Quartier de la Goutte d'Or
| Quartier de la Goutte d'Or | |
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| administration | |
| Country | France |
| region | Île-de-France |
| Arrondissement | 18th |
| Demographics | |
| Transport links | |
| metro |    
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| bus |  RATP 31, 60, 302
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The Quartier de la Goutte-d'Or , Goutte d'Or for short (French "golden drop") is the 71st district in the north of the French capital Paris in the 18th arrondissement on the eastern Monmartre Hill . It has around 30,000 inhabitants on an area of 1.09 km² and is a typical working-class and immigrant quarter.
Demarcation
The administrative unit of the Quartier de la Goutte d'Or was officially established in 1859 on the occasion of the expansion of Paris as follows:
- to the south: Boulevard de la Chapelle
- to the north: the border with Saint-Denis
- to the west: Rue des Poissonniers
- to the east: Rue de la Chapelle and Rue Marx-Dormoy
The railway line to Gare du Nord runs through the district from north to south .
After Thiers' city fortifications were abolished in 1919, the areas annexed to Saint-Denis , which were in the non ædificandi zone of the fortifications, were annexed to Paris by the decrees of July 27, 1930. Later the route of the boulevard périphérique was laid on it.
| Saint-Ouen | Saint-Denis | Saint-Denis |
| Clignancourt |
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La Chapelle |
| Saint-Vincent-de-Paul | Saint-Vincent-de-Paul | Rochechouart |
As the neighborhood is on one side of the Montmartre hill , there are many roads with inclines. It is also famous for the Montmartre quarries .
Population structure
The proportion of foreigners is currently around 30% and the proportion of immigrants is over 50%, and immigrants from the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa are particularly well represented. The area around the boulevard Barbès and the rue de la Goutte d'Or in the south-west of the district, which is generally equated with the Goutte d'Or , is called quartier africain , petite Afrique or because of the many African immigrants and their special subculture petit Sénégal known. At the same time, it is designated as a zone urbaine sensitive because of various social problems . The square in front of the Château Rouge metro station is known for its exotic African market.
In recent years, the district has repeatedly been the focus of debates about French immigration policy: in 1991, after a visit to the Goutte d'Or , the then Parisian mayor and later President Jacques Chirac, on behalf of the conservative opposition, called for a revision of French immigration policy mainly because of the expression Le bruit et l'odeur ("the noise and the smell"), which was used to refer to immigrants and was criticized as racist .
In the summer of 2010, Muslim residents attracted a great deal of attention across the country, who, due to the lack of prayer rooms, prayed on the street on rue Myrha , which was therefore closed to traffic during Friday prayers . Conservative politicians saw this as a violation of secularism , the right-wing populist Marine Le Pen compared this situation with the German occupation during the Second World War. The socialist district mayor Daniel Vaillant defended the behavior of the faithful and started the construction of a mosque .
The district, which is one of the poorest in Paris and one of the last to have retained the character of a working-class district ( quartier populaire ), has been the target of intensive efforts to upgrade and gentrification in recent years . These include efforts by District Mayor Daniel Vaillant to limit the number of “ethnic shops” that offer African products. In this context, the district has benefited from the increased presence of the authorities since autumn 2012 as a zone de sécurité prioritaire (ZSP) .
history
Originally there was a hamlet here, north of the walls of the capital, whose name (literally: "golden sip" or "golden drop") is derived from the color of the white wine that its inhabitants produced. Since 1814 this belonged to the municipality of La Chapelle Saint-Denis and was with this in 1860 as part of the city expansion under Napoleon III. incorporated into Paris. During the following years, the area between the entertainment district of Montmartre on the one hand and the factories and railway facilities along the Paris-Lille railway line became increasingly industrialized and developed into a working-class district. The often miserable living conditions such as the alcoholism of its residents were described by Émile Zola in his 1876 novel Der Totschläger ( L'assommoir ).
The case of the serial killer Jeanne Weber , who became known as the " ogre from the Goutte d'Or" ( L'Ogresse de la Goutte d'Or ), also caused a stir around 1900 .
The low rents in the district led to an increased influx of immigrants after the Second World War .
Personalities
music
- Aristide Bruant : His chanson À la goutte d'Or describes the district.
- François Hadji-Lazaro : His chanson À la goutte d'Or describes the district.
- FFF : In Barbès the singer Rachid Taha describes his neighborhood.
- Scred Connexion : The French rap group lives in the neighborhood.
- Alain Bashung : The singer and songwriter lived in the Goutte d'Or .
literature
- Maurice Goldring : La Goutte-d'Or, quartier de France
- Émile Zola : The Blackjack
- Mohamed Boudjedra : Barbès Palace
Others
- Fabrice Luchini : Actor, was born and raised here.
- Mamadou Sakho : Soccer player, was born and raised here.
- Éditions Goutte d'Or : A publisher named after the district.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paris 1954/1999 , p. 33, .PDF
- ↑ https://gallica.bnf.fr/ (French)
- ^ Journal officiel de la République française , Aug. 1, 1930, www.gallica.bnf.fr/ p. 8860
- ↑ Interview with Myriam El Khomri (responsible for prevention and security) . Paris City Council website (French). Retrieved January 6, 2013.
- ↑ www.editionsgouttedor.com/
Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ' N , 2 ° 21' E