Varennes-Vauzelles
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| region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Department | Nièvre | |
| Arrondissement | Nevers | |
| Canton | Varennes-Vauzelles (main town) | |
| Community association | Nevers | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 5 ' N , 3 ° 8' E | |
| height | 171-270 m | |
| surface | 33.99 km 2 | |
| Residents | 9,298 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 274 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 58640 | |
| INSEE code | 58303 | |
| Website | http://www.ville-varennes-vauzelles.fr/ | |
.JPG) Saint-Sulpice church |
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Varennes-Vauzelles is a French municipality with 9298 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Nièvre in the region of Bourgogne Franche-Comté .
geography
The municipality is located in the middle of France. It is the third most populous municipality in the Nièvre department. The community belongs to the Communauté d'agglomération de Nevers .
Since 1861, the municipality has a stop at the railway Moret-Veneux-les-Sablons-Lyon-Perrache which trains of TER Bourgogne Franche-Comté the connection Cosne-sur-Loire - Nevers is operated. The shortest travel time to Paris-Bercy is around 3h30.
history
Varennes-Vauzelles was originally a rural municipality. In 1912, a company built a locomotive workshop in Vauzelles. This transformed the agricultural society into a modern industrial society. Between 1921 and 1930, 350 houses were built that became a garden city .
Since June 1940, up to 300 people were interned in the commune since June 1940 in the camp for "enemy foreigners", then called camps des travailleurs volontaires du Clos Saint-Joseph, in the abandoned Château de Vernuche, today rue Colette, including Walter Benjamin , Hans Sahl , Hermann Kesten , Hans Fittko, husband of Lisa Fittko . Benjamin planned a literary magazine "Bulletin de Vernuche. Journal des travailleurs du 54e régiment" here.
In 1969 the municipality of Varennes-les-Nevers was renamed Varennes-Vauzelles. In the 1950s and especially in the 1970s, more new settlements were built.
Demographics
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 |
| Residents | 6.363 | 8,025 | 8,552 | 10,071 | 10,602 | 10.210 | 9,439 |
age structure
21 percent of the population are 19 years old or younger. Nine percent of the population are 75 years of age or older.
Web links
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Nièvre. Volume 1, Flohic Editions, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-054-X , pp. 480-483.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.ville-varennes-vauzelles.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6&Itemid=11
- ^ Draft at Akademie der Künste Berlin , archive; Benjamin's letter quotes from the time of Vernuche to Gretel Adorno and Sylvia Beach, see online ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , with picture of the inside of the building. See also Walter Benjamin, un philosophe allemand interné dans la Nièvre
- ↑ http://www.ville-varennes-vauzelles.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7&Itemid=12 online
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 11, 2011 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.
