Pithiviers
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| region | Center-Val de Loire | |
| Department | Loiret | |
| Arrondissement | Pithiviers | |
| Canton | Pithiviers (main town) | |
| Community association | Pithiverais | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 10 ′ N , 2 ° 15 ′ E | |
| height | 97-130 m | |
| surface | 6.94 km 2 | |
| Residents | 8,981 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 1,294 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 45300 | |
| INSEE code | 45252 | |
| Website | www.pithiviers.fr | |
Pithiviers is a French municipality with 8981 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Loiret in the region Center-Val de Loire . It is the administrative seat ( sub-prefecture ) of the Arrondissement of Pithiviers and the capital of the Canton of Pithiviers . The place is about 80 km south of Paris on the banks of the Essonne River . Pithiviers is the twin town of the German city of Burglengenfeld (Upper Palatinate).
history
The village is of Gallic origin, as the name suggests. The French painter Lubin Baugin was born here around 1610, and the mathematician Siméon Denis Poisson in 1781 . In the Pithiviers district hospital, gynecologist Michel Odent founded modern water birth in the late 1970s .
At the beginning of the Second World War , a camp was set up here for German prisoners of war . After the French defeat in 1940, it was under the Vichy regime for transit camp Pithiviers internment camp . From here, from the Drancy assembly camp and from another camp in Beaune-la-Rolande , around 18,000 foreign and French Jews were deported to the German extermination camp Auschwitz . From October 1943 it served as a detention center for political prisoners.
Town twinning
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Ashby-de-la-Zouch (since 1960) -
Burglengenfeld (since 1976) -
Ovary (since 1993) -
Iznik (since 2015).
Personalities
- Lubin Baugin (~ 1610–1663), painter
- Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700–1782), lawyer, botanist and engineer
- Siméon-Denis Poisson (1781–1840), physicist and mathematician
- Hervé Boussard (1966–2013), racing cyclist
- Marie NDiaye (* 1967), writer
- Steve Marlet (born 1974), football player
- Geoffroy Lequatre (* 1981), racing cyclist
- Théo Ceccaldi (* 1986), jazz musician
See also: Puiseaux
literature
- Association Mémoires du convoi n ° 6, Antoine Mercier: Convoi n ° 6. Destination Auschwitz, June 17, 1942. Le Cherche Midi, Paris 2005, ISBN 2749104009 (French)
- Monique Novodorsqui-Deniau: Pithiviers - Auschwitz, 17 juillet 1942, 6 h 15. Editions CERCIL (Center d'études et de recherches sur les camps d'internement du Loiret), 2006.
- Éric Conan: Sans oublier les enfants. Les camps de P. et de Beaune-la-Rolande 19 June - 16 September 1942. Grasset, Paris 1991, ISBN 2246443113 (new edition 2006, ISBN 2253117218 ).
- Isaac Schoenberg: Lettres à Chana. Camp de Pithiviers; May 1941 - June 1942. Ed. Serge Klarsfeld. Preface by Pierre Pachet (the addressee of the letters was Chana Morgensztern). CERCIL, Orléans 1995, ISBN 2950756115 (French).
- Sheila Kohler: Children of Pithiviers. Other press, 2006 (youth novel about the flight of 2 Jewish children - from 2000 - from the camp, English).
