Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais)

See also: Saint-Omer

Saint-Omer is a common French, located in the department of the Pas-de-Calais and the area Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Its inhabitants is called Audomarois.

Currency

Faithful audomarenses

Geography

The city is crossed by the Aa. The Sithieu mount is the point highest of the city.

History

Saint-Omer appears during the 7th century under the name of Sithiu (Sithieu or Sitdiu), around the Saint-Bertin abbey founded under the impulse of Audomar (holy Omer or Odemaars). The abbey owes its name in Bertin which worked like companion of Audomar. It is during the 10th century that the place took its current name.

With the county of Artois, it entered into 932 the possession of the counts de Flandre, and during the S the industry of fabric was flourishing there. During its period of greater prosperity, the city was in Occident the first to which the urban rights were officially granted (1127). Thereafter it had to yield to Bruges the first place for weaving. Saint-Omer was lost for the Flanders with the treaty of Bridge-at-Vendin of February 25th, 1212 and became one of the principal places of the county of Artois which had been just created. Ferrand of Portugal tried to seize the city but it was overcome with the battle of Bouvines. The city did not remain about it less on the whole within the economic network of the Netherlands from which it was officially separate.

In 1384, Saint-Omer was allocated to the dukes of Burgundy, but the peace of Nimègue (1678) definitively yielded it to France. From 1559 to 1790 the city was the seat of the diocese of Saint-Omer who was joined together in 1801 with the diocese of Arras. Between 1787 and 1795 a few thousands of patriots of the Netherlands of North took refuge in Saint-Omer or in the cities close to Béthune, Watten, Bergues, Gravelines and Dunkirk. During the first and second world war, the city twice was seriously damaged.

Heraldic

Blazon of the town of Saint-Omer: “Of mouths to the patriarchal money cross. ”

Economy

The economic life of Saint-Omer and his neighborhoods developed around water. The installation of the Marais audomarois allowed the development of activities of breeding and important Maraîchage (culture of cauliflower); it became a remarkable tourist pole today. There is also a river activity around the Aa and of the channel of Neufossé with a river port which manages the Chamber of commerce and of industry. Saint-Omer accommodates also a brewery which produces beer of Saint-Omer.

Saint-Omer is also a tertiary center and legal important: Court of Assizes of the Pas-de-Calais (where the lawsuit was in particular held of Outreau), Court of Bankruptcy, bankruptcy court.

Saint-Omer is the seat of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Saint-Omer Saint-Pol.-on-Ternoise.

Teaching

  • College and Lycée Notre-Dame of SION
  • College Alexandre Ribot
  • Training institute in Care Male nurses
  • School and college Saint-Bertin
  • private College technical Saint-Denis

Administration

Saint-Omer belongs to the Communauté of agglomeration of Saint-Omer who gathers 19 common , that is to say 65  000 inhabitants. The district, which comprises 8 cantons (list), account 153  523 inhabitants, of which 15  785 inhabitants for the northern canton and 24  039 inhabitants for the southern canton. In 1983, Jean-Jacques Delvaux is elected mayor of Saint-Omer, beating the outgoing Socialist. Born in 1942, professor of economic scenes, he will be re-elected with the first turn into 1989,1995,2001. RPR then UMP, he is in addition general adviser of the Northern canton of Saint-Omer since 1982 and was appointed 8th district of 1993 to 1997.

Les former data is not yet connues.

Demography

Famous characters

Tourist monuments and places

Saint-Omer is classified town of art and history.

  • the cathedral Notre-Dame. Modeste vault in the beginning (7th century), it was increased to become collegial between. It becomes then cathedral in 1561, after the destruction of Thérouanne by Charles Quint. It shelters the Cénotaphe holy Omer, a table of Rubens representing the Deposition, and also the mounting of saint Erkembode.

  • the church Saint-Denis. Gothic church of XIIIe, it shelters several monuments of which part of the tomb of Guillaume Fillastre, bishop of Thérouanne, chancellor of the Ordre of the Golden Fleece, died in 1473.
  • the Holy Sepulchre church, set up in the honor of three lords of the area having taken part in the Crusade S.
  • the ruins of the abbey Saint-Bertin, built 1325 with 1520 and destroyed by the municipality in 1830.
  • the vault of the old college of the Jesuits, Italian Renaissance style, built 1615 with 1640.
  • the old episcopal seminar, of Flemish style (pinion with step of sparrows), built 1605 with 1625.
  • law courts. The old episcopal residence, built 1680 with 1684, becomes law courts in 1795 during the French revolution.
  • old the General hospital, built in 1702 by Louis-Alphonse de Valbelle, bishop of Saint-Omer named by Louis XIV, within Bernard Joseph de Neufville.
  • the public garden, of the architect Guinoiseau (20th century), located in the ditches of the fortifications of Vauban.
  • the district of the High-bridge, old market-gardening district with typical frontages, crossed by the Aa channeled.

Not far from Saint-Omer are:

Historic buildings

  • the museum of the hotel Sandelin is installed in the old hotel Sandelin Ancienne dining room; two living rooms making him continuation (cad. B 698,699): classification by decree of July 7th, 1955; Principal gate and walls confining it; frontages and roofs of the buildings surrounding the main courtyard; ground of the main courtyard; posterior frontage and corresponding roof; ground of the garden; frontages and roofs of the buildings giving on the street of Theil-Cheix-in Estange (cad. B 698,699): inscription by decree of May 2nd, 1957

  • Old bailliage Frontage and roof on street: inscription by decree of February 25th, 1948

  • Old college of the English Jesuits Frontages on street and court and roofs of the wing of the building in edge of the street Saint-Bertin: classification by decree of August 13rd, 1930

  • Old college of the Walloon Jesuits Old church (vault of the college): classification by decree of July 11th, 1942; Frontages and roofs of the buildings of the S; arched corridor and staircase with its cage of the building of the 18th century (cad. AT 425): inscription by decree of February 7th, 1977

  • Old Midsummer's Day hospital frontages and roofs on the street of Wissocq, old the flégard and the court; the vault entirely; the linen room located at the ground floor of the building Saint-François (cad. AB 265): inscription by decree of February 26th, 2001

  • episcopal Palate (old): inscription by decree of June 18th, 1946

  • Old episcopal seminar: Seminar, except classified frontages and roofs (cad. AV 39): inscription by decree of May 21st, 1947; Frontages and roofs (cad. AV 39): classification by decree of February 7th, 1977

  • Abbey of Saint-Bertin (ruins of old): classification by list of 1840

  • Old cathedral, currently Notre-Dame church: classification by list of 1840

  • Church Saint-Denis (cad. AT 273): classification by decree of January 26th, 1989

  • Church the Holy Sepulchre (cad. AC 384): classification by decree of May 7th, 1982

  • Holy-Aldegonde Fountain (cad. AT 120): classification by decree of October 26th, 1981

  • Station (cad. AD 387): inscription by decree of December 28th, 1984

  • General hospital Frontages and roofs on street, main courtyard and court of service; gate of access to the court of service: inscription by decree of April 23rd, 1947

  • Hotel of Berghes Frontages and roofs; living room at the ground floor and two rooms on the first floor with their decoration (cad. AT 240): inscription by decree of January 20th, 1976

  • Town hall - Theater Frontages and roofs; hall and main staircase; room of theater (cad. AB 1): inscription by decree of May 17th, 1977

  • Real 5 place Victor-Hugo; 1 rue Sainte-Aldegonde Façade on the place (cad. AT 119): inscription by decree of October 26th, 1981

  • Store with powder of the 17th century and remainders of the wall of protection built in the South of the building (cad. BC 497,498): inscription by decree of April 27th, 1990

  • 7 rue Henri-Dupuis Façade House and roof on street: inscription by decree of February 25th, 1948

  • 5 rue Henri-Dupuis Façade House and roof on street: inscription by decree of February 25th, 1948

  • 136 rue de Dunkerque Façade House and roof on street (cad. AC 250): inscription by decree of March 20th, 1986

  • House known as Of the Three Roys 27 rue de l'Ecusserie Façades and roofs: inscription by decree of December 2nd, 1946

  • House of the 18th century street Martel Frontage and roof: inscription by decree of February 25th, 1948

  • House with 29 rue du Soleil pinion: inscription by decree of January 22nd, 1988

  • the mound castrale, with its gate of access

  • the old prison with its gate (cad. AT 80): inscription by decree of April 30th, 2003

Information resulting from: Databases Ministry for the culture

Twinnings



See too

  • Giant of North

External bonds

  • Official site of the town of Saint-Omer
  • Site devoted exlusivement to the cathedral of Saint-Omer
  • Site devoted to Saint Omer and to the marsh audomarois
  • Audowiki, the history of Audomarois
  • the official site of the Town of Saint-Omer
  • Audomarois online
  • Historique of the aerodrome of the plate of the Heathers
  • Leave to discovered Saint Omer and of its marsh
  • Découvrez the most beautiful regional Gothic monument

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