Romans-sur-Isere

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Romans-sur-Isere
Coat of arms of Romans-sur-Isère
Romans-sur-Isère (France)
Romans-sur-Isere
region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department Drôme
Arrondissement Valence
Canton Bourg-de-Péage and
Romans-sur-Isère
( main town )
Community association Valence Roman's agglo
Coordinates 45 ° 3 '  N , 5 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 3 '  N , 5 ° 3'  E
height 122-291 m
surface 33.08 km 2
Residents 33,160 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 1,002 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 26100
INSEE code 26281
Website www.ville-romans.com

Romans-sur-Isere

Romans-sur-Isere (short also: Romans ) is a French municipality with 33,160 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Drôme in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes in southeastern France. Provençal and Lyons influences meet in this region .

Romans became internationally known through the study by the historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Carnival in Romans, which was dedicated to a city uprising . A revolt and its bloody end 1579–80 from 1979.

location

The city is located on the Isère , a tributary of the Rhône , about 20 kilometers northeast of Valence . Together with its sister city Bourg-de-Péage on the other side of the Isère, Romans forms a metropolitan area with 50,000 people, whose inhabitants are known as Romanais and Péageois . Both municipalities are the center of a small region that borders the Valence region in the south and west, extends to the hills of Bas-Dauphine in the north and the edge of the Vercors Regional Nature Park in the east .

history

The Collégiale Saint-Barnard

Romans was founded in 838. The foundation of the city is the year of the founding of a Benedictine - Abbey , the Barnard de Romans (around 780-841), Archbishop of Vienne , was built by the Isere near a ford, dated. This is where the current Collégiale Saint-Barnard church stands.

Unlike many other places along the Rhone Valley, the name of the town does not refer to an earlier Roman past. Rather, the term Romans refers to a chapel built in the 11th century and a parish, Saint-Romain, which existed until the time of the French Revolution . Only a small street, the Rue Saint-Romain, which lies around 300 meters downstream of the Pont Vieux, reminds of the namesake.

From the middle of the 19th century, the manufacture of shoes developed into an important economic factor in Romans.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2016
Residents 26,377 31,545 33,030 33,152 32,734 32,667 33,138 33,310
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Infrastructure

traffic

Station building by Romans (2013)

Romans has a train station on the Valence – Moirans railway line . About eight kilometers southwest of Romans is the connection to the TGV network, the Valence-TGV station .

Romans can be reached by car via the A49 motorway (“Chatuzange-le-Goubet” junction ), the A7 motorway (“Valence-Nord” junction) or - without tolls - via the N7 national road that runs parallel to the A7 .

Cultural institutions

The shoe museum in the center of Rome offers an insight into the past of the shoe industry. Le Musée de la Résistance en Drôme et de la Déportation is also located in a side wing at the same location .

economy

Shoe manufacturing

Romans was the center of French shoe production until the 1990s, before the domestic shoe industry began to decline. Well-known brands with local production facilities were, for example, Stephane Kélian Production and Charles Jourdan. Both brands are now owned by the largest French shoe retailer Groupe Royer .

Nuclear industry

Today there is a nuclear fuel production facility owned by FBFC in the city area . In the plant where UO 2 powder and pellets as well as accessories for reactor pressure vessels are manufactured, a leak was discovered on July 17, 2008, through which in the past uranium-containing liquid leaked into the sewer system for an unknown time.

Food production

Companies in the food production sector include Les Ravioles de Saint-Jean , Les Douceurs de Jacquemart , Appetit de France and La Fromagerie Alpine .

Lunettes de Romans
Packaged ravioles de romans

Romans is known in France as the place of origin of the Lunettes de Romans , an oval biscuit pastry. It consists of two halves of shortcrust pastry baked on top of each other with two adjacent, round jelly fillings (for example raspberry, apricot, strawberry or blueberry). The name refers to the shape of the pastry ( French : lunettes = glasses). A second specialty of Romans are the ravioles de Romans , which have been a protected regional designation of origin (appellation d'origine) since 1989 as Ravioles du Dauphiné . Ravioli are produced by numerous large and small businesses in the region and are conspicuously present in the cityscape of Romans due to the many billboards in front of the grocery stores. Both specialties are traced back to immigrants from the Italian region of Piedmont , who settled in the Dauphiné as early as the High Middle Ages . The third specialty is a cake made from yeast dough , called Pogne de Romans , whose special taste is brought about by the addition of orange blossom water . Originally, the Pogne was a yeast wreath only baked for Easter .

Town twinning

Romans-sur-Isère is twinned with

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Romans-sur-Isère  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-Yves Baxter: La rue Saint-Romain. In: romanshistorique.fr. October 26, 2015, accessed July 27, 2017 (French).
  2. ↑ Découverte d'un tuyau défectueux sur Cerca Romans ( Memento of the original dated November 28, 2008 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. July 17, 2008  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.areva-np.com
  3. ↑ ard.de: New incident in a French nuclear facility ( Memento from November 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) July 18, 2008
  4. ^ Website of the city
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Wegner: Humbert von Romans, lat. Humbertus de Romanis. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 641.