Gerland

Gerland is a district of Lyon, located along the the Rhone, in the south-west of the city, in the 7th district. The district, delimited in north and the east by the ways of railroads, was also called the Fly , but this expression is used little nowadays, except for the deposit the SNCF and the cemetery Jew. The district is marked throughout its history by strong urban changes, these upheavals, sensitive to the XXe century and still today, make the remarkable specificity of this site.

History

The beginning of the XXe century: Industrialization

Gerland was a long time an industrial district, little densément populated. At the 19th century, a factory of Vitriol was established along the Rhone, in a district called since the Sulphuric-acid works , now occupied by the army (the general headquarter brother). The urbanization was done per successive periods, at the 20th century. At the beginning of the century, one owes with Tony Garnier the realization of the slaughter-houses, initially intended for the World Fair of 1914, become today the Halle Tony Garnier , then Stade of Gerland, appointed stage of the Olympique Lyonese. Some HLM, whose city garden designed by the architects Robert and Cholat, were created in the Années 1920. The progressive damming up made it possible to release from immense grounds, formerly occupied by marrais and by multitudes of brooks (flies), they left little by little place to the industrial activities.

After War: Modernization

Until in the years 1950, the south of Gerland was occupied by Shantytowns, then demolished under Pradel. It is necessary to await the end of the second world war to see the complete construction of a dam along the Rhone, it made it possible definitively to stop the many floods which took part for a long time in the insalubrity of the district. The sport hall is built in 1962 and the swimming pool of Gerland in the Années 1960. The beginning of the Années 1970 sees the creation of many residential whole in particular between the Pasteur bridge and the Frère general headquarter close to the banks of the Rhone. Following an international mobilization, the Grande Halle is saved destruction and is registered of office on the list of the Historic buildings. There remains of the slaughter-houses only two small houses, of which one is occupied by the library of Gerland, and an arch. However the Grande Halle , famous Market Tony Garnier, was left with the abandonment of 1975 to 1988.

Years 80,90: A new breath

The urbanization took again in an intense way in the Années 1980, with the construction of a pole of teaching and research, of which the National university of Lyon (removal of the ENS Saint-Cloud in 1987). It into 1985 that was born the first phase from the park from the banks from the Rhone, organized around the Z.A.C (Reach development concerted) of the same name, and the Z.A.C of the Central district (place of the Houses) frame in the place of the slaughter-houses (demolished in 1975 and transferred to Corbas). The head office of Mérieux, as 2 hotels of 350 rooms are built in 1984. The same year, the capacity of the stage of Gerland is changed to 44 0000 places per Rene Gagès. The international school residence, founded in 1992, belonged to the ambitious project of the " Scientifique" boulevard; , it accommodates 2000 pupils of the primary education to the baccalaureat of which the half is of foreign origin and also makes it possible to increase the surface of the park of the banks of the Rhone. Little by little the middle-classes replace the popular classes, and the residences the factories and warehouses.

Gerland today: A district under development full

The beginning of the XIXe century sees the arrival of the National university letters and social sciences (Removal of the ENS Fontenay in 2000), as well as many residences and trade and a large city park. Gerland is connected to Share-God by the line B of the subway since 2000 with the stations Jean Macé, Place Jean Jaurès, Debourg and Stade of Gerland. In 2001 an appendix of the university Claude Bernard Lyon 1 settles along the avenue Tony Garnier, avenue of which, pushes since ten years, offices and laboratories within the framework of the creation of a Technopôle centered around activities related to the Life sciences. The urban great project of the Z.A.C Bon Milk is one of the symbols of the current vitality of this district which knows today more and more a phenomenon of Gentrification, in spite of the risk of impoverishment of part of Gerland. The activities of high technologies, teaching and leisures tend to transform the district into a place of excellence as regards quality of life. Its immediate proximity with the new district of the junction will also have an major impact.

Services

Religious buildings

  • the Notre-Dame church of the Angels built at the end of the XIXe century has a style neogothic

  • the church Saint-Anthony de Gerland built in 1934
  • Couvent of the Repairing Worship built in 1996

Teaching

Gallery

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