Pont-sur-Yonne
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| region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Department | Yonne | |
| Arrondissement | Sens | |
| Canton | Pont-sur-Yonne (main town) | |
| Community association | Yonne North | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 17 ' N , 3 ° 12' E | |
| height | 58-194 m | |
| surface | 13.90 km 2 | |
| Residents | 3,334 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 240 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 89140 | |
| INSEE code | 89309 | |
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Pont-sur-Yonne is a French commune in the region Bourgogne Franche-Comté in the Yonne department . It is located in the Sens arrondissement in the canton of Pont-sur-Yonne .
geography
location
The municipality is located at 65 to 194 m above sea level on the Yonne River . The main town is on the road from Sens to Paris , about 90 km from the French capital. With 13.9 square kilometers, Pont-sur-Yonne in the north-west of Burgundy is one of the smaller municipalities in France.
Residents
Pont-sur-Yonne has 3334 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).
| 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2013 |
| 2.176 | 2,343 | 2,705 | 2,933 | 3,212 | 3.134 | 3,309 |
history
Originally the town belonged to the nearby Villemanoche . In 754 the place was called Pons Icaunae (from Latin pons, bridge), meaning the settlement on a (wooden) bridge over the Yonne. In the 9th century, the Liber Sacramentorum of the Archbishops of Sens called the city “Pontum”. From this the name "Pont" developed. The old arch bridge from 1175 was reconstructed in the 17th century. After its destruction during and after the Second World War, it only exists in the form of listed remains (three arches) and has been replaced by a modern bridge.
1870–1873 a 235 m long section was built in Pont-sur-Yonne and a 1.5 km long bridge aqueduct over the Yonne as part of the 156 km long Aqueduc de la Vanne in the neighboring town of Villeperrot , with the Paris spring water from the area is fed to the vat . The aqueduct bridge over the Yonne near Pont-sur-Yonne consists of 156 arches with a span of 6 to 40 m and is likely to have been the world's first larger structure made of mass-rammed concrete . The first of the large arches had to be erected four times before the required strength was achieved.
On November 3, 1919, a serious railway accident occurred near Pont-sur-Yonne : the Simplon Express , traveling south from Paris, came to an unscheduled stop. It was followed by the Paris – Geneva Express . Its engine driver overlooked the "stop" signal , which was supposed to protect the Simplon Express , and drove into the rear of the train. At least 18 people died, according to other information there were 26. The information on the injured vary between 42 and 60.
Attractions
- The parish church Notre-Dame (Our Lady) is a Gothic building (12th - 16th century) with a cruciform floor plan (3 longitudinal aisles, 1 transept with 2 chapels, five-part choir). The bell tower in the southwest of the church is 26 m high and slated; the actual spire rises between four smaller conical points.
- The station was damaged by fire in 2004; the reconstruction is based on the architecture of the Trouville-Deauville train station .
economy
- SCHOTT Pharmaceutical Packaging, branch for the production of pharmaceutical glass packaging
Others
- On the night of January 4 to 5, 1960, Albert Camus died in an accident in his publisher's car on the N 5 near Pont-sur-Yonne .
Community partnerships
- Since 1994 with Geraberg , part of the rural community Geratal in Thuringia
- Since 1969 with Morbach , there is a "Pont-sur-Yonne-Platz" at the Sankt-Anna-Kirche
literature
- Abbé (Pierre-Valentin) Horson: Histoire de Pont-sur-Yonne . Paris: Res Universis 1989. ISBN 2-87760-079-3 .
- Klaus Stiglat: Bridges on the way. Early iron and concrete bridges in Germany and France. Berlin: Ernst Sohn 2003. p. 128. ISBN 3433012997 .
Web links
- Official website of Pont-sur-Yonne
- Le Petit Pontois Old postcards from Pont-sur-Yonne
- Villeperrot Bridge Aqueduct
- Floor plan and architectural drawing of the internal wall system of the church of Pont-sur-Yonne
- Painting by ten Cate from 1907 with the old bridge of Pont-sur-Yonne
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stiglate.
- ^ Peter WB Semmens: Catastrophes on rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 57.