Decazeville is a city of the department French of the Aveyron (12) and area the Midday-Pyrenees. It was created with the XIXe century under the impulse of the Industrial revolution and owes its name with Élie Decazes, industrial founder of the factory at the origin of the city.

Its inhabitants are called the Decazevillois .

Administration

Demography

Heraldic

Mouths with two gold blast furnaces, coupled, recuperators in the center, their piping of sinople, accompanied at a peak by a gold money faith avoided, with the chief of money charged with three old lamps of minor of sand lit of mouths.

The Pilgrimage of Compostelle

Decazeville is located on the Via Podiensis of the Pèlerinage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle .
One comes from Noailhac and his vault Saint Roch. The next commune is Livinhac-le-Haut where one finds, again, a vault Saint Roch.
Of course, the stage of Decazeville (founded at the XIXe century) bore another name in the Guide of the Pilgrim of Aymeri Picaud (XIIe century).

History

The city and the name are recent: the place was called before the Room (in Occitan Salted It), which indicates to the Moyen-âge a strong house of small noblesse.
It is the coal which because the change. The Room produced some, as of the 16th century, which one exported by the Lot towards Bordeaux, but petitement.
All came from what Louis XIV and its successors, in spite of the protests of the parish, equipped their mistresses with mines. Thus, the duke Decaze (1780 - 1860) who inherited it, and in 1826, with the assistance of the polytechnician Cabrol, it created the " Collieries and Foundries of Aveyron" who were going to make of this village-street a great center sidérurgique.
Under Napoleon III, the city, grateful, took the name of Decazeville, while the great man was statufié out of toga romaine.
The apogee was reached at the beginning of the XXe century with 9.000 workers and a million tons of cast iron per annum. This activity being today declining, Decazeville diversified and developed other industries: Metallurgy, industry of wood, boiler making, production of steel tubes.

Having undergone full whip the decline of mining industry, this city comprises from now on many industrial waste lands while keeping a dependant popular character has its mining and industrial past.

The Field is known for the Grève minors decazevillois of 1961 with 1962.

The last mine definitively closed in June 2001.

Decazevillois famous and famous, of birth or adoption

• Paul Ramadier: several times minister, president of the council in 1947. Mayor of Decazeville of 1919 to 1959.
• Élie Decazes (1788-1860): chair the Council of Ministers under Louis XVIII. Founder of the city.
• François Cabrol (1793-1882): captain of the Napoleonean army at 21 years, director of the Company of the Collieries and Foundries of Aveyron creates by Decazes. Buried in Decazeville.
• Emma Calvé: Professional singer of international celebrity during the " Beautiful time ". Born in Decazeville in 1858.
• Maurice Frot (1928-2004): writer. He was also one of the founders of the Printemps of Bourges.
• Serge Mesonès (1948-2001): Football or of national level.
• Jean-Claude Berejnoï: international player of Rugby to XV. Born in Decazeville in 1939.

Tourist monuments and places

• the city shelters the regional Musée of Géologie Pierre Vetter (of the name of its founder), especially devoted to the layers of the carboniferous period.

• Of the visits of the site of " Découverte" , old mine with open sky, are organized.
• In the church modern Notre Dame, one can admire a way of cross of the 19th century of the painter Gustave Moreau.

Events

A intercontinental Festival of Fireworks is organized at the end of July on the site of the old mine with open sky (called Découverte).

Twinnings

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External bonds

• Tourist office of Decazeville
• Decazeville on the site of the national geographical Institute
• Decazeville on the site of INSEE
• Decazeville on the site of Quid
• Localization of Decazeville on a chart of France and communes bordering
• Plane on Decazeville on Mapquest
• Constructions of Décazeville in 3D on GE

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