Bobigny

Bobigny
Prefecture building
Prefecture building
Coat of arms of Bobigny
Location (in red) within Paris inner suburbs
Location (in red) within Paris inner suburbs
Location of Bobigny
Map
Bobigny is located in France
Bobigny
Bobigny
Bobigny is located in Île-de-France (region)
Bobigny
Bobigny
Coordinates: 48°54′38″N 2°26′23″E / 48.9106°N 2.4397°E / 48.9106; 2.4397
CountryFrance
RegionÎle-de-France
DepartmentSeine-Saint-Denis
ArrondissementBobigny
CantonBobigny and Bondy
IntercommunalityGrand Paris
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Abdel Sadi
Area
1
6.77 km2 (2.61 sq mi)
Population
(Jan. 2020)
54,906
 • Density8,100/km2 (21,000/sq mi)
DemonymBalbyniens
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
93008 /93000
Elevation39–57 m (128–187 ft)
(avg. 45 m or 148 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Bobigny (French pronunciation: [bɔbiɲi]) is a commune, or town, in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France, France. It is located 9.1 km (5.7 mi) from the centre of Paris. Bobigny is the prefecture (capital city) of the Seine-Saint-Denis department, as well as the seat of the Arrondissement of Bobigny. It is the 11th most populous commune in Seine-Saint-Denis (2019).

Inhabitants are called Balbyniens. Bobigny is the seat of the Seine-Saint-Denis prefecture. The first IKEA store in France was located in this commune.

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.

Economy

Valeo has management branches (Valeo Transmissions group and Valeo Friction Materials group) here. It was also the manufacturing base used by Meccano for French Dinky Toys from 1933 until 1970, when the factory was closed and later demolished. Production of Dinky Toys was then transferred to the Meccano factory in Calais until 1972, when the last new model, a Renault 4 la poste, was produced.

Toponymy

Its name is derived from Roman-period Balbiniacum, "the place of Balbo or Balbinus or Balbinius"; or "of the dumb or silent man/men" (Gaulish: Irish Gaelic balbh = "dumb, silent").

History

During World War II, approximately 20,000 Jews were shipped from a railway station in Bobigny. Their ultimate destinations were the Nazi camps.

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1793 260—    
1800 257−0.17%
1806 278+1.32%
1821 231−1.23%
1831 316+3.18%
1836 333+1.05%
1841 351+1.06%
1846 353+0.11%
1851 370+0.95%
1856 363−0.38%
1861 561+9.10%
1866 910+10.16%
1872 889−0.39%
1876 972+2.26%
1881 1,173+3.83%
1886 1,335+2.62%
1891 1,540+2.90%
1896 1,678+1.73%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1901 1,946+3.01%
1906 2,438+4.61%
1911 3,660+8.46%
1921 6,757+6.32%
1926 11,412+11.05%
1931 17,370+8.76%
1936 17,676+0.35%
1946 16,547−0.66%
1954 18,521+1.42%
1962 37,010+9.04%
1968 39,453+1.07%
1975 43,125+1.28%
1982 42,723−0.13%
1990 44,659+0.56%
1999 44,079−0.15%
2007 48,196+1.12%
2012 48,496+0.12%
2017 53,640+2.04%
Source: EHESS and INSEE (1968-2017)

List of mayors

Start End Name Party
1944 1955 Léon Pesch PCF
1955 1965 René Guesnier PCF
1965 1995 Georges Valbon PCF
1995 2006 Bernard Birsinger PCF
2006 2014 Catherine Peyge PCF
2014 2020 Stéphane de Paoli UDI
2020 2026 Abdel Sadi PCF

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.

Personalities

Bobigny is the birthplace of:

Bobigny is the place of death of:

• Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter.

Heraldry

Arms of Bobigny
Arms of Bobigny
The arms of Bobigny are blazoned :
Or, a saltire gules, overall on an inescutcheon azure, a basket filled with fruit and flowers and topped with 7 ears of wheat argent.

The village of Bobigny was under Saint Andrew, hence the cross of Saint Andrew (saltire). The small shield in the middle evokes the agricultural nature of the commune, before the spread of built-up Paris surrounded it.



International relations

Bobigny is twinned with:

See also


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