Stains

Stains is a Ville of the Seine-Saint-Denis (93), in the area Île-de-France, member of the Communauté of agglomeration of Plaine Commune.

Its inhabitants is the Stanois (be) .

History

August 1st Stains appears under the name of Setenis at the 12th century, Sextanis or Stannis at the 15th century, Stains in France in 1492. The name could come from Stagna (submerged place) or from Pays of Sexlius , of the name of the owner to the 4th sicle.

Community set up in parish independent in 1213 per distraction of the parish of Saint-Leger, a charter of the Abbey of Saint-Denis.

Commanderie of templiers at the 13th century.
Seigniory at the 15th century:

of Jacques de Saint-Benoît, chamberlain of Louis XI;
of Nicole Chick, lawyer at the Parliament;
of Jean Ruzé, Minister for Finance of Louis XII.

Seigniory of Thou at the 16th century.
Achille de Harlay became owner at the beginning 17th century about it and made there build a castle.
Seigniory in 1740 of Benoit Dumas, director of the Company of the Indies.
During the revolution, the register of grievances of the parish claims the equality in front of the tax, the suppression of the privilege of hunting, the exemption from payment of the school and the care for the poor ones.

The industrialization of common began under the Second Empire and strongly developed during first half of the 20th century, before very strongly decreasing as from the years 1970. Stains had to suffer much from the war of 1870 which caused the destruction of the castle and the park. The site inspired Maurice Utrillo.

Geography

Common neighbors

In Seine-Saint-Denis:

In Val-d'Oise:

Garges-lès-Gonesse
Sarcelles

Transport

The city is accessible by the highway from north (left Stains).

It is served by RN 301, and at short distance of the RN1 and RN 2.

Yesterday: the tram and the Large Belt

the Paris line - Creil (the RER D acctuel) has a station which serves at the same time Pierrefitte and Stains since second half of the 19th century. In 1896, this station was served by 13 trains going on active Paris and 14 trains towards Creil, between 5 hours of the morning and midnight and half.

the Grande Belt is a line of Railroad which approximately makes the turn of Paris since 1880. It accommodated travellers until in 1939, and had a station with Stains. In 1896, this station was served by four trains per day in each direction.

a electric tram was exploited starting from June 1st 1910 between Saint-Denis and the Place of Vatry with Stains. It bore the name of line sDS of TPDS, then, after their fusion in STCRP, it was the line 79 .

The line was prolonged Stopping of Denis Saint to the Porte of the Vault on January 26th 1923, but for a weak duration: the terminus was brought back to the stopping of Denis Saint on November 5th, 1923, before the complete removal of the line on December 9th 1935.

Today

The city is served by buses the RATP following:

as well as the urban shuttle VITAVIL,
the bus,
Noctilien

The stations of the closest RER are:

'' Pierrefitte-Stains '' (the RER D) accessible by.
Aubervilliers it Courneuve the RER B), accessible by.

The ''' subway ''' (line 13) is accessible by:

it ('' Saint Denis Basilica '')
it ('' Saint Denis University '')

Pleasing stanois towards Door of the Vault or the Station of Garges - Sarcelles

Tomorrow

Prolongation of the subway

The prolongation of the line 13 of the subway in Stains is required of long time by the inhabitants and their municipality.

It would be a question of prolonging the line of Saint-Denis Université with the Cherry orchard , where he would be in correspondence with the Tangentielle North, with an intermediate station with the Globe

However, taking into account the saturation of line 13, this project cannot be carried out before one of the 2 branches of the line either disconnected, or by making some an autonomous line which would have its terminus with Saint-Lazare, or by connecting it to the line 14 ('' Météor '').

Tangential North

The Tangentielle North will connect '' Sartrouville '' to '' Noisy-the-dryness '' by the creation of new ways for the travellers along the Grande Belt. The opening of the first section ('' Epinay on the Seine the RER - Le Bourget the RER '') is discounted in 2014.

Two stations of tangential would serve the city: Pierrefitte Stains and a station created with the Cherry orchard , in correspondence with the prolongation of the subway.

The TGV

Within the framework of a project of connection TGV between Normandy (Cherbourg and Caen) and the airport of Roissy, a station TGV is considered in Stains, on the Grande Belt.

It would be served only by some trains per day, which would circulate at the speed authorized on the Large Belt, i.e. slowly.

Population

Demographic table

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Housing

According to the census of 1999, the city counts 11.598 main homes, including 3.197 occupied by their owner. The city counts 6.849 residences HLM, managed primarily by the following financial backers:

ODHLM: 5.456
OPIEVOY : 532
SCIC : 441
Real estate company 3F: 621
SA HLM of France: 463
Sageco : 136
SODEDAT-93 : 30
Lutèce: 111
SOFILOGIS: 32
the Urban Residence of France: 90.

Economy

August 1st Number of employment: 6.805 (including 40% occupied by Stanois.)

Branches of industry

Industry-BTP: 37,7% Tertiary
: 62,3%
Trade: 334
Undertaken: 589

A Free urban zone was founded on the commune of Stains, and relates to in particular ZAC Wood-Moussay.

Administration

Administrative status

Stains consists of a single canton of which it is the Chef-lieu.

The city in addition forms part of the Communauté of agglomeration Plaine Commune.

List successive mayors

Political of the city

August 1st The city includes/understands a Free urban zone, in the sector of Wood Moussay, and three ZUS: the Field Saint-Lazare, Allende and the Mill-Nine.

It has officially agreed with ANRU Renovation projects urban relating to the City Garden (53 million euros), the Field Saint-Lazare and Allende (173 million euros) and New Mill (9 million euros). This convention succeeds the GPV which related to them before.

Elections

For the electoral deadlines of 2007 Stains belongs to the 82 communes of more than 3500 inhabitants having used the machines to vote.

twinnings

: Multilateral collaboration in the fields of the sport, tourism, the environment, the development in the field of the NTIC, allowing the valorization of the reciprocal cultural richnesses.
: Traditional twinning
: Twinning for joint projects of peace and collaboration enters the people German and French.
: Multilateral co-operation with the Camp of Taken refuge Palestinian of Al Amari (or Am' ari) in the West Bank, solidarity with the forces of peace in the area.
: Cooperation agreement relating to health, education, the cleansing, rural electrification, the safeguarding of the ecosystem, the development of agriculture, the breeding but also of the culture, the sport and tourism.
Cooperation agreement relating to the citizenship of the young people, the cultural exchanges, health and the prevention, local development, town planning and the environment

Leisures

August 1st Part of the city is located on the Parc of Courneuve.

Sites and monuments

the castle of Stains, built by Arnaud-Claude Mottet at the 18th century, was seriously damaged during the Guerre of 1870. In certain commun runs subsitent, of which stables, acquired by the commune in 1883, and who shelter since the Town hall of Stains.

Town hall. - On April 5th, 1883, the municipal council voted the acquisition of the stables and handing-over of the old castle of Stains, whose Hainguerlot family was owner, like heiress of Mrs. de Vatry. The sale took place at the cost of 33.000 francs. The restoration, carried out in 1884, cost 30.000 francs.

The building is located which occurred Hainguerlot, almost with the angle of the street Carnot. The surface of the ground is of 28 ares 71 centiares. It is composed of a main building with five immense windows in frontage, in withdrawal with two wings connected by a monumental grid.

the castle of the Mound was destroyed in 1819, and there remains about it only the porch, carried out in style rubble by Rene Douin towards 1740.

the church Our-Lady-in-the Assomption of Stains was built in second half of the 16th century. It was painted by Maurice Utrillo in table Église of Stains (oil on fabric, 74 X 90 cm, Galerie Pétridès, C. 1930).

It shelters a classified high altar and a retable historic buildings. The building was closed with the public in 1995 because of risks of collapse. In spite of many movements of faithful the stanois, no renovation project was still envisaged in 2006 because of the high cost of work (7 million euros) and of the lack of resources of the city.

the Garden city of Stains , built in the Inter-war period by the architects Gonnot and Albenque with the site of the old Castle of Stains, in order to answer at the request of working residences, is a HBM equipped with an important comfort for the time while preserving an architecture résidentielle.
Aujourd'hui, it belongs to the national heritage and is registered with the inventory of the picturesque sites. It is often referred to by architects and town planners who think that it one of most beautiful and is made a success of of France.

A renovation project urban is carried out by the financial backer and Plaine Commune.

See too

External bonds

Official site of the city
Left the official site devoted to the Garden city

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