Décines-Charpieu

Décines-Charpieu is a common French, located in the department the Rhone and the area the Rhone-Alps.

The inhabitants of Décines-Charpieu are called the Décinois .

Geography

The city is located at the edge of the Réservoir of Large-Broad the.

Communes bordering: Chassieu - Bron - Villeurbanne - Vaulx-in-Vellum - Meyzieu.

The commune of Décines-Charpieu is member of the Grand Lyon (Urban community of Lyon, created in 1969).

History

December 29th 1967 Décines-Charpieu (Isere) is attached to the Département of the Rhone.

The commune of Décines-Charpieu is located in the middle of the old country of Vellum, as a whole called " plain of Lyon" , which belongs geographically to the Bas-Dauphiné. Its relief was modelled by the glaciations of the quaternary era, which covered all the area ranging between the Alps and the confluence with the Rhone and the Saone, leaving traces in the landscape, in the form of moraines (hillocks of Charpieu, of Mollard) and of gravel and silts. The block of Pierre-Chip granite, length of approximately four meters, which is now on the place of Stepanavan, with Silk-Montaberlet, constitutes one of the witnesses of these glaciations, which probably erased any trace of a hypothetical former presence.

This presence does not seem to be able to be locatable before the final Neolithic era (2 500 before J.C.) or starting from old bronze (1 800 before J.C.).

It is however only starting from the Gallo-Roman establishment that a relatively important habitat is born with Décines.

At the end of the XIXe century, Décines is a rural borough, in margin of the Industrial revolution. In 1876, the common one counts 1.047 inhabitants and 60% of the active population work the ground. The local economy is directed towards the development of the market gardenings and the future of Décines seems to have to be that of a residential commune for Lyons middle-class man in holiday.

However, the arrival of the railroad (line of the East of Lyon) in 1881, and the construction of the Channel of Jonage (1895), which divides the communal territory into two parts connected by only one bridge, bring a new life to the city, the building sites having attracted many by far come workers. These changes involve the creation of new equipment: company of the firemen and post office.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Lyons industry continues its extension towards the East and reached Décines. In 1907, the Company of Films is established in Décines; this establishment is acquired, in 1912, by the Gifrer Company, which since then, manufactures there primarily medicinal products.

From 1922 to 1925, the Lyons Artificial Silk Company (S.L.S.A.) settles in Décines, where it builds a very large factory, but also a working city allowing to place a thousand of people, as well as a school, a church… By 1921 with 1931, the population increases by 328% and reaches 6.842 inhabitants. This increase is carried out in margin of the traditional agglomeration, the hill and the old village core.

The new axis of the commune is from now on the avenue Jean Jaurès. The town hall " descend" hill (construction of the new town hall in 1932). The passage of an historical center in an economic center is accompanied by a hasty growth and sometimes dispersed and disordered human establishments. The economic crisis of the Thirties stops the growth, the population slightly lowers (6 078 inhabitants with the census of 1936), but the municipality must continue communal installation, that the extension of the previous years made necessary.

Two important factories are established in 1957 and 1958 (NORMACEM and SARB), whereas the Lyons Company of Textiles (news name of S.L.S.A.) firm its doors in 1959. A few years later, its buildings, like those of the working cities, are acquired by the Rhône-Poulenc Company.

By 1954 with 1962, the population increases by 5 to 6% per annum. In 1965, Décines counts 12.849 inhabitants. In the Sixties, the first apartment buildings appear.

In 1968, Décines leaves the department of Isere for that of the Rhone, before becoming, in 1969, member of the Urban community of Lyon.

In the Seventies and Eighties, with the wire of constructions, Décines saw appearing several districts: Prainet II and its apartment buildings; Field-white, Bonneveau, the new district of Montaberlet and their houses as well as fine sands/berthodiere.

During the Nineties, the downtown area was reinforced with the construction of buildings on the street of the Republic and the place François Mitterrand. In 1999, the population of Décines rises with 24.193 inhabitants.

Since April 11th, 1992 Décines Charpieu is twinned with the Armenian city of Stepanavan and since October 6th, 2001 with the Italian city of Monsummano Terme

Administration

| align=right| 1991 with 2008 || Pierre Crédoz || PS || align=" center" | |- | align=right| 1967 with 1991 || Pierre Moutin || PS || align=" center" |

Demography

Places and monuments

Armenian Mémorial Places Release, inaugurated on June 4th, 1972 (first poses hones on Saturday, April 24, 1965)

Rue of April 24th, 1915 (ex Rue Branly), inaugurated on Saturday, April 24, 1965
Place Stepanavan, inaugurated on October 19th, 1997

Menhir of Montaberlet, or Pierre-Fitte; historic building.

Future stage of the Olympic Lyonese, envisaged on the site of Montout. Opening envisaged in 2010, to see according to the results of the dialog in progress.

the Big wide

the Park Maurice Sauthier

the Toboggan, arts center of the city

Personalities related to the commune

Jean Djorkaeff and Youri Djorkaeff, both French footballers, is two local figures of Décines-Charpieu . In April 2007, Youri assumes the chairmanship of the local football club, the UGA Décines (Armenian General union), in which his/her father and his two brothers, Denis and Micha, already were very implied.

Cédric Bardon, French footballer trained with the OL.

Maurice Sauthier, resistant décinois born on June 21st 1918 with Borough-Saint-Maurice, dead on October 30th 1958. Maurice Sauthier held with his parents, a coffee with Décines-Charpieu called the " Coffee of Gare" , which was used as letter-box between the Maquis of the plate of Crémieu and the Résistance to Lyon. He was member of the Rescuers and Avirons Décinois, and he used their buildings for hiding weapons (under the boats). Belonging to the network " Combat" , it was stopped on June 19th 1943 by the Gestapo, with the return of a mission to Bourgoin. Imprisoned to Montluc, Fresne, Compiegne, off-set to Weimar and Dora, it will return on May 12th 1945, with a very shaken health. He will die 13 years later.

Andre Brun, combatant of Resistance born on May 19th 1920 in Décines-Charpieu, escaped prisoner of a building site of youth, he became man of the maquis in Savoy, he was shot by German on May 1st 1944, he was 24 years old

Emile and Jean Louis Bertrand, combatants of Resistance

Events related to the commune

Festival data base of Décines: annual festival of Cartoon of the Lyons East site of BDécines

Décines with bicycle: Stroll family organized chaques years through urban and natural spaces of Décines.

Red Association Paperboard: To denounce the establishment of project OL LAND on the site of Montout and to exert a civic day before with the advance of the project

Twinnings

See too

Internal bonds

Common of the Rhone

External bonds

Official site of Décines
Décines-Charpieu on the site of the national geographical Institute
Décines-Charpieu on the site of INSEE

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