Suresnes
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region | Île-de-France | |
Department | Hauts-de-Seine | |
Arrondissement | Nanterre | |
Canton | Nanterre-2 | |
Community association |
Métropole du Grand Paris and Paris Ouest La Défense |
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Coordinates | 48 ° 52 ' N , 2 ° 14' E | |
height | 29-163 m | |
surface | 3.79 km 2 | |
Residents | 48,264 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 12,735 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 92150 | |
INSEE code | 92073 | |
Website | www.ville-suresnes.fr |
Suresnes [ sy'ʁɛn ] is a French city with 48,264 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Arrondissement of Nanterre , in the Hauts-de-Seine department of the Île-de-France region , 12 km from central Paris . The inhabitants are called Suresnois .
The municipality has been characterized by industry since the 19th century and is one of the most densely populated in Europe. Not far from numerous high-rise buildings, there is also a significant proportion of permanent residential buildings of all kinds. There is a theater, the Théâtre Jean-Vilar .
geography
Suresnes is located west of Paris, on the left of the Seine twelve kilometers from the center of Paris, on a hill, directly opposite the Bois de Boulogne , five kilometers from Nanterre and twelve kilometers from Versailles .
Suresnes is surrounded by Puteaux and Nanterre in the north, Paris in the east, Saint-Cloud in the south and Rueil-Malmaison in the west.
history
The Celts already had a place of worship at Mont Valérien . In 1844 a fortification, the Fort du Mont-Valérien , was built here. In the Franco-Prussian War there were several battles there, including the Battle of Buzenval .
From 1898 the Darracq car factory was located in Suresnes, which was taken over by Talbot-Lago in 1935 .
During the Second World War , 1008 people were executed at the fort in the German name . On June 18, 1960, President Charles de Gaulle inaugurated a memorial, the Mémorial National de la France combattante . A US armed forces memorial to victims of World War I is also located here today.
In 1974, during the Franco dictatorship, an exile congress of the Spanish socialist PSOE took place in Suresnes, at which the future Prime Minister Felipe González was elected Secretary General .
Architectural monuments
See: List of the Monuments historiques in Suresnes
hospital
Personalities
Town twinning
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Villach , Austria, since 1992
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Hann. Münden , Germany, since 1960
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Kragujevac , Serbia, since 1967
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Colmenar Viejo , Spain, since 1999
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Cholon , Israel, since 1961
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Hackney , United Kingdom, since 1962
Suresnes also maintains a partnership with the district of Göttingen , Germany.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes des Hauts-de-Seine. Flohic Éditions, 2nd edition, Charenton-le-Pont 1993, ISBN 2-908958-95-3 , pp. 376-391.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fernando Jauregui: Aquellos jóvenes de Suresnes. elpais.com, October 14, 1984, accessed May 29, 2014
- ↑ a b c d e f French atlas of decentralized cooperation and other external . Retrieved on February 1, 2013. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.