Sotteville-the-Rouen

Sotteville-the-Rouen is a common French, located in the department of the Seine-Maritime and the area High-Normandy.

Geography

The city is located in edge of the the Seine, on southern bank and touches with Rouen.

History

Roman Time : The site of Sotteville is on the passage of the Roman Voie connecting Rotomagus (Rouen) to L utécia (Paris) by Uggade (Caudebec-the-Tweed) and Mediolanum (Evreux). Roman vestiges were discovered in the district of Four-Ponds.
It is in the district of the Notre-Dame church of the Assumption that the city with taken birth.
1662 : The Father Barred Nicolas and Francoise Duval open a free school for the poor girls of families.
Between 1760 and 1790: The parochial registers note 3554 births - 2674 deaths - and 855 marriages. The men marry on average at 27 years and the women with 26. The life expectancy with the birth is 30 years.
industry makes its appearance with Sotteville in 1804 with the foundation of the Bertel establishments, not departure of the development of the textile. In 1843, it is the arrival of the railroad which will give to Sotteville its reason to live: the first broad outline brought into service in France is the " Paris-Rouen" (one needs 3:30 to make the way), and it concentrates in Sotteville of the installations of maintenance, repair and railway construction (the workshop of Four Ponds and the Buddicom workshop of the name of the built engine with Sotteville and which appears besides in the old blazon of the city), and later of sorting.
the city extends little by little. The center town (of the time!) constitutes itself with the construction of the Town hall (inaugurated on May 9th, 1841) just beside the Notre Dame church of the Assumption and the market which settles in front.
Second world war: From September 4th, 1939 to August 30th, 1944, 38 Bombardement S (which aimed at the strategic targets of the marshalling yard) come to disturb the rail traffic and to sow death and desolation in the city. That of the night from April 18th to 19th 1944 is most terrible. In one night, the city is devastated and it center town almost disappeared. Sotteville is released on August 31st, 1944. The assessment is heavy: 722 died, a third of the city destroyed and a damaged third.
Post-war period, the rebuilding of the city is entrusted to the Architecte - Urbaniste Marcel Lods. It creates the Green zone (called " today; Space Marcel Lods") with the site of old the Town hall. In sorry state at the end of the war, the castle of Marettes is demolished to leave room to the current Town hall. The owner of the castle, Mr Petit, had yielded part of his grounds for the construction of the hospital of Small Wood. The remainder of the field of Marettes will become it (new) place of the Town hall (place of the Market), and the Wood of Garenne, negligible preserved part of the immense wooded field of Marettes. The rebuilding quite simply moved the center town of district N.D. of the Assumption towards the new place of the Town hall. It also allowed a complete reorganization of the city. In 1960, the market is installed on the new place of the Town hall. Final point of the rebuilding, the Town hall is inaugurated in 1971.
the Industrial Park is created in 1961 between the Marshalling yard and the Seine. In 1966, the island of Jonquay (in the past island with Cherries) at summer attached to left bank to extend the industrial park. While being prolonged on the commune of Saint-Etienne-of-Rouvray, it is the greatest zone of economic activities of the agglomeration of Rouen.
In the years 1990, with the arrival of the subway, all the axes which it borrows are renovated and recomposed, with in particular the creation of the station " Hotel of Ville" on the fourth side of the place.
In the years 2000, the modernization of the city continues with the construction of the public library, the setting in light of the monuments…

Origin

The origin of the name Sotteville could be due to Henri IV which, while arriving for the first time in the city would have launched “Oh what a stupid city! ”. Another explanation, more probable , would be a deformation of “under the city”, related to the proximity of Rouen, this according to the term of subtus villam . Indeed, how to think that Henri IV would have also gone to " Sotteville-sous-le-Val " ? " Sotteville-sur-Mer " ? always by exclaiming “What a stupid city! ”.

The origin of the name Sotteville-the-Rouen is dubious still today. Sotteville would mean " under the ville" - of Latin substus villam- according to the research undertaken by Rene Duchemin. The Latin etymology would locate Sotteville as being lower than Rotomagus (Rouen), " lès-Rouen" meaning " close de".

But, according to Beaurepaire, Sotteville would come from Soti Villa , the town of Soti, a man of the North which would have given its name to the city. Which, gradually, was transformed into Sotteville.

At all events, it is along the Seine that the city initially developed in the old district of the church Notre-Dame of the Assumption and current the street Pierre Corneille, street of Paris, street Denis Papin, street Francisco Ferrer, street Littré, street Dolet and street of Eauplet.

An agglomerated population lived there as of highest antiquity. Roman vestiges testify some: burials, domestic objects, jewels, potteries, coins and medals - all of Roman time were discovered in the district of Four-Ponds, during the work undertaken for the construction of the railroad in 1842-43. The presence of these ancient objects is explained by the passage of the Roman way which went from Rotomagus (Rouen) to Lutétia (Paris) by Uggate (Caudebec-the-Tweed) and Mediolonum (Évreux).

Gradually, the city is packed. At the 11th century, Sotteville is a village extending along the way from the King (today street Pierre Corneille). It also includes/understands the Saint-Sever suburb, then known under the name of Emendreville and little inhabited. This one will have to be yielded to Rouen in 1791 per decision of the National Assembly.

Administration

Demography

Culture

Sotteville-the-Rouen accommodates every year at the end of June since 1991 the festival Viva Cité , one of the most important festivals of arts of the French street, with more than 70.000 spectators. The Workshop 231 , has in parallel for vocation to accommodate in residence of the companies of theater of street.

The Trianon Transatlantique is a theater of 300 places with varied programming (theater, song, rock'n'roll, musics of the world, etc).

The regional Funds of contemporary art of the High-Normandy area is located on the commune.

Sport

Cycling: the local club revealed some of the largest French runners, such Jacques Anquetil.

the Athlétisme is represented in Sotteville-the-Rouen, with for example the Décathlon IEN Alain Blondel (former champion of Europe of the decathlon in 1994 in Helsinki), or the middle-distance runner Fouad Chouki. The city accommodated the championships of France of athletics in July 2004, a few weeks only before the beginning of the Olympic Games of Athens.
See also: Stade sottevillais 76
the hippodrome of the Heathers closed its doors in 2005.

Places and monuments

In spite of its statute of " martyre" city; including one most of the inheritance disappeared under the bombs, Sotteville is completely worth visiting same manner as a city known as " touristique" , on the condition of knowing to observe the streets, to be interested in its history, and through that, to decipher the extraordinary adventure of the city. For example, the superb sight of the bridge of Four-Ponds (way of the Semi-Way) on the marshalling yard recalls that, even if there is prettier like landscape, it is the railway industry which made the rise of Sotteville and which makes its pride… Also walk you along the streets, a priori banal of Sotteville, you will discover pretty small houses there (often in Silex) and their pleasant garden. Do not miss either the 3 churches (Our-Lady-in-the Assomption (enlightened the night), St-Vincent-of-Paul and Our-Lady-of-Door), the avenue of July 14th and its plane trees, the district of the Botanical garden (which occurred of the Canadians), the place of Verdun with its undeniable charm (stone-built houses and sculpture with the top of the central porch representing, inter alia, the old blazon of Sotteville), the hospital of Rouvray and its park, the wood of Garenne, lung of Sotteville…

Church Our-Lady-with-the Assumption: built to replace the old church of the 12th century become too decayed. In 1881, the municipal council decided that the republican currency " Freedom Fraternité" Equality; would be placed on the frontage of the church. April 19th, 1944: The church is seriously damaged by the 17th bombardment of Sotteville, the bell-tower, reached full whip was crushed on the nave. April 9th, 1960: Blessing of work of restoration and the two new bells. Recently, the municipality clarified the church, thus offering an imposing spectacle of night.
Church Our-Lady-of-Doors: It is in an old career, in the middle of the hardly traced street of Madrillet, which will be built the 2nd church of Sotteville in this district which became populated little by little. It was bénite on October 10th, 1926, without its bell-tower. This one was blessed on October 6th, 1929, at the same time as the 3 bells. With the back of the church, discover the copy of the cave of Massabielle with Lourdes. Under the church, the crypt is devoted to the memory of the dead soldiers to the field of honor. Its commemorative stained glasses contain in medallions the portraits of dead soldiers for France.
Saint-Vincent-of-Paul Church: hutments which had been used as vault to the English soldiers was used as provisional vault. It was bénite on March 21st, 1920 and, on February 22nd, 1929 it was rolled on rails 50 meters further to leave the place to the construction of the new church. The first stone was posed on March 17th, 1929. As for all the remainder of Sotteville, the church was seriously damaged by the bombardments of the night from April 18th to 19th 1944. After restoration, it reopened in Christmas 1945.

Transport

The city is served by the Métro of Rouen and the buses of TCAR.

Celebrities

the Monk Gontard: (11th century) doctor of William the Conqueror.
Jehan de Sotteville: (14th century) Main of “works of carpentry” of the town of Rouen
Nicolas Colombel: (1644 - 1717) painter, Brace defending the girls of Jethro (1686). Principal works are exposed to the the United States, in India and France.
Jacques Anquetil (1934 - 1987), outstanding figure of the sport cyclist
Jean Jourden, racing cyclist laid off in the local club
Barred Nicolas: Monk of the convent of tiny of Rouen, born in Amiens in 1621, founded his first school with Sotteville where it came to preach a mission in 1662. Until its death, to Paris in 1686, he was concerned with develop popular education, at one time when the instruction was reserved for an elite. Béatifié in Rome the continuous on March 7th, 1999, Nicolas Barred to inspire by the thousands of teachers of the whole world. It became on September 15th, 2000 owner of the very new parish of Sotteville.
Roger Tolmer (1908-1988), painter.

See too

Common of the Seine-Maritime

External bonds

Site of the town hall
Sotteville-the-Rouen on the site of the national geographical Institute
Sotteville-the-Rouen on the site of INSEE
Sotteville-the-Rouen on the site of Quid
Localization of Sotteville-the-Rouen on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Sotteville-the-Rouen on Mapquest

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