Noisiel

Noisiel is a municipality with 15,786 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the French department of Seine -et -Marne Île -de -France region.

Location

Noisiel lies to the east of Paris, 20.5 km from the center. The municipality belongs to the municipality composite Marne -la- Vallée, a Ville nouvelle east of Paris. The community network has emerged on August 17, 1972 from the merger of 26 Communes of the departments of Seine -et -Marne, Seine- Saint- Denis and Val -de- Marne and is managed administratively into four sections since March 24, 1987. Noisiel belongs to the section Val Maubuée. At this Kommunalverband also include Champs -sur- Marne, Torcy, Émerainville, Lognes and Croissy -Beaubourg.

Noisiel was in 1993 briefly the capital of the administrative unit with Meaux and Melun, but was replaced on 20 April 1994 by Torcy. 2003 Noisiel was honored as Internet City as " Ville Internet @ ".

The city has 214 acres of green space, which are 49.2 % of the area. The park Noisiel extends over 90 hectares and has a promenade. His large meadows and small forests extend along the Marne. From the river, the old Menier mill can be seen. The park is the castle and a large lime tree avenue leads further into the Bois de la Grange. From the park or factory walks or hikes along the Marne can begin.

Place name

The name Noisiel goes back to the Latin word nucetum, which denotes a place with walnut trees. The first mention of Noisiel found in a text of 841 as Nucedo. The old village was located on the slopes of the left bank of the Marne. In the eleventh century the mill is mentioned. In the twelfth century, the local name changes to Nusiellum. In the 15th century a river port is named for Noisiellum, who served as wood gathering place for Paris. The new town spread on the plateau into the forest.

Population and community

2007, Noisiel 15 429 inhabitants and thus a population density of 3539 inhabitants per square kilometer. The residents of Noisiel hot Noisiéliens and Noisiéliennes

The municipality owns 29.67 service companies and businesses per 1000 population and the unemployment rate in 2006 was for Noisiel 9.5%, France 8.8% in total. Close to the RER station in modern Luzard district takes place on Wednesdays and Fridays a large market place and the old Noisiel ( Emilie- Menier - Quarter) Friday market. The city Noisiel has a police station with a detection rate of only 28.31 %. "I 'm here because the situation for the police in the district of the most difficult of Seine- et- Marne " (Nicolas Sarkozy, former interior minister, during a visit in 2005).

In the city there are five elementary schools, the college Luzard with 550 students and 2 high schools, the Lycée Gérard de Nerval with 600 and the Lycee Rene Cassin, a technical school with 700 students. There are a daycare center, a crèche and a home and family as well as a parents' council meeting The Conservatory of Val- Maubuée is a National School of music, drama and dance, and is 20% owned by Noisiel. In the city there are four gymnasiums, the Luzard sports center and tennis courts, a bowling alley and skating rink. The athletics section Noisiel - Lognes as part of l' Entente North Athlétisme 77 a leading club in Seine- et- Marne.

The Auditorium Jean Cocteau is a center of civic and associational life with shows and concerts. La Ferme du Buisson is a former farm has bought the Menier in 1879, the buildings are an example of the architecture of the 19th century. La Ferme du Buisson is the arts and cultural center, it is funded by the Ministry of Culture. The center has two stages and three theater spaces and a center for contemporary art, as well as the library. A restaurant is part of the center. In Noisiel there are two Catholic and one Protestant church to the Evangelical Reformed Church of Val Maubuée and a Vietnamese church. In the village there is the Jewish community of Marne -la- Vallee.

Monuments

Noisiel was also a field trial for famous architects who schufen.geworden him many public buildings and modern originals. The Water Tower Le château d' eau des Quatre - Pavés, also called " Babel", in the middle of a roundabout is one of the early works of the famous architect Christian de Portzamparc. Built 1971-1979 it has a capacity of 2,000 cubic meters, a height of 35.4 meters and is unusual in that the shape of the decagon. The other two major water towers Les deux grands châteaux d' eau jumeaux the totems were built by Maurice Garnier 1975 in 1975 and serve as an urban landmark. One of them is provided with a mosaic portrait of a child. Also noteworthy is the sports grounds of Luzard 1986 is built by Jean Nouvell.

The administrative center of the Bank of France was built in 1985 by architect Guy Lagneau and Henri Coulomb. The building is partially already in the neighboring municipality Lognes, a branch was established in 1994. The tour verte ( Green Tower ) in the vicinity of the park is a residential complex of about twenty floors and was built in 1977, he is a Reblik on the "Blue tower " in Cergy- Pontoise, outside of the" Nouvelle Village " of Noisiel.

Transport

Noisiel is connected through the station Noisiel the RER A line with Paris and accessible from Châtelet -Les -Halles in 26 minutes. The trains run at peak times at 5- minute intervals in the network times in the 10 - and in the evening and in the morning hours in 15 - minute intervals. In addition, five bus routes to Paris and the surrounding area.

Menier Chocolate Factory

Noisiel is synonymous with the name Menier, the local chocolate manufacturer family. In 1825, the founder of the industrial dynasty Menier, Jean- Antoine Brutus Menier decided to move its pharmaceutical factory from the Marais district of Paris on the banks of the Marne. In Noisiel be offered for the site of the old mill. In 1836 he was the first who created chocolate as dessert. In 1867, his son Emile Justin Menier decides to use the factory exclusively for the production of chocolate. The workforce grew from 50 employees in 1856 to 325 in 1867, the end of the 19th century, nearly 2,000 people were employed. The reorganization of production at the required new buildings along the Marne. Thus, the old village and the system disappeared reaches 1860-1874 its present form leads. As a symbol of Menier remains the central mill.

1871 Emile Justin Menier mayor until 1881, and the community acquires more land. Then, 66 houses and a school for the workers' families to be built in 1874 near the factory. Menier studied to models of medieval towns in England and takes Mulhouse as a model. On each side of the road detached houses of 64 square meters each with two bedrooms, a kitchen and a living room and a 300 m² garden to be built. The garden is intended to supplement the family income. Initially, there was no running water but there are wells in the streets every 45 meters installed. The houses on the street corners are opulent and larger and have toilets, they are reserved for staff and engineers. The apartments are rented to workers and employees in order to achieve a skeleton staff. Loses the employee his job he has to leave his house. The rent is two minutes daily wages for six days. By 1911, a total of 85 houses with 311 apartments were built on an area of ​​20 hectares. A bathhouse is nearby, a car wash, a doctor's office for two doctors and a pharmacist. A large number of institutions complements this: supply stores ( until 1912 owned Meniers ), a canteen for single workers, two coffee shops, hotels, restaurants, school for girls and boys, a retirement home and the town hall. The school, a symbol of the rise of the working class, is centrally located in the main street of the city, while the church - an architectural industrial buildings - is located just on the edge. The work remains the center of the city and that's why everything is organized. The central figure in the place was the head of the company, as is testified in the dedication of the Statue of Emile Justin Menier front of the school in 1898. In 1963, the factory goes into liquidation and the properties were sold in poor condition.