Trappes

Trappes is a commune in the form of a Communauté d' agglomà on the outskirts of Paris (distance about 30 km BP) with 29,563 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011). They are called Trappistes. Trappes is part of the ville nouvelle Saint- Quentin -en- Yvelines, one of five cities in the Greater Paris plan.

Geography

The city is located on a plateau south of Versailles. The city is adjacent to Bois- d'Arcy in the northeast, east of Montigny -le- Bretonneux, Magny -les- Hameau is bordered to the south east, the south is Le Mesnil -Saint -Denis, Élancourt in the west and north Plaisir.

The area is urbanized and industrialized in the center. In the north, there are also two larger, 87 -acre wildlife sanctuaries named Saint- Quentin -en- Yvelines, ranging partly in the neighboring village of Montigny -le- Bretonneux. Situated on Lake Saint- Quentin, there is a 400 -acre shopping market. To the south lies a 450 -acre community forest, the Forêt de domaniale Port -Royal.

In Trappes of Bach Maldroit which drains over the Mauldre into the Seine rises.

Due to the community run both the Route nationale 10 - which is an extension of Highway 12 and a very high volume of traffic has - so also the railway line Paris -Montparnasse - Chartres, there is a railway station for the city center. Both roads form an ugly section of the municipality.

History

The name probably comes from the Gallic Trappes place names Trebo the village. The area was already inhabited in the Neolithic period.

In the 17th century a part of the church was added to the possessions of King Louis XIV.

  • In 1849 the railway line and the railway station was built.
  • On September 24, 1852 reached Henri Giffard from Paris Trappes with a house built by his steam-powered airship. Its speed was about 7 km / h To move forward, he used a small steam engine. This trip is considered the first manned motorized flight in history.
  • 1911, a locomotive depot and a marshalling yard was built, which was closed at the end of the 20th century and rebuilt in stages to the sidings for passenger trains.
  • 1944 suffers the city by Allied bombings to the railway infrastructure major destruction, 75 % of buildings were damaged.
  • On July 10, 1970, started with the realization of the concept " Ville Nouvelle " from Saint -Quentin -en- Yvelines, which the community Trappes included. It was followed by the construction of large housing estates in slab construction, which attracted mainly poorer populations and immigrants. The isolated location has led to social problems, so that Trappes fell in recent years repeatedly because of crime and Islamism in the headlines.
  • In 2000, the synagogue of Trappe will be seriously damaged by an arson attack. The rioting in France in 2005 in Trappes 27 buses will be destroyed in a depot by fire. After a security check, it came in Trappes in July 2013, leading to serious nightly riots.

Twinning

Trappes ' sister cities are:

Arrondissement Arrondissement of Versailles Cantons of France Postal codes in France New town Versailles (city) Montigny-le-Bretonneux Plaisir, Yvelines Gare Montparnasse Bombardment Allies Immigration Science Museum, London
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