Tweed or the Tweed-on-Seine is a common French, located in the department of the Seine-Maritime and the area High-Normandy.

The inhabitants are called Elbeuviens. The city has the label “Villes and Pays of Art and History”.

Geography

Elbeuf is a chief town of canton located in Seine-Maritime on a meander of the the Seine, with 25 kilometers of Rouen. This city is distributed on a surface of 1600 hectares.

Because of its position on the river, the city was periodically prone to the floods. Most important of them occurred in 1910.

The dams were raised and the roads raised in edge of the river. Two bridges cross the Seine in direction of Saint-Aubin-the-Tweed and the city has for principal commune bordering Caudebec-the-Tweed.

History

At the end of the 10th century, a village bearing the name of Wellebou develops. This name is quoted in a charter of Richard Ier of Normandy. Wellebou was centered on the always current church of Saint-Etienne. Towards 1514, the first Drap eries of Tweed are born. After the corporation of the tisserands, Jean-Baptiste Colbert will give in 1667 an additional dash to industry clothier with Tweed the Royal cloth Manufacture. Foreign competition will be right of this economic activity of the city which will fall during German control at the time of the Second world war. The “city with the hundred chimneys”, such as it was called, turns to a more modern industrial activity: chemical industry and mechanics with in particular the factories Renault and Rhône-Poulenc.

See also : The list of the Lords of Tweed

Tram

See also: Tram of Tweed

In 1898, the city clothier, recently connected to Rouen by railway way (1883), obtained a Tramway. Following a a little chaotic exploitation and after only a few decades, the Tweed tram was closed on January 8th, 1926.

Feudality

See: List of the Tweed lords

Administration

Demography

The population in double accounts is of 8  393 inhabitants ( Elbeuviens ) for a principal budget only. Tweed is located in the common layer of the S of 5  000 with 10  000 inhabitants belonging to a taxed grouping (TPU).

Tweed is also pressed on the communes of sound agglomeration whose demography is in the same orders: Caudebec-the-Tweed (10  000 inhabitants), Saint-Aubin-the-Tweed (8000 inhabitants) and Saint-Pierre-the-Tweed (8000 inhabitants).

Economy

Tweed is the seat of the Chamber of commerce and Tweed industry. It manages CFA, the river Tweed Port, the Angot Zone, Building industry 3 and the Hotel of Competences.

The economic competence of Tweed and the Tweed agglomeration is managed by Agglo d' Elbeuf.

Twinning

, to see

Places and monuments

• the museum of the town hall
• the church Midsummer's Day (classified historic building in 1992)
• manufactures Delarue, Clarenson and Charles Houiller (draperies)
• the circus theater
• District of Puchot, district " dit" created in the Sixties

Personalities related to the commune

• Lorris Acot, trouvere (XIIe century)
• Argentinian, actor (of his true name Christian Argentin)
• Georges Chauvel, sculptor
• Franz-Olivier Giesbert, journalist, biographer and novelist
• Raoul Grimoin-Sanson, inventor
• Marianne Hardy, actress
• Auguste Houzeau, chemist
• Rene the Seine, philosopher
• Andre Maurois (born Emile Solomon Wilhelm Herzog), novelist, member of the French Academy
• Raylambert of its true name Raymond Gabriel Lambert, painter and illustrator ofa great number of school works
• Albert Vaguet, tenor of the Opera of Paris

See too

Internal bonds

• Common of the Seine-Maritime
• Tram of Tweed

External bonds

• Official site of Tweed
• Site of the Community of Tweed Agglomeration known as Agglo d' Elbeuf
• Tweed on the site of the national geographical Institute
• Tweed on the site of INSEE
• Tweed on the site of Quid
• Localization of Tweed on a chart of France and communes bordering Tweed
• Plane on Mapquest
• the site of Tweed the circus theater
• Of the photographs of the city and the area

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