Levallois-Perret

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Levallois-Perret
Coat of arms of Levallois-Perret
Levallois-Perret (France)
Levallois-Perret
region Île-de-France
Department Hauts-de-Seine
Arrondissement Nanterre
Canton Levallois-Perret (main town)
Community association Métropole du Grand Paris and
Paris Ouest La Défense
Coordinates 48 ° 54 '  N , 2 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 54 '  N , 2 ° 17'  E
height 23-34 m
surface 2.41 km 2
Residents 64,379 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 26,713 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 92300
INSEE code 92044
Website www.ville-levallois.fr

The town hall of Levallois-Perret

Levallois-Perret is a town in France in the Hauts-de-Seine department in the Île-de-France region . The city is located northwest of Paris , which it is directly adjacent to, on the right bank of the Seine . The population is 64,379 (as of January 1, 2017). With around 27,000 inhabitants per square kilometer, Levallois-Perret is the most densely populated municipality in France and one of the most densely populated in Europe. The inhabitants are called Levalloisiens .

history

In pre-revolutionary France, in the area of ​​today's Levallois-Perret, there was the village of Villiers and the Courcelles farm (also called La Planchette), after which two metro stations are named today. Most of the current municipality was added to the municipality of Clichy during the revolution , while the south-west of today's municipality became part of Neuilly-sur-Seine . From 1822 the landowner Jean-Jacques Perret opened up part of the area belonging to Clichy for the construction of a settlement; this area was named after him Champerret ( the field of Perret ). His example was followed in 1845 by the landowner André Noël in the area of ​​La Planchette, where the actual development was carried out by Nicolas-Eugène Levallois, after whom the site was named Levallois. In the 1860s, both settlements had largely grown together and the desire for their own local government was expressed. Thereupon, Emperor Napoléon III approved . on June 30, 1866, the new municipality of Levallois-Perret received the town charter, which came into force at the beginning of 1867. The city became a center of early automobile manufacturing in France; So the companies Clément , Delage , Chapron , Zeiller & Fournier and last but not least Citroën decided for the location. At the beginning of the 20th century, the cosmetics industry was also well represented in the city.

An attack took place on Place Verdun on August 9, 2017. A BMW drove into a group of soldiers as the guard changed. Six soldiers from Operation Sentinelle (Operation Wache), who have been guarding around 1500 endangered objects such as schools, churches, places of worship and diplomatic missions across the country after attacks since 2015, were injured. An Algerian was arrested in the murder vehicle on a motorway near Calais . After a car chase, his car was surrounded by police vehicles. Instead of stopping when asked, he rammed a police vehicle. When he made a gesture as if to grab a gun, the police opened fire. The suspect was hit by five bullets and taken to a hospital.

administration

The city consists of two cantons:

Mayor of Levallois-Perret was in the years 1965-1983 the communist Parfait Jans , who was at times also General Councilor and member of the Hauts-de-Seine department. He was succeeded as mayor in 1983 by Patrick Balkany , at that time RPR , who left the office to his party colleague Olivier de Chazeaux in 1995, only to follow him in 2001, now a member of the UMP. This development is also an expression of a demographic change that made Levallois-Perret from a working-class community to a place of residence for the affluent bourgeoisie; the residents of Levallois-Perret are now, on average, among the wealthiest in France.

Attractions

Entrance to the Parc de la Planchette

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Levallois-Perret

In addition to the town hall, the Saint-Justin church is particularly worth seeing. The Parc de la Planchette is also popular as an excursion destination . The composer Maurice Ravel is buried next to his parents in the Levallois-Perret cemetery.

economy

In Levallois-Perret, the headquarters is Alstom -Konzerns, the headquarters of the French domestic intelligence agency Direction générale de la sécurité intérieure as well as the European headquarters of the now available from SAP bought in Business Intelligence -Anbieters Business Objects . The headquarters of the automotive supplier and plastics processor Plastic Omnium and that of the wagon rental company Ermewa are also located in Levallois .

traffic

Levallois-Perret can be reached through two train stations: About the Clichy-Levallois station along the long distance from Paris Gare Saint-Lazare to Le Havre and on the station Pereire-Levallois, of about 500 meters outside the city limits still in the 17th arrondissement is located and where only the trains on the RER C stop. The community is also served by metro line 3 .

At the city limits of Paris, there is a connection to the nearby Autoroute A1 (Autoroute du Nord) via the boulevard périphérique .

Twin cities

Levallois-Perret has had a partnership with Wenzhou , China , since 2007 .

Personalities

In Levallois-Perret were born:

In Levallois-Perret lived or worked:

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes des Hauts-de-Seine. Flohic Éditions, 2nd edition, Charenton-le-Pont 1993, ISBN 2-908958-95-3 , pp. 230–245.

Web links

Commons : Levallois-Perret  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Attack on the guard of the Staats Spiegel Online on August 9, 2017, accessed on August 11, 2017
  2. ↑ Suspect stopped in the hail of bullets NZZ on August 10, 2017, accessed on August 11, 2017
  3. ↑ http://www.cadremploi.fr/editorial/actualites/actu-emploi/detail/article/salaire-combien-gagne-t-on-ville-par-ville-en-france.html
  4. ↑ www.wenzhou.gov.cn: City friendships . Retrieved July 11, 2019.