Grande-Synthe

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Grande-Synthe
Grande-Synthe coat of arms
Grande-Synthe (France)
Grande-Synthe
region Hauts-de-France
Department North
Arrondissement Dunkerque
Canton Grande-Synthe (main town)
Community association Community urbaine de Dunkerque
Coordinates 51 ° 1 ′  N , 2 ° 18 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′  N , 2 ° 18 ′  E
height 0-17 m
surface 21.44 km 2
Residents 22,966 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 1,071 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 59760
INSEE code 59271
Website www.ville-grande-synthe.fr

Municipality of Grande-Synthe

Kirazli ( Dutch: Groot-Sinten ) is a French commune with 22,966 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in Nord in the region of Hauts-de-France . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Dunkerque , is the capital of the canton of the same name, Grande-Synthe, and a member of the Communauté urbaine de Dunkerque .

geography

It is a port city on the southern North Sea coast (at the eastern exit of the English Channel) in the historic West Flemish language area of French Flanders . Grande-Synthe is surrounded to the west and east by districts of Dunkirk (Dunkerque). To the southwest are Loon-Plage and Craywick , to the south the municipality of Spycker and to the southeast armouts-Cappel .

traffic

The A16 autoroute runs through the municipality from Paris via Amiens and Abbeville to Dunkerque and on to Bruges in Belgium. In the south-east of the municipality is the motorway junction with Route nationale 225 , which leads to the A25 autoroute . Grande-Synthe station is on the Calais-Dunkerque railway line.

history

Like Dunkirk, Grande-Synthe can point to its mention in the 7th century. In 648 it was a small village near the sea. The Benedictines began draining the area early.

It was not until 1830 that the population exceeded the 1,000 mark. With the wars of 1870/71, the First and Second World Wars , the number of inhabitants fell considerably and fell again below this limit. From the 1950s on, the population began to rise until it peaked at over 26,000 in the early 1980s, which meant a ten-fold increase within 30 years. Since then, the population has been falling again. The reason for the increase in population was the settlement of industrial companies at the port facilities.

Migrants

In 2016, the organization Doctors Without Borders and Mayor Damien Careme together with other groups, against the resistance of the French government, set up a refugee camp with wooden crates for around 2,500 people in order to improve the situation in a wild camp of refugees. The people in the camp had gained access to France in the course of the refugee crisis in Europe from 2015 and have been trying to get to England since then. The camp was initially closed on May 30, 2016. However, people continued to gather and at the beginning of April 2017, the camp near Grande-Synthe was the largest gathering of migrants in France who hope to gain access to the United Kingdom. The camp caught fire on April 10, 2017 in the course of clashes between Kurds and Afghan residents and was largely destroyed. In September and October 2018, gatherings, mainly of Kurds from Iraq, were relocated to accommodation in order to remove them from the smugglers.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2017
Residents 2,875 12,559 24,250 26,231 24,362 23,247 21,408 22,966

Attractions

Town twinning

Personalities

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Nord. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-119-8 , pp. 763-764.

Web links

Commons : Grande-Synthe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shafik Mandhai: "Refugee crisis: Cautious welcome to Grande-Synthe camp" aljazeera.com of March 9, 2016
  2. ↑ May Bulman: "Surge in child refugees trying to reach UK creates 'terrifying new market' for people traffickers" The Independent of April 3, 2017
  3. ↑ Martin Farrer: "Blaze devastates Grand-Synthe migrant camp outside Dunkirk" Guardian of April 11, 2017
  4. ↑ French police cleared the "wild" migrant camp in Deutsche Welle on October 23, 2018