Neauphle-le-Château
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| region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Yvelines | |
| Arrondissement | Rambouillet | |
| Canton | Aubergenville | |
| Community association | Cœur d'Yvelines | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 49 ′ N , 1 ° 54 ′ E | |
| height | 92-172 m | |
| surface | 2.15 km 2 | |
| Residents | 3,373 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 1,569 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 78640 | |
| INSEE code | 78442 | |
Neauphle-le-Chateau is a French commune with 3373 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Yvelines in the region Ile-de-France . It belongs to the arrondissement of Rambouillet and the canton of Aubergenville (until 2015: canton of Montfort-l'Amaury ).
geography
Neauphle-le-Château is located 21 kilometers west of Versailles on a rocky hill in the extreme west of the Versailles plain and extreme east of the Montfort-l'Amaury plain. The municipality is one of the smallest in France in terms of area; it borders on Saint-Germain-de-la-Grange in the north, Plaisir in the east, Jouars-Pontchartrain in the south, and Villiers-Saint-Frédéric in the west.
history
The name Neauphle is of Gallic origin and means "new temple". The castle was destroyed by the English during the Hundred Years War . In 1478 the barony of Neauphle-le-Château came to the county of Montfort-l'Amaury and belonged to the Duke of Brittany . Since Olivier le Daim , who owned the county of Meulan , to which Neauphle previously belonged, opposed this, the merger could only be completed after his death in 1483. In the 16th century Neauphle came to the crown.
In 1827, Jean-Baptiste Lapostolle founded the Grand Marnier distillery here .
On October 8, 1978, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who had been expelled from Iran , settled in Neauphle-le-Château; on February 1, 1979 he returned to Tehran from here . There is now a Neauphle-le-Château-Strasse where the French embassy is located. The building where Khomeini lived was demolished.
Attractions
- Saint-Nicolas church from the 12th century, rebuilt in the 15th century after the devastation of the Hundred Years War; the facade and the nave were rebuilt after a fire in the 17th century. A first restoration took place in the 19th century and a second in the 1980s
Personalities
- Marguerite Duras lived in Neauphle-le-Château for a long time.
- The actor Rufus lives in the city
- Deanna Durbin , Hollywood actress in the 1930s and 1940s, lived in Neauphle.
- Ruhollah Khomeini lived in the city between 1978 and 1979.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes des Yvelines. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84234-070-1 , pp. 601-604.
Web links
- Monuments historiques (objects) in Neauphle-le-Château in the base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture
- Official website of the municipality of Neauphle-le-Château