Sablé-sur-Sarthe
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| region | Pays de la Loire | |
| Department | Sarthe | |
| Arrondissement | La Flèche | |
| Canton | Sablé-sur-Sarthe (main town) | |
| Community association | Sablé-sur-Sarthe | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 50 ′ N , 0 ° 20 ′ W | |
| height | 22-70 m | |
| surface | 36.92 km 2 | |
| Residents | 12,220 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 331 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 72300 | |
| INSEE code | 72264 | |
| Website | sable-sur-sarthe.fr | |
 Sablé-sur-Sarthe Town Hall on Place R. Élizé |
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Sable-sur-Sarthe (often Sable ) is a French city with 12,220 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire .
Sablé-sur-Sarthe is located near La Flèche , 60 km from Le Mans , 62 km from Angers and about 250 km southwest of Paris. The city lies on the Sarthe and the rivers Vaige and Erve , which flow into the Sarthe in the urban area of Sablé.
Attractions
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The image of the city is dominated by the castle, which is located on a ridge above the small port. The castle was built in the 18th century on the foundations of an older fortification that was strategically located on the border between the provinces of Anjou and Maine .
At that time the owner was Jean-Baptiste Colbert , the foreign minister of the French King Louis XIV. The construction work lasted from 1715 to 1728, the interior work could not be finished until 1741.
In 1978 the city acquired the castle and handed it over to the state. After extensive renovation, a branch of the Bibliothèque nationale de France is now housed here. Here old books are transferred to microfilms or restored.
Solesmes Abbey
The Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes is located two kilometers from Sablé-sur-Sarthe further upstream. It is a stronghold of Gregorian chant in France.
Transport and infrastructure
Car traffic
There are very good transport links to Paris and western France: the A81 Paris - Le Mans - Rennes and A11 Paris - Le Mans - Angers motorways are easy to reach.
Public transport
Rail transport
With its train station, the city has a connection to the long-distance route (Nantes–) Angers – Le Mans (–Paris) . The majority of the TER trains stop , but there are also some TGVs every day . B. enable a direct connection to and from Paris. The Aubigné-Racan – Sablé and the Sablé – Montoir-de-Bretagne railway branched off from this line .
Regional traffic
The city is the terminus of two regional bus routes operated by the department: the La Flàche – Sablé and Le Mans – Sablé routes. Other lines create connections to the Mayenne department.
city traffic
Two bus routes are operated in inner-city traffic, but they both travel on the same route: d. H. The outward journey takes place as line 1, the return journey as line 2. Usually two journeys are made every hour, but there is no real time interval.
Linking traffic flows
The Sablé station is being converted into a so-called PEM (= Pôle d'échanges multimodal). Individual and public transport are linked: the railway underpass, which leads from the station building to the south of the tracks, is accessed from the north. There will be a bus station with 10 platforms for regional, school and city buses as well as a parking lot with almost 200 spaces for train and bus users and two lockable bicycle sheds. Completion is scheduled for 2015.
Cultural events
- The Sablé Baroque Festival
It has been held every summer since 1979. There are more than a dozen concerts in each of the four days. In workshops, young artists rehearse in the fields of early music and ancient dances with the best specialists in their field.
- Rockyssimôme - "Woodstock for Children"
These events especially for children and with the participation of children take place in the park of the castle.
economy
In the 19th century, up to 1,500 people were employed in the marble quarries and anthracite mines in the immediate vicinity of Sablés.
Today there are around 11,500 jobs in the Sablé area. Main branches of business are the processing of agricultural products, metal processing, plastics and electronics.
Town twinning
Bückeburg in Lower Saxony .
Personalities
- Edmond Cherouvrier (1831–1905), composer
- Charles Cros (1842–1888), during a stay at Sablé Castle, the poet and inventor worked on a method of color photography
- Raphaël Élizé (1891–1945), veterinarian and politician, was elected mayor of a city in France in 1929 as the first black man; from 1940 member of the Resistance
- Pierre Péan (1938–2019), investigative journalist
- François Fillon (* 1954), politician (UMP) and Prime Minister of France from May 17, 2007 to May 15, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Plan des lignes du réseau. (png graphic, 212 kB) Les transports en Pays de la Loire, January 24, 2019, accessed on August 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Pôle d'échanges multimodal. In: sablesursarthe.fr. Archived from the original on February 25, 2011 ; accessed on August 29, 2019 (French).
