Rungis
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| region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Val-de-Marne | |
| Arrondissement | L'Haÿ-les-Roses | |
| Canton | Thiais | |
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Métropole du Grand Paris and Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre |
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 45 ' N , 2 ° 21' E | |
| height | 58-90 m | |
| surface | 4.20 km 2 | |
| Residents | 5,611 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 1,336 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 94150 | |
| INSEE code | 94065 | |
| Website | rungis.fr | |
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Rungis is a French commune in the Val-de-Marne department ( Île-de-France region ) with 420 hectares and 5611 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017). It is located 13 km south of Paris, not far from Orly Airport . The place is located in the Paris basin on a plateau between the valleys of the Seine and the Bièvre , 80 meters above sea level. Today he is best known for the Rungis wholesale market , which supplies Paris and, via Paris-Orly Airport , makes deliveries all over the world. Rungis has excellent road and rail links with Paris and the province.
history
The place name, formerly "Romiacum", "Romjacum", "Rungy", "Rongis", "Rungis" is supposed to indicate a Gallo-Roman owner named Romius. The Romans already took water from the springs of Rungis, which was led via an aqueduct to the thermal baths of Lutetia (Paris).
In 1124, Ludwig VI. the feudal rights to the mighty Abbey of Sainte-Geneviève .
In the years 1613 to 1623, at the instigation of Maria de 'Medici, the Aqueduc Médicis was built, which roughly followed the route of the Roman aqueduct and, among other things, supplied the Jardin du Luxembourg .
Rungis was affected by the war in 1815 and 1870. After remaining a rural community until the middle of the 20th century, it was transformed, like many other Parisian suburbs, through the ever denser settlement of the banlieue , through the construction of Orly Airport and in particular through the creation of the wholesale market and one on Orly bordering industrial zone.
Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Rungis
- The Regard Louis XIII , the entrance building of the Aqueduc Médicis , which directs the water from the springs of Rungis via Arcueil to Paris in the neighboring "Carré des Eaux" (now located under two football fields) .
- the remains of the Notre-Dame church (13th century), rue Notre-Dame
- the fortified former farm of Saint-Grégoire and its priory, 2 rue des Fontaines
- the former home of Cardinal Richelieu, now the town hall (17th century), 2 rue Sainte-Geneviève
- Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption, an early attempt at building with prefabricated elements , and the Eglise du Prieuré (both 20th century)
- the wholesale market
Rungis Wholesale Market
The Rungis wholesale market was laid out in 1969 by the architects Henri Colboc and Lebret on a 220 hectare site in the municipalities of Rungis and Chevilly-Larue. Today it has developed into the world's largest market for food, covering 232 hectares and 13,000 people working there. The total throughput of products in 2000 was over 1.6 million tons. It has its own train station, a bus station, numerous market halls and warehouses, cold stores, offices, hotels, etc. It is presented in the documentary Voices of Transition as a representative for oil-dependent , industrial agriculture .
See also: The company Rungis Express , which delivers fresh food from the Rungis wholesale market to German-speaking countries, is often colloquially referred to as "Rungis" for short .
Personalities
- Richelieu (1585–1642), Minister, owned a house in Rungis in the first half of the 17th century.
- Edme Verniquet (1727–1804), French architect and master horticulturist who worked with Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon on the design of the Jardin des Plantes and who published the so-called Plan des Artistes , an atlas for Paris, was the last to be entitled “ Seigneur de Rungis ”.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Val-de-Marne . 2nd Edition. Flohic Editions, Charenton-le-Pont 1994, ISBN 2-908958-94-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See: Ferdinand Werner : The long way to new building . Volume 1: Concrete: 43 men invent the future . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2016. ISBN 978-3-88462-372-5 , pp. 230-233.
- ↑ De la fourche à la fourchette: la sécurité alimentaire des Franciliens (PDF; 144 kB)