Romilly-sur-Seine

Romilly-sur-Seine
region	Grand Est
Department	Aube
Arrondissement	Nogent-sur-Seine
Canton	Romilly-sur-Seine
Community association	Portes de Romilly-sur-Seine
Coordinates	48 ° 31 ' N , 3 ° 44' E Coordinates: 48 ° 31 ' N , 3 ° 44' E
height	100-126 m
surface	25.32 km 2
Residents	14,451 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	571 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	10100
INSEE code	10323
Website	www.ville-romilly-sur-seine.fr
	; Parc de la Béchère

Romilly-sur-Seine is a French commune with 14,451 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Aube department in the Grand Est region . It belongs to the arrondissement of Nogent-sur-Seine . Romilly-sur-Seine is located on the Seine , on the border with the Marne department .

history

Today's town goes back to a Gallo-Roman settlement. The place is mentioned for the first time in 1163 under the Latinized form Romeliacum . It is a toponym that denotes the residence of a Romilius . In 1167 the Cistercian monastery Sellières was founded here in the Seine Valley , where Voltaire's body was buried in 1778 and lay there until it was transferred to Paris in 1791 and buried. During the French Revolution , the name of the place was Romilly-Voltaire .

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2016
Residents	15,753	17,038	17,397	15,937	15,557	14,616	14,059	14,459
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

traffic

Romilly-sur-Seine station is on the Paris – Mulhouse line , which is not yet electrified. The state railway maintains an old Technicentre SNCF - Site de démantèlement in Rue Aristide Briand , where Corail cars and TGV Sud-Est were serviced and vehicles were dismantled. In July 2019, a power head of a TGV Sud-Est was installed in front of the new location of the technology center in the industrial area southeast of the city.