Saint-Marcellin (Isère)
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region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
Department | Isère | |
Arrondissement | Grenoble | |
Canton | Le Sud Grésivaudan (main town) | |
Community association | Saint-Marcellin Vercors Isère Communauté | |
Coordinates | 45 ° 9 ′ N , 5 ° 19 ′ E | |
height | 275-300 m | |
surface | 7.81 km 2 | |
Residents | 7,903 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 1,012 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 38160 | |
INSEE code | 38416 | |
Website | www.saint-marcellin.fr | |
Saint-Marcellin is a French municipality with 7903 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Isère in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Grenoble and is the main town ( chef-lieu ) of the canton of Le Sud Grésivaudan . The inhabitants are called Saint-Marcellinois .
geography
Saint-Marcellin is in the Dauphiné region . The Cumane , a tributary of the Isère, forms the eastern municipal boundary. Saint-Marcellin is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Chevrières in the north and north-west, Saint-Vérand in the north and north-east, Saint-Sauveur in the east and Chatte in the south and west.
The A49 autoroute and the former national route 518 run through the municipality . The station is on the Valence – Moirans railway line .
The city is located to the northwest of the Vercors Regional Nature Park , with which it is associated as an access point.
Population development
year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 |
Residents | 5,298 | 6,186 | 6,779 | 6,795 | 6,696 | 6,955 | 7,694 | 8,063 |
Trivia
The Saint-Marcellin cheese is named after the place.
Community partnerships
Saint-Marcellin has maintained community partnerships since 1993 with the German community Grafing near Munich in Bavaria and since 2006 with the Italian community Fiesso d'Artico in the province of Venice.
Personalities
- Joseph Hugues Boissieu La Martinière (* 1758; missing 1788), botanist
- Antoine François Brenier de Montmorand (1767–1832), infantry general
- Jean Fellot (1905–1967), organist and music teacher
- Alphons Mayr von Baldegg (1789–1875), Brigadier General
- Willi Munzenberg (1889–1940), communist politician and publicist
- Jacques Mignaux (* 1954), General Director of the Gendarmerie
- Christophe Manin (* 1966), racing cyclist