Bobigny is a French commune located in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis , which it is the prefecture , in the region Île-de-France . Its inhabitants are called the Balbyniens .
| Country | France |
|---|---|
| Region | Île-de-France |
| Department | Seine-Saint-Denis |
| Canton | Bobigny and Bondy |
| Government | |
| Mayor (2020–2026) | Abdel Sadi |
| Area1 | 6.77 km2 (2.61 sq mi) |
| Population (2017-01-01) | 53,640 |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Geography
Location
Bobigny is a town in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris , in the Plaine des Vertus, located three kilometers from the gates of Paris, on the north shore of the Ourcq canal.
Transport
Bobigny is served by two stations on Paris Métro Line 5: Bobigny – Pantin – Raymond Queneau and Bobigny – Pablo Picasso. It can also be reached from the outer terminus of Paris Métro Line 7 at La Courneuve.
Education
The commune has 14 public preschools (écoles maternelles), 15 public elementary schools, four public junior high schools, three public senior high schools/sixth-form colleges, and one private school.
- Junior high schools: Collège Auguste Delaune, Collège Jean-Pierre Timbaud, Collège Pierre Sémard, and Collège République et SEGPA
- Senior high/Sixth-form: Lycée professionnel Alfred Costes, Lycée Louise Michel, Lycée polyvalent André Sabatier
- École, collège et lycée Charles Péguy is a private school from elementary to senior high/sixth-form
There is also a school of hotel management, École hôtelière de Bobigny.
The Bobigny campus of Paris 13 University is its second-largest. It focuses on the medical sciences, and hosts a strong medical degree.
Health
The Avicenna hospital. The city of Paris not having wanted this structure, Bobigny was chosen to house this hospital, intended to help the Muslims settled in France after the First World War , the status most often very precarious. The large entrance gate makes the architectural link between Eastern tradition and Western modernism, this establishment being considered very cutting edge at the time.
The hospital is a CHU attached to the University of Paris-Nord .
Economy
Valeo has management branches (Valeo Transmissions group and Valeo Friction Materials group) here. It was also the manufacturing base by Meccano of French Dinky Toys from 1933 to 1970 when the factory was closed and later demolished.
Culture and Heritage
Places and monuments
The archaeological excavations on the site Cow comfortable uncovered a Gallic city with an area less than 52 hectares, founded around 350 BC. This establishment is located along the Ru de Montfort , straddling a small hill and more humid grounds. A necropolis of 521 tombs has been discovered, it is the most important known to date in Europe for the Gallic period. Communal cemetery.Prayer room at the entrance of the Muslim cemetery.
Places of worship
The town of Bobigny had three churches which were destroyed and then rebuilt after the war.
- Notre-Dame-de-l’Étoile Chapel , rue Moreau
- Saint-André Church , avenue Karl Marx.
- Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours Church , rue de Rome.
- Church of All-the-Saints of Bobigny , avenue de l’Illustration.
- Evangelical Protestant Church, avenue Édouard Vaillant.
- Synagogue, rue Jules Guillemin (Israelite worship association of Bobigny).
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, rue Mendès des Carmes.
- Bobigny Mosque, rue de la Bergerie.
- Er-Rhama Mosque, Karl Marx Avenue.
Franco-Muslim cemetery
This cemetery was also opened nearby in 1937 . Its entrance is formed by a Moorish arch. A prayer room was built at the entrance to the cemetery. This building was listed on the supplementary inventory of historical monuments.
A military square houses a collection of graves of Muslim soldiers who died for France, especially during the liberation of Paris in 1944.
Tower of Illustration
This sixty-meter-high tower was built in 1933 by the newspaper l’Illustration , a weekly which bore this name because it was founded on the principle of the publication of various and numerous images in order to enhance its sixteen-page newspaper.
Rehabilitated in 2009 by architects Robin Giraud and Jean Filhol (Sepra), the tower houses the international student residence of the CROUS in Créteil, comprising 57 rooms for students and researchers.
rehabilitated by the University of Paris 13.
Other places and monuments
- Prefecture. This administrative center was built between 1965 and 1971.
- City HLM of Paul-Éluard. This city is known for its original architecture.
- Labor exchange.
- The city houses a Lenin medallion, the only effigy on a public building to the glory of the famous Russian revolutionary in France.
- The Bobigny communal cemetery is located on Boulevard Maurice-Thorez.
Natural heritage
The Bergère departmental park was built on the north bank of the Ourcq canal . Hilly with many paths, its flora is made up of small woodlands and shrubs such as rowan trees , whose red berries are very popular with fruit-eating birds.
Cultural infrastructure
MC 93
The theater MC93 Bobigny has for twenty years a varied program in the field of contemporary theater and contemporary dance .
Magic Cinema
The Magic Cinema is a local cinema, classified art house, research, heritage and young audiences.
- Every year in March, it organizes the Theaters at the cinema festival around directors and directors (Fassbinder, Jean Genet, Patrice Chéreau, Glauber Rocha, Robert Kramer, Marguerite Duras, Jean Cocteau …);
- Every year in October, it also organizes the Résonances festival, citizen cinema meetings that deal with civic engagement and various international subjects
- It is also a place dedicated to image education that works towards school audiences.
