Bobigny

{{Infobox French commune

|name = Bobigny

|commune status = Prefecture and commune

|image = Bobigny - Prefecture 01.jpg

|caption = Prefecture building

|image coat of arms = Blason Bobigny 93.svg

|map = Bobigny_map.svg

|map caption = Location (in red) within Paris inner suburbs

|coordinates = {{coord|48.9106|2.4397|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|arrondissement = Bobigny

|canton = Bobigny and Bondy

|INSEE = 93008

|postal code = 93000

|demonym = Balbyniens

|mayor = Abdel Sadi{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|publisher=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=13 September 2022|language=fr}}

|term = 2020–2026

|intercommunality = Grand Paris

|elevation m = 45

|elevation min m = 39

|elevation max m = 57

|area km2 = 6.77

|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}

|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}

|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}

}}

Bobigny ({{IPA|fr|bɔbiɲi}}) is a commune, or town, in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France, France. It is located {{convert|9.1|km|mi|abbr=on}} 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).[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/6011060/dep93.pdf Populations légales 2019: 93 Seine-Saint-Denis], INSEE

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.

Urbanism

=Typology=

Bobigny is an urban commune, as it is one of the dense or intermediate density communes, as defined by the Insee communal density grid.{{efn|According to the zoning of rural and urban municipalities published in November 2020, in application of the new definition of rurality validated on November 14, 2020 by the Interministerial Committee for Rural Areas.}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.observatoire-des-territoires.gouv.fr/typologie-urbain-rural|title=Typologie urbain / rural|website=observatoire-des-territoires.gouv.fr|access-date=March 15, 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/metadonnees/definition/c1472|title=Commune urbaine - définition|website=Insee website|access-date=March 15, 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.observatoire-des-territoires.gouv.fr/methodes/methode-comprendre-la-grille-de-densite|title=Comprendre la grille de densité|website=observatoire-des-territoires.gouv.fr|access-date=March 15, 2024}} It belongs to the urban unit of Paris, an inter-departmental conurbation comprising 407 communes{{Cite web|url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/metadonnees/geographie/unite-urbaine-2020/00851-paris|title=Unité urbaine 2020 de Paris|publisher=INSEE|access-date= 12 November 2024}} and 10,785,092 inhabitants in 2017, of which it is a suburban commune.{{Cite web|url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/information/4802589|title=Base des unités urbaines 2020 |date=October 21, 2020|website=insee.fr|access-date=March 15, 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4806684|title=Toujours plus d'habitants dans les unités urbaines |first=Vianney| last=Costemalle |date=October 21, 2020|website=website of Insee|access-date=March 15, 2024}}

The commune is also part of the functional area of Paris{{efn|In October 2020, the concept of functional area replaced that of urban area in order to enable consistent comparisons with other European Union countries}} where it is located in the main population and employment centre of the functional area. This area comprises 1,929 communes.{{Cite web|url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/metadonnees/geographie/aire-attraction-des-villes-2020/001-paris|title=Aire d'attraction des villes 2020 de Paris|publisher=Insee website|access-date=18 November 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4806694|title=En France, neuf personnes sur dix vivent dans l'aire d'attraction d'une ville |author1=Marie-Pierre de Bellefon|author2=Pascal Eusebio |author3=Jocelyn Forest |author4=Olivier Pégaz-Blanc |author5=Raymond Warnod

|author6=(Insee) |date=October 21, 2020|website=Insee website|access-date=March 15, 2024}}

= 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

File:Hôtel de ville de Bobigny - Septembre 2024 - 1.jpg]]

During the Second World War, approximately 20,000 jews were transported Bobigny station to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps.{{Cite web|title=The deportation stages {{!}} Ancienne Gare de déportation de Bobigny|url=http://garedeportation.bobigny.fr/en/104/the-deportation-stages.htm|access-date=2020-10-02|website=garedeportation.bobigny.fr}}

The Hôtel de Ville was completed in 1974.{{cite web|url=https://exploreparis.com/fr/970-la-salle-des-mariages-de-bobigny-journees-du-patrimoine.html|title=La salle des mariages d'Hervé Di Rosa à Bobigny - Journées du patrimoine|publisher=Explore Paris|access-date=17 April 2025}}

Population

{{Historical populations

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| source = EHESS{{Cassini-Ehess|2939|Bobigny}} and INSEE (1968-2017)[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-93008#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE

| graph-pos = bottom

|1793 |260

|1800 |257

|1806 |278

|1821 |231

|1831 |316

|1836 |333

|1841 |351

|1846 |353

|1851 |370

|1856 |363

|1861 |561

|1866 |910

|1872 |889

|1876 |972

|1881 |1173

|1886 |1335

|1891 |1540

|1896 |1678

|1901 |1946

|1906 |2438

|1911 |3660

|1921 |6757

|1926 |11412

|1931 |17370

|1936 |17676

|1946 |16547

|1954 |18521

|1962 |37010

|1968 |39453

|1975 |43125

|1982 |42723

|1990 |44659

|1999 |44079

|2007 |48196

|2012 |48496

|2017 |53640

}}

List of mayors

class="wikitable centre"
align="left" ! Start !! End !! Name !! colspan=2\| Party
\| 1944	1955	Léon Pesch	bgcolor="#dd0000"\|	PCF
\| 1955	1965	René Guesnier	bgcolor="#dd0000"\|	PCF
\| 1965	1995	Georges Valbon	bgcolor="#dd0000"\|	PCF
\| 1995	2006	Bernard Birsinger	bgcolor="#dd0000"\|	PCF
\| 2006	2014	Catherine Peyge	bgcolor="#dd0000"\|	PCF
\| 2014	2020	Stéphane de Paoli	bgcolor="#00FFFF"\|	UDI
\| 2020	2026	Abdel Sadi	bgcolor="#dd0000"\|	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."[http://www.bobigny.fr/182/scolarite-et-enseignements.htm Scolarité et enseignements]." Bobigny. Retrieved on 4 September 2016.

Junior high schools: Collège Auguste Delaune, Collège Jean-Pierre Timbaud, Collège Pierre Sémard, and Collège République et SEGPA"[http://www.bobigny.fr/471/enseignement-secondaire.htm Enseignement secondaire]." Bobigny. Retrieved on 4 September 2016.
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:

Charles Itandje (born 1982), football goalkeeper
Gaël Monfils, tennis player
Valentin Courrent, rugby player
Odsonne Edouard, football player

Bobigny is the place of death of:

• Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter.

Heraldry

{{Blazon-arms

|img1=Blason Bobigny 93.svg

|legend1= Arms of Bobigny

|text= 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:

{{flagdeco|RUS}} Serpukhov, Moscow Oblast (Russia){{cite web | url = http://www.bobigny.fr/jsp/site/Portal.jsp?page_id=197 | publisher = Ville de Bobigny (official site) | title = Relations internationales et culture de paix | access-date = 21 July 2008 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080721154006/http://www.bobigny.fr/jsp/site/Portal.jsp?page_id=197 | archive-date = 21 July 2008}}
{{flagdeco|GER}} Potsdam, Brandenburg (Germany){{cite web|url=http://www.potsdam.de/cms/ziel/27222/DE/|title=Die Partnerstädte der Landeshauptstadt Potsdam|work=potsdam.de|access-date=24 June 2010|language=de|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100625001110/http://www.potsdam.de/cms/ziel/27222/DE/|archive-date=25 June 2010}}

Notes

References

External links

[http://www.bobigny.fr/ Official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511001355/http://www.bobigny.fr/ |date=11 May 2008 }} (in French)

Category:Communes of Seine-Saint-Denis

Category:Prefectures in France