Oullins
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region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
Department | Métropole de Lyon | |
Arrondissement | Lyon | |
Coordinates | 45 ° 43 ' N , 4 ° 48' E | |
height | 163-253 m | |
surface | 4.40 km 2 | |
Residents | 26,273 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 5,971 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 69600 | |
INSEE code | 69149 | |
Website | www.ville-oullins.fr | |
Hôtel de ville (town hall) |
Oullins is a French city with 26,273 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Métropole de Lyon in the region of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . The inhabitants call themselves Oullinois (es) .
geography
Oullins is six kilometers southwest of Lyon . The Yzeron flows through the municipality and the Rhône flows between Oullins and Lyon.
history
Oullins was mentioned for the first time in 855 in a document from Lothar I as Aulanius . The city was on the old Roman road that connected Lyon with Narbonne .
Oullins was devastated in the Huguenot Wars (1562–1598). Until the Industrial Revolution , the main industries in Oullins were agriculture and trade. In 1847 Alphonse Clément-Désormes set up a company to manufacture locomotives. The plant was closed after the Second World War .
Oullins was part of the canton of Oullins until 2015 .
Attractions
Part of the Roman aqueduct of Gier (one of the four aqueducts of Lugdunum / Lyon) crosses the Yzeron near Oullins. The "Aqueduct of Beaunant" is named after a hamlet that lies between Oullins and Chaponost .
Town twinning
Since 1962 there has been a twinning with Nürtingen in Germany and since 1996 with Pescia in Italy . The partnership with Nürtingen was one of the first city partnerships in France.
Others
Three types of fruit are named after the place:
- Kalvill from Oullins, an apple variety
- Oullins Reineclaude , a Reneklode that is very common in Germany
- Angoumois d'Oullins, a variety of apricots
Personalities
- Lionel Bah (* 1980), French-Ivorian football player
- Patrice Garande (* 1960), football player
- Hervé Jacquet (* 1939), mathematician
- Louis Lortet (1836–1909), physician, botanist, zoologist and Egyptologist
- Victor Orsel (1795–1850), painter
- Clément Turpin (* 1982), football referee
- Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752–1834), inventor
Personalities who worked in Oullins
- Sonngard Leopold (1943–2019), long-time chairwoman of the Nürtingen town twinning association
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Oullins on annuaire-mairie.fr (French). Retrieved October 27, 2009
- ↑ Histoire on ville-oullins.fr in French.
- ^ Pont-siphon sur l'Yzeron
- ↑ site Oulins - Les jumelages , accessed on November 22, 2016
- ↑ Louis Charles Émile Lortet (1836–1909), un médecin naturaliste éclairé ( Memento of the original of September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French).
- ^ Victor Orsel in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in French.