Guéret
Guéret | ||
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region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
Department | Creuse | |
Arrondissement | Guéret | |
Canton |
Guéret-1 (main town) Guéret-2 (main town) |
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Community association | Grand Guéret | |
Coordinates | 46 ° 10 ′ N , 1 ° 52 ′ E | |
height | 350-685 m | |
surface | 26.21 km 2 | |
Residents | 13,161 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 502 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 23000 | |
INSEE code | 23096 | |
Website | http://www.ville-gueret.fr | |
Place Bonnyaud and City Hall (Hôtel de Ville) |
Gueret [ɡeʁɛ] ( Occitan Garait [gɒraj, gɒre] ) is a French municipality with 13,161 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . It is the administrative seat ( prefecture ) of the Département Creuse and the Arrondissement Guéret and the capital of the two cantons Guéret-1 and Guéret-2 .
coat of arms
Description : Three deciduous trees in blue growing out of a green shield base on which a golden deer is walking.
history
In the 7th century, Lantarius, Count of Limoges , founded a monastery on his Garactus estate , where he appointed the hermit Pardulphe (or St. Pardoux) as abbot . A place developed around this monastery, which developed into a town in the 15th and 16th centuries.
The city became the capital of the county and later province of Marche in 1514 . Its status as the administrative center was confirmed in 1790 when the départements were formed. Despite the efforts of the rival, more populous and more industrialized city of Aubusson , Guéret became the capital and seat of the Creuse department. The economic weakness and the decline in population in the department were not conducive to the growth of the city.
During the Second World War , the city was initially in the "Free Zone" administered by the Vichy regime , which was renamed the South Zone after the invasion of the Wehrmacht in November 1942. A unit of the Resistance succeeded in liberating Guéret from the German occupiers on June 7, 1944.
Modest industrialization began in the 1960s with the establishment of factories in the north of the city. Nevertheless, in 1990 the population fell back below 15,000 people. The Guéret metropolitan area comprises 28 municipalities, which in 2012 had a total of 31,518 inhabitants.
Population development
- 1962: 11.384
- 1968: 12,849
- 1975: 14.855
- 1982: 15,720
- 1990: 14,706
- 1999: 14,123
- 2016: 13,275
Attractions
- Hôtel des Moneyroux (also incorrectly called "Château des Comtes de la Marche")
- Presidial from the 16th century, now the Hôtel de Ville
- Musée de la Sénatorerie , partly from the 18th century
traffic
Guéret has a station on the Montluçon – Saint-Sulpice-Laurière line , which opened in 1864.
The Route nationale 145 crosses the urban area from east to west, in the north-south direction the Route départementale 940 leads through the city center.
Personalities
- Antoine Banassat (1729–1794), clergyman, member of parliament and martyr
- Pierrette Fleutiaux (1941–2019), writer
- Marcel Jouhandeau (1888–1979), writer
Town twinning
- Stein , Germany
Web links
- Official website of Guéret
- Charte forestière du Pays de Guéret
- The forgotten voters of France on faz.net on April 22, 2017