Saint-Quentin
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Saint-Quentin Sint-Kwintens |
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| region | Hauts-de-France | |
| Department | Aisne | |
| Arrondissement | Saint-Quentin | |
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Saint-Quentin-1 Saint-Quentin-2 Saint-Quentin-3 |
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| Community association | Saint-Quentinois | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 51 ′ N , 3 ° 17 ′ E | |
| height | 68-125 m | |
| surface | 22.56 km 2 | |
| Residents | 53,816 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 2,385 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 02100 | |
| INSEE code | 02691 | |
| Website | ville-saintquentin.fr | |
 Saint-Quentin town hall |
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Saint-Quentin ( Flemish : Sint-Kwintens ) is a northern French village in the Aisne department in the region of Hauts-de-France . It is the capital of the arrondissement of Saint-Quentin and the seat of the municipal association of Saint-Quentinois .
With 53,816 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), Saint-Quentin is also the largest municipality in the Aisne department, an important industrial and commercial center as well as a major national transport hub.
geography
The municipality is located on the Somme River and the Canal de Saint-Quentin , which runs parallel here and creates a navigable connection between the Scheldt and Oise valleys .
history
Under the name Augusta Viromanduorum , Saint-Quentin was the capital of the Celtic Viromandu in Roman times .
During the Italian wars , the battle of Saint-Quentin took place here on August 10, 1557 , which ended in a victory for the Spanish.
Saint-Quentin had a tram between 1908 and 1956 .
During the Franco-Prussian War , the battle of Saint-Quentin between German and French troops took place on January 19, 1871 , which ended with the French withdrawing.
During the First World War , the German advance was halted on August 29, 1914 at the Battle of St. Quentin . The place was part of the Siegfried Line in the further course of the war . The headquarters were also located there for a time. After the war, in which 70 percent of the buildings were destroyed, the city was rebuilt in Art Deco under the direction of the architect Louis Guindez .
"St. Quentin, whose towering cathedral roof can be seen over the ridge on the left like a mighty roof, burned during the night. "
During the Second World War the city was an important garrison of the Wehrmacht and housed a. a. a Kriegsgefangenenlager and an air base of the Air Force . In the first half of June 1940 , the "Aérodrome de Saint-Quentin-Roupy" located to the south-west, which still exists today, initially housed the staff of Jagdgeschwader 27 , which was equipped with Bf 109E , for a few days . To the south of it there was another military airfield , the “Clastres-Saint-Simon airfield” , which was also used by the Germans in 1943/44.
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2015 |
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| Residents | 61,071 | 64.196 | 67,243 | 63,567 | 60,644 | 59,049 | 56,471 | 55,649 |
Attractions
- Saint-Quentin Basilica , 12th-15th centuries
- Hôtel de ville (town hall), facade in late Gothic flamboyant style completed in 1509, interior later expanded: Entrance hall neo-Gothic in 1865, upper floor in Art Deco style 20th century, tower with carillon
- Porte des Canonniers
- Station building
- Musée des papillons (butterfly museum)
- Musée Lecuyer (French painting mainly from the 19th and early 20th centuries, pastels by Maurice-Quentin De La Tour, handicrafts)
- Champs Elysées, park in the western part of the ramparts
- Numerous town and commercial buildings in the Art Deco style (reconstruction of the city after the First World War)
- Réserve naturelle du Marais d'Isle (nature reserve on the Somme)
- Théâtre Jean Vilar
- German war cemetery of the First World War
Twin cities
- Kaiserslautern , Germany
- San Lorenzo de El Escorial , Community of Madrid, Spain
- Rotherham , South Yorkshire, England
- Greiz , Vogtland, Germany
Personalities
- Simon of Saint-Quentin
- Josquin Desprez (≈1450–1521), composer
- Antoine Francisque (≈1570–1605), lutenist and composer
- Luc d'Achery (1609–1685), Maurinian librarian and historian
- Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704–1788), painter
- Édouard Pingret (1788–1869), painter
- Paul Brouardel (1837–1906), forensic doctor and university professor
- Hippolyte-Dominique Berteaux , (1843–1928 Paris), painter
- Léon Gustave Dehon (1843–1925), founder of the Sacred Heart Priests
- Ernest Leroux (1845–1917), bookseller and publisher
- Fernand Lematte (1850–1929), painter
- Marc Delmas (1885–1931), composer
- Amédée Ozenfant (1886–1966), painter
- André Trocmé (1901–1971), pastor, resistance fighter and peace activist
- Marcel Desprets (1906–1973), fencer
- Yves Velan (1925–2017), Swiss writer
- Maurice Dugowson (1938–1999), film director and screenwriter
- Jean-Marie Lefèvre (* 1953), poet
- Pierre Blanchard (* 1956), jazz musician
- Jean-Philippe Viret (* 1959), jazz musician
- Olivier Lenglet (* 1960), fencer
- Francis Moreau (born 1965), cyclist
- Jérôme Lavrilleux (* 1969), politician
- Delphine Gleize (* 1973), director and screenwriter
- Jérôme Thomas (* 1979), boxer
- Kafétien Gomis (* 1980), athlete
- Rudy Gobert (* 1992), basketball player
- Simon Dia (* 1992), football player
Abbots of Saint-Quentin
- Hugo, son of Charlemagne , 822–844 ( Carolingian )
- Ludwig , † 867, grandson of Charlemagne, abbot 844–867 ( Rorgonids )
- Adalhard , lay dept
economy
- MBK Industrie , manufacturer of scooters, electric scooters and bicycles
Web links
- City website
- Illustration by Frans Hogenberg from 1570: S. Quintin after the battle of Haltner is occupied with army power ... Anno domini 1557, July 27th ( digitized version )
- Historical footage of Saint-Quentin during World War I , europeanfilmgateway.eu
- History of the airfield
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yaël Debelle: Building the future - on the rubble of war. Art Deco or Gothic? Ypres and Saint-Quentin were destroyed in World War I and chose different ways out of misery. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 2, 2019, p. 46.