La Courneuve
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| region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Seine-Saint-Denis | |
| Arrondissement | Saint-Denis | |
| Canton | La Courneuve (main town) | |
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Métropole du Grand Paris and Plaine Commune |
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 56 ' N , 2 ° 24' E | |
| height | 29-60 m | |
| surface | 7.52 km 2 | |
| Residents | 43,054 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 5,725 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 93120 | |
| INSEE code | 93027 | |
| Website | http://www.ville-la-courneuve.fr | |
 Hotel de Ville (town hall) |
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La Courneuve is a French city in the Seine-Saint-Denis department with 43,054 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017). The city is located about four kilometers north-northeast of Paris and today forms part of its banlieue . The inhabitants call themselves Courneuviens .
history
The name La Courneuve comes from the Latin curia nova or curtis nova , "new area", and refers to the settlers that Suger , abbot of the Saint-Denis monastery, settled here.
At the end of the 19th century industrialization began and the community became a center of the labor movement .
During the German occupation, the trade unionists formed the basis of the active Resistance , especially through Suzanne Masson . On August 15, 1944, an attack by the Resistance succeeded in capturing a truck with submachine guns that was used by the Forces françaises de l'intérieur (FFI). The city is the target of several Allied bombings in 1943 and particularly in August 1944. On April 12, 1944, twelve people died in an attack. On August 10, an attack on a German gasoline depot resulted in eight deaths and hundreds of homes destroyed (123 entirely, 350 partially).
The post-war period was here, as in almost all suburbs of Paris, characterized by the construction of large high-rise housing estates in prefabricated buildings ( grands logements ). In the 1970s, the municipality was hit hard by the decline in traditional industries and structural change .
During the riots in France in 2005 , the then French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy made the memorable remark that the residential areas in the suburbs would be cleaned up with the Kärcher ( On va nettoyer au Kärcher ces cités ).
geography
The city has an area of 752 ha . The neighboring municipalities are in the arrondissement of Saint-Denis: Aubervilliers , Saint-Denis and Stains (individual canton); in the Arrondissement of Bobigny: Bobigny , Le Bourget and Dugny in the canton of Le Bourget, Drancy and Pantin .
Georges-Valbon Park
The Georges-Valbon Park (colloquially often: Parc de La Courneuve ) is the third largest in the Île-de-France region with a size of 400 ha after the Bois de Boulogne (1000 ha) and the Bois de Vincennes (850 ha), and receives around two million visitors a year. It extends over five municipalities, La Courneuve, Saint-Denis, Stains, Dugny and Garges-lès-Gonesse (Val-d'Oise). There is an equestrian center here. Managed by the General Council ( Conseil Général ), the park offers workshops, events, nature excursions and exhibitions throughout the year.
The press festival of the communist newspaper L'Humanité takes place in the areas bordering the park that are not open to the public .
The Central Archives of the French Foreign Ministry ( Center des Archives diplomatiques ) are located in La Courneuve .
politics
Gilles Poux ( PCF ) has been mayor since 1996 . The canton of La Courneuve has been represented in the General Council of Seine-Saint-Denis by Stéphane Troussel ( PS ) since 2001 . Daniel Goldberg is the MP .
population
La Courneuve is one of the municipalities with the lowest average income and one of the highest percentage of immigrants in France. Most of them come from the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa , and since the 1980s there has also been a large influx of Chinese, Vietnamese, Pakistanis and Tamils . According to a census from 1999, 65.3% of young people under the age of 18 had a migration background , i. H. at least one parent was not born in France.
economy
In 2004 there were 14 213 jobs and 766 private companies here. Although the city's residents are mostly poor, the city itself has a not insignificant tax potential through an industrial area shared with Le Bourget and several industrial sites in the city. However, several large companies (Babcock, Meccano, Champagnole) have closed while others ( Alstom - Rateau ) have severely reduced their jobs . The most important remaining ones include the Orangina bottling plant , KDI (metallurgy), the logistics company UPS , the recycling group Paprec and parts of the CNIM group of companies .
traffic
La Courneuve is the terminus of metro line 7 : La Courneuve - 8 May 1945 --- Mairie d ' Ivry or Villejuif - Louis Aragon, which supplies the Quatre routes district .
In 1992 the T1 tram line was opened, which crosses the city and connects the cities of Saint-Denis and Noisy-le-Sec . The RER line B supplies the La Gare and 4000 districts .
The city is served by several bus routes: 150, 152, 173, 607, 609.
Sports
La Courneuve is the seat of the world association for American football , the International Federation of American Football (IFAF). The city is also home to the American football team La Courneuve Flash , which plays in the French first division and regularly in the EFL .
Personalities
The singer and rapper Alibi Montana , Amel Bent , the actress Sabrina Ouazani and the tennis player Gaël Monfils grew up here.
Town twinning
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Seine-Saint-Denis. Flohic Éditions, 2nd edition, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-84234-133-3 , pp. 121-131.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://parcsinfo.seine-saint-denis.fr/L-histoire-du-parc.html
- ↑ Michèle Tribalat, Les concentrations ethniques en France ( Memento of the original of September 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 76 kB) , 2007
