Savigny-sur-Orge

Communes bordering

History

Sabinus or Savinus , name very widespread among Romans, is also entitled Savigny;
Be worth, name of a hamlet of the commune, is mentioned with the 4th siècle.
The city is set up in parish with the 12th siècle.

Administration

Monuments and Places

Gare of Savigny-sur-Orge
Église Saint Martin's day, built at the 12th century by monks clunisiens of Longpont-on-Barley it undergoes many transformations. It was modified at the 15th century and was devoted in 1493. With 18th, construction of the arrow of the bell-tower, With the 19th furnace bridges out of wooden are replaced by stone furnace bridges. It was entirely renovated in 1990, following an arson. It has an organ known as romantic which is the work of John Abbey, very damaged by the fire he was renovated in 1994.
Holy-Therese Church (1928 - 1939]), has a furnace bridge decorated in an original way by mosaics, as well as stained glasses of 1944 inaugurated at the time of a mass in the honor of the prisoners and deportees of the Second world war
Église Notre-Dame of hope (1963 - 1972, it was built out of concrete, in the modern district of Large-Are worth thanks to the gifts of the parishioners.
College Jean-Baptiste Corot, occupies a castle dating from the 15th end 16th century
Aqueduc of the Valve: it crosses the commune of north to the south on 2,8 km, it transports towards Paris, water of the Vanne, affluent of the Yonne, it supplies the tanks of Montsouris which supply drinking water Paris.

Important characters

Chateaubriand lived there with Pauline de Beaumont and wrote there the Genius of Christianity (1801)
Davout, marshal of Empire, prince d' Eckmühl, duke of Auerstaedt, par of France resided at it of 1802 to 1823. He was even mayor of the city, he died there in 1823.
Joe Dassin lived child there, when his parents fled the Maccarthisme, suspected of Communism.
Bernard Guyot there was born in 1945
Jean-Baptiste Launay (1768 - 1827) Directing from the Bridges from Paris, supervised the cast iron of the Pont of Arts and especially the Colonne Vendôme. It is withdrawn in the dependences of the field of Short-Revenue. It is buried in Savigny, its tomb is with the cemetery of Martinière

Infos various

the Lions of Savigny-sur-Orge is one of the more prestigious teams of Baseball of France.
First city to have taken the decision of one covers fire of 22:00 to 7:00 for the minors, at the time of the riots of November 2005 when many cars and schools were set fire to or destroyed.

External bonds

Official site
To remember the Marshal Davout

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