Salindres
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Gard | |
| Arrondissement | Alès | |
| Canton | Alès-2 | |
| Community association | Alès agglomeration | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 10 ′ N , 4 ° 9 ′ E | |
| height | 148-241 m | |
| surface | 11.53 km 2 | |
| Residents | 3,494 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 303 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 30340 | |
| INSEE code | 30305 | |
| Website | http://www.ville-salindres.fr/ | |
 Salindres Town Hall |
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Salindres is a commune in the Gard department in the Occitanie region of France . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Alès and is part of the canton of Alès-2 .
geography
The municipality is located on the Avène River in the Cevennes . Salindres is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Rousson in the north, Servas in the east and south-east, Mons in the south and Saint-Privat-des-Vieux in the west and south-west.
population
The community has 3494 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).
Population development
| year | 1911 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 |
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| Residents | 2800 | 3,889 | 3,845 | 3,666 | 3,459 | 3.213 | 3,055 | 3,056 | 3,145 |
Attractions
Workers settlement
In 1912, the company was Société Française des maisons et constructions moulées established to from one piece cast concrete - Prefabricated houses to build. She used a liquid concrete that Thomas Alva Edison had developed for this purpose. Due to the high cost of the molds, this was only profitable if at least 50 houses were built at the same time. The first opportunity arose in Salindres, where a workers' settlement was to be built for an aluminum plant. A closed quarter (today: Quatier des maisons moulées ) with 56 individual houses was cast here in 1912–1914 . Four different types were used, mostly inexpensive, two-story semi-detached houses with four or five apartments each. The 18 single-storey houses, on the other hand, each contain a larger apartment with five rooms. These are the houses in the street grid Rue Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Rue Adrien Badin, Rue Sainte Claire Deville and Rue Pasteur with the crossing streets Rue du 19 Mars 1962, Rue de Verdun and Rue de la Marne . The world's first closed settlement made of cast concrete houses was built here.
More Attractions
- Saint-André church
- Bécamel Tower, built in 1143 by the Knights Templar
Saint-André church
Bécamel tower
Parish partnership
A partnership has existed with the Romanian municipality of Lipova since 1990 .
Personalities
- Roger Dumas (1897–1951), composer
- Jean-Philippe Gatien (* 1968), table tennis player
literature
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Ferdinand Werner : The long way to new building . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2016. ISBN 978-3-88462-372-5
- Volume 1: Concrete: 43 men invent the future .
- Volume 2: cement and artificial stone. The triumph of the imagination .
