Le Crès

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Le
crès lo crèç
Coat of arms of Le Crès
Le Crès (France)
Le Crès
region Occitania
Department Herault
Arrondissement Montpellier
Canton Le Crès
Community association Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole
Coordinates 43 ° 39 ′  N , 3 ° 56 ′  E Coordinates: 43 ° 39 ′  N , 3 ° 56 ′  E
height 29-83 m
surface 5.84 km 2
Residents 9,321 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 1,596 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 34920
INSEE code
Website http://www.ville-lecres.fr/

Le Crès lake

Le Crès ( Occitan Lo CREC ) is a French commune in the department of Herault in the region Occitania . Its inhabitants are called "Cressois".

Tram line 2

geography

The municipality is located around six kilometers east of Montpellier , halfway between the Mediterranean and the foothills of the Cevennes . The environment consists of open, Mediterranean shrub heather formations . The area is crossed by a river called Salaison , which gave its name to the northern part of the city, and there is also a five-hectare lake.

Transport links

The southern part of the local area is crossed by Départementstraße 613, the northern part by Départementstraße 65. The place has been connected to Montpellier by a tram (line 2) since 2006. Le Crès can also be reached via a train station (Les Mazes-le-Crès) and a bus line. Montpellier Airport is just 20 minutes away by car.

history

The first traces of human life in the local area go back to the Neolithic Age (3800 BCE).

Out of anger over the loss of 80 horses, the castle of Le Crès was destroyed by Admiral Gaspard de Coligny (1519–1572) during the Wars of Religion, and only a small street still reminds of it.

During the Ancien Régime , Le Crès formed a parish with Castelnau-le-Lez first as Castelnau-lès-Montpellier , then under Castelnau-Le Crès .

In the early nineteenth century, increasingly separated from Castelnau by a garrigue , the village grew and soon had its own priest (1830), which was followed by a local school and a cemetery.

As early as 1846 and 1849, the residents demanded that the village be elevated to an independent municipality, but this request was not fulfilled until September 30, 1872 by decree of President Adolphe Thiers , the total area of ​​the municipality being proportional to the proportion of the population of the original Castelnau-Le Crès was sized.

Today there are 1 hotel in the village (another 14 less than 7 km away), bistros, a large event hall (Le grand Mélo), schools, including a secondary one, sports halls and three stadiums including a large arena.

Sights and festivals

  • Parish Church of Notre-Dame de Sablassou from the 11th century
  • Via Domitia , which crosses the town from east to west; She is remembered with two milestones: that of Tiberius in the south facade of the church and that of Augustus in the center of the “Caius Domitius” roundabout on Avenue du Mistral
  • Leisure lake with golf course on the site of a former quarry (since 1995)

The local bull festival starts on the first Friday after August 15th each year. It mainly takes place in the three arenas, on the market square and the streets near the town hall. With the Torridas, the animals are not killed.

Population development

year Residents
1975 4529
1982 6088
1990 6601
1999 6800
2006 6788
2017 9321

Town twinning

Le Crès has had a partnership with the Upper Bavarian town of Unterschleißheim since 1973 . Another partnership exists with the Tuscan municipality of Monteroni d'Arbia .

literature

  • B. Boulet, P. Reboulin and others: Le Crès, histoire d'un village en garrigue. Ville du Crès, 2000, ISBN 2-9515435-0-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. france-voyage.com/frankreich-gemeinden/le-cres-11884.htm
  2. ^ "Le tram et la rocade réunissent Castelnau et Le Crès". In: Midi libre . July 30, 2006.
  3. City partnerships and contacts - Le Crès introduces itself. on: unterleissheim.de
  4. Hérault - Statistics and Maps. on: citypopulation.de
  5. 34090-Le Crès. on: insee.fr

Web links

Commons : Le Crès  - collection of images, videos and audio files