Rue de Longchamp

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Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '  N , 2 ° 17'  E

Rue de Longchamp
location
Arrondissement 16.
quarter Chaillot
Porte Dauphine
Beginning 8, Place d'Iéna
The End 9, Boulevard Lannes
morphology
length 1540 m
width 15 m
history
Emergence 1730 (partially)
designation 1873
Coding
Paris 5683

The Rue de Longchamp is 1,540 meters one of the longest streets of Passy , the 16th arrondissement of Paris .

location

The Rue de Longchamp begins at the Place d'Iéna and runs in a westerly direction over the Place de Mexico and from there in a northwesterly direction to the Boulevard Lannes . Together with the rue de la Pompe , which runs from south to north, the rue de Longchamp, which runs in an east-west direction, formed the main axis of the old village of Passy , the area of ​​which was mainly used for agriculture for a long time before it was incorporated into Paris on January 1, 1860 and adjacent some meadows and small wooded areas consisted of a multitude of gardens in which mainly vegetables and vines were grown.

At the eastern beginning of the long street is the Iéna station with the line . Metro-M.svg Paris Metro 9.svg

Name origin

The street name refers to Longchamp Abbey .

history

The part between today's Place d'Iéna and Rue Spontini was built in 1834 on a part of the street listed in the Plan de Roussel from 1730.

Its construction was based on a decree of March 6, 1858, its current name was given on November 10, 1873, and its opening took place on May 18, 1881. Your street name can be traced back to Longchamp Abbey, founded in 1256 , which was located on the site of today's Longchamp Racecourse and was connected to this street. Its original width was initially 12 meters; it was given its current width of 15 meters from January 1935.

Attractions

Name affinity

The rue de Longchamp discussed here has the Paris postcode 75016 . A street of the same name is located less than two kilometers northwest of here, on the other side of the northern tip of the Bois de Boulogne , in Neuilly-sur-Seine . This street has the postcode 92200 .

Web links

Commons : Rue de Longchamp  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philippe Siguret / Bertrand Lemoine , Vie et historie du XVIe arrondissement . Editions Hervas, Paris 1991, p. 133
  2. JSTOR online
  3. ^ Philippe Siguret / Bertrand Lemoine: Vie et historie du XVIe arrondissement . Editions Hervas, Paris 1991, p. 148
  4. ^ Philippe Siguret / Bertrand Lemoine: Vie et historie du XVIe arrondissement . Editions Hervas, Paris 1991, p. 128