Tonnerre
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| region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Department | Yonne | |
| Arrondissement | Avallon | |
| Canton | Tonnerrois (main town) | |
| Community association | Le Tonnerrois en Bourgogne | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 51 ′ N , 3 ° 58 ′ E | |
| height | 129-323 m | |
| surface | 58.27 km 2 | |
| Residents | 4,575 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 79 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 89700 | |
| INSEE code | 89418 | |
| Website | www.tonnerre.fr | |
 Hotel de Ville de Tonnerre |
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Tonnerre is a French commune with 4575 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the north of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region , Yonne department . It is a member of the Communauté de communes Le Tonnerrois en Bourgogne .
location
The city is located about 35 kilometers east of Auxerre, the capital of the department . The place is on the Armançon and the Canal de Bourgogne (German: Burgundy Canal ) and on the Paris – Marseille railway line . A small harbor, which is used almost exclusively by houseboats , lies on the canal.
history
Margaret of Burgundy founded a hospice for the sick and poor in 1293 , the Hôpital Notre-Dame des Fontenilles , which later served as a model for the Hôtel-Dieu in Beaune .
Attractions
The following buildings in the municipality of Gratot are listed as historic monuments ( Monument historique ) by the French Ministry of Culture ( Ministère de la Culture ) :
- Hôtel-Dieu , medieval hospital from the 13th century. The former hospital ward with a wooden barrel vault is 91 meters long. Today changing exhibitions take place in the hall.
- Hôtel d'Uzès , town house from the 16th century. Today there is a financial institution in the building .
- The karst spring Fosse Dionne , below the Saint-Pierre church, is named after the Celtic spring goddess Divona , to whom it was consecrated. From the 18th century the spring served as a washing place; a wash house was built around it from the 16th century.
- Church Saint-Pierre in the 16th century.
Hotel Dieu de Tonnerre
Hotel d'Uzès
Wash house on the Fosse Dionne
Église Saint-Pierre de Tonnerre
Houses in Tonnerre
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Town twinning
Tonnerre maintains city partnerships with the Rhineland-Palatinate city of Montabaur (Germany), the Irish city of Nenagh and the Czech city of Dobříš .
Tonnerre maintains an annual, one-week student exchange with the city of Montabaur, in which the Collège Abel Minard on the French side and the Mons-Tabor-Gymnasium and the Anne-Frank-Realschule + on the German side.
Born in Tonnerre
- Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (1728–1810), diplomat, soldier, freemason, writer
- Jean-Baptiste Campenon (1819-1891), General and Minister of War
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hôtel Dieu de Tonnerre in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Hôtel d'Uzès in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ^ Fosse Dionne in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ^ Church of Saint-Pierre in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ^ Website Tonnerre
- ↑ Mons-Tabor-Gymnasium. Accessed January 31, 2019 .