Puiseux-Pontoise

Puiseux-Pontoise is a common French, located in the department of the Val-d'Oise and the area Île-de-France. Its inhabitants is called Puiséen () S.

Geography

The commune of Puiseux-Pontoise is smallest of the agglomeration of Cergy-Pontoise, with 422 inhabitants. It is located at approximately 30 km in the North-West of Paris.

History

The name of Puiseux-Pontoise comes from Latin puteolum , well.

Located on the Jules-César roadway, Roman way of Lutèce to Lillebonne (close to the Harbor), a small agglomeration develops, its population probably being used as relay, with some farms. Its activity remains primarily agricultural, and this until the 19th century. A small industrial activity develops to with it then: a beet alcohol distilling which disappeared only recently, and an important brickyard, reconverted nowadays in construction material factory. But its radical evolution arrives during the years 1960: indeed, the village is integrated into the city-news in construction of Cergy-Pontoise. The village and its two hamlets (the Brickyard and the Garden-center) were taken in the dynamics of the new city primarily at the end of the years 1980. The arable lands in majority disappeared, the population is not more completely rural, from public equipment emerged from ground. Great work undertaken as of this time (total repair of the network of drinking water and cleansing, hiding of the electric lines and telephone, launching of the programs of allotments) made it possible to transform " carefully " the commune, which remains a village while profiting from the equipment intended for the population: a sports complex, a new school of four classes, a town hall increased with its room of the council, a village hall.

This transformation of the commune was done with the assistance of the SAN for construction of the equipment, and with that of the EPA to establish some corresponding economic activities and their employment; the new activities are shared today between the industrial activities, commercial, of services and artisanal, thus creating a good balance.

This deep change of the village was done with the co-operation of a vast majority of the population, which remains attached to the roots of the commune while living well her integration in the agglomeration of Cergy-Pontoise.

The commune accommodates on its territory the inter-commune cemetery of Cergy-Pontoise.

Administration

The common one belongs to the jurisdiction of authority, of great authority as well as trade of Pontoise.

Demography

Monuments and places of visit

the church Saint-Pierre-and-Saint-Paul goes back to the 13th century, but was very modified in 1893, after nearly one century of abandonment. It has a cruciform plan and a short nave of origin. The chorus dates from the 13th century and ends in a typical flat bedside of the churches Vexin oises; the transept and the nave date from the 19th century, the square bell-tower of the 16th century is capped as a bâtière and is opened on her four bay faces broad in tierce point.

See too

Internal bonds

Notes, sources and references

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