List of neighborhoods in Lyon

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The list of districts of Lyon gives an overview of the districts ( French quarters ) of Lyon, although in some cases it is difficult to determine the exact geographical location. Features: Historic neighborhoods; Neighborhoods that have lost their meaning over time (e.g. Le Grand Trou); new neighborhoods on the outskirts of the city that have formed to accommodate the growing urban population.

An arrondissement is made up of a large number of districts, with one district rarely belonging to two arrondissements. An exception is z. B. the district of la Guillotière , which extends over the 3rd arrondissement and the 7th arrondissement .

District on the Presqu'île

1st arrondissement

the eastern slope of La Croix-Rousse ( Pentes de la Croix-Rousse )

La Croix-Rousse is divided into two large areas:

Montée de la Grande-Côte

The center is the Montée de la Grande-Côte ( ascent of the great slope ), which leads almost vertically from the Place des Terreaux to the Boulevard de la Croix-Rousse on the plateau. This is a very steep ascent, which one wanted to facilitate "relaxation phases " with small squares (such as the Place Colbert) and parks ( Jardin des plantes , Jardin Croix-paquet ). The streets running across the Rhône lead with alleys and alleys to the Saône, like Rue Leynaud, where Albert Camus hid during the war.

2nd arrondissement

Place Carnot

The 2nd arrondissement is made up of three central districts: Sainte-Blandine, Perrache and Bellecour. They also cover most of the Presqu'île , namely the part that runs between the Rhône and Saône from the confluence of the La Mulatière to the Place des Terreaux .

View of the Belecour square

The Place Bellecour with its huge dimensions has been the center of the city since the 17th century. But this is also the time when the center of the city shifts from the right bank of the Saône (Quartier Saint-Jean) to the center of the peninsula, after the banks of the Saône and the Rhône were fortified there in order to cope with the frequent flooding of the peninsula prevent.

In addition to the area around Place Bellecour, there are two less extensive districts: les Jacobins, named after the Place des Jacobins between the Rue de la République, the Quais der Saône and Les Cordeliers in the north, around the square of the same name and the Quais der Rhône . The Place des Cordeliers is an important traffic junction that leads to the banks of the Rhone, the Rue de la République and the Palais de la Bourse . Here is also the Église Saint-Bonaventure de Lyon (the only surviving building from the Middle Ages) and the former Grand Bazar , which was completely reconstructed in glass and thus reflects the buildings in the Rue de la République.

Between the two quarters, the Ainay quarter (derived from the Romanesque basilica Basilique Saint-Martin d'Ainay ) is still used. As the main artery, the pedestrian street Victor Hugo connects Place de Verdun (opposite the Lyon-Perrache train station) with Place Bellecour. It is a very old quarter and there are still numerous buildings with a religious background or wholly owned by the church; such as B. the Catholic University ( université catholique ), which practically extends to Place Bellecour.

4th arrondissement

The quarter corresponds to the plateau of La Croix-Rousse and is formed by five parts:

  • The center with the Boulevard de la Croix-Rousse and the perpendicular streets (including Grande rue de la Croix-Rousse ) that lead to Caluire .
  • The Place de la Croix-Rousse with the renovated part, which is also called the Le Gros Caillou district (The large granite block is a symbol of La Croix-Rousse.).
  • The Serin quarter, after the name of the Quais, which, under various names, stretches from Fort Saint-Jean to the former Lyon-Plage swimming pool on the border with Caluire .
  • The two quarters at the cemetery and the hospital, which again border on Caluire.

Neighborhood on the banks of the Saône

5th arrondissement

The arrondissement includes the historical quarters from the time of Lugdunum , the Roman name of Lyons. It was the time from its founding in the Julius Caesar era to the Middle Ages .

9th arrondissement

Vaise

The district development was based on the old Vaise district , a working-class district in which the large Rhône-Poulanc factory was located, but which has now disappeared. The development continued, however, when a large settlement with social housing was built at Vaise in the 1960s; this then became the La Duchère district .

To the south of Vaise is the Gorge de Loup district , which is now losing its character as an industrial district. In place of the former industrial wastelands, there are now town houses, trading houses or residential buildings. To the south are the residential buildings of La Gravière, which are located in the Champvert district.

The arrondissement has a new district, Saint-Rambert, which emerged from the municipality of Saint-Rambert-l'Île-Barbe , which was incorporated into Lyon in 1964.

Neighborhood on the banks of the Rhône

3rd arrondissement

La Part-Dieu
  • La Part-Dieu : this is the second center of Lyon around an administrative complex with a shopping center. It was built on a former military site and is dominated by striking towers: Tour Part-Dieu , Tour Oxygène and Tour Incity .
  • La Guillotière : Parts of the district are on the banks of the Rhône: Quai Victor-Augagneur , Cours Lafayette , le Boulevard Vivier Merle and Cours Gambetta .
  • Montchat : It borders in the north with the Route de Genas on Villeurbanne , in the east with the Boulevard Pinel and the Rue du Vinatier with Bron , in the south with the avenue Lacassagne with the district Grange Blanche , in the west with the Rue Feuillat with the district Sans -Souci - Dauphiné.
  • Other, smaller parts of this arrondissement have adopted the district name:
  • The district around the prefecture of the Rhône department is often referred to as a separate district: Préfecture . It is on the banks of the Rhone, the Moncey district , La Part-Dieu and the Cours Lafayette .
  • The Moncey district (named after the road that runs through it) is located between the Rhone, La Part-Dieu and La Guillotière. It starts at Place Gabriel Péri (formerly Place du Pont) and leads to Avenue de Saxe.
  • The Sans-Souci - Dauphiné district is made up of the Sans-Souci residential area and the one around Rue Dauphiné. To the north it is bordered by the avenue Félix Faure and the La Villette district , to the east by the rue Feuillat and the Montchat district, to the south by the Cours Albert Thomas and the Monplaisir district and to the west by the railway line from part-Dieu and the Sector of La Buire / Bir-Hakeim (The part can also be called an offshoot of the Part-Dieu district).
  • The Grange Blanche district , in which the Hôpital Édouard-Herriot is located, is located between the 3rd and 8th arrondissements . It is located around Place d'Arsonval, where the main entrance to the hospital with the International Center Léon-Bérard Cancer Research, a nursing school and a department of the University of Lyon I .

6th arrondissement

The district of Les Brotteaux corresponds almost entirely to the arrondissement. In the west and north it is bordered by the Rhone (Quais Serbie and Général Sarrail, Avenue de Bretagne and Quai Achille Lignon), in the east by Villeurbanne and in the south by the Cours Lafayette (border with the 3rd arrondissement ).

  • Former Lyon-Brotteaux train station , a grand 19th century building on Place Jules Ferry, now used as a department store.
  • The Parc de la Tete d'Or with rose garden, lake, zoo, numerous greenhouses, covers almost 1/4 of the area of ​​the arrondissement. It borders the Lycée du Parc, one of the secondary schools ( French établissement scolaire d'enseignement secondaire ), which is one of the most famous in the city.
  • Behind the park, on the square where the exhibition center ( Foire de Lyon ) is located, is the Cité internationale district , an economic and cultural center linked to the center by the le quai Charles de Gaulle expressway .

There is also the Bellecombe district , whose name comes from the Rue Bellecombe and the Notre-Dame de Bellecombe church and thus extends the arrondissement beyond the Gare des Brotteaux. It is a district enclosed by the Cours Lafayette, the railway line and the municipality of Villeurbanne (Charpennes district and Cité Lafayette). Most of the roads here lead from Lyon to Villeurbanne, only changing the names; so it is difficult to determine in which of the two communities one is currently located.

7th arrondissement

Gerland

In the 7th district , there are two important Neighborhood: Gerland and La Guillotière; also some smaller quarters of less importance.

  • The Gerland district is best known for the football stadium . A large area behind the stadium and along the banks of the Rhone has recently been transformed into a recreational center: the Gerland Park. This working-class district has been completely redesigned, with large parts of the building complexes gradually disappearing, such as the artillery park, the municipal slaughterhouse or the Général Frère barracks. For several years now, new service companies, such as the international school and pharmaceutical industries ( Institut Mérieux , Institut Pasteur ), have settled here.
  • La Guillotière was an independent municipality on the outskirts of Lyon in the 19th century. It is one of the oldest districts, a small part of which extends into the 3rd arrondissement. It is located between the major traffic axes Cours Gambetta and Avenue Berthold, Boulevard des Tchécoslovaques, which separates it from the Monplaisir district and the Rhone (Quai Claude Bernard ) and where Lyons Universities Lumière ( University of Lyon II ) and Jean Moulin ( University of Lyon III ) are located.
  • Other districts, such as La Mouche, have followed this trend and are rapidly urbanizing, losing their peculiarities and integrating themselves into the Gerland district. In the south of the quarter only the Port Édouard-Herriot remains.

8th arrondissement

Lumière Institute

The emergence of the 8th arrondissement is essentially based on the amalgamation of parts of the Monplaisir district in the 3rd arrondissement and the États-Unis district .

  • The États-Unis district was created as a project by the architect Tony Garnier between the world wars, but was only completed in the 1950s along with post-war urbanization. It is a characteristic example of mid-20th century urbanization and extends to the municipality of Vénissieux .
  • The Monplaisir district is located around Place Ambroise Courtois (formerly Place de Monplaisir), which opens onto rue du Premier Film. As the name suggests, the Lumière brothers' first films were made here in their name's factory. In addition to this street name, the Lumière family is also represented in this area: Avenue de Frères Lumière and Rue Antoine Lumière.

The arrondissement is completed by other, lesser-known neighborhoods:

  • Le Bachut and its water feature on Avenue Berthelot. Extensive construction work has extended Avenue Berthelot, prepared the intersection of Route d'Heyrieux-Avenue Jean Mermoz, and built a large administrative and cultural complex (mayor's office in the 8th arrondissement, theater).
  • Grand Trou is grouped around the Église Saint-Vincent de Paul and the Place Belleville.
  • Moulin-à-vent extends between the 8th arrondissement and the municipality of Vénissieux . The district is bordered by the Gerland district (in the west of the 7th arrondissement), the Boulevard périphérique Laurent Bonnevay in the south and the Grand Trou district in the north.
  • Mermoz , named after the avenue of the same name that runs through it, is a neighborhood that begins at the Le Bachut district and extends to the Galeries Lafayette department store in the Bron area and borders the Parc de Parilly .
  • Grange Blanche : cf. 3rd arrondissement

literature

  • Josette Barre: La colline de la Croix-Rousse: histoire et geographie urbaines. Institut des études rhodaniennes, Lyon 1993, ( BnF No. FRBNF11932311 )
  • Azouz Begag : Lyon, place du Pont. la place des hommes debout. Éditions Lyonnaises d'Art et d'Histoire, Lyon 2011, ISBN 978-2-84147-293-2 .
  • Pierre Faure-Brac et Hervé Sanejouand: Le Vieux Lyon. History & Architecture. Éditions Lyonnaises d'Art et d'Histoire, Lyon 2014, ISBN 978-2-84147-319-9 .
  • André Pelletier (Ed.): Lyon 5e arrondissement. Aux origines de la ville. Éditions Lyonnaises d'Art et d'Histoire, Lyon 2015, ISBN 978-2-84147-325-0 .
  • Gerland, des ateliers de la Mouche au pôle mondial des biotechnologies: Lyon. Sauvegarde et embellissement de Lyon, 2015, Bulletin de liaison - Sauvegarde et embellissement de Lyon, no 108, avril 2015.
  • Amélie Rejane, Philippe Trétiack, Stéphanie Pioda: Le Musée des confluences, Lyon le quartier Confluence. Beaux Arts éditions-TTM éditions, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2015, ISBN 979-10-204-0130-4 .
  • Conseils de quartier, le guide. la Ville, Lyon 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The square is so well known because it can be viewed through the Cour des Voraces , one of the inner courtyards of Lyon's residential buildings.
  2. ↑ Overview map: www.geoportail.gouv.fr