Sotteville-lès-Rouen
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| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Seine-Maritime | |
| Arrondissement | Rouen | |
| Canton |
Canton of Le Petit-Quevilly Sotteville-lès-Rouen |
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| Community association | Métropole Rouen Normandy | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 25 ' N , 1 ° 5' E | |
| height | 3–48 m | |
| surface | 7.44 km 2 | |
| Residents | 28,965 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 3,893 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 76300 | |
| INSEE code | 76681 | |
| Website | http://www.mairie-sotteville-les-rouen.fr/ | |
Sotteville-lès-Rouen is a French municipality with 28,965 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Seine-Maritime in the region Normandy . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Rouen and to the cantons of Le Petit-Quevilly and Sotteville-lès-Rouen whose main town it is.
Neighboring municipalities of Sotteville-lès-Rouen are: Le Petit-Quevilly in the north-west, Rouen in the north, Bonsecours in the north-east, Le Grand-Quevilly in the west, Amfreville-la-Mi-Voie in the east and south-east, Petit-Couronne in the south-west and Saint -Etienne-du-Rouvray .
City arms
A red sloping bar separates the blue field, inside a beehive with seven bees, from the green field with a golden steam locomotive in it. In the head of the shield stands the golden leopard / lion on a red background as a badge of the former Duchy of Normandy .
history
The beginnings
Sotteville-lès-Rouen is on the Roman road that connects Rouen (Rotomagus) with Paris (Lutetia) via Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf (Uggade) and Évreux (Mediolanum) . Traces of Gallo-Roman settlement were found in the district of Quatre-Mares . Today's center of Sotteville-lès-Rouen has its origins around the Church of Notre-Dame de l'Assomption.
railway station
Sotteville became known for the large marshalling yard and depot on the Chemins de fer de l'Ouest railway line from Paris via Rouen to Le Havre . In his novel " Die Beast im Menschen " Emile Zola mentions this station with the remark that it is downright feared by the railway workers of passing trains because its track layout is complicated and there is constant shunting.
The locomotive workshop Sotteville provided 1842-1843 the first mass steam locomotives on French soil from: It was locomotives of the wheel arrangement 1A1 (Patentee) of British engineer William Buddicom , even after its parent plant " Crewe were called". 33 of this series, Saint Pierre , is now in the Mulhouse Railway Museum ; this design probably also adorns the city arms of Sotteville.
Second World War
On 6 June 1940 the German bombing Luftwaffe the station of Sotteville-lès-Rouen when she within the Western campaign pushed forward to Paris. The air raid by RAF bombers on the night of April 18-19, 1944 destroyed a third of the city. During the liberation on August 31, 1944, 722 deaths were counted.
Population development
- 1962: 33.443
- 1968: 34,495
- 1975: 31,659
- 1982: 30,558
- 1990: 29,544
- 1999: 29,553
- 2006: 30,076
Personalities
- Marcel Lods (1891–1978), architect
- Jacques Anquetil (1934–1987), racing cyclist
- Anny Duperey (* 1947)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Zdenek Bauer: " Steam Locomotives ", 3rd German. Edition Hanau 1995, ISBN 3-7684-0519-2
- ↑ Vivre à Serquigny. (pdf; 6.6 MB) In: Bulletin d'Informations Municipales N ° 33. Lionel Prevost, January 2012, p. 16 , archived from the original on February 3, 2014 ; Retrieved July 12, 2012 (French).
- ↑ City history ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French)
