Pierrefitte-sur-Seine

Pierrefitte-sur-Seine is a commune of the Seine-Saint-Denis, located between Saint-Denis and the department of the Val-d'Oise. It belongs to the Communauté of agglomeration Plaine Commune and is the chief town of the Canton of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine.

The city counts 25.789 inhabitants with the census of 1999. The inhabitants of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine are Pierrefittoises and Pierrefittois.

Geography

The territory of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine is located at the north of Saint-Denis, with ten kilometers of Paris, on RN1. It extends mainly on the Plaine from France, but its north-western limits are consisted the buttresses of the Ridge-Finch.

A whole of small brooks are discernible on the old charts, but have they have summers buried with the wire of the history in order to combat the risks of flood while allowing the drainage of the grounds.

Communes bordering

Saint-Denis
Stains
Villetaneuse
Sarcelles in the Val-d'Oise
Montmagny in the Val-d'Oise

Transport

Pierrefitte is located close to the highways A1, A15 and A86.

It is crossed by RN1 (more than 50.000 vehicles/day) and RN 301.

Yesterday: old trams

The urbanization of Pierrefitte was strongly developed by the creation of the Gare of Pierrefitte - Stains in 1859, on the Paris line - Lille, making it possible Parisian Parisian to go to Pierrefitte, initially like vacation resort, but also like place of habitat.

Moreover, the city was served by three lines of trams at the beginning of the 20th century:

the line N°3 Town hall of Pierrefitte - Bridge of Saint Cloud of the TMEP by the Stopping (Place of the Leclerc General) and parks it Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) and the quays Right Bank, the Bridge of Saint-Ouen and the quays of the Bank droite.

This line functioned from August 27th, 1901 to May 30th, 1910

the line PC of Town hall of Pierrefitte in Porte of Clignancourt , created by the TPDS, which circulated from June 1st, 1910 to May 18th, 1936. During the fusion of the companies of trams to the seint of the STCRP of 1921, this line taken N° 65, and, in 1926, it transported 1.500.000 travellers per annum.
the line 11^b of STCRP Station of the East - Dam Pierrefitte , created on May 1st, 1922, passed by Carrefour Pleyel, the Door of Paris, the church Saint-Denis-in Estrée and the place of the Leclerc General to Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), transported 4.400.000 travellers in 1926. In approximately 1930, there were 7 departures at the rush hour and 3 in off-peak hour for the Door of Clignancourt (line 65) and there to join the subway, as well as the Place of the Republic (11^b). It took 34 minutes to make the Pierrefitte way - Door of Clignancourt.

It was removed, like the 65, on May 18th, 1936: the whole of the sector from now on was served by Autobus, then considered as more modern…

Today

August 1st The commune is served with its southern extrème by the Ligne 13 of the Parisian subway in the south and the RER D ('' Pierrefitte - Stains '') in the east.

In terms of bus, its service road is ensured by the lines like, the night by Noctilien

Tomorrow: TCSP RN1

The project of tyred Tram, Saint-Denis - Garges-Sarcelles says TCSP RN1 ( for Public transport on exclusive right of way of the RN-1 ), is envisaged on the main axis of the city, between gone of Saint Denis and the Gare of Garges - Sarcelles. It should be brought into service in 2010-2011.

According to the project of SDRIF made public on November 15th, 2006, it could be prolonged in the long term with Garges-lès-Gonesse.

The zone of the Tartar

The zone of the Tartar is a sector a long time forsaken sirué with the borders of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, Stains and Saint-Denis, occupied in particular by market-gardeners and working gardens, served by the Pavé of Amiens which will be restructured soon by the General advice within the framework of the project of prolongation of the RD 28.

Its installation was considered of long time by the intercommunity association of the Tartar, which was dissolves when Stains integrated Plaine Commune in 2004. This EPCI has from now on the competence of the installation of the whole of this territory.

The objectives of installation of this space of almost 110 hectares are the following:

To accompany the projects existing: the extension of the University Paris 8 (sports equipment), the establishment of the Public records, the projects of RD28 and the future pole parks Tangential North
Valoriser the economic activity by seeking the best localizations taking into consideration local need, in particular the reception of PME/PMI and artisanal companies, and the land offer available.
To consolidate the habitat in a preoccupation of diversification of the offer and an accompaniment of the operations of heavy reorganization of the inheritance.
To develop an environmental and landscape dimension sector in a network of exchanges on a Plaine Commune scale and Department.

Center of the French Public records

In March 2004, the president of the Republic Jacques Chirac announced that the new complex of the Public records would be built in the zone of the Tartar.

This site was retained because of the land availability, but also because of its service road by the subway station of Saint-Denis - University on the Ligne 13 of the Parisian subway and the proximity of the universities of Saint-Denis and Villetaneuse

The building, designed by the architect Massimiliano Fuksas, of a storage capacity of 320 kilometers linear, will accommodate 400 people approximately (enquiring, teaching, student, genealogists…) each day.

The creation of this center is estimated at 119 M€ and the delivery of the new building is planned for 2009.

History

August 1st

Heraldic

Etymology

Drawing its name from Latin Petra ficta (stone solidified on the ground or Menhir), the town of Pierrefitte on the Seine, ground of vineyards, is a territory with the thousand-year-old history.

The Middle Ages at the XVIIIe century

Property of the Abbey of Saint-Denis at the 9th century, it was partly destroyed at the 15th century, during the Guerre One hundred Year old, then bombarded and devastated during that of 1870.

At the 18th century, Pierrefitte is a village of farmers and carriers, who exploit the Gypse stone with Plâtre of the buttresses of the Ridge-Finch.

The XIXe century

In 1856, the line is served by the Railroad of Paris with Creil, which makes it possible the town of become a place of small holiday for the Parisian easy ones.

In 1896, Pierrefitte is a borough of 2468 inhabitants whose economic activity is summarized with two companies, one of wall coverings, known as Lincrusta Walton , occupying 40 workmen and the other of material of railroad and occupying 30 workmen, for which it is necessary to add a house of wholesale grocer. Agriculture is devoted to the market-gardening culture and the Horticulture, which replaced the manufacture of the wine, the young vines having disappeared little by little.

The borough then consists of 383 houses (including 51 of two stages and 5 of three floors and more) constituting 717 residences, like 32 workshops and 47 stores or shops.

Demography

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Administration

The city is founding member since 2000 of the Communauté of agglomeration Plaine Commune.

List mayors

Sites and monuments

the Église Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais was built by the Lequeux architect in 1857. However, the baptismal font of 12th and 13th century comes from the former church. The Bell was offered by the Impératrice Eugenie.

the Église Holy-Therese of Joncherolles was built in 1960 by the architect Paul-Marie Vilmont

Contemporary architecture

The district of the poets