Cergy-Pontoise

Composition

, the communauté d'agglomération Cergy-Pontoise consists of thirteen communes:

• Boisemont
• Cergy
• Courdimanche
• Éragny
• Jouy-le-Moutier
• Maurecourt
• Menucourt
• Neuville-sur-Oise
• Osny
• Pontoise
• Puiseux-Pontoise
• Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône
• Vauréal

Except Maurecourt, which is in the Yvelines department, all communes are part of the Val-d'Oise department.

Population

| 1962| 34050 |1968 |44292 |1975 |72798 |1982 |106161 |1990 |163125 |1999 |182839 |2010 |195313 |2015 |204248 |2021 |214428

Since the establishment of the new agglomeration, the population has quadrupled over forty years.

History

In the 1960s, faced by the fast development of Paris and its suburbs, it was decided to control and balance it by creating several new cities around Paris.

To the north, the choice was made on the surroundings of Pontoise. The old city was to be integrated in a much larger unit, whose center would be Cergy, at the time not more than a village. From 1965, the establishment of the new city was to be done in several stages:

• April 16, 1969: creation of the publicly owned "Établissement public d'aménagement" (EPA)
• 1971: creation of the Syndicat communautaire d'aménagement (SCA).
• August 11, 1972: official creation of the new city of Cergy-Pontoise, gathering fifteen communes (the eleven current ones, and Boisemont, Boissy-l'Aillerie, Méry-sur-Oise and Pierrelaye).
• 1983: the law Rocard amended the new cities.
• 1984: Syndicat d'agglomération nouvelle (SAN) replaces the SCA, four communes left the structure (the four mentioned above)
• December 31, 2002: end of the mission and dissolution of the EPA, following the completion of the new city.
• January 1, 2004: transformation of the SAN into a communauté d'agglomération.
• 2004: Boisemont becomes the 12th commune of Cergy-Pontoise.

Public transport

Bus services are provided by the Stivo (formerly StAN).

Rail services are provided by both the SNCF and the RATP. Two RER lines begin within the new town.

Economy

Subaru France and Bandai France have their head office in Cergy Pontoise.

Media appearances

• L'enfance d'une ville, a 1975 movie by Eric Rohmer
• I as in Icarus, a 1979 movie by Henri Verneuil
• Boyfriends and Girlfriends, a 1987 movie by Eric Rohmer
• Water Lilies, a 2007 movie by Céline Sciamma
• Petite Maman, a 2021 movie by Céline Sciamma

Twinnings

Cergy-Pontoise is a sister city to the planned cities of:

• United States Columbia, Maryland, United States
• Spain Tres Cantos, Spain
• United Kingdom West Lancashire, England (encompassing Skelmersdale, a former new town)

Cergy-Pointoise's twin town partnership with Erkrath, Germany was dissolved in 2019.

References

References

1. [https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/1405599?geo=EPCI-249500109 INSEE, CA de Cergy-Pontoise]
2. [https://www.insee.fr/fr/metadonnees/geographie/intercommunalite/249500109-cergy-pontoise Intercommunalité : Communauté d'agglomération de Cergy-Pontoise], INSEE
3. [https://www.banatic.interieur.gouv.fr/intercommunalite/249500109-ca-de-cergy-pontoise CA de Cergy-Pontoise (N° SIREN : 249500109)], BANATIC, accessed 17 October 2024.
4. [https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/8200783?geo=EPCI-249500109#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE
5. "[http://www.bandai.fr/index.swf Mentoins légales] {{webarchive. link. (October 3, 2011 ." Bandai France. Retrieved on 6 July 2011. "21-23 rue du Petit Albi, 95808 CERGY-PONTOISE Cedex.")
6. "Enfance d'une ville". Institut national de l'audiovisuel.
7. (27 August 2003). "Le président d'« I... comme Icare » a été assassiné à Cergy".
8. (9 October 1987). "Film: 'Ami de Mon Amie'".
9. (17 May 2007). "Water Lilies".
10. (2022-02-18). "Céline Sciamma: mother of invention".
11. (7 June 2019). "CA marks 35th year with French sister city at ‘Twinning Celebration’". The Baltimore Sun.
12. "Town twinning". West Lancashire Borough Council.
13. (5 November 2019). "Cergy-Pontoise löst Städtepartnerschaft mit Erkrath". Rheinische Post.