Saint-Maur-of-Ditches

See also: Saint-Maur

Saint-Maur-of-Ditches is a French city of the Île-de-France and department of the the Valley-of-Marne. Located in the south-eastern suburbs of Paris, it is almost entirely surrounded by a loop of the Marne.

History

A Abbaye was built in 639 on the territory of the future commune of Saint-Maur. It took the name of “Saint-Pierre of the Ditch” thus referring to the relief of the place which is very sloping until the Marne. In 868, the abbey collected the Relique S of Saint Maur. A first miracle took place at the 12th century, which encouraged the Moine S to change the name of the Abbaye which became “Saint-Maur-of-Ditches”. Others Miracle S took place and the abbey became a place of Pèlerinage comparable with Lourdes today. One came to request there of all the Europe to cure the drop or the epilepsy.

At the 13th century, one built the Saint Nicolas's Day church, in the Gothic style. At the 16th century, a castle was built with the top of the Abbaye. It belonged successively to the families of Médicis and Condé but was abandoned in the middle of the 18th century and destroyed. In September 1590, at the time of the head office of Paris, the Spaniard Alexandre Farnèse takes the city, which makes it possible to supply the capital besieged by Henri IV (Eighth war of religion).

Today, the abbey does not exist any more and left the place to a public garden in which some ruins remain, the such Rabelais tower, the Bourrières villa or of old fortifications. As for the castle, it left the place with many houses and a sub-station of EDF.

Under the Revolution the city took the name of the Alive-on-Marne.

In 1859, Saint-Maur is connected to Paris thanks to a line of train: the line of the Bastille. It made it possible to Parisian to be diverted in the Guinguette S of edges of the Marne. This line continued to be exploited by the SNCF until the December 12th 1969, date on which the line was yielded to the RATP. the RER has had been born. This line serves Saint-Maur-of-Ditches thanks to 4 stations: Saint-Maur-Creteil, the park of Saint-Maur, Champigny-sur-Marne and the Game preserve-Chennevières.

The city was initially made up of two distinct villages, Saint-Maur itself and Game preserve-Saint-Hilaire. The distinction between these two villages remains through two offices postal distributers and code: 94100 (Saint-Maur) and 94210 (the Game preserve).

Geography

Saint-Maur is almost entirely surrounded by a loop of the Marne, crossed by five bridges: the bridge of the Release (in the past of the Small Park), the bridge of Champigny, the bridge of Chennevières, the bridge of Bonneuil, the Bridge of Creteil.

Today, Saint-Maur is divided into 8 villages:

  • Old Saint-Maur (place of Weapons, Teilhard College of Chardin, abbey…)
  • Holy Maur- Creteil (the Holy station RER Maur-Creteil, College Marcellin Berthelot, college of Arsonval, residence HLM of the bridge of Creteil…)
  • the Saint-Maur Park (station the RER the Park of Saint-Maur, Chéron stage, Brossolette swimming pool, place of the Chestnut trees, places Limes…)
  • Adamville (place Kennedy, town hall, theater, academy, library, cinema the Lido…)
  • Champignol (station the RER Champigny…)
  • the Game preserve Saint-Hilaire (station the RER the Game preserve-Chennevières, place of the Market…)
  • the Mulberry trees (place of Molènes…)
  • the Magpie (stage of the Crows, swimming pool Duckling…)

The conservatory of Saint-Maur is a Conservatoire with regional radiation among most famous of the Paris region.

The place of the Chestnut trees offers the characteristic to be the larger second places area Île-de-France after the Place of the Harmony. One finds there in his center the Notre-Dame church of the Rosary.

There exists a network small Entreprise S rather dense, especially in the south of the city.

Artists of Saint-Maur

Personalities related to the commune

Administration

The city is divided into three cantons:
  • the canton of Saint-Maur-of-Ditch-West account 24  472 inhabitants;
  • the canton of Saint-Maur-of-Ditch-Center account 29  686 inhabitants;
  • the canton of Saint-Maur it Game preserve account 18  911 inhabitants.

These the last two cantons belong to the 1 {{era}} district of the Valley-of-Marne while the canton of Saint-Maur-of-Ditch-West is attached to the 7 {{E}} district.

The town hall of the city is directed since 1977 by Mr. Jean-Louis Beaumont.

Demography

2004: estimate INSEE exit of the annual inquiries of census of 2004 and 2005

Twinnings

Heraldic

Blazon of the town of Saint-Maur-of-Ditches:
“Of azure to the gold band charged with a twisted eel of the field accompanied as a chief by three flowers by gold lily, to the stick of mouths perished in band, and of a crown of spines locking up word PAX overcome of a flower of lily and supported of three nails, the money whole. ”

Public transport

Saint Maur is served by the RER has with the stops:
  • Gare the RER has Saint-Maur Creteil
  • Gare the RER has the park of Saint-Maur
  • Gare the RER has Champigny
  • Gare the RER has the Game preserve Chennevières

See too

External bonds

  • Town of Saint Maur

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