Bussy-Saint-Georges

French commune
nomcommune=Bussy-Saint-Georges


x = 145
y = 74
lat_long=coord|48|50|33|N|2|41|55|E
insee=77058
cp=77600
région=Île-de-France
département=Seine-et-Marne
arrondissement=Torcy
canton=Torcy
maire=Hugues Rondeau
mandat=2008-2014
intercomm="none as of 2005"
alt mini=63 m
alt maxi=130 m
km²=13.39
sans=
17,930
9,194
date-sans= Oct. 2006 estimate)
(March 8, 1999 census
dens=1,339|date-dens=2006|

Bussy-Saint-Georges, French city, in the Seine-et-Marne administrative area and the "région" of Île-de-France.

The inhabitants are called the Buxangeorgiens (♂) et Buxangeorgiennes (♀).

General aspects

Geography

In the East, at the distance 30 kilometers from Paris and in the heart of Marne-la-Vallée, Bussy Saint-Georges has a privileged position thanks to a high densified motorway network. From Bussy, the direct access to the A4 motorway and the near A104 offer the ability to easily touch the whole national territory indeed. The city is at the doors of East of Europe and North of Europe.

An ideal access to the RER line P rer A, close to the TGV railway station of Chessy-Marne-la-Vallée and two international airports Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle and Orly, the city has a central position in an impressive network of transports.

Population

The town hall, built in 1850, takes place in the old village, on the "Place de la Mairie" (Town hall square).

Patrimony:

"History of Bussy-Saint-Georges and its patrimony are today known by the Buxangeorgiens thanks to the work of the Friends of History of Val-de-Bussy Association. The following informayions come from a brochure explaining this History of the town, printed by the municipality in November 2001."

; The Tower and the Castle : The tower is the only vestige of the lord’s castle of de Buci, a fortress offering a strategic refuge dominating the valleys de la Brosse and de la Gondoire, dated from 12th century. The current place de Verdun is on the previous location of the castle, which was surrounded by the ditches filled with water by the same source of a fountain always existing and visible in the Place du marché. The graveyard, in the north of the Tower, beyond the fortifications, has been discovered during a private house building in 1960. The Tower is 21 meters high and 9 meters large.; The Farm of Roquemont : In the village, the farm of Roquemont took its name from la Rosque’s fief, Bussy Saint-Georges lords from 1490 to 1594. it was also the main source of lord’s for the benefit of Bussy fief. Later, the farm was called the great farm of Bussy Saint-Georges. ; The Russon mill : This water mill is placed in the street of de la Brosse. A smart streaming water and spring picking system served to supply energy for the race and finally the paddle wheel at the pinion of the building. The former owner already restored it. The mill was a component of the outbuildings of the Farm of Roquemont. It was used as a mill only for a few months and was dedicated the rest of time as place to live for the farm hands. ; The Wash-house : The wash-house is in the street "du Moulin" and was built in the middle of the XIXth century. As a matter of fact, Bussy already used a very old wash-house close to a spring in Ferrières : the wash-house of Cessoy. But it was too far from the center of the village and difficult to reach for the washerwomen who used barrows for the laundry. The city council bargained for acquiring a land attached to another spring to the family de Guermantes, in the upper side of the street du Moulin for building the second wash-house. Currently, the wash-house of Cessoy is private contrary to the public one in the street du Moulin.; The Farm of "Génitoy" : the Farm of Génitoy is a « place mentioned in the titles as ancient as those who speak about Bussy » (Louis Michelin, 1843). The name, genesterium in Latin or genestay in Old French, become then génitoire or génitoy, because of the broom Genista flower which abonded. The farm was also an important fief with a castle.In 1672, Mme de Montespan would have had a baby in the castle of Génitoy, one of the Louis XIV ‘s son : Louis-César de Bourbon, count of Vexin.; La Jonchère : In the beginning of the 19th century, this was a great farm. The owner was M. Martin de Longchamps, who also owned Fontenelles. It was a féculerie in 1836, which dominated all the intensive potato production in the region… unfortunately from 1845, the potato’s blight stroke the activity and then completely stopped it. The farmers decided to replace it with sugar beet. The "domaine de la Jonchère" was used for establishing the installations of the new product. ; L’église du village : The current church was constructed on the location of a medieval church. François de la Rosque, parish priest, member of the lord of Bussy’s family, celebrated the consecration of the church in 1580. The construction finished in 1595 and the baptism of the three bells in 1600, August 22th followed: Louise, in reference to the fundation of the St-Louis chapel, Isabelle, first name of the wife of Louis Guibert, Georges, patron saint of the parish.The church has been restored in 19th century and, to the request of the inhabitants who was disappointed for not hearing the Angélus, the bell tower was raised in 1866 until the current height of 32 meters.: The church fell under the public property in 1905. Under the porch of the monument there is an 18th-century gravestone. It covered up the body of abbot Duchesne buried in the chancel of the church. Inside, the body and the transept have a refined ogival style. The beams hold a painted vault in arch. On the right side, there is a Saint-Georges sculpture. On the left this is the chapel restored in 1904 thanks to a group of the Visitation of the Virgin (probably for the relics translation in 1431, given to the parish of Bussy Saint-Georges by the abott Duchesne. The baptistery have a renaissance underbody and the washbowl of ceremony is decorated with four angel’s heads. We can also notice an embedded stone font on the left of the entrance.; The Church Notre-Dame du Val : The church is a modern one, built in 1997 by the architect office Gonot-Marcenat. Fully made with modern components, the dome is in natural copper.The location is at "33, boulevard Thibaud-de-Champagne."

Culture and Leisures

; City Library : The "Médiathèque de l’Europe" was inaugurated in October 2006. It can be found CD, books (novels, comics, documentaries, magazines etc), DVD, music scores…
The library also welcome a large range of activities put in place by the cultural department of the city. Currently, the hours of opening concern the following days: Tuesday from 2pm to 7pm, Wednesday 10am – 12:30am and 2pm to 6pm, Thursday 2pm – 6pm, and Sunday 10am – 12:30am and 2pm – 6pm.; Conservatoire : The "Jean-Sébastien-Bach Conservatoire" of Bussy Saint-Georges opened its doors in 1995. Widened in 2004, the expanse for people reception have doubled. In 2006 more than 700 pupils and 45 employees were concerned, 28 individual instrumental disciplines (some of these instruments are « rare » such as harpsichord, viola de gamba or traditional Chinese ones : pipa, guzheng) and 10 steel band disciplines.

Associations

Bussy Saint-Georges counted 30 sport associations, 19 cultural associations, 31 associations for leisure and 11 charities.For more information about these associations, please visit the official website of Bussy Saint-Georges city.

Celebrations

All along a year, the city of Bussy Saint-Georges offer to its inhabitants a large list of celebrations:

* Wishes of the Buxangeorgiens : January
* Festival of Asia: February
* Carnival days: March
* Saint Georges day: April
* Journée nationale du souvenir de la déportation et ravivage de la flamme du souvenir : April
* Commemoration of the end of World War II : May 8
* Antiques roadshow days : June
* Commemoration for dead soldiers in French Indochina: June 8
* Commemoration of the Général de Gaulle's call: June 18
* Nation day (pyrotechnics): July 13
* Golf Open of the city : September
* Forum of the associations : September
* Les virades de l’Espoir (important march for the custic fibrosis cure research) : September
* Secondhand trade days : September
* Commemoration of the Armistice in 1918 : November 11
* Night of the Beaujolais : November
* Commemoration for dead soldiers during the north-African wars : December 5
* Christmas Time (marché de noël, animations, patinoire) : December and January.

Twin towns

* Radcliffe on Trent, since 1999
* Holme Pierrepont, since 1999
* Kiryat Ekron
* San Giuliano Milanese, [http://www.sangiulianonline.it]
* Meiningen, since 2006, [http://www.meiningen.de]

"European City network :"Member of the European New Towns Platform (ENTP). [http://www.newtowns.net/]

Economy

On its territory, the city have an industrial pole (Gustave Eiffel Park) located in the south of the city. Among the listed companies, there are Tech Data, SME Distribution (Sony), IBM, Air liquide, Asialand, BT France companies,... There are also a Technical Book Center of the Superior Teaching (Centre technique du livre de l'enseignement supérieur ) and the Technical Center of the French National Library (Centre technique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France). Gustave-Eiffel Park will be entirely finished at the end of 2007 by installing the main logistic warehouse of the Galeries Lafayette. The city economic growth still continues with the creation of new city planning areas or Zone d’Aménagement Concerté, such as the ZAC Léonardo-de-Vinci (30 hectares) or the Rucherie (80 hectares). The strategic location of the city in the region offers all the sought attractive conditions.

With the support of the city ecomomic unit, Bussy Saint-Georges makes available to the entrepreneurs and investors a proactive help for implantation. The city shares its large experience for the development of any real estate, industrial, handcrafted and commercial initiatives. If necessary, the city plays the interface role between investors and EPAMarne, the public legal owner of the grounds.

The city is strongly attached to the French public service principles which take in account the companies point of view and work environment such as a regular maintenance and improvement of the business parks, a security management plan with the local police.

Gallery

ee also

*Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department

External links

* [http://www.ville-bussy-saint-georges.fr Official site of Bussy-Saint-Georges] fr icon
* [http://www.iaurif.org/en/gis/fichescom/mos99/ficmos/mos77058.html 1999 Land Use, from IAURIF (Institute for Urban Planning and Development of the Paris-Île-de-France région] en icon
* [http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/merimee_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_98=INSEE&VALUE_98=77058 French Ministry of Culture list for Bussy-Saint-Georges] fr icon
* [http://www.viamichelin.co.uk/viamichelin/gbr/dyn/controller/mapPerformPage?strAddress=&strCP=&strLocation=Bussy-Saint-Georges&strCountry=1424&image2.x=28&image2.y=7 Map of Bussy-Saint-Georges on Michelin] en icon