Illkirch-Graffenstaden

Illkirch-Graffenstaden () is a common French located in the department of the the Low-Rhine and the area Alsace. Its inhabitant name the Illkirchois . There is no name for the inhabitants of Graffenstaden.

Durant the period of fastening of the Alsace-Lorraine to the German Empire (1871 - 1918), the commune was called Illkirch-Grafenstaden (note F in less). This name is always used in German.

It should be noted that formerly, Illkirch and Graffenstaden were two distinct villages.

C' is a city now dynamic proposing many activities (culture, kayak, horsemanship, scouting, failures…), in particular in summer. It contains the center of traumatology of CUS and also accommodates the Tramway.

Elle coupled with Strasbourg - Meinau, Ostwald like with Geispolsheim and is crossed by the river of the Ill.

De many places of the city and its surroundings (Ostwald in particular) were exploited by careers. Quantity of lakes there is thus found. Let us quote the Lake Achard, Baggersee, the career behind strong Urich (still under operation) and the Gerig pond of Ostwald.

Illkirch is often used to name the city simply.

Geography

Illkirch-Graffenstaden, located in the southern suburbs of Strasbourg, is member of the Urban community of Strasbourg (CUS). It is the third city of the CUS from the number of its inhabitants (approximately 25  000), and the fourth of the Low-Rhine.

Elle extends on 22,21  km ². It is located generally at the east of the Ill, which joined the the Rhine downstream a few kilometers, in Strasbourg. The commune is also crossed north in the south by the Canal of the Rhone in the Rhine.

History

Illkirch-Graffenstaden was founded at the time of the Francs. The exact date remains difficult to determine. The common one knew several names during its histoire : Ellofanum (720), Illechilechen (826), Illenkirche (845), Illekiriche (920), Illachirecha (1163), Illenkirchen (1172) and finally Illkirch which was maintained until our days. The name is due to a church ( Kirche in German) which would have been built at the edge of the Ill.

Autrefois, part of the city was vigneronne (cf street of the Vines).

Pour more information, please consult the paragraph Histoire of the article of the town of Ostwald.

Graffenstaden was a village contiguous to Illkirch. For economic reasons, the two communes were unified (between 1790 and 1794). The delimitations of Graffenstaden compared to Illkirch are less and less known.

Après the First World War, the principal industry of the city was the Alsatian Société of Mechanical engineering (SACM) which manufactured machine tools and engines. Remain still today in very restricted company Huron , manufacturing modern machine tools (Fraiseuse S) for the whole world. By far the greatest part of the large factory, “ Onseri fobrik ” (Our factory), became a shopping mall, agencies and even of allotments.

Nowadays, because of the decline of this sector due to modernization and of the imports, Illkirch-Graffenstaden rather develops the tertiary sector and the services.

Economy

Un technopolis specialized in the Biotechnology S and information technologies (but one also finds there other branches of industry) is located at Illkirch-Graffenstaden. It includes/understands in particular a IUT, three schools of engineers (SUPINFO, ENSPS and ESBS), faculties of Pharmacie and Informatique of Strasbourg, as well as many private and public laboratories and many companies, like Puma, Kodak, Unilog (has LogicaCMG Company), and Air France. Illkirch also accommodates a building of Alcatel (now Alcatel-Lucent) of an usable surface of 67000  m ² since 1988, very close to the pole of innovation.

Administration

Demography

Cultural equipment and leisures

  • Illiade , current cultural pole of Illkirch: a building where spectacles are held, theaters, concerts, conferences, dances, festivals, exposures, films etc Its name is a word game with the first syllable of the name of its city, “ill”, or the river crossing it, the Ill (passing behind Illiade), and the Iliade of Homère. Not to confuse with the Odyssey of Strasbourg, a cinema promoting the culture (the Odyssey of Homère).

  • the media library , within the cultural pole of Illiade. It offers to the public books (Romance and documentary), cartoons, CD, DVD, re-examined etc like several terminals of listening and the cabins of self-tuition (training of languages, office automation…).

  • the park Friedel , free mini-zoo allowing the direct contact with the animals

  • riding school , canine center , pigeon club

  • recreational center Muhlegel , which proposes several activities (horsemanship, swimming, failures…) bound for young people during the school holidays

  • scouting (scouts like scouts)

Teaching and research

  • vocational schools : graphic arts, hotel trade, building, design

  • faculty of pharmacy and faculty of data processing dependant on the University Louis Pasteur

  • SUPINFO (university of data processing, international establishment private)

  • IUT (data-processing academic institute of technology, dies, technique of marketing, information-communication, chemistry, civil engineering)

  • RESULTING (international space university, in French international university of space)

  • ENSPS (3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of physics of Strasbourg)

  • ESBS (university of biotechnology of Strasbourg)

  • CNAM (conservatory national of arts and trades)

  • IGBMC (institute of genetics and molecular biology and cellular)

  • EREA (regional establishment of adapted teaching)

The majority of faculties are at the campus of Illkirch.

Lien external: http://www-igbmc.u-strasbg.fr/

Services

  • Centr' Ill , shopping mall built on the industrial waste lands of the old factory SACM ¹.

  • le shopping mall of Baggersee

  • center commercial the Watchtower, in Geispolsheim, near Illkirch.

  • bureau of police force and gendarmerie

  • sport: grounds (football, Rugby, tennis, golf and minis), gymnasia (including one pertaining to SIG, team of basketball of Strasbourg Illkirch-Graffenstaden , the Lixenbuhl sports complex beside the gymnasium of the Gutenberg college, gymnasium of the college of the reeds, gymnasium and ground near the college of the park), swimming pool of Hardt, proposals for many activities (Muhlegel recreational center)

  • 1 {{er}} regiment of the genius (barracks)

  • center of traumatology (dependant on Strasbourg)

  • la city is crossed by many cycle tracks

Principal companies

  • Alcatel (telecommunication)

  • Huron , manufacturing modern machine tools (Milling machine S)   ; remain large factory SACM ¹, reconverted today in shopping mall, residences and regrouping of agencies.

¹   SACM  : Alsatian company of mechanical engineering (not to be confused with the SCAM, multi-media Civil society of the authors)

Historical monuments and places

  • war memorial of the city during the war , place of the General de Gaulle

  • the Extremely Uhrich , dating from the occupation of 1871-1918 (of the war free-Prussian at the end of the First World War)

  • blockhouse and other defensive constructions , along the Channel of the Rhone in the Rhine, dating from the German occupation of 1940-1944 (second world war)

Ne is not mentioned general churches, temples, cemeteries, schools, medical establishments, natural pharmacies, laboratories, places, restaurants, joint undertakings (such La Poste), industrial parks, careers, hotels etc.

Transport

  • Sept bus (lines 2,7,62,63,65,66,211, for about thirty stations in Illkirch) and a shuttle joining the international airport of Strasbourg to Entzheim crossing the city ensure transport.

  • Le tram of CUS penetrates significantly in the city (5 stations are in the city).

These two means of transport have several points of correspondence between them.

Festivals and animations

  • festivals of the Ill   ; music, dance and spectacle, topics on foreign countries, invitation of the cities and close villages, plays of sound and lights, representations artistic, restoration and fires of artifices  ; two days (at the end of June - at the beginning of July)   ; course of Illiade

  • festival of July 14th   ; military procession on the road of Lyon, glass of the friendship, restoration, music, dance (the 14), fireworks, restoration, its and light, music and ball in Illiade the day before (because of the competition of Strasbourg)

  • festival of the music   ; June 21st   ; many places in the city

  • festival of the people   ; restoration of specialities of various countries and areas in September   ; variable places (Libermann city, Illiade, carpark of the College of the Reeds)

  • fire of Midsummer's Day   ; to rough-hew, Country music and restoration traditionally the day of the Saint-Jean-Baptist on the football field Lixenbuhl (in the past court of the Saint-Joseph vault), organized by the scouts of the group Henry de Bournazel, 1st Graffenstaden

  • gone of Christmas ( Chriskindelsmarik - Gone of child-Christ ) at the end of November - at the beginning of December (because of the strong competition of Strasbourg) on the square of the church Saint-Symphorien

  • cinéma in the open air in summer in various places (Libermann district, Lixenbuhl school…)

  • autres small animations all the year, in particular in summer (annual stock sale, Johrmarik - market of the year -, Messti - festival forraine -… or conferences etc)

Price

  • national trophy Éco-Mayors (ecology)
  • flowered city

Others

  • newspaper of the commune: Infograff (free)
  • bulletin of the festivities (free)

Personalities related to the commune

  • Politicians

    • François Joseph de Klinglin, royal lender

  • Sportifs

    • Gerard Engraves, international handballer selected in team of France,
    • Mehdi Baala, Olympic runner

See too

External bonds

  • Official site of the town of Illkirch-Graffenstaden
  • Illkirch-Graffenstaden on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Illkirch-Graffenstaden on the site of INSEE
  • Illkirch-Graffenstaden on the site of Quid
  • Illiade
  • History of Illkirch-Graffenstaden
  • the Community Media library " MSud"

Photographs

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