Thonon-les-Bains

Thonon -les- Bains is a spa town in eastern France. It is located on Lake Geneva and has 33 928 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011).

The municipality is located in the wine region Savoie. White wines from the grape Altesse ( locally called roussette ) may be marketed under the protected designation of origin roussette de Savoie. For white wines, red wines and other grape varieties, the AOC Vin de Savoie applies.

  • 2.2.1 Stade Joseph Moynat

History

From 1536 to 1569 the town belonged to Bern. In addition, Thonon -les- Bains was the sub-prefecture of the historical department of Léman, whose capital was Geneva.

Culture and sights

Structures

Castle Ripaille

The Ripaille castle stands on the peninsula on the south bank of Lake Geneva. Count Amédée VI. was built there around 1371 a castle, of which no trace exists today. To Duke Amédée VIII, built in 1434 at the same place a new castle with seven towers, which can be seen today. It was damaged in a massive religious war, they began to build it to a Carthusian monastery with cells tract ( single cells for the monks ), church and buildings for the administration of the monastery of goods. After the French Revolution the abbey was sold as national property in the Napoleonic General Dupas. Although he and his descendants inhabited monastery and palace in the 19th century, but let them expire for lack of finances the building. 1892 bought Frédéric Engel- Gross, an Alsatian industrialist, the estate.

Sports

Stade Joseph Moynat

Since July 2005, the stadium is home to the playing in the Ligue 1 football club Evian Thonon Gaillard FC. It is also the home stadium of American football association Thonon Black Panthers.

Traffic

In Thonon -les- Bains various Department roads converge, including the D1005, which coincides with the course of the national highway N5. The town has a station on the railway line Léaz -Saint -Gingolph.

Furthermore, Thonon is connected by the railway network of passenger ship on Lake Geneva with numerous Seerainergemeinden.

Twinning

  • Eberbach ( Germany ) since 1961
  • Mercer Iceland (USA) since 2000

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Yannick Bertrand ( b. 1980 ), skier
  • Henry Bordeaux (1870-1963), writer
  • André Boutemy (1905-1995), Sub-Prefect of Thonon -les- Bains
  • Joseph -Marie Dessaix (1764-1834), General of Infantry
  • Sébastien Frey ( born 1980 ), football player
  • Nicolas Frey ( born 1984 ), football player
  • Jean -Paul Aimé Gobel (* 1943), Vatican diplomat
  • Laurent Groppi (* 1983), race car driver
  • Nicolas Lapierre ( born 1984 ), race car driver
  • Jean Moulin (1899-1943), member of the Resistance
  • Nicoletta (1944 ), chanteuse
  • Maurice Novarina (1907-2002), architect and member of the Academy of Fine Arts
  • Valere Novarina ( b. 1947 ), playwright, director and painter
  • Cyprien Richard ( b. 1979 ), skier
Arrondissement Arrondissement of Thonon-les-Bains Cantons of France Postal codes in France Savoy wine Varietal Vin de Savoie AOC Mercer Island, Washington Joseph Marie, Count Dessaix Armoy, Haute-Savoie Bellevaux Cervens
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