Pont-sur-Yonne

Pont -sur -Yonne is a commune with 3260 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) in the Bourgogne region in the department of Yonne Sens district in the canton of Pont -sur- Yonne.

General

The place is situated on the road from Sens to Paris, about 90 km far from the capital. With 13.9 square kilometers Pont -sur -Yonne counts in the northwest of Burgundy to the smaller towns of France; it lies between 65 and 194 m above sea level at the river Yonne.

Demographic Trends

History

Originally, the town belonged to Villemanoche. 754 the place is called Pons Icaunae (from Latin pons, bridge ); meant was the settlement of a ( wooden ) bridge over the Yonne. In the 9th century, the Liber Sacramentorum the archbishops of Sens referred to the city as " Pontum ". Hence the name " Pont " developed. The old arch bridge of 1175 was reconstructed in the 17th century. It is named after its destruction in World War 2 only present in residues ( three arches ) and was replaced by a modern bridge.

1870-1873 was built at Pont -sur -Yonne Yonne about a 1.5 km-long bridge aqueduct as part of the 156 km long Vanne aqueduct by which the water of the Vanne Paris is supplied. The Brückenaquädukt of Pont- sur -Yonne consists of 156 sheets of 6 to 40 m span and should have been the world's first major building of mass stamped concrete. The first of the large arches had to be built also four times until the required strength was reached. ( After Stiglat )

Attractions

  • The parish church of Notre -Dame ( Our Lady ) is a building of Gothic ( 12th - 16th century) with a cross-shaped floor plan (3 naves, transept 1 with 2 chapels, five-membered choir ). The clock tower in the southwest of the church is 26 meters high and slated; actually the spire rises between four smaller cone -shaped tips.
  • The station has been damaged by fire in 2004; the reconstruction is modeled after the station of Trouville -Deauville architecturally.

Economy

  • SCHOTT Pharmaceutical Packaging, establishment for the production of pharmaceutical glass packaging

Others

  • On the night of the 4th of January 5, 1960 died on the N 5 at Pont -sur -Yonne Albert Camus the accidental death in the car of his publisher.

Community partnership

  • Since 1994 mountain Gera
  • Since 1969 Morbach; here there is a " Pont -sur -Yonne Square " at the St. Anne's Church.
Arrondissement Arrondissement of Sens Cantons of France Postal codes in France Gothic art Schott AG Geraberg Chaumont (Yonne) Villeblevin Villeneuve-la-Guyard
656404
de