Sorgues

Sorgues
region	Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
Department	Vaucluse
Arrondissement	Avignon
Canton	Sorgues (main town)
Community association	Sorgues du Comtat
Coordinates	44 ° 1 ′ N , 4 ° 52 ′ E Coordinates: 44 ° 1 ′ N , 4 ° 52 ′ E
height	14-114 m
surface	33.40 km 2
Residents	18,680 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	559 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	84700
INSEE code	84129
	; Sorgue Town Hall (L'Hôtel de Ville de Sorgues)

Sorgues ( Occitan : Sòrgas ) is a French municipality with 18,680 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Vaucluse in the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur . It belongs to the canton of Sorgues in the Arrondissement of Avignon .

Location and economy

The city is located in the historic province of Provence at the confluence of the Ouvèze river into the Rhone . The Rhône forms the border with the Gard department at Sorgues . Avignon is 10 kilometers south . It is located on the railway line and the A7 Lyon-Orange motorway. The city is shaped by the neighboring prefecture capital Avignon with its outstanding cultural and historical importance. In the northern neighborhood is the famous wine-growing region of Châteauneuf-du-Pape . The population of the community increased sharply in the 1970s due to larger apartment block settlements on the outskirts. Sorgues has a large industrial area near the motorway. It owns all school branches, sports facilities and a swimming pool. The German twin town is Wettenberg near Gießen .

history

Sorgues has a historic town center. The settlement was founded on a bridge ( Pons Sorgte ) over the Ouvèze and flourished early under the court of the Popes in Avignon in the 14th century . A mint and a papal palace were located here.

On August 14, 1944, “Le Train fantôme” was re-established in Sorgues, a train with deportees that brought 600 detained anti-fascists , members of the Resistance and, above all, Jews to the German concentration camps of Ravensbrück and Dachau . Few survived.

Picasso and Braque

In the summer of 1912, the two painters Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso lived in Sorgues. A number of very famous Cubist paintings and the first papiers collés were created during this period . Braque kept coming back to Sorgues until 1930 and spent his convalescence here from 1915 to 1917 after being injured in the First World War .

Sons of the city

Jules Henri François Charles-Roux (1909–1999), diplomat
Georges Roux (1919–2003), classical archaeologist

Web links

Commons : Sorgues - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Stefan Weiss: The supply of the papal court in Avignon with food (1316-1378): Studies on the social and economic history of a medieval court , Akademie Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3050036403
↑ Jürg Altwegg: Ghost Train in the Death - An Unknown Chapter in Franco-German History 1944 , Rowohlt, Reinbek, 2001, ISBN 978-3498000578
↑ Route of the Train fantôme (French)
↑ William Rubin: Picasso and Braque - The Birth of Cubism , Prestel 1990 (English original edition: Museum of Modern Art, New York)

[1] Stefan Weiss: The supply of the papal court in Avignon with food (1316-1378): Studies on the social and economic history of a medieval court , Akademie Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3050036403

[2] Jürg Altwegg: Ghost Train in the Death - An Unknown Chapter in Franco-German History 1944 , Rowohlt, Reinbek, 2001, ISBN 978-3498000578

[3] Route of the Train fantôme (French)

[4] William Rubin: Picasso and Braque - The Birth of Cubism , Prestel 1990 (English original edition: Museum of Modern Art, New York)