Lagny-sur-Marne
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| region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Seine-et-Marne | |
| Arrondissement | Torcy | |
| Canton | Lagny-sur-Marne (main town) | |
| Community association | Marne et Gondoire | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 53 ' N , 2 ° 42' E | |
| height | 37-112 m | |
| surface | 5.72 km 2 | |
| Residents | 21,356 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 3,734 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 77400 | |
| INSEE code | 77243 | |
| Website | www.lagny-sur-marne.fr | |
Lagny-sur-Marne is a French commune with 21,356 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Seine-et-Marne in the region Ile-de-France . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Torcy and the canton of Lagny-sur-Marne . Lagny is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de Marne et Gondoire and belongs to the Ville nouvelle Marne-la-Vallée . The inhabitants call themselves Latignaciens .
geography
Lagny-sur-Marne is located on the Marne , around 28 kilometers east of Paris . Bordering municipalities are Thorigny-sur-Marne , Pomponne , Dampmart , Montévrain , Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes , Gouvernes , Conches-sur-Gondoire and Chanteloup-en-Brie .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 |
| Residents | 11,945 | 15,743 | 16,465 | 17,959 | 18,643 | 19,368 | 20,086 | 20,306 |
Culture and sights
Probably the largest knight tournament of the Middle Ages took place here in 1179, in which 3,000 knights, including nineteen counts, took part.
Lagny is one of the birthplaces of Neo-Impressionism : this is where the Groupe de Lagny was founded, to which Cavallo-Péduzzi , Léo Gausson and Maximilien Luce belong.
Attractions
- Church Notre-Dame-des-Ardents the Abbey of Saint-Pierre in the 13th century ( monument historique since July 12, 1886)
- Church Saint-Fursy from the 15th century (monument historique since February 19, 1982)
- Hôtel de Ville , the former monastery; the town hall dates from 1755 to 1765 and was restored at the end of the 19th century. (Monument historique since May 30, 1969)
- Five-gabled house ( Immeuble des Cinq Pignons ) from the 12th century; it is an old market hall used by traders from Ypres on the occasion of the medieval markets in Lagny. The original hall was supplemented by apartments in the 16th century, the gable roof of which gave the house its name (Monument historique since March 12, 1970)
- Saint Fursy Fountain on the Place de la Fontaine; The fountain dates from 1902 and replaced a fountain from the 12th century that had to be demolished because of its age (Monument historique since March 16, 1926)
- Gatien Bonnet Museum
- Statue of Joan of Arc in a park behind the abbey church; the statue dates from 1923 and originally stood in the market square before being moved here in the 1960s.
- Wash house ( Lavoir ) in the rue Saint-Paul from the mid-19th century; it replaces a series of small washing places that were placed around the Saint Fursy fountain.
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Lagny-sur-Marne
Saint-Pierre Abbey
Saint Fursa , an Irish monk, had the Saint-Pierre monastery built in Lagny . It was devastated by the Normans in the 9th century , rebuilt, hit by two fires, and still consists of two structures: the fortified entrance and the 13th century abbey chapel, the Notre-Dame-des-Ardents church .
The monastery was closed during the French Revolution and some buildings were sold in 1796. In the 19th century, the remains were converted into a military hospital - the inscription "Hôpital Militaire" is still on the triangular pediment of the main gate. Since 1842 the abbey has housed the Lagny town hall.
Town twinning
- Alnwick in Northumberland (Great Britain)
- Haslach im Kinzigtal in Baden-Württemberg (Germany)
- Mira in the Coimbra district (Portugal)
- Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts in the Province of Quebec (Canada)
Personalities
- Pierre d'Orgemont († 1389), Lord of Méry and Chantilly, Chancellor of France from 1373 to 1380 , born in Lagny-sur-Marne
- Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), one of the most important writers of the 19th century in France, came regularly to his printer in Lagny-sur-Marne to oversee the edition of the Illusions perdues .
- Léo Gausson (1860–1944), painter from the Groupe de Lagny , was born in Lagny
- Édouard Cortès (1882–1969), late impressionist painter from Lagny
- Thierry Rey (* 1959) is one of the most famous judoka in France; a sports hall in Lagny bears his name.
- Benjamin Boukpeti (* 1981), Togolese canoe slalom driver , winner of an Olympic bronze medal in Beijing in 2008, was born in Lagny-sur-Marne
- Paul Pogba (* 1993), football player
- Christopher Jullien (* 1993), football player
- Christopher Nkunku (born 1997), football player
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Seine-et-Marne. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-100-7 , pp. 607-614.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Meyer, L'histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal, Comte de Striguil et de Pembroke, Régent d'Angleterre de 1216 à 1219, 3 vols., Paris 1891-1901, v. 4453-4968