Fos-sur-Mer
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| region | Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur | |
| Department | Bouches-du-Rhône | |
| Arrondissement | Istres | |
| Canton | Istres | |
| Community association | Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 26 ' N , 4 ° 57' E | |
| height | 0-49 m | |
| surface | 92.31 km 2 | |
| Residents | 15,494 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 168 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 13270 | |
| INSEE code | 13039 | |
| Website | www.fos-sur-mer.fr | |
 Industrial zone of Fos-sur-Mer |
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Fos-sur-Mer is a French commune with 15,494 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Istres and the canton of Istres .
geography
Fos-sur-Mer is located about 50 kilometers north-west of Marseille on the Mediterranean coast on the Gulf of Fos between the Étang de Berre and the mouth of the Rhone . Six kilometers of sandy beaches belong to the city.
The port is the important seaport of Marseille-Fos, where container handling also takes place. As a result of its importance as an international port on the Mediterranean, several inland waterways lead to Fos:
- Canal du Rhône à Fos : connection from the river Rhône to the port of Fos for large-scale shipping
- Canal de Caronte : Connection from the Golfe de Fos to the Étang de Berre . There was a canal connection to the port of Marseille with the Canal de Marseille au Rhône .
- Canal d'Arles à Bouc : former channel connecting Arles to Port-de-Bouc, 1968 at Fos, 6km from the former estuary, interrupted and since then Canal d'Arles à Fos called
- Canal de Fos à Port-de-Bouc : connection for barges between the ports of Fos and Port-de-Bouc
history
The Mourre-Poussiou archaeological site attests to the presence of hunters and gatherers since the Epipalaeolithic . In Gallo-Roman antiquity , Fos was an important port that probably belonged to Arles . His name Fossae Marianae is the origin of today's place name. It is also listed on the Tabula Peutingeriana . However, it is unclear where the Roman settlement was.
In the Middle Ages, Fos was a fiefdom of the Seigneurs de Fos , a stretch of coast around 25 kilometers long and 10 kilometers wide with one of the oldest and most important castles in western Provence, which controlled the road from Marseille to Arles, the church of Saint-Julien et Saint- Pierre near Martigues and the Abbey of Saint-Gervais de Fos, which belonged to the Abbey of Saint-Victor in Marseille until 1081 and was passed on to the Abbey of Cluny .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2017 |
| Residents | 2898 | 2869 | 6709 | 9031 | 11.605 | 13,925 | 15,734 | 15,494 |
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economy
The municipality's economy is shaped by the industrial port that belongs to the Marseille Europort and has connections to Italy, Spain and North Africa. This is where the container terminal of the Marseille Europort is located. In 2017, around 1.4 million TEU and 20.4 million t of general cargo and almost 200,000 vehicles were handled in the port of Fos . In total, the handling volume in 2017 was around 80 million t, there were almost 1.5 million cruise passengers.
Petroleum processing and chemical companies have settled here, including the Fos refinery . Here, the oil begins pipeline of Societe du Pipeline Sud-Europeen (SPSE) to Karlsruhe for petroleum refinery Upper Rhine . Due to the impact of industry, Fos-sur-Mer is considered one of the most polluted municipalities in France.
Attractions
- Church Saint-Sauveur , 11th century ( monument historique )
Saint Sauveur Church in Fos-sur-Mer (2005)
Saint Sauveur Church seen from the valley (October 2005)
Town twinning
- Sélibaby , Mauritania
- Hann-Bel Air , Senegal
literature
- Max Escalon de Fonton: Les habitats épipaléolithiques du Mourre-Poussiou, à Fos-sur-Mer (Bouches-du-Rhône) 1. Etude archéologique , Gallia Préhistoire, Volume 27, I, 1984, pp. 67-80.
- Louis Monguilan, Eugène Bonifay, Patrick Grandjean, Robert Lequement, Bernard Liou: Dans le golfe de Fos, une nécropole sous la mer , Archéologia n ° 110, September 1977, pp. 59-65.
- Philippe Racinet: Une implantation clunisienne négligée sur la côte provençale: l'abbaye de Saint-Gervais de Fos in: Maisons de Dieu et hommes d'Église , Center Européen de Recherches sur les Congrégations et Ordres Religieux (CERCOR), Publications de l ' Université de Saint-Étienne, 1992, pp. 61-72.
- Paul Turc: Hyères et les seigneurs de Fos , Center Archéologique du Var / Société Hyéroise d'Histoire et d'Archéologie / Mémoire à lire. Territoire à l'écoute, Toulon-Hyères, 2003,
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Wägener: France's focus is on the hinterland . In: Hansa , issue 8/2018, pp. 80/81
- ^ André German: Marseille plans LNG supply . In: Daily port report of November 23, 2018, p. 4
- ↑ A Fos-sur-Mer, “pourquoi tout le monde meurt d'un cancer? » . Sophie Caillat, Rue89 , July 25, 2010.
- ↑ Jumelages