Meudon

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Meudon
Meudon Coat of Arms
Meudon (France)
Meudon
region Île-de-France
Department Hauts-de-Seine
Arrondissement Boulogne-Billancourt
Canton Meudon (main town)
Community association Métropole du Grand Paris and
Grand Paris Seine Ouest
Coordinates 48 ° 48 '  N , 2 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 48 '  N , 2 ° 14'  E
height 28-179 m
surface 9.90 km 2
Residents 45,352 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 4,581 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 92190
INSEE code 92048
Website https://www.meudon.fr/meudonfr-3.html
Meudon - Val Fleury station on the RER C

Meudon [ møˈdõ ] is a French city ​​with 45,352 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Paris area ( French banlieue ), twelve kilometers southwest of the capital. The city is part of the Hauts-de-Seine department in Île-de-France . Administratively, the city belongs to a small part of the canton of Issy-les-Moulineaux-Ouest and forms with the largest part of the canton of Meudon . The inhabitants are called Meudonnais .

Meudon is particularly shaped by research: ONERA and CNRS do research here. The observatory, founded in 1875, has been administratively attached to the Paris observatory since 1926 . The IUCAF is based here.

City structure

The city of Meudon is divided into the districts of Meudon-Ville, Bellevue, Val-Fleury, Bas-Meudon and Meudon-la-Forêt.

history

Meudon has been inhabited since the Neolithic ; its Celtic name is Mole-Dum ( sand hill ), the Romans latinized this to moldunum .

The old Meudon Castle was built in the 16th century under Cardinal Charles de Lorraine-Guise . The Grand Dauphin had Jules Hardouin-Mansart built the so-called New Palace ( French Château neuf ) right next to the old one by 1706 . The spacious parks in particular are known to this day. The old castle burned down during the French Revolution in 1795. The New Palace was destroyed in fighting in January 1871 during the Franco-German War.

In 1842, the worst railway accident in early railway history occurred here .

In the 19th century the city was a popular place of residence for musicians and artists ; But it also became an industrial site for metal goods and explosives .

Worth seeing

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Meudon

Town twinning

Coat of arms of Meudon in twin town Celle
Seal in twin town Celle (Germany), granite work of art

Meudon has had a town twinning with Celle ( Germany ) since 1953 . There are also partnerships with Woluwe-Saint-Lambert ( Belgium , since 1958), Ciechanów ( Poland , since 1970), Rushmoor ( Great Britain , since 1972), Mazkeret Batya ( Israel , since 1987) and Brezno ( Slovakia , since May 4, 1999) ).

Transport links

The transport connection by the Paris S-Bahn RER , line C , direction Versailles / Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines to Meudon Val Fleury . The valley of the Ru d'Arthelon is crossed here on the route to Versailles by the Meudon railway viaduct . It is considered to be the oldest civil engineering structure in the French railway system .

Personalities

Born in Meudon

Died in Meudon

Other personalities

  • François Rabelais (1494, maybe 1483–1553) was pastor here (1551–1553).
  • Richard Wagner (1813–1883), lived in Meudon from April 1841 to October of the same year, wrote his first draft for the Flying Dutchman here and composed the main parts of this work.
  • Édouard Manet (1832-1883), stayed in the Bellevue district for a few months in 1879 and 1880 for a cure.
  • Hans Arp (1886–1966) and Sophie Taeuber (1889–1943) lived here from 1929–1940.
  • Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) opened her dance school here in 1913.

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes des Hauts-de-Seine. Flohic Éditions, 2nd edition, Charenton-le-Pont 1993, ISBN 2-908958-95-3 , pp. 260-277.

Web links

Commons : Meudon  - collection of images, videos and audio files