Saint-Germain-des-Fossés
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Allier | |
| Arrondissement | Vichy | |
| Canton | Vichy-1 | |
| Community association | Vichy Community | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 12 ' N , 3 ° 26' E | |
| height | 239-365 m | |
| surface | 8.30 km 2 | |
| Residents | 3,656 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 440 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 03260 | |
| INSEE code | 03236 | |
| Website | ville-saint-germain.com | |
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Saint-Germain-des-Fosses is a French municipality with 3656 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Allier in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Vichy and the canton of Vichy-1 .
geography
The municipality is located seven kilometers north of the city center of Vichy , in the valley of the Mourgon , which flows into the Allier just north of the town center . The district of Bourzat belongs to Saint-Germain-des-Fossés .
The Saint-Germain-des-Fossés station was opened in 1854 with the section from Varennes-sur-Allier- Saint-Germain-des-Fossés of the Moret-Veneux-les-Sablons-Lyon-Perrache railway. With the extension of the line to Roanne and the commissioning of the line to Nîmes in 1855 and to Darsac in 1862, the station developed into one of the most important railway hubs in the Massif Central . A circular shed was built north of the station . The trains on the Lyon – Clermont-Ferrand connection had to go crazy until a connecting curve south of the station was opened in 2006.
Today the station is a majority of trains of TER Auvergne Rhône-Alpes of the connection Moulins - Clermont-Ferrand operated.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2016 |
| Residents | 3526 | 3529 | 3771 | 3609 | 3727 | 3686 | 3676 | 3694 |
Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Saint-Germain-des-Fossés
- Notre-Dame Church, Monument historique
Community partnerships
- Mazzano in the Italian province of Brescia
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de l'Allier. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-053-1 , pp. 1046-1051.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Notre-Dame Church in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
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