Quartier de l'Europe
Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ' N , 2 ° 19' E
| Quartier de l'Europe | |
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| Country | France |
| region | Île-de-France |
| city | Paris |
| Arrondissement | 8th. |
The Quartier de l'Europe is a neighborhood in Paris . It has an area of 118.3 hectares and belongs to the 8th arrondissement . The quarter is the 32nd in the city and has 18,640 inhabitants (as of 2014). In the quarter is the square that gave the quarter its name, Place de l'Europe (since May 29, 2018 Place de l'Europe – Simone Veil ). Around this square, numerous streets are named after European cities, some of which extend into the 9th arrondissement .
location
The Quartier de l'Europe is located in the northern part of the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It is bounded to the north by the Boulevard de Courcelles and the Boulevard des Batignolles , to the east by the Rue d'Amsterdam, to the south by the Rue de la Pépinière and the Rue La Boètie and to the west by the Rue de Courcelles. The striking corner points of the district include the Paris Gare Saint-Lazare train station in the southeast and Parc Monceau in the northwest .
history
In the 18th century, the Jardin de Tivoli , a park built for Simon-Gabriel Boutin, was located on the site of today's Saint-Lazare train station . From this the Paris amusement park Tivoli emerged in the 19th century . The area north of this was still rural until the beginning of the 19th century. Here was a swampy area in an old river bed between the settlements of Porcherons and Petite-Pologne . In 1826 the Swedish banker Jonas-Philip Hagerman and the Frenchman Sylvain Mignon bought the area to build a new residential area. In the center of the planned district they had the star-shaped Place de l'Europe built. The surrounding streets were mostly named European cities (here is a selection):
- Rue d'Amsterdam
( Amsterdam ) - Rue de Bruxelles
( Brussels ) - Rue de Bucarest
( Bucharest ) - Rue de Constantinople
( Constantinople ) - Rue d'Édimbourg
( Edinburgh ) - Rue de Florence
( Florence ) - Rue de Berlin
( Berlin ) - Rue de Lisbonne
( Lisbon ) - Rue de Londres
( London ) - Rue de Madrid
( Madrid ) - Rue de Milan
( Milan ) - Rue de Messine
( Messina ) - Rue de Moscou
( Moscow ) - Rue de Naples
( Naples ) - Rue de Rome
( Rome ) - Rue de Saint-Pétersbourg
( Saint Petersburg ) - Rue de Stockholm
( Stockholm ) - Rue de Turin
( Turin ) - Rue de Vienne
( Vienna )
Another street, not named after a European city, is the Rue de Téhéran . After another street was named after a European city in 1849 with the Rue de Parme ( Parma ), the Rue de Copenhague ( Copenhagen ) came in 1868 , the Rue d'Athènes ( Athens ) in 1881 , and the Rue de Berne ( Bern , formerly in 1884) Rue Mosnier) and in 1910 the Rue de Budapest ( Budapest , formerly Passage de Navarin and Passage de Tivoli). At the beginning of the First World War , the renaming of the Rue de Berlin took place in Rue de Liège ( Liège ). The Rue de Vienne, however, was not renamed, although Austria was also an enemy of the war. Likewise, the Rue de Constantinople has not been given a new name, not even since the city was officially referred to as Istanbul . The Rue de Saint-Pétersbourg, however, changed its name several times and was called Rue de Pétrograd from 1914 to 1945 and Rue de Léningrad from 1945 to 1991. When the present arrondissements were created in 1860, not all streets of the Europaviertel came to the administrative area of the 8th arrondissement. The rue de Parme, rue de Bruxelles, rue de Milan, rue d'Athènes and rue de Budapest belong completely, the rue de Liège and rue de Londres partly to the 9th arrondissement and are administratively not part of the Quartier de l'Europe.
The first predecessor of the Saint-Lazare station was built in 1837. This was initially built on the Place de l'Europe. When the station was moved to its current location between 1842 and 1853, the railroad tracks were extended in a southerly direction and the Place de l'Europe was built as a bridge over the railroad tracks. The development of the area around the Place de l'Europe with residential houses did not begin until 1865. The sights of the quarter include the St-Augustin church, built from 1860, and the Parc Monceau , which dates back to a royal park from the 18th century. The area around the park was also not built on until the second half of the 19th century. The 8th arrondissement town hall is located in the Hôtel Cail at 3 rue de Lisbonne.
The area around the Place de l'Europe developed into a popular art district from the 1870s. Édouard Manet , who lived on Rue de Saint-Pétersbourg, painted the view of the railroad tracks on Rue de Rome in 1872/73 in the picture The Railway . In 1878 he also created several views of Rue Mosnier (now Rue de Berne). The Place de l'Europe was captured in various paintings by Gustave Caillebotte . His painting Street in Paris on a Rainy Day is also modeled on the Rue de Turin in the Quartier de l'Europe. A series of views of the Saint-Lazare train station was made by Claude Monet . He also painted several views of the Parc Monceau.
Shortly after the start of the First World War, the city council decided to rename Rue de Berlin to Rue de Liège ( Liège ). The Berlin metro station was also renamed Liège . Liège, which had been conquered by German troops shortly before, was chosen as the eponymous city in order to pay tribute to the Belgians' will to resist.
schools
Embassies
- Embassy of Algeria , Rue de Lisbonne
- Embassy of Myanmar , Rue de Courcelles
- Embassy of Ecuador , Avenue de Messine
- Embassy of Equatorial Guinea , Boulevard de Caroucelles
- Singapore Embassy , Rue Morillo
Green spaces
Churches
Museums
- Cernuschi Museum , avenue Vélasquez
- Musée Jacquemart-André , Boulevard Haussmann
- Nissim de Camondo Museum , Rue de Monceau
Transport links
The Gare de Paris-Saint-Lazare is located in the district . From here there are long-distance connections to Le Havre , Cherbourg , Trouville - Deauville and Dieppe . In addition, the Transilien regional trains run from here . The different Paris Metro stations in the neighborhood include:
| station | line | image | opening | comment |
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| Courcelles |
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1902 | On the northwest edge of the district, between the Boulevard de Courcelles and the Rue de Courcelles |
| Europe |
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1904 | In the center of the neighborhood, on Rue de Rome |
| Liège |
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1911 | On the eastern edge of the neighborhood on Rue d'Amsterdam |
| Miromesnil |
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1923-1973 | On the southern edge of the district, on Rue La Boétie |
| Monceau |
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1902 | On the northern edge of the district, on the Boulevard de Courcelles |
| Place de Clichy |
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1902-1911 | At the Place de Clichy |
| Rome |
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1902 | On the northern edge of the district, on the Boulevard des Batignolles |
| Saint-Augustin |
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1923-2004 | On the southern edge of the district, on Place Saint-Augustin |
| Saint-Lazare |
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1904-1910-1911-2003 | On the southern edge of the district, transition to the long-distance train station of the same name |
| Villiers |
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1902 | On the northern edge of the district, on the Boulevard de Courcelles |
Bus routes 20, 21, 22, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 43, 53, 66, 80, 81, 84, 94, 95 and 352 (to Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport ) serve the district during the day. There are also night lines N01, N02, N15 and N16.
literature
- Annie Térade: Le nouveau quartier de l'Europe à Paris, Acteurs publics, acteurs privés dans l'aménagement de la capitale (1820-1839) . Published in Histoire urbaine 2007/2 - No. 19, Marne-la-Vallée.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the number of inhabitants on the website of the 8th arrondissement, accessed on April 22, 2014 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.
- ↑ Une place et une station Simone Veil à Paris. Paris City Council, May 31, 2018, accessed May 13, 2019 (French).
- ↑ FAZ January 6, 2014 p. 9 / Michaela Wiegel : Street without return
