Noisiel

Noisiel is a common French, located in the department of Seine-et-Marne and the area Île-de-France.

Its inhabitants is called Noisiéliens.

Geography

The commune is located at 20 km in the east of the center of Paris. It is served by a station of the line has the RER which connects Châtelet them Halles in a 26 minutes average.

Noisiel is flowered Ville by the National council of the Cities and Flowered Villages of France.

Communes bordering

The communes bordering are: Lognes, Torcy, Champs-sur-Marne, for the principal ones.

But there is also Émerainville (with of the Wood of the Barn), Chelles (with the top of the park) and Vaires-sur-Marne (in the north of the town hall).

Demography

History

It belongs to the Parisian suburbs and the new city of Marne-the-Valley.

In 1993, it became the chief town of a new district, made up of cantons belonging previously to the districts of Meaux and Melun, but was replaced in 1994 by Torcy.

History of the working city Menier

Since 1825, Jean-Antoine Brutus Menier, founder of the dynasty of industrialists of the same name, decides to move its factory of medicinal products, then located in full district of the Marais at Paris, on the edges of the Marne, in Noisiel, on the site of an old mill. In 1867, his/her son, Emile-Justin Menier, decide to center his factory on the production of chocolate. It is also the moment of the rise of the production and manpower of the company which pass from 50 workmen in 1856 to 325 in 1867. This growth is followed of a total reorganization of the manufacturing process within the factory. New buildings are built, in particular by the architect Jules Saulnier, all along the Marne, involving disappearance, after its repurchase of the old village. It is thus between 1860 and 1874 that the factory takes its current aspect, symbolized by the central mill.

Following his accession with the town hall in 1871 and his many land acquisitions, Emile-Justin Menier is entirely Master of the communal destinies. In 1874, near the factory, it launches the construction of 66 houses and a school complex. For that, the Menier family visits models of cities in England and takes also example on the cities of Mulhouse.

Each house in edge of street is composed of two residences independent of 64 m ² each one, including/understanding two rooms, a kitchen and a stay, as well as a garden of 300 m ² contiguous, intended for the kitchen garden, to supplement the incomes of the family. The running water does not arrive until in housing but of the terminals fountains are installed in the streets every 45 meters. Houses in heart of piece gather as for them 4 residences and as many garden-kitchen gardens. Only the houses of angles, more cossues, larger and reserved to the employees and to engineers, have toilets. The residences are rented exclusively with the personnel of the factory which cannot become owner about it. By leaving his employment, the employee must leave his dwelling. The amount of the rent is the equivalent from two to six day's works, according to the rank of the employee. 85 houses are added until 1911. On the whole, these are 311 residences which are built covering a space of 20 hectares.

The great priority is given to hygiene and health. The provision of the houses in quincunx allows a better air circulation and light. Public baths are installed near the factory just as laundrettes, an doctor's office for two doctors and a pharmacist. A very great number of equipment, properties of the factory, supplements this device: stores of provisioning (property of Menier until 1912), a refectory for the unmarried workmen, two coffee-hotel-restaurants, a school complex for girls and boys, an old people's home and the town hall.

By the plan even of her city, the Menier family shows her political commitments and ideological. The school, symbol of the rise in the working condition, is thus located at the center of the principal place of the city, while the church - whose industrialist however financed construction - is left outside the new city. Nevertheless, it is before all the factory which remains the center of the city and around which all is organized. The figure of the owner is central as the inauguration in 1898 of the statue of Emile-Justin Menier shows it, in front of the schools. In 1963, the factory, in liquidation, yields the residences, then in bad condition, with a promoter who resells them with the unit. Buildings of the chocolate factory, whose the very beautiful one and coloured mill (the first construction in the world with metal structure connects), belong today to Nestlé, which made of it the seat of its division France. The Farm of the Bush, which was the farm of the Menier family and the factories, is a national arts center today (See the site).

Religious heritage

The Saint M3edard's Day church, of Romance style and a capacity of approximately 200 faithful, is located not far from the Menier city. The religious offices are always celebrated there. The Saint-Paul center located opposite the station of the RER, acts also of church but also as center dedicated to catechism and other religious activities.

Famous characters

The dynasty of the Menier strongly impregnated the history of the city. The street names of the old center are almost only those of members of this family.

Tourist monuments and places

Of a surface of 90 hectares, the park of Noisiel is a privileged place of walk. Its large glazing bar meadows and its extend along the Marne. While following the river, one will be able to see the old Menier factory dating from the 19th century. Formerly, the park sheltered a castle which one reached while following the alley of Wood. The latter is always there, it is a large avenue pedestrian planted of limes which goes from the park to the wood of the Barn.

The curious ones will be able to also visit the Farm of the Bush. This arts center gathers a museum of modern art, a theater, a cinema and a library. Many events take place there all the year. The buildings are those of the old farm Menier and one discovers there a beautiful architecture of the 19th century.

Opened only at the time of the European Days of the inheritance, the old factory Menier, today head office of Nestlé France, the site gathers three buildings classified with the inheritance of the historic buildings, of which the Mill Saulnier, first building with apparent metal structure.

Another building with metal structure built by the engineer Gustave Eiffel is on the site.

Since the side of the factory or the Park, it is possible to join Nogent-sur-Marne while skirting the Marne until the end. The banks are arranged for the bicycle (to count 1:30) or the excursion, for a very bucolic walk.

Education

The city has 5 elementary schools, 1 college and 2 colleges:

College of Luzard (with the borders of Champs-sur-Marne, 550 pupils)
College Gerard de Nerval (close to the Station the RER, 600 pupils)
College Rene Cassin, (behind the college Gerard de Nerval, technical school, 700 pupils)

Structure

Two large called water towers Totems are used as urban reference mark. One of them is decorated of a portrait of child.

A large water tower called the tower, in the district of the park, gives a strange turn to the round not which it overhangs.

The district beside the store Super U is composed of apartment buildings which point out pyramids.

The " turn verte" is a residential building of a score of stage which with the characteristic to be round.

Markets

Close to the RER, a large market is held Wednesdays and Fridays afternoon of 15:00 with 19:00: one finds clothing, objects, food there.

Transport

Line has - Direction the Chessy-Marne the valley - Noisiel stop - Elevator available Bus 220 - Bry-on-marl

Sports

Athletics: The section Noisiel Lognes Athlétisme belongs to the Northern Entente Athletics 77, first club of the Seine and Marne.

Twinnings

References

Noisiel, the Menier chocolate factory, Seine-et-Marne , general Inventory of the monuments and the artistic richnesses of France, coll “Images of the Inheritance”, 1994,74 p.

To build the city. Town planning in Seine-et-Marne at the XXe century , Departmental records of Seine-et-Marne, coll " Memory and Documents" , 2007 (on sale with the Departmental records)

External bonds

Official site of the town of Noisiel
Noisiel and the chocolate factory Menier

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