Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Saint-Germain-en-Laye)

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Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Coat of arms of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Saint-Germain-en-Laye (France)
Saint-Germain-en-Laye
local community Saint-Germain-en-Laye
region Île-de-France
Department Yvelines
Arrondissement Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Coordinates 48 ° 54 '  N , 2 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 54 '  N , 2 ° 6'  E
Post Code 78100
Former INSEE code 78551
Incorporation 1st January 2019
status Commune déléguée
Website www.saintgermainenlaye.fr

Castle of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Saint-Germain-en-Laye [ sɛ ʒɛʁmɛ ɑ lɛ ] is a former French commune in the western catchment area of Paris in the department of Yvelines in the region Ile-de-France . The city had 40,765 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) and extended to 48.27 square kilometers.

The decree of December 20, 2018 established the incorporation of Saint-Germain-en-Laye as Commune déléguée together with the former municipality of Fourqueux into the Commune nouvelle Saint-Germain-en-Laye of the same name with effect from January 1, 2019 .

The place is located on the Forêt Domaniale de Saint-Germain-en-Laye , a large forest area west of Paris, and has a historically grown development.

history

Saint-Germain-en-Laye was founded in 1020 by King Robert II as a convent on the site of the present-day church of Saint-Germain. Before the French Revolution in 1789, Saint-Germain-en-Laye was a royal city and the residence of numerous French monarchs.

The Château de Saint-Germain-en- Laye was from 1364 to 1367 by King Charles V on the remains of an old castle from the time of Louis IX. built. Francis I subsequently restored it. The kings Heinrich IV. And Ludwig XIII. worried about the architecture of the city.

The Sun King Louis XIV made Saint-Germain-en-Laye his main residence from 1661 to 1682; its importance for the history of the city is reflected in the fact that its date of birth, September 5, 1638, is immortalized in the city's coat of arms. He handed the castle over to King James II of England after he had to go into exile from Great Britain. James II lived in the castle for thirteen years and his daughter Marie-Louise Stuart was born here in exile in 1692. James II Stuart is buried in the Church of Saint-Germain. Even after that, the castle was the center of the court of the exiled Stuarts. During the French Revolution, the name of the city was changed - as with so many places suggesting a church or crown connection - Saint-Germain-en-Laye became Montagne-du-Bon-Air.

Under Napoleon Bonaparte the castle called Château vieux was used as a cavalry school, later as a barracks and military prison, until Napoleon III. had the Musée des Antiquités Nationales inaugurated in 1867 - since 2005 the Musée d'Archéologie Nationale - set up. This museum shows the developments from the Paleolithic (Paleolithic) to the Merovingian period .

After the First World War , the Treaty of Saint-Germain was signed in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1919 , which sealed the end of the Danube monarchy and regulated the peace provisions for the Austrian half of the empire. During the occupation in World War II from 1940 to 1944, the city was the headquarters of the German army .

Attractions

Saint-Germain-en-Laye is rich in sights that have the status of a monument historique .

designation description Location Labelling Protection status date image
Retz aqueduct  


34, rue de la Croix-de-Fer
( location )
PA00087603 Inscrit 1988
Castle
Musée d'Archéologie Nationale
 


( Location ) PA00087611 Classé
Classé
Classé
1862
1921
1963
Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye01.jpg
New lock  


19, 21 rue Thiers
( location )
PA00087604 Classé
Classé
1925
1988
Saint-Germain-en-Laye château2 dessin.jpg
Castle of Val  


( Location ) PA00087605 Inscrit
Classé
1991
1993
Saint Germain en Laye, Chateau du Val, facade.jpg
Valmoré Castle  


3 rue Quinault
( location )
PA78000030 Inscrit 2010
Dames de Saint-Thomas monastery  


Rue de la République
( location )
PA00087606 Inscrit 1937 Saint-Germain-en-Laye Chapelle du couvent des Dames de Saint-Thomas 2011 3.jpg
Cross of the Maine  


Forêt de Saint-Germain
N 184
( location )
PA00087607 Inscrit 1926
Cross Noailles  


( Location ) PA00087608 Classé 1942 Saint-Germain-en-Laye - Croix de Noailles.jpg
Cross Pucelle  


Route de Saint-Joseph
( location )
PA00087609 Inscrit 1926
Saint Simon cross  


( Location ) PA00087610 Inscrit 1926 Croix Saint-Simon 2013-09-16 13-11-31.jpg
Saint Germain Church  


Place Charles-de-Gaulle
( location )
PA00087613 Inscrit 1937 Église Saint-Germain-en-Laye.JPG
Grande écurie du Roi  


2 place Royale
( location )
PA00087612 Inscrit 1929 Saint-Germain-en-Laye Grande écurie du Roi 2.jpg
Saint-Louis Hospital  


4 rue de la Baronne-Gérard
( location )
PA78000005 Inscrit 1997 Hôpital Saint-Louis de Saint-Germain-en-Laye.jpg
Hotel de Conti  


14 place du Château
( location )
PA00087614 Inscrit 1947 Saint-Germain-en-Laye Hôtel de Conti 2011 01.jpg
Hotel de Créquy  


10, 12 rue de Paris
( location )
PA00087615 Inscrit 1972 Saint-Germain-en-Laye Hôtel de Créquy 2011 3.jpg
Hotel de La Feuillade  


24 rue du Vieil-Abreuvoir
( location )
PA00087616 Inscrit 1937 Saint-Germain-en-Laye Hôtel de La Feuillade 2011 1.jpg
Hotel de Madame de Maintenon  


23 rue du Vieil-Abreuvoir
( location )
PA00087617 Inscrit 1974 Saint-Germain-en-Laye Hôtel de Madame de Maintenon 2011 6.jpg
Hotel de Noailles  


10, 11 rue d'Alsace
( location )
PA00087618 Inscrit
Inscrit
1985
1991
Saint-Germain-en-Laye Hôtel de Noailles 2011 13.jpg
Hotel de Soubise  


16 place du Château
( location )
PA00087619 Inscrit 1947 Saint-Germain-en-Laye Hôtel de Soubise 2011 1.jpg
Hotel de villeroy  


18 rue de la Salle
( location )
PA00087620 Inscrit 1972 Saint-Germain-en-Laye Hôtel de Villeroy 2011 5.jpg
Residential houses  


2, 4, 6, 8 place du Marché-Neuf
( location )
PA00087621 Inscrit 1944 Saint-Germain-en-Laye Immeubles 2 4 6 8 place du Marché-Neuf 2011 02.jpg
Residential building  


16 rue de Poissy
( location )
PA78000011 Inscrit 1999 Saint-Germain-en-Laye 16 rue de Poissy 2011 1.jpg
Maison Claude Debussy  


38 rue au Pain
( location )
PA00087622 Inscrit 1972 Saint-Germain-en-Laye Maison Claude Debussy 2011 10.jpg
Manège royal  


Place Royale
Avenue Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny
( Location )
PA00087623 Classé 1993 Saint-Germain-en-Laye Manege royal 2011 1.jpg
Angoulème pavilion  


6 rue Giraud-Theulon
( location )
PA00087624 Inscrit 1988
Pavilion de la Croix de Noailles  


( Location ) PA00087625 Inscrit 1937 Pavillon de la Croix de Noailles 2013-09-16 13-01-27.jpg
Pavilion de Polignac  


15 rue Alexandre-Dumas
2 rue Giraud-Theulon
( location )
PA00087626 Inscrit 1974 Saint-Germain-en-Laye Pavillon de Polignac 2011 03.jpg
Porte de Chambourcy  


( Location ) PA00087627 Classé 1943 Porte de Chambourcy, Saint-Germain-en-Laye - 03.jpg
Porte des Pétrons  


( Location ) PA00087628 Inscrit 1933
Musée départemental Maurice Denis  


2bis rue Maurice Denis
( location )
PA00087629 Classé 1976 Ancien hôpital Maintenon 05961.jpg
Gramont district  


Rue du Maréchal-Lyautey
( location )
PA00087630 Inscrit 1929 Saint-Germain-en-Laye Quartier de Gramont 2011 17.jpg

culture and education

Saint-Germain-en-Laye is known for its museums ( Musée d'Archélogie Nationale with the Charnay bow brooch , Musée Maurice Denis , Musée Claude Debussy ), its castles ( Château-Vieux , Château d'Hennemont , Château du Val , remains of the Château-Neuf ), its theater ( Théâtre Alexandre Dumas ) and several prestigious educational institutions such as the Lycée International de Saint-Germain-en-Laye , the Lycée Saint-Erembert , the Institut d'études politiques de Saint-Germain-en-Laye , the Institut Notre-Dame and the Lycée Saint Thomas de Villeneuve .

hospital

traffic

The Saint-Germain-en-Laye train station is one of several terminus of the RER A , an S-Bahn -like suburban service in the Paris area.

Personalities

Born in the city

Connected to the city

  • Anne-Marie Staub (1914–2012), biochemist, died in Saint-Germain-en-Laye
  • Guy Lefranc (1919–1994), film director and screenwriter, died in Saint-Germain-en-Laye
  • Alfred Grosser (* 1925) grew up in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in the 1930s, where his father wanted to set up a children's clinic
  • Didier Bourdon (* 1959), actor, screenwriter and film director, lives in Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Web links

Commons : Saint-Germain-en-Laye  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. RECUEIL DES ACTES ADMINISTRATIFS SPÉCIAL N ° 78-2018-188 ( fr , PDF) Yvelines department. Pp. 3-7. December 20, 2018. Retrieved January 3, 2019.
  2. structurae.de Status: August 24, 2007
  3. The period from 450 BC The area of ​​the museum, which is well worth seeing, has been inaccessible for years, until the Roman conquest. [Status: Spring 2008].
  4. A. Grosser: Le Mensch. The ethics of identities. Bonn 2017. p. 9.