Cergy
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{{Infobox French commune
|name = Cergy
|commune status = Disputed Prefecture and commune
|image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Cergy (Val-d'Oise).svg
|image = Mairie cergy.JPG
|caption = The old Hôtel de Ville (town hall)
|map size = 270px
|adjustable map = Cergy_map.png
|map caption = Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs
|coordinates = {{coord|49.0361|2.0631|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|arrondissement = Pontoise
|INSEE = 95127
|postal code = 95000
|term = 2020–2026
|intercommunality = Cergy-Pontoise
|elevation m = 25
|elevation min m = 21
|elevation max m = 121
|area km2 = 11.68
|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
}}
Cergy ({{IPA|fr|sɛʁʒi|-|Fr-Paris--Cergy.ogg}}) is a commune in the French department of Val-d'Oise, to the northwest of Paris. It is located {{convert|27.8|km|mi|abbr=on}} from the centre of Paris, in the "new town" of Cergy-Pontoise, created in the 1960s, of which it is the central and most populated commune.
Although neighbouring Pontoise is the official préfecture (capital) of the Val-d'Oise département, the préfecture building and administration, as well as the department council (conseil général), are located inside the commune of Cergy, which is regarded as the de facto capital of Val-d'Oise. The sous-préfecture building and administration, on the other hand, are located inside the commune of Pontoise.
Name
The name Cergy comes from Medieval Latin Sergiacum, meaning "estate of Sergius", a Gallo-Roman landowner.
Administration
File:Cergy-préfecture-quartiers.jpg
File:AMA Siège BP France, Cergy-Saint-Christophe.jpg (town hall)]]
Cergy is the chief town of two cantons: Cergy-1 and Cergy-2.
=Twin towns and sister cities=
- {{Flagicon|USA}} Columbia, Maryland, United States.
- {{Flagicon|Germany}} Erkrath, Germany.
- {{Flagicon|People's Republic of China}} Liaoyang, People's Republic of China.
- {{Flagicon|Benin}} Porto Novo, Benin.
- {{Flagicon|Spain}} Tres Cantos, Spain
- {{Flagicon|UK}} West Lancashire, United Kingdom.
Cergy is also informally twinned with a village in Palestine and a village in Senegal.{{cite news|title=Migrants are streaming into Germany, but few are interested in France|url=https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21689649-migrants-are-streaming-germany-few-are-interested-france-non-merci|access-date=30 January 2016|newspaper=The Economist|date=30 January 2016}}
The new Hôtel de Ville (town hall) was completed in 1990.{{cite web|url= https://locations.filmfrance.net/location/city-cergy-les-gemeaux-building-city-hall-global-information |title= Ville de Cergy – Immeuble les Gémeaux|publisher=Film France| access-date=12 March 2025}}
Demographics
When Cergy was selected to become the center of a "new town", it was only a village. The commune had only 2,895 inhabitants in 1968. It then started to develop very quickly, exceeding 10,000 inhabitants in the mid-1970s and then 20,000 in the early-1980s. It is in this decade that its growth was most spectacular, since the city exceeded 48,000 inhabitants in 1990. The increase continued since, but at a notably slower pace, to reach 54,500 at 2004 estimates. However, in December 2001, the commune lost a portion of its territory (net {{convert|0.03|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}} with a 1999 population of 62 persons) to the adjacent commune of Courdimanche.{{cite web|url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000000771032|title=Décret du 4 décembre 2001 portant modification des limites territoriales de communes et de cantons du département du Val-d'Oise|website=Légifrance|language=fr}} The official census figures have thus been revised downward from the 1999 official 54,781 to 54,719, and the land area from {{convert|11.68|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}} to 11.65 km2.
{{Historical populations
| align = none
| cols = 2
| percentages = pagr
| source = EHESS{{Cassini-Ehess|7488|Cergy}} and INSEE (1968-2017)[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-95127#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE
| graph-pos = bottom
|1793 |1045
|1800 |1084
|1806 |1069
|1821 |987
|1831 |1016
|1836 |1000
|1841 |970
|1846 |956
|1851 |963
|1856 |922
|1861 |933
|1866 |953
|1872 |926
|1876 |897
|1881 |869
|1886 |889
|1891 |897
|1896 |902
|1901 |885
|1906 |942
|1911 |933
|1921 |963
|1926 |1060
|1931 |1118
|1936 |1106
|1946 |1138
|1954 |1447
|1962 |2455
|1968 |2895
|1975 |8896
|1982 |19357
|1990 |48226
|1999 |54781
|2007 |57600
|2012 |60528
|2017 |65177
}}
=Immigration=
{{France immigration
|collectivity_name=Cergy
|census_year=1999
|metropolitan_France=78.2
|outside_metropolitan_France=21.8
|overseas_France=2.8
|foreign_French=3.4
|EU-15=1.9
|non-EU-15=13.7
}}
Port Cergy
Image:Port Cergy - L'horloge 03-03-06.jpg
Port Cergy is a marina on the River Oise at pk 9. The site comprises both housing and recreational yachts as well as a boating school. The marina can hold 103 ships ranging 5 to 22m long and. The northern part of the site is reserved for restaurants and shops and have been built around a small bain.
Ham
Ham is a small village to the south of Cergy. The village used to be part of the Sergentery and then commune of Neuville-sur-Oise but has since been amalgamated in the commune of Cergy. On its territory is the outdoor leisure centre 'Base de Loisirs de Cergy-Neuville'.
Transport
Cergy is served by three stations on Paris RER line A and on the Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare suburban rail line: Cergy-Préfecture, Cergy-Saint-Christophe, and Cergy-le-Haut.
Cergy is served by direct buses from Charles de Gaulle Airport.[http://www.cergypontoise.fr/vie_locale/transp/bus.php Bus transport] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071206012754/http://www.cergypontoise.fr/vie_locale/transp/bus.php |date=6 December 2007 }} to Cergy
The bus company [http://www.stivo.com STIVO] provides 17 lines of buses to travel within the agglomeration of Cergy.http://www.eatfoodcourtcergy.co.uk {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518093028/http://www.eatfoodcourtcergy.co.uk/ |date=18 May 2015 }}
Education
- Junior high schools (collèges): Gérard Philipe, La Justice, Les Explorateurs, Les Touleuses, Moulin à Vent
- Senior high schools/sixth-form colleges: Lycée polyvalent Galilée and Lycée polyvalent Jules Verne
Lycée Alfred Kastler de Cergy-Pontoise is in neighbouring Pontoise.
Tertiary education:
- Cergy-Pontoise University
- CY Tech, formerly EISTI (École internationale des sciences du traitement de l'information)
- ESSEC Business School (grande école)
- ENSEA École Nationale Supérieure de l'Électronique et de ses Applications
- ITIN, IT-Institute (École supérieure d'informatique, réseaux et systèmes d'information)
- [http://licencespro.cergy.free.fr/Site/?lng=en Web site of Professional Bachelor’s degree in International Trade and International Tourism (Cergy-Pontoise University)]
Security
Known as being a violent city in the past, with a criminal rate of 137.62 incidents per 1000 inhabitants{{Citation needed|date=October 2019}}, Cergy-Pontoise has experienced a significant decrease of violence in the past years. Reaching, in the year of 2008, a rate of 9,87 criminal incidents per 1000 inhabitants, which is still a high criminal rate.{{cite web|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2008/06/24/01016-20080624ARTFIG00263-le-palmares-de-la-violence-ville-par-ville.php|title=Le palmarès de la violence, ville par ville|date=24 June 2008|via=Le Figaro}}
In popular culture
File:Tour EDF Cergy-Pontoise (France).jpg, Cergy-Pontoise (France)]]
The town was used as a filming location for Henri Verneuil's film I... comme Icare released in 1979, starring Yves Montand. The EDF-GDF tower designed by architect Renzo Moro is the building from which the shots were fired to assassinate president Marc Jarry.
The country that the movie depicts is not named, although the United States is perhaps suggested.
The filmmakers chose the modern and innovative architecture of the new city to avoid depicting any particular country.{{cite web
|url=http://www.leparisien.fr/val-d-oise/le-president-d-i-comme-icare-a-ete-assassine-a-cergy-27-08-2003-2004339459.php
|title=Le président d'" I... comme Icare " a été assassiné à Cergy
|author=Eric Bureau
|date=2003-08-27
|language=fr
|access-date=2011-11-20}}
The town was also the location of the 1987 film My Girlfriend's Boyfriend directed by Eric Rohmer.
See also
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Cergy}}
- {{official website}} {{in lang|fr}}
- {{Search Mérimée|95127}}
- [http://portcergy.com/ Port Cergy] {{in lang|en}}
{{Cergy-Pontoise}}
{{Préfectures of départements of France}}
{{Paris Metropolitan Area}}
{{Val-d'Oise communes}}
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