Montélimar

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Montélimar
Montélimar coat of arms
Montélimar (France)
Montélimar
region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department Drôme
Arrondissement Nyons
Canton Montélimar-1 (main town)
Montélimar-2 (main town)
Community association Montélimar agglomeration
Coordinates 44 ° 34 ′  N , 4 ° 45 ′  E 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

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 .

West facade of the castle
Castle wall

traffic

Montélimar train station

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

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

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

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nougat town of Montelimar receives statue from Google . wienerzeitung.at. September 21, 2016. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ 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 .