Goussainville, Val-d'Oise
Goussainville | |
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 Saint Pierre-Saint Paul | |
 Coat of arms | |
 Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs | |
Location of Goussainville | |
  Goussainville | |
| Coordinates: 49°01′57″N 2°28′29″E / 49.0325°N 2.4747°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Île-de-France |
| Department | Val-d'Oise |
| Arrondissement | Sarcelles |
| Canton | Goussainville |
| Intercommunality | CA Roissy Pays de France |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Abdelaziz Hamida[1] |
| Area 1 | 11.52 km2 (4.45 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | 30,693 |
| • Density | 2,700/km2 (6,900/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 95280 /95190 |
| Elevation | 56–109 m (184–358 ft) (avg. 70 m or 230 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Goussainville (French pronunciation: [ɡusɛ̃vil] ) is a commune in the department of Val-d'Oise, northern France.[3] It is located 20.6 km (12.8 mi) north-northeast from the centre of Paris, near Charles de Gaulle Airport. Goussainville is part of the urban unit (agglomeration) of Paris.[3]
1973 air show crash
[edit]In 1973, Goussainville was the site of the crash of a supersonic Russian Tupolev Tu-144 which had been performing aerobatic manoeuvres in the Paris Air Show at le Bourget airport, 8km to the south. All six people on board the aircraft and eight more on the ground were killed, and fifteen houses in Goussainville's south-east district were destroyed. Sixty people on the ground were injured.
The town is less than 6 km from Gonesse, the site of the crash of the supersonic Concorde operating as Air France Flight 4590 on 25 July 2000.
In 1974, a year after the Tupolev Tu-144 crash, Charles de Gaulle Airport opened, putting Goussainville directly under the flight path to a busy airport. The noise of aircraft flying low overhead became a major disturbance and acted as a "constant reminder of the deadly crash."[4][5]
Population
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Transport
[edit]Goussainville is served by two stations on Paris RER line D: Goussainville and Les Noues.
Education
[edit]As of 2016[update], there are 1,718 pupils in 13 public pre-schools and 2,782 elementary school pupils in 13 public primary schools. There are a total of 19 campuses with a total of about 4,500 students.[8]
Junior high schools
Senior high schools:
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Commune de Goussainville (95280), INSEE
- ^ "French ghost town deserted for 40 years - thanks to Charles de Gaulle". uk.news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2020-05-03.
- ^ Holt, Ophelia (2014-08-15). "40 Years of Vacancy in the Eerie Paris Ghost Town of Goussainville". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 2020-05-03.
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Goussainville, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ^ "Les établissements Archived 2016-09-11 at the Wayback Machine." Goussainville. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.
- ^ Home. Collège Georges Charpak de Goussainville. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.
- ^ Home. Collège Montaigne. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.
- ^ Home. Lycée Romain Rolland. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.
External links
[edit]- Official website (in French)
- Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
- Land use (IAURIF) (in English)
- Association of Mayors of the Val d'Oise (in French)
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