Tulle (in Occitan Tula ) is a common French, South-west of France, located in the department of the Corrèze and the area the Limousin. Its inhabitants is called the Tulle makers, sometimes Tullois.

Geography

Tulle is located in a very boxed part of the river Corrèze. So the city stretches on a very narrow but long tape several kilometers of the North-East close to the stage in south-west beyond the gare.
It is located at crossroads:

She is at the point of meeting between the south-west of France and the Massif Central. She is capital of the low-Limousin quercynois. She is located at the north of isoglossal cha/ca and the south of the Isoglosse of the ja/ga, in a zone of progressive transition from the dialect occitan the Limousin (met as of Seilhac) to the Languedocien dialect (met as of Nonards).

History

The Tulle origin would go back to the Roman occupation and its name would come from the temple dedicated to the Tutella goddess. The city enters the history only with the foundation at the 7th century of a monastery dedicated to Saint Michel by certain Chaffre. Around the buildings the inhabitants of the country group. The first monastery, destroyed by the invasions Normans in 846, is rebuilt but disappears at the 11th century

New constructions, to which the pope Urbain II of passage to Tulle in 1095 grants his protection, are undertaken. The first stone of the abbey news is posed in 1130, I' building was finished only two centuries later. In 1317, the pope Jean XXII creates the Tulle diocese, the abbey one becomes cathedral.

During the War One hundred Year old, the English take the city in 1346 while the Black Death prevails; driven out city by the local militia, the city falls down again in 1369, then are definitively expelled by the local militia. In 1443, Charles VII joins together the General states of the Low-Limousin there. The abbey is practically unused with the secularization of 1514. The bishop is made build a castle and the refectory becomes the seat of the court. During Wars of religion, Tulle holds for the Papiste S; the city resists first once the Huguenots in 1577, but the troops of the Viscount of Turenne take a bloody revenge in 1585. They put the city at bag and devastate it, after an attack which the Protestant poet Agrippa of Aubigné reported.

The mutilations and plunderings will be much more serious during the Révolution: the abbey cathedral and buildings are converted into munitions factory, all the fittings, including irons of supporting of the cupola are torn off for recovery, which causes the collapse of the cupola, the bedside, the transept and the northern gallery of the cloister. The church is reopened with the worship in 1803, but its title of Cathédrale only in 1823 will find.

June 9th, 1944, the S of division Das Reich ordered by the general Lammerding returning in Tulle released the day before, 99 people with the balconies of the city hang and 141 others off-set some of which 101 does not return (see Massacre of Tulle). Today, Tulle, prefecture of Corrèze and évêché, are the seat of an important munitions factory. Since 1975, the center town is equipped with a skyscraper, the tower of the administrative City, composed of 22 levels and a 86 m height (side river).

Heraldic

Mouths, with three gold rocks, 2 and 1; with the chief of azure, charged with three flowers of gold lily,”, with the currency: “SUNT RUPES VIRTUTIS ITER.| Malta-Brown |illustrated France (1882)

Economy

  • Laces of Tulle.
  • Manufacture of Accordion S of the Maugein factory.
  • Borg Warner American automobile equipment installed on the ZAC of Montane

Tulle is the seat of the Chamber of commerce and Tulle industry and Ussel and of the Penitentiary Employment service (charged to manage the account of trade and the workshops of the Industrial Control of the Penal establishments). It manages the aerodrome of Ussel - Thalamy, the industrial park of Tulle-Is and the House of the interregional pole wood.

Festivals

  • Festival of the " NIGHTS DE NACRE" September
  • O' Festival the Choruses, October-November

Concerts, cinema, exposures, swimming pool, barathon

Retail parks

Retail park of Picking (at the exit of the city Brive direction)

Zone commeriale of the Mark (in work) to eplacement of the old factory Borg Warner of Auzelou

Schools

  • ISMIB (institute of higher learning of management of industries of wood) is an university which forms executives in the industry of wood. This school depends on the Chamber of commerce and Tulle industry and Ussel
  • IUT of the Limousin, departments Hygiène Safety Environment (HSE) and Industrial engineering and Mintenance (GIM)
  • CPGE (Preparatory classes at the Universities, E3A.CCP.MINES.CENTRALE.ENS.X) section PCSI/PC open to the beginning of the year 2000 with the college Edmond Perrier.
  • School of nurses
  • School of gendarmerie (assistant gendarme)

Transport

The Tulle station constituted until 1970 a rail junction local important like:
  • not of graining of the line PO Clermont-Ferrand with Brive, left southern the Line Lyon-Bordeaux,
  • starting point of the metric line PO Corrèze de Tulle with Argentat and of Tulle with Uzerche and Treignac,
  • starting point of the metric line of the Trams of Corrèze de Tulle with Custom. Line displaced and deposited in 1966.

The current network of urban transport comprises two drunk lines of , it is named DRUNK TUL'

Administration

Famous characters

Tourist monuments and places

  • Cathedral Notre-Dame and Cloister (12th century)
  • Vault Saint-Jacob (16th century)
  • Vault of the Hospital (18th century)
  • Convent of Bernardines (16th century)
  • church Saint-Pierre (17th century)
  • College Edmond-Perrier (19th century), realization of Anatole de Baudot
  • House of Loyac (16th century)
  • House of the Seilhac (17th century)
  • Prefecture (19th century)
  • Theater (19th century) built of 1899 to 1902 by the Auberty architects and Anatole of Baudot precursory for the implementation of the thin vaults in reinforced concrete (roof in dome).
  • Turn of Alverge (16th century)
  • Bookstore Preferences (literature of quality, held by a Canadian accommodating and original)
  • Tower of the Administrative City (1975) a 86 m height (side river).

Twinnings

  • , to see
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External bonds

  • Official site of the town of Tulle
  • Tulle on Mapquest
  • works of art with Tulle http://fr.structurae.de/geo/geoid/index.cfm?ID=3666
  • Tulle on Google Map
  • lacorreze.com photographs of the city

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