Sarcelles

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Sarcelles
Sarcelles coat of arms
Sarcelles (France)
Sarcelles
region Île-de-France
Department Val d'Oise
Arrondissement Sarcelles
Canton Sarcelles
Community association Roissy Pays de France
Coordinates 49 ° 0 ′  N , 2 ° 23 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′  N , 2 ° 23 ′  E
height 46-142 m
surface 8.45 km 2
Residents 58,587 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 6,933 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 95200
INSEE code 95585

Sarcelles Town Hall.

Sarcelles ( pronunciation : [ saʁ.sɛl ]) is a city in France and the sub-prefecture of the Arrondissement of Sarcelles in the Département Val-d'Oise with 58,587 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) on an area of ​​8.45 km². It is located on the northern periphery of Paris and has the oldest large housing estate in Île-de-France . The inhabitants are called Sarcellois .

History and population development

Large housing estate in Sarcelles

While its population was around 8,000 in the 1950s, it rose to around 35,000 by 1962 and exceeded 50,000 in the late 1960s. From 1955 to 1975, 12,368 apartments were built.

Sarcelles has had a large Sephardic Jewish community since the 1960s . After Tunisia and Morocco gained independence in 1956, many Jews living there fell victim to rioting; After the Suez Crisis in 1956, after the Six Day War in 1967 and the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Jews in Egypt suffered the same fate. After Algeria gained independence in 1962, almost all Jews had to leave this country. Many of the Jewish refugees from North Africa settled in Sarcelles.

The majority of the inhabitants of Sarcelles or their parents come from Black and North Africa and the French Caribbean . There is also an important Assyrian community (also called Arameans or Chaldeans ).

As one of the typical Parisian suburbs (French: Banlieue ) with large housing estates in prefabricated construction , Sarcelles became a synonym for the isolation of the residents of such anonymous and inhumane environments. In French, the term Sarcellite describes precisely this problematic life situation. Sarcelles has been one of the most dangerous suburbs of Paris since the early 2000s.

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2017
Residents 35,800 51,476 55.007 53,630 56,833 57,071 58,654 58,587
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul church
  • Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul Catholic Church from the 12th century

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Sarcelles

religion

Sarcelles has two Catholic churches, a small Protestant Reformed church, seven synagogues and two mosques. In July 2014, mostly younger Muslim men devastated parts of the Sephardic residential area in Sarcelles known as “La Petite Jérusalem” in anti-Semitic riots . They chanted u. a. "Death to the Jews!"

Town twinning

Personalities

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Val-d'Oise (= Collection le patrimoine des communes de France, vol. 95). Flohic Éditions, Volume 2, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-056-6 , pp. 817-827.
  • Sarcelles: du village au grand ensemble . L'Atelier de Restitution du Patrimoine et de l'Ethnologie (ARPE), Cergy n.d. <after 2008>.

Web links

Commons : Sarcelles  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sarcelles: du village au grand ensemble . L'Atelier de Restitution du Patrimoine et de l'Ethnologie (ARPE), p. 16.
  2. ↑ Sarcellite in dictionnaire.reverso.net: de Sarcelles, désigne les problemèmes posés par la vie dans les grands ensembles ; Retrieved July 22, 2014
  3. ↑ Rahsaan Maxwell: Ethnic Minority Migrants in Britain and France: Integration Trade-Offs, Cambridge 2012, pp. 170ff.
  4. ↑ Michaela Wiegel : “Come with batons, fire extinguishers and grenade launchers!” Prop-Palestinian demonstrators let their hatred run wild and devastate the Jewish residential area of ​​Sarcelles. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 22, 2014, p. 3.
  5. ↑ Stefan Ulrich : Fear of pogroms. In France, demonstrations against Israel are increasingly turning into anti-Semitic riots . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 23, 2014, p. 8.