Le Creusot
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| region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Department | Saône-et-Loire | |
| Arrondissement | Autun | |
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Chef-lieu of Le Creusot-1 Le Creusot-2 |
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| Community association | Le Creusot Montceau-les-Mines | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 48 ' N , 4 ° 26' E | |
| height | 316-516 m | |
| surface | 18.11 km 2 | |
| Residents | 21,630 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 1,194 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 71200 | |
| INSEE code | 71153 | |
| Website | le-creusot.fr | |
 View of the town with La Verrerie Castle and university , in the foreground Snecma company |
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Le Creusot is a French commune in the department of Saone-et-Loire in the region of Bourgogne Franche-Comté . It belongs to the Arrondissement Autun and is the capital of the cantons Le Creusot-1 and Le Creusot-2 . With 21,630 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), it is the third largest city in the department after Chalon-sur-Saône and Mâcon .
economy
Together with Montceau-les-Mines , Le Creusot forms a small industrial area.
The local economy is mainly characterized by metalworking industries such as Industeel , SIAG France ( Schaaf Industrie ) and Snecma . Messrs. Schneider-Creusot or Schneider & Cie , now Schneider Electric was a great historical national pioneer in this field. The origin of this branch of industry and the armaments and reactor industry represented in the city today , including the Creusot Forge company , which got into talk at the beginning of 2016 due to manipulated test reports from Europe-wide supplied nuclear reactor , was the founding of the Royal Foundry by François Ignace de Wendel and William Wilkinson in 1781. The coal deposits in the area made the small village at that time an excellent location for the manufacture of cannons for the navy : As early as 1820, Aaron Manby owned France's largest iron foundry .
Impressions
Local landmark (see coat of arms): Dampf-Fall-Hammer, Schneider, 1876
Steam hammer at Le Creusot, postcard, early 20th century
Factory with track systems (from: L'Homme et la Terre , Die Menschen und die Erde , Volume 5, Élisée Reclus , approx. 1900)
Fa. Snecma
" Hôtel de ville " (town hall)
Cannon barrels , La Verrerie courtyard
traffic
The nearby town of Écuisses has been served by the French high-speed train TGV since 1981 : Le Creusot TGV station is around eight kilometers from the city center.
Personalities
- Christian Bobin (* 1951), writer
- Sandrine Brétigny (* 1984), soccer player
- Bruno Cadoré (* 1954), priest and Superior General of the Dominican Order
- Eric Decastro (* 1960), painter
- Frédéric Demontfaucon (* 1973), judoka
- Jérémy Dérangère (* 1975), racing cyclist
- Claudie Haigneré (* 1957), astronaut and politician
- Daniel Kaczorowski (* 1952), rugby player
- Fabrice Moreau (* 1978), rower
- Raymond Rochette (* 1906, † 1993), painter
- Anthony da Silva (* 1980), football player
literature
- Albert Maly-Motta: The theater in the glass furnace. A book in Le Creusot, France . In: The Fourth Wall. Organ of the TheaterMuseum Berlin initiative . Edition 009. Berlin, 2019, pp. 88–97 ( Online in the Internet Archive )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ badische-zeitung.de , May 11, 2016, Bärbel Nückles: Reaktorschmiede in Le Creusot - Defects in Akw deliveries? (May 12, 2016)
- ↑ badische-zeitung.de , June 18, 2016: Block two is offline (June 19, 2016)
- ↑ badische-zeitung.de , October 11, 2016, Bärbel Nückles: Irritated Climate in the Fessenheim Commission (October 11, 2016)