Tavaux
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| region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Department | law | |
| Arrondissement | Dole | |
| Canton | Tavaux (main town) | |
| Community association | Grand Dole | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 3 ' N , 5 ° 25' E | |
| height | 189-197 m | |
| surface | 13.86 km 2 | |
| Residents | 3,918 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 283 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 39500 | |
| INSEE code | 39526 | |
| Website | www.ville-tavaux.fr | |
.jpg) Tavaux town hall |
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Tavaux is a French commune in the Jura department , Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region with an area of 1368 hectares and 3918 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017). The place is located on the Canal du Rhône au Rhin 3 km southwest of Dole .
history
Tavaux is located on the old trade route (now the national road N73) that leads from Besançon to Chalon-sur-Saône and was first fortified by the Romans. Remains of Gallo-Roman houses testify to a settlement that was probably destroyed in the 4th century.
The municipality is divided into the old village of Tavaux-Village and the settlement of Tavaux-Cité, a workers' settlement at the Solvay chemical plant, which was built in the 1930s. In the 1950s, the “La Mulotte” district was built between these two districts.
Buildings
There are two sacred buildings: the Saint-Gervais-et-Saint Protais church from the 19th century with wall paintings by Gowenius and the Sainte-Anne church, built in 1938/39 in the workers' estate "Tavaux-Cité".
economy
Tavaux has been the location of a large chemical plant of the Belgian Solvay group since 1928 , which developed from the processing of the salt from the nearby saltworks of Arc-et-Senans and Salins-les-Bains into soda . Today, in addition to soda, the plant produces many inorganic and organic basic chemicals as well as specialty chemicals for fluorine chemistry, chlorine chemistry and plastics .
traffic
The small Dole-Jura airport (formerly Aéroport de Dole-Tavaux ) is located on the south-eastern edge of the town .
To the east runs the Autoroute A39 (Autoroute verte) , which can be reached after a few kilometers via the D 595 and junction 5 (Dôle Center).
Parish partnership
Tavaux's partner municipality is the German municipality of Friesenheim in Baden-Württemberg.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Solvay, Tavaux site (French)
- ↑ Solvay, Products in Tavaux ( Memento of the original dated November 23, 2006 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)
