Villejuif
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| region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Val-de-Marne | |
| Arrondissement | L'Haÿ-les-Roses | |
| Canton | Villejuif (main town) | |
| Community association |
Métropole du Grand Paris and Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre |
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 48 ' N , 2 ° 22' E | |
| height | 62-130 m | |
| surface | 5.34 km 2 | |
| Residents | 54,753 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 10,253 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 94800 | |
| INSEE code | 94076 | |
| Website | http://www.ville-villejuif.fr | |
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Villejuif is a French commune south of Paris in the department of Val-de-Marne in the region Ile-de-France .
geography
Villejuif is located about seven kilometers south of the center of Paris and is therefore part of the Parisian banlieue .
The neighboring municipalities are: Le Kremlin-Bicêtre in the north, Ivry-sur-Seine in the northeast, Vitry-sur-Seine in the east, L'Haÿ-les-Roses in the south, Cachan in the west and Arcueil in the north-west.
population
Villejuif has a population of 54,753 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), including a high proportion of immigrants - the proportion of foreigners is around 15%. The unemployment rate is around 16%. Most of the population working today is employed and active in the tertiary sector , although there is also a large workforce in the city.
| year | population |
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| 1968 | 51,120 |
| 1975 | 55,606 |
| 1982 | 52,448 |
| 1990 | 48,405 |
| 1999 | 47,384 |
| 2006 | 50,571 |
| 2011 | 55,923 |
The average property price is € 3474 per square meter and is therefore above the national average.
history
Very old traces of settlement from the Stone Age were found on the communal territory, suggesting human settlement at least 6,000 years ago. The Villejuif settlement first appeared in the historical context around the year 1000 as Villa iudaea . Today's French name is a translation of this Latin name. The origin of this name, which literally means “Jewish settlement” or “Jewish property”, has not been clearly established. The name could also refer to Villa Iuvaeus, i.e. H. "Possession of Iuvius or Iuveus", d. H. of a Gallo-Roman landowner. Villejuif remained a rural municipality until the end of the 19th century.
While the area was mainly ecclesiastical in the Middle Ages, Parisian nobles gradually acquired the area. Although Villejuif was an agricultural community, it developed into an important market town and many merchants and artists settled in the city.
After the French Revolution , the land ownership was lost and local, wealthy families settled in to pursue agriculture, gypsum mining and, later, arboriculture.
Rural Villejuif only changed after the war in 1871 . A psychiatric clinic and two other hospitals (the Paul Brousse Hospital in 1913 and the Gustave Roussy Institute ) were established. At the end of the 19th century, industrialization began and the first working-class neighborhoods emerged in the Bas-Villejuif district. This development continued especially between the two world wars and workers' settlements emerged throughout the city. As a result of the strong suburbanization of the region, the number of inhabitants subsequently increased sharply.
In April 2015, the city made international headlines for planning an Islamist terrorist attack on the Catholic Church of Saint-Cyr-Sainte-Julitte .
politics
Villejuif was, like many suburbs of Paris (banlieue rouge), a stronghold of the labor movement and during the Second World War the Resistance in Villejuif had a disproportionately large number of supporters. Villejuif has always had communist mayors since 1925 , most recently from 1999 to 2014 Claudine Cordillot.
In the 2007 presidential election in Villejuif, in contrast to the overall result, Ségolène Royal received 59.95% significantly more votes than her competitor, Nicolas Sarkozy , who was elected president ; In 2012 , the election winner François Hollande even received 68.3%. In the local elections in 2014, in which the left-wing parties lost many former strongholds, Franck Le Bohellec was elected mayor by the UMP at the head of a broad alliance.
Culture and sights
- The Gustave Roussy Institute is an internationally renowned institute in the fight against cancer; Australian singer Kylie Minogue was also treated here.
- The Paul Brousse Hospital is recognized for its work in liver transplantation.
- The "moated castle" is a structure of nine water towers in the form of champagne glasses with a total capacity of 9,000 cubic meters.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Villejuif is connected to the public transport network of the city of Paris by the Paris underground . The line 7 serves three stations on the territory of the city of Villejuif. In addition, the N7 Route , which runs south from Paris to Menton , runs through the city.
education
Town twinning
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Mirandola ( Italy ) -
Dunaújváros ( Hungary ) -
Neubrandenburg ( Germany ) -
Yambol ( Bulgaria ) -
Vila Franca de Xira ( Portugal )
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Val-de-Marne . 2nd Edition. Flohic Editions, Charenton-le-Pont 1994, ISBN 2-908958-94-5 .
- Carlos Escoda: Chroniques de Villejuif. Escalier D, Villejuif 2004. ISBN 2-9510431-2-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Die Welt : Chance Prevents Terrorist Attack, April 23, 2015, accessed on April 27, 2015.