Houses-Alfort

Houses-Alfort is a Commune Frenchwoman the Valley-of-Marne, in Île-de-France. This city is located in the south-eastern suburbs of Paris. Located at 3 kilometers of the capital, its positioning allows him an rapid access with several major axes of communications franciliens which are the A4 in north or the A86 in the south. Its current population makes that it is the fifth most important city of the department behind Creteil, Vitry-sur-Seine, Champigny-sur-Marne and Saint-Maur-of-Ditches. The inhabitants of Houses-Alfort are Maisonnais (be).

Geography

More extended formerly, it loses part of its territory when the commune of Alfortville was created in 1885.

Houses-Alfort is one of the 47 communes of the the Valley-of-Marne, whose chief town is Creteil. It with the shape of a triangle:

  • west coast, it is separated from Alfortville by the way of railroad of the RER D;
  • Northern side, it is limited by the Marne;
  • South-eastern side, it is bordering with Creteil;
  • to 1,2 km in the South of its Southern point is the Crossroads Pompadour, a road junction between the Trunk road 6, the Trunk road 186, the highway A86, the secondary road 60 (Expressway in the continuity of the Trunk road 406).

(The Pompadour Crossroads is in extreme cases of Creteil, Choisy-the-King and Valenton.)

Houses-Alfort is surrounded of the six following communes while starting in north and while turning in the direction of the needles of a watch: Charenton-the-Bridge, Saint-Maurice, Joinville-le-Pont, Saint-Maur, Creteil and Alfortville.

Communication network

The City is crossed by the Trunk road 6, which circumvents the downtown area, and the Trunk road 19, like by the Autoroute A86.

It is served in North by the highway A4 (which passes on other side of the Marne, on the commune of Charenton-the-Bridge).

Public transport

  • the RER > Line D/(two stations: '' House-Alfort-Alfortville '' and '' Green of Houses ''),
  • Subway > Line 8 (three stations: '' École Veterinary surgeon of Houses-Alfort '', '' Houses-Alfort - Stage '' and '' Houses-Alfort - Juilliottes '').
  • Drunk > Lines 24, 103, 104, 107,172,181,217,325,372, (.) The school veterinary surgeon is a node of communication for the buses. This one is indeed the terminus of many lines of bus.

Districts

(by making it tower of the city, in the direction of the needles of a watch, on the basis of midday)
  • “Charentonneau”: This district is located between the Marne the current center. In the history of the city, the field of Charentonneau is as old as the historical borough. In the beginning, it was composed of a castle and all the infrastructure necessary (firm, grounds…). This one will be destroyed in 1950, only will remain two walls of the orangery. As of the end of the 19th century, the park is cut out in allotment and will constitute thereafter part of the residential zone of the district of Charentonneau.
  • Planets: This district is located in the north-eastern point of the commune, it is bordered in north by the Marne and the south by the town of Creteil. The names of seven of the streets of this district evokes the solar system (streets of Mercury, Venus, the Moon, of Mars, of the Sun, Uranus and Neptune). The dwellings are there mainly turns HLM built towards the end of the year 1950.
  • Juilliottes: In the beginning, it was a district of the city mainly made up of mushroom beds, waste grounds and careers which were filled in order to arrange there, with beginning of the year 70, a real unit composed of residences, offices as well as a small shopping mall.
  • Hector Berlioz
  • Freedom-Green-of-Houses: Before being urbanized, it was a market-gardening district, allotment started to be built there after the First World War.
  • the center or the “Old House”: District in which the town hall of style Louis XIII is located. Acquired by the commune in 1894, it is inaugurated in 1896 and is increased in 1965. The old House is in the center of the industrial district of the city at the beginning of the 20th century.
  • “Alfort”: This district owes its name with the castle now destroyed. This one is separated from the district of House by the Fort of Charenton. In this district, on 12 hectares, the school veterinary surgeon founded in 1765 is established. On the parish of Alfort the church Holy-Agnes was built in 1933. Its hexagonal bell-tower culminating to 53 m is decorated of a statue of Holy-Agnes.

It is only starting from 1880 that one built the first houses which one can assimilate to our current allotments and in the middle of the 20th century, only these the last two districts were urbanized. The remainder of the territory of the commune was occupied by market-gardening grounds.

Heraldic

History

Origin

The origin of the name of the city would be related to the fact that the first inhabitants would have settled with the junction of the Marne and the the Seine and that with the wire of time, the borough would have taken the name of " Maisons". The second part of the name would come from a hamlet from the commune which in the beginning (at the 12th century) was a field of Pierre d' Aigueblanche, lord of Herefort. Time passing, the name changed gradually to become Hallefort and finally Alfort.

Prehistory and Antiquity

The archaeological excavations carried out at Houses-Alfort into 1994 delivered the vestiges of a prehistoric, Neolithic and protohistoric occupation, dated between: 200000 and: 160000 years. On banks of the Marne have finds remainders of a burial, a megalith, some vestiges more with the east and some tools. An important Neolithic habitat near to the Marne, with a burial, was exhumed recently by the LDA (Departmental Laboratory of Archeology 94) then by the AFAN (Association for the national archaeological excavations). These archaeological vestiges gave important and new indices on the lifestyle of the Homme of Néandertal in the Paris basin.

During the construction of the fort of Charenton at the 19th century, one made the discovery of a structure in edge of an old way, probably identifiable with a tumulus, visible relief called " Ridge of Grammont". One discovered there several burials of which some present a certain pageantry. They are datable Tène or Roman epoch.

The Middle Ages

August 1st

Demography

Administration

Houses-Alfort is divided into two cantons:
  • the canton of House-Alfort-North counts 23  704 inhabitants;
  • the canton of House-Alfort-South counts 27  399 inhabitants.

Mayors of Houses-Alfort

Twinning

Economy

Notable industries and companies

  • printing works Cino del Duca (district Freedom-Green-of-Houses, the waste land was transformed into park in 2005).
  • Cookie factory Alsatian the of 1910 to 1968
  • Bio Springer (Lesaffre, Fould Springer), manufacture of Yeast S
  • the factory of the Suze, place of creation of the aperitif
  • the French agency of public health of food (AFSSA)
  • Oseo EPIC operations manager of general interest aiming to accompany and support SME
  • the research center and development for France of the Cephalon laboratories (old Laboratories Lafon from now on integrated into the group Cephalon )

Remarkable monuments and places

* The Extremely of Charenton, which was the seat of the command of the schools of the National police, built between 1841 and 1845 currently shelters several services of the direction of the national police.

  • the National school veterinary surgeon d' Alfort: created under the reign of Louis XV. Its fame is international.
  • the Fragonard museum: Within the School veterinary surgeon and single in the world, this museum is opened with the general public since 1994. It presents collections of sectional views, skeletons and of animal anatomy and human. Attention certain parts can impress the young children.
  • the Mill flaring, on the island of Charentonneau in edge of the Marne, which is a room today where various receptions take place, concerts,…
  • vestiges of the Orangery of Strong Castle located on the edges of the Marne, in the district of charentonneau, opposite the Mill Flaring. The old castle rose at this place until in the years 1950.
* The School complexes Jules Ferry and Condorcet obtained an inscription with the additional Inventory of the Historic buildings in 1994 and 2002 for the originality of their architecture of the Années 1930:
  • Jules ferry: red brick frontage, sculpture in low-relief at the entry illustrating the tales of Perrault by Paulo, paintings of Emile Beaume
  • the Dufourmantelle public garden, conceived by the architects Andre Dubreuil and Roger Hummel, which also carried out the school complex Jules Ferry; red brick frontage, statue representing the Little Red Riding Hood with the milieu.
    It was built in the Années 1930 on the initiative of the Regional office of dwellings at a cheap rate (HBM). At the time where the families lived in a single part, the 560 residences of the public garden bénéficiaent of a separate water room and a kitchen of the part of life. It was the subject of the work Houses-Alfort: Dufourmantelle public garden and school Jules ferry (CAUE 94, ED. CDDP 94, June 2007). It is registered with the additional inventory of the Historic buildings since March 29th, 2007.

; Religious monuments of Houses-Alfort * The Church Holy-Agnes was built with beginning of the year 30 in the district of Alfort by the architect Marc Brillaud de Laujardière. Its construction was possible in particular thanks to a gift of Fernand Moureaux creative of the aperitif " suze" and head of undertaking. It is classified historic building since December 21st, 1984. It accommodates the visitors of the city to the bridge of Charenton.

  • the Église Saint-Remi of the 12th century is the oldest building of the city. It is one of the rare churches of Ile-de-France to have preserved its Romance stone bell-tower. In 1793, it was used as " Temple To be it Suprême" , worship instituted by Robespierre.
  • Notre-Dame Church of the Sacred Heart

Tally of life

The town of Houses-Alfort profits from approximately 34 hectares of green areas open to the public. A pedestrian walk is amménagée in edge of the Marne over a 4 km length of which certain parts make up of footbridges to the top of the river. These green areas made it possible the town of profit from the label flowered Ville: 4 flowers Grand Prix allotted in 2006 by the National council of the Cities and Flowered Villages of France to the Contest of the cities and flowered villages.

Teaching

; Nursery schools

; Elementary schools

  • Public schools Georges Pompidou, Victor Hugo, Parmentier, Raspail, Saint-Exupery, Edouard Herriot and the Planets
  • Private school Notre Dame
  • School complexes Jules Ferry and Condorcet
  • Private school St-François
  • School complex Paul Bert

; Colleges

; Colleges

  • public General high school Eugene Delacroix
  • public Vocational school Paul Bert

; Establishment of higher education

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