Montélimar
Montélimar | ||
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region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
Department | Drôme | |
Arrondissement | Nyons | |
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Montélimar-1 (main town) Montélimar-2 (main town) |
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Community association | Montélimar agglomeration | |
Coordinates | 44 ° 34 ′ N , 4 ° 45 ′ E | |
height | 56-213 m | |
surface | 46.81 km 2 | |
Residents | 39,097 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 835 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 26200 | |
INSEE code | 26198 | |
Website | www.ville-montelimar.com | |
Montélimar, in the foreground the Rhone |
Montélimar is a French commune with 39,097 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Drôme department ( Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region ). The inhabitants call themselves Montiliens .
geography
The city is on the edge of Provence , in the Rhone valley , between Valence and Orange . On the western outskirts of the city there is a navigable shortcut channel of the Rhône, which is named after the city of Canal de dérivation de Montélimar . The tributary Roubion also flows into this after it has crossed Montélimar.
history
Montélimar was built around a castle of the Adhémar family from the 12th century. The family gave the city its name. Montélimar is derived from Petit Mont d'Adhémar ("small mountain of Adhémar"). The castle and the historic old town have been preserved to this day.
US soldiers and resistance fighters of the FFI were involved in the liberation of the city of Montélimar and the surrounding area. A first attempt was put down by the Wehrmacht in July 1944. A few days after the Allied landing in Provence on August 15, 1944, Hitler gave the order to retreat from the south-west and south of France through the Rhone Valley. The Allies and the Resistance tried to stop or delay the retreat of the Germans. Between August 21 and 28, there was heavy fighting in and around Montélimar. Balance on August 29: high German losses, several thousand dead, prisoners, wounded and vehicles, corpses and parts of military equipment were lying around everywhere.
Population development
year | 1911 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2016 |
Residents | 13,282 | 19,999 | 26,748 | 28,058 | 29,161 | 29,982 | 31,344 | 33,800 | 38,692 |
From 1962 official figures excluding residents with a second residence |
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Source: INSEE
Attractions
The Château des Adhémar is a Romanesque residential castle built on a hill . It was built by the Adhémar family in the late 12th century and is considered the most important example of medieval architecture in the central Rhone Valley . The castle was papal property from 1340 to 1383 and served as a prison from the 15th to the beginning of the 20th century. A chapel from the 11th century and living rooms from the 12th century are still preserved from the castle. Contemporary art has been exhibited in the castle since the turn of the millennium .
traffic
Montélimar is on the Paris – Marseille railway line .
In the north-west of the city is the Aérodrome de Montélimar, on whose grounds the Musée européen de l'aviation de chasse is located.
Town twinning
- since 1957: Racine ( Wisconsin , USA )
- since 1964: Ravensburg ( Germany )
- since 1964: Rivoli ( Italy )
- since 1993: Aberdare ( Wales , Great Britain )
- since 2000: Nabeul ( Tunisia )
- Managua ( Nicaragua )
Culinary specialties
Montélimar is known as the capital of nougat . Provencal honey and almonds from the area are used for the Montélim nougat .
Also viticulture is operated in the city.
Personalities
- Thierry Cornillet (* 1951), politician
- Louis Deschamps (1846–1902), painter
- Louis de Freycinet (1779–1842), explorer
- Sylvain Guintoli (* 1982), motorcycle racer
- Marianne James (* 1962), singer
- Émile Loubet (1838–1929), President of France from 1899 to 1906
- Alain Michel (* 1953), motorcycle racer
- Antoine Penchenier († 1761), doctor and encyclopaedist
- Charles Pic (* 1990), racing car driver
- Arthur Pic (* 1991), racing car driver
- François Hilarion Point (1759–1798), infantry general
- Robert Planel (1908–1994), composer
- Michèle Rivasi (* 1953), politician and teacher
Trivia
In September 2016, the company Google Inc. donated a Bugdroid figure to the city of Montélimar, which is considered the capital of nougat, which is holding a nougat bar, as the code name of the then current version of the Android 7.0 Nougat operating system is. This is the first time that Google has placed a figure of the Android mascot outside of its company premises.
literature
- Stéphane Baumont (ed.): Histoire de Montélimar . Ed. Private, Toulouse 1992, ISBN 2-7089-8295-8 (city history)
Web links
- Official website of the city of Montélimar (French)
- Official website of the Aviation Museum in Montélimar (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nougat town of Montelimar receives statue from Google . wienerzeitung.at. September 21, 2016. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
- ↑ Jens Minor: In the capital of the nougat: Google is setting up an Android figure outside the Googleplex for the first time - GWB. In: googlewatchblog.de. September 22, 2016. Retrieved September 23, 2016 .