes; the border adorned with nine evenly spaced black cockades ( tourteaux de sable ); the azure blue head of the shield decorated with golden fleurs-de-lys behind a silver miter.

Population development

year 1936 1946 1954 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2016
Residents 8812 9325 11068 19263 23842 25492 24394 27947 27494 27670 29112

Attractions

Church Saint-Flaive
  • The Saint-Flaive church was built in 1886 and 1887 on the site of an 11th century medieval church that had fallen into disrepair. With the increasing population in the 1960s, the church was enlarged in 1964: A modern extension with an oval floor plan was added to the right-hand side of the church.
  • A former castle, which was built between 1868 and 1870, serves as the town hall. In 1875 it belonged to Benjamin Blanchard, then mayor of the municipality. In 1932 it was bought by the city and inaugurated as the town hall of Ermont after an extension.
  • The Museum of Folk Art ( musée des arts et traditions populaires ) is housed in the old municipal workshops. The collection explains agriculture and viticulture from earlier times.
  • The sports and youth center le club des Espérances at 3, avenue de l'Europe is housed in two buildings designed by the architect Jean Prouvé in 1966. Built in 1967 and 1968, it has been a listed building since 2008, which also thwarted a real estate project in the city. In 2010, the building complex was closed at the behest of Mayor Hugues Portelli ( UMP ), as maintenance was too expensive and staying in the ruins was too dangerous.

Personalities

Town twinning

The market - then (1920) ...
… and today

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Val-d'Oise. Flohic Éditions, Volume 1, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-056-6 , pp. 263-276.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jean Lebeuf: Histoire de la ville et de tout le diocese de Paris , Vol. 3, p. 414.
  2. ^ Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres: Mémoires - Deuxième série - Antiquités de la France , vol. 1, p. 12. Imprimerie royale, Paris, 1843.
  3. ↑ a b Jacques-Antoine Dulaure: Histoire physique, civile et morale des environs de Paris , Vol. 3, p. 58. Paris, 1825.
  4. ↑ Ivy Stevan Guiho: L'Ordre des Templiers - petite encyclopédie 57. Éditions L'Harmattan, Paris, in 2009.
  5. ↑ Le club des Espérances ferme à contrecœur on Le Parisien from July 15, 2010.

Web links

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