Porte de Pantin

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The Porte de Pantin when it was still part of the Paris ramparts .

The Porte de Pantin is now one of the gateways into the French capital Paris , located in the Quartier de la Villette in the 19th arrondissement . It forms the main access to the municipality of Pantin in the north-east of Paris.

history

The Porte de Pantin was one of the 17 city ​​gates of Paris in the middle of the 19th century and led through the fortress belt, which was built between 1841 and 1844 on the basis of a law by Adolphe Thiers after the failures of the Rhine crisis . At that time it was called Porte d'Allemagne (German Gate). At the beginning of the First World War it was renamed "Porte de Pantin". The Thiers'sche city fortifications were razed after the First World War. Subsequently, in the area previously known as the Zone non aedificandi , the glacis of the fortress belt, the urban landscape was shaped by the construction of social housing for the city of Paris.

location

The Porte de Pantin is located at the intersection of Boulevard Sérurier and Avenue Jean-Jaurès in Paris. It is located 1500 m south of the Porte de la Villette and 300 m north of the Porte Chaumont .

Life in the neighborhood

The division was extremely restructured in the 1980s. Today there is an entrance to the Parc de la Villette and the Grande Halle de la Villette , the Conservatoire de Paris , the Cité de la musique and the Théâtre Paris-Villette .

traffic

Road traffic

The Porte de Pantin is approached from the city center in a west-east direction through avenue Jean-Jaurès and further through avenue Jean-Lolive in Pantin. The Boulevard Sérurier , one of the boulevards of the Marshals, and the Boulevard d'Indochine of Paris cross in a north-south direction. The Porte de Pantin thus forms a main entrance to the Boulevard périphérique , the ring road from Paris, and the starting point of Route nationale 3 , the old Kaiserstraße (Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate) .

Transportation

The Porte de Pantin is connected by metro line 5 of the Métro Paris via the Porte de Pantin station, as well as by the Paris bus routes 75, PC2, PC3, 151 and 684.

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