Its inhabitants are known as Havrais or Havraises.[7]. [87] There is also a branch of the teacher training institute of Rouen (IUFM) for two courses (CAPET of technology and CRPE school teacher). [51] The common noun havre meaning "port" was out of use at the end of the 18th or beginning of the 19th centuries but is still preserved in the phrase havre de paix meaning "safe haven". Population Pyramids: WORLD - 2019. All-populations.com used data from the number of the population from official sources. The city is one hour from Rouen and one and a half-hour from Île-de-France. Le Havre was only a fishing village until 1517, when Francis I had a harbour built there named Havre-de-Grâce (“Haven of Grace”). Auxerre - Le Havre, 5 October 2019, 13:45, Ligue 2, France, season 2019 - 2020. Since 2006, France estimates the population by using census results of different years. The playwright Jacques-François Ancelot (1794–1854) was also a native of Le Havre. Catholic Diocese of Le Havre. [3], Between 2012 and 2017, the birth rate was 14.3 per thousand and the mortality rate was 10.4 per thousand: even though the Rate of natural increase is positive it does not compensate for the clearly negative net migration rate (-0.7%). Le Havre is an urban French commune and city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northwestern France. It was built on former marshland and mudflats that were drained in the 16th century. [92] The National Higher School of Petrol and Motors (ENSPM) is a school for specialist petroleum engineers, petrochemists, and engine makers. Created in 1934, the leisure boat harbour of Le Havre is located to the west and is the largest French boat harbour in the Channel with a capacity of 1,160 moorings. North of the station, another construction project in place of the dilapidated island of Turgot-Magellan will be opened in 2013,[43] including 12,500 m2 (135,000 sq ft) of office space and an eight-storey hotel, complete with shops on the ground-floor. Bréauté (Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France) with population statistics, charts, map, location, weather and web information. Streets, buildings, and public places in Le Havre pay tribute to other famous Le Havre people from this period: the writer Casimir Delavigne (1793–1843) has a street named after him and a statue in front of the palace of justice alongside another man of letters, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814). The history of the city is inextricably linked to its harbour. The museum houses some paintings of Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Raoul Dufy, Edgar Degas...[143] I. Five newspapers cover the Le Havre agglomeration: the dailies Le Havre libre, Le Havre Presse, Paris Normandie in its Le Havre edition in collaboration with Le Havre Presse and Liberté-Dimanche (communal Sunday edition of the previous three) are part of the Hersant group which is currently in serious financial trouble and looking for a buyer. Since 1998, Le Havre's beach has received the Blue Flag yearly thanks to its range of facilities, which extend over 30,000 Sq. Several major local sportsmen began their career at Le Havre: the swimmer Hugues Duboscq was an Olympic medallist several times. Canadian poet Octave Crémazie (1827–1879) died at Le Havre and was buried in Saint Marie Cemetery. It is to Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) who created many representations of Le Havre in the 19th century. [142] This museum houses a collection of art from the late Middle Ages until the 20th century. [117][118] At the European level, it is 8th largest for container traffic and 6th largest for total traffic. In the 19th century, Le Havre was the setting for several French novels: Honoré de Balzac described the failure of a Le Havre merchant family in Modeste Mignon. It provides about 50% of the production of basic plastics and 80% of additives and oils[124] with more than 3,500 researchers working in private and public laboratories. The University Institutes of Technology of Le Havre occupies two main sites: one in the upper town in the Caucriauville-Rouelles district which was opened in 1967 and another in the Eure district since 2011. The Church of Saint Joseph du Havre, built by Auguste Perret, dominates the city with its spire 107m high. [26] Le Havre is also the third best city in France with more than 100,000 inhabitants for air quality. The city operates 55 kindergartens (254 classes) and 49 communal primary schools (402 classes). [119] The last big project called Port 2000 increased the handling capacity for containers. The ITIP (National Institute for International Transportation and Ports) prepares students for careers in the multimodal transport and port business. [citation needed], The main library is located in the city centre, named after the writer Armand Salacrou. The current policy of the municipality is to build new housing to attract new residents with the goal of exceeding 200,000 inhabitants, a level that was reached in the 1960s. [105] Basketball and Handball matches are playued in the Dock Océane hall (3600 seats) while ice hockey is played at the ice hockey rink (900 seats). [118] 75 regular shipping lines serve 500 ports around the world. Penduduknya berjumlah 188.000 jiwa ( 2005 ). The lower town is subject to a rising water table. [155] Several directors have chosen the port facilities as part of their movie: The city has also hosted the filming of several comedies such as: The film by Sophie Marceau, La Disparue de Deauville, made in 2007, contains many scenes around the port of Le Havre, in the Coty shopping centre of Coty and in the streets of the central city. Today, Le Havre is known as a water sports and Seaside resort. The overhaul of the bus network in 2008 helped to ensure a better service for all the towns in the metropolitan area. It was created on 1 January 2019 by the merger of the former Agglomeration community of Le Havre and the communautés de communes Canton de Criquetot-l'Esneval and Caux Estuaire. This finance agreement provides more than 340 million euros for the housing estates in the northern districts, where about 41,000 people reside. Between 2007 and 2011, the total length of cycle paths has doubled to 46 km (29 mi) in total length. [117] Finally, 340,500 vehicles passed through the Roll-on/roll-off terminal in 2010. The solid line is the Le Havre-Marseille line, to the east of which lives 60% of the French population. The impressionist paintings collections are the second most extensive in France after those of the Orsay Museum in Paris. The port is on Europe's Atlantic coast and at the English Channel. Modern Le Havre remains deeply influenced by its employment and maritime traditions. which were spared the bombings of World War II. [87][95], The city of Le Havre has some of the oldest sports clubs in France: the Le Havre Rowing Society (1838),[96] the Regatta Society of Le Havre (1838), and Le Havre Athletic Club (1872), doyen of French football and rugby clubs.[97][98][99]. With nearly 70 films, Le Havre is one of the provincial cities most represented in the cinema. Subsequently, the population drain of the First World War was offset by the annexation of the town of Graville (the city gained 27,215 people between 1911 and 1921). [33] More recently the A29 autoroute (E44) has connected Le Havre to the north of France and passes over the Normandy Bridge which makes Amiens (in the north-east) two hours away and Caen (in the south-west) one hour. Find out what statistics the population of the country, city, district on All-populations.com. The city also has a Labour Court and District Court. Finally, the beach is a place for kitesurfing, windsurfing and surfing. Crossing times to Portsmouth vary from five hours and thirty minutes to eight hours. Le Havre is the seat of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Le Havre. As the station is the gateway to the city with the main avenues intersecting here. It was from the end of the 18th century that Le Havre started growing and the port took off first with the slave trade then other international trade. Between the latter also in the context of Z'Estivales is an event offering many shows of street art throughout the summer supplemented by the festival of world music MoZaïques at the fort of Sainte-Adresse in August since 2010. More recently a new tramway system, with 23 stations and 13 km (8 mi) of route,[37] was built, and opened on 12 December 2012. Finally, the company AirPlus provides a shuttle service to the train stations and airports of Paris. copyright status. [58] Overall, the inhabitants of Le Havre in the 7th electoral district (city centre and western neighbourhoods) tend to vote for the right while those of the 8th electoral district (eastern neighbourhoods) tend to choose the candidate of the left. The Hockey Club of Le Havre played at the fourth level nationally (Division 3) for the 2008–2009 season. Numerous roads link to Le Havre with the main access roads being the A29 autoroute from Amiens and the A13 autoroute from Paris linking to the A131 autoroute. Lens - Le Havre, 17 August 2019, 14:00, Ligue 2, France, season 2019 - 2020. In May there is the Fest Yves, a Breton festival in the Saint-François district. The city also has seven Muslim places of worship: the socio-cultural association of Muslims in Upper Normandy, En-Nour Mosque on Rue Paul Claudel, El Fath Mosque on rue Victor Hugo, Bellevue mosque on rue Gustavus Brindeau, and three prayer rooms located on rue Audran, Boulevard Jules Durant, and rue Lodi. [12] The soil consists of several metres of alluvium or silt deposited by the Seine. Le Havre PES 2019 Stats - Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 stats for all Le Havre players including Steeve Yago, Zinedine Ferhat and Hervé Bazile. Kick-off Times; Kick-off times are converted to your local PC time. The gardens of the Priory of Graville and the hanging gardens offer views of the lower city. [151] The largest cinema in Le Havre is located on the Docks Vauban (2,430 seats). Explanation: Communes in the boundaries of 1 January 2019. It was organized by the Coup de Bleu association whose former president was head of music Café L'Agora in the Niemeyer Centre which produced the new Le Havre scene. It has an area of 32,000 m2 on a site of 15 hectares and can accommodate 690 people.[63]. However it explains why the complementary determinant -de-Grace was not restored. There are buildings in brick from the 19th century, large developments (Chicago, Les Neiges), worker estates, SMEs, warehouses, dock and port facilities, and transport infrastructure. From 2005, development work for Segregated cycle facilities have increased including a connection to the Greenway which promises to be an important network of quality. The TER network was modernized with the creation of the LER line in 2001 and direct services to Fécamp in 2005. Wikimedia Commons quality image. Since 2006, France estimates the population by using census results of different years. [18] One of the characteristics of the region is the high variability of the temperature, even during the day. There is therefore a low representation of head offices in the city with the exception of some local economic successes such as the Sidel Group (now a subsidiary of Tetra Pak) – a distributor of interior furniture, and the ship-owner Delmas which was recently acquired by the CMA-CGM group. Sochaux - Le Havre, 12 April 2019, 19:00, Ligue 2, France, season 2018 - 2019. [59][60] However, the results of the 2012 presidential elections gave the PS wins in both districts with a smaller margin in the 7th (Hollande: 51.71% / Sarkozy: 48.29%) than in the 8th (Hollande 64.21% / Sarkozy: 35.79%). Similarly, in 1967, for the album Rapt sur le France (Rapt on France), the hero passes by the ocean port. The peripheral suburbs of the commune grew in the postwar period. Because of the bombing in 1944, heritage from the modern era is rare: Le Havre Cathedral, the Church of Saint Francis, the Museum of the Hotel Dubocage of Bleville, the House of the ship-owner and the old palace of justice (now the Natural History Museum) are concentrated in the Notre-Dame and Saint-François areas. In October 2004 the National Agency for Urban Renewal (ANRU) signed with the municipality of Havre the first agreement to finance the rehabilitation of these areas. [127] The AREVA group announced the opening of a factory for building wind turbines: installed in the port of Le Havre, it should create some 1,800 jobs. Since September 2007 the ICC has welcomed local students in their first year in the relocated Europe-Asia campus of the Institute of Political Studies of Paris. [122] Finally, there is a small fishing port in the Saint-François district and a Hawker centre. In 2008, Benoît Duteurtre publishes Les pieds dans l'eau (Feet in the water), a highly autobiographical book in which he describes his youth spent between Le Havre and Etretat. [39] This area of 133 hectares is one of the few inscribed contemporary sites in Europe. In the 20th century, Henry Miller located part of the action in Le Havre in his masterpiece Tropic of Cancer, published in 1934. Many courses are offered are related to the port operations, logistics, industry, and sustainable development. [588 × 550] Other painters who painted Le Havre and/or its surroundings such as Sainte-Adresse can be cited in particular: Frédéric Bazille, John Gendall, Thomas Couture, Ambroise Louis Garneray, Pablo Picasso (Souvenir du Havre). Other cultural institutions of the city centre are being transformed: the cinema of art and a trial of Le Sirius facing the University will reopen in 2013. A pool, a shopping centre and a street have been named after René Coty from Le Havre, who served as President of the French Republic from 1954 to 1959. They left a number of paintings on the theme of the city and the port. [111] Radio Vallée de la Lézarde, based in Épouville, RESONANCE on 98.9, and RCF Le Havre are other radio stations. During the 19th century, it became an industrial center. [33] Since 1890 the funicular has provided a link between the upper town and the lower town in four minutes with a cable car.[36]. The city and the metropolitan area has a dense transport network. In 1867–1868, he painted many seascapes in the Le Havre region (Terrasse a Sainte-Adresse (Garden at Sainte-Adresse), 1867 Bateaux quittant le port (Boats Leaving the Port), 1874). In 2011, 715,279 passengers passed through the port of Le Havre[117] and there were 95 visits by cruise ships carrying 185,000 passengers. Les Halles is one of the commercial hubs of the city. Le Havre is one of two sub-prefectures of Seine-Maritime and the second largest subprefecture in France after Reims. Administratively, Le Havre is a commune in the Normandy region in the west of the department of Seine-Maritime. Martine–Marie Muller tells the saga of a clan of Stevedores from Le Havre in the 1950s to the 1970s in Quai des Amériques (Quay of the Americas). The timetable displays dates and times the cruise ships are in this port-of-call based on the major cruise lines itineraries. With a 2020 population of 9,751 , it is the 9th largest city in Montana and the 3152nd largest city in the United States . The first part of the line connects the beach to the station climbing to the upper town through a new tunnel near the Jenner tunnel then it splits into two: one link going to Mont-Gaillard, the other to Caucriauville. This eco-district made up of housing units to HQE standards, a Joint Development Area (ZAC), and a school should have a total of 1,000 housing units.[49]. Le Havre is located 50 kilometres (31 miles) west of Rouen on the shore of the English Channel and at the mouth of the Seine. In 2010–2011, 6,914 students were enrolled including 5,071 undergraduates, 1,651 Masters students, and 192 postgraduate students. Frank Le Gall, in Novembre toute l'année (November all year) (2000) embarks Theodore Poussin at Le Havre on the Cap Padaran. In the Second World War, German forces occupied Le Havre from the spring of 1940 causing an exodus of its population. Le Tetris will be a venue for contemporary music as well as theatre, dance, and visual arts. It allows the demolition and rebuilding of more than 1,700 homes. Thanks to its proximity to Honfleur, Le Havre was also represented by foreign artists such as William Turner, Johan Barthold Jongkind, Alfred Stevens, and Richard Parkes Bonington. Today, the commune of Le Havre is divided into eight parishes[113] and 24 places of worship (churches and chapels). François de Beaurepaire (pref. Year Catholics Total Population Percent Catholic Diocesan Priests Religious Priests Associations like LHnouslanuit and Only-Hit have tried to develop alternative and cultural local radio by featuring local community associations (Papa's Production, Ben Salad Prod, Asso6Sons, Agend'Havre, Pied Nu, I Love LH).[112]. [144] The museum was destroyed during Allied bombings on 5 September 1944. The SPI (Axis of Science for the Engineer) is expected to reopen in 2012 in a new building in the Eure district. Le Havre (/lə ˈhɑːv(rə)/,[4][5][6] French: [lə ɑvʁ(ə)] (listen); Norman: Lé Hâvre) is an urban French commune and city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northwestern France. The center was rebuilt in a modernist style by Auguste Perret. Since 2006, France estimates the population by using census results of different years. Le Havre has the largest free outdoor skatepark in France with approximately 7,000 m2 allocated to the urban Boardsport. The link to Ireland was moved to the port of Cherbourg. The Port 2000 project increased the container capacity to compete with ports of northern Europe, transformed the southern districts of the city, and ocean liners returned. Head to head statistics, odds, last league matches and more info for the match. A new multimedia library at the "Volcano" is being refurbished for 2014. Orleans - Le Havre, 8 February 2019, 19:00, Ligue 2, France, season 2018 - 2019. These are caused by the combination of strong winds, high waves, and a large tidal range. The 74th Infantry Regiment of commandos was present from 1963 to 1976. Its training centre is well-reputed for having trained a number of international French players, including Vikash Dhorasoo, Julien Faubert, Jean-Alain Boumsong, Lassana Diarra, and Steve Mandanda. The maritime museum displays objects related to the sea and the port. [132], Many buildings in the city are classified as "historical monuments", but the 2000s marked the real recognition of Le Havre's architectural heritage. The film Le Havre by Aki Kaurismäki received two prizes at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and also the Louis Delluc Prize.