Asnières-sur-Seine

Asnières-sur-Seine
Commune
Château d'Asnières

Coat of arms

Paris and inner ring départements
Coordinates: 48°54′39″N 2°17′20″E / 48.9108°N 2.2889°E / 48.9108; 2.2889Coordinates: 48°54′39″N 2°17′20″E / 48.9108°N 2.2889°E / 48.9108; 2.2889
Country France
Region Île-de-France
Department Hauts-de-Seine
Arrondissement Nanterre
Canton Asnières-sur-Seine, Courbevoie-1
Intercommunality Métropole Grand Paris
ÉPT Boucle Nord Seine
Government
 • Mayor (2015-2020) Manuel Aeschlimann
Area1 4.82 km2 (1.86 sq mi)
Population (2015)2 86,512
 • Density 18,000/km2 (46,000/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 92004 /92600
Elevation 22–43 m (72–141 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Asnières-sur-Seine (French pronunciation: ​[a.njɛʁ syʁ sɛn]) is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France, along the river Seine. It is located 7.9 km (4.9 mi) from the center of Paris.

Name

Asnières-sur-Seine was originally called simply Asnières. Asnières was recorded for the first time in a papal bull of 1158 as Asnerias, from Medieval Latin asinaria, meaning "donkey farm". The poor soil of Asnières, where heather grew in Medieval times, was probably deemed only suitable for the breeding of donkeys. By the early 20th century it had become a favourite boating centre for Parisians, and its industries included boat building.[1]

On 15 February 1968 the commune was officially renamed Asnières-sur-Seine (meaning "Asnières upon Seine"), in order to distinguish it from other communes of France also called Asnières.

Avenue de la Marne

Demographics

Immigration

Place of birth of residents of Asnières-sur-Seine in 1999
Born in Metropolitan FranceBorn outside Metropolitan France
78.3%21.7%
Born in
Overseas France		Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth1EU-15 immigrants2Non-EU-15 immigrants
1.7%2.9%3.5%13.6%
1This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such as pieds-noirs in Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), and to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. Note that a foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics.
2An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. Note that an immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.

Administration

Asnières-sur-Seine is divided into two cantons:

  • Asnières-sur-Seine-Nord: 43,453 inhabitants (57.3% of the total).
  • Asnières-sur-Seine-Sud: 32,384 inhabitants (42.7% of the total).

Economy

Different famous companies are located in Asnières:

The Cimetière des Chiens is believed to be the first zoological necropolis in the world.

Education

Public schools in the commune:

  • 20 preschools (maternelles)[2]
  • 16 elementary schools[3]
  • 4 junior high schools: André Malraux, Auguste Renoir, François Truffaut, and Voltaire[4]
  • Senior high schools: Lycée Auguste Renoir, Lycée professionnel de Prony, and Institut départemental médico-éducatif Gustave Baguer[5]

Private schools:

University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle serves as the area university.[6]

Sports

In addition to the Courtilles ice rink, the town has ten gyms, six stadiums, a shooting range, two tennis clubs (Azur Tennis Club and the Tennis Club du Ménil), a skate park, a Parisian boules court and a swimming pool.

The Asnières Volley 92 participates in Ligue B (2nd national level) and plays at the Courtilles gymnasium. The city also has a handball club in agreement with neighboring cities. For the 2017-2018 season, the first team evolves in Pool 2 in National 2. Finally, the city counts, with the Molosses, an American football club, created in 1992, evolving in Casque d'Or (D2), 2-time vice-champion of France of D1 (1999, and 2014).

A full-contact club, known as ABC (Asnieres Boxing Club) is also managed by a coaching team composed with ex-France and European champions. Around 100 members take part in trainings three times a Week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday). The judo and jujitsu club Arts Martiaux d'Asnières uses several of the town's gyms.[7]

Transport

Roadways

Car traffic in Asnières is difficult. Most of the traffic is on the banks of the Seine around the city. The crossing of the Asnières bridge is extremely painful during peak hours. The Grand rue Charles-de-Gaulle then the Avenue d'Argenteuil are also difficult to pass because serving Bois-Colombes and northern towns. Moreover, the city has very few parking spaces, and garages and private parking spaces are scarce and expensive.

Between 2010 and 2013, there was a development plan to change the streets of the city being one-way and become practicable in both directions for bicycles.

Public transportation

Asnières-sur-Seine is served by three stations on Paris Métro Line 13 : Gabriel Péri, Les Agnettes and Asnières – Gennevilliers – Les Courtilles, terminus of the line.

The tramway line 1 also serves Asnières – Gennevilliers – Les Courtilles station, connecting to Noisy-le-Sec.

It is also served by Asnières-sur-Seine and Bois-Colombes stations on the Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare suburban rail network. Lines J and L can be used.

A number of bus lines cross the town to connect it with its neighbours : lines 165, 175, 177, 276, 140.

Art

Georges Seurat

Bathers at Asnières by Georges-Pierre Seurat depicts a scene of 19th century leisure and developing industry in this suburb of Paris.

In 1885 Seurat made Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte used a technique of placing colored dots on a work which led a movement called "Pointillism".[8]

Vincent van Gogh

Van Gogh paintings of Asnières
Exterior of a Restaurant at Asnières
Summer, 1887
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (F321)
The Rispal Restaurant at Asnières
Summer, 1887
Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Fine Art (F355)
The Seine with the Pont de la Grande Jatte
Summer, 1887
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (F304)

Vincent van Gogh made a series of paintings of Asnières. Influenced by Impressionism and Pointillism, van Gogh modified his traditional style and used vivid color, shorter brushstrokes and perspective to engage the viewer. His views of the banks of the Seine are an important progression for his later landscape paintings.[9][10] In Asnières, within walking distance of Theo's flat in Montmartre, van Gogh painted parks, cafés, restaurants and the river.[11]

Notable residents

The old château was the death place of Anne Marie Victoire de Bourbon (1675–1700), daughter of Henri Jules de Bourbon and thus grand daughter of le Grand Condé, cousin to Louis XIV.

Asnières was the birthplace of

The Franco-Irish composer and pianist George Alexandre O'Kelly died here in 1914.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Wikisource Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Asnières". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 764.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Ecoles maternelles." Asnières-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Ecoles élémentaires." Asnières-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Les collèges publics." Asnières-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Les lycées publics." Asnières-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Vie scolaire." Asnières-sur-Seine. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
  7. ↑ "A.M ASNIERES". ffjudo.org (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-06.
  8. ↑ The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-century Thought, p. 63–64, at Google Books
  9. ↑ Hansen; Nichols; Sund; Knudsen; Bremen (2003). Van Gogh: Fields. Hatje Cantz Publishers for Toledo Museum of Art Exhibition. p. 10. ISBN 3-7757-1131-7.
  10. ↑ "The Seine with the Pont de la Grande Jatte, 1887". Permanent Collection. Van Gogh Museum. 2005–2011. Retrieved 2011-04-30.
  11. ↑ "Restaurant at Asnières, 1887". Permanent Collection. Van Gogh Museum. 2005–2011. Retrieved 2011-04-30.

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