Oullins
Oullins | |
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Part of Oullins-Pierre-Bénite | |
 The Hôtel de Ville | |
.svg) Coat of arms | |
 Location of Oullins | |
  Oullins Location within France  Oullins Location within Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Coordinates: 45°42′54″N 4°48′30″E / 45.71500°N 4.8083°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
| Metropolis | Lyon Metropolis |
| Arrondissement | Lyon |
| Commune | Oullins-Pierre-Bénite |
Area 1 | 4.4 km2 (1.7 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 178 m (584 ft) |
| Highest elevation | 253 m (830 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 163 m (535 ft) |
| Population (2022)[1] | 27,343 |
| • Density | 6,200/km2 (16,000/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Oullinois |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 69600 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Oullins (French pronunciation: [ulɛ̃]) is a former commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in central-eastern France. A suburb of the city of Lyon, it is adjacent to it to the southwest, on the right bank of the Rhône.
On 1 January 2024, Oullins merged with Pierre-Bénite to form the new commune of Oullins-Pierre-Bénite.[2][3]
History
[edit]The Hôtel de Ville was completed in 1903.[4]
Population
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Transport
[edit]- Several Buses (C7, C10, 8, 12, 14, 17, 63, 88)
- Subway Line B in December 2013.
- Oullins station, which is part of the TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes rail network
Notable people
[edit]- Jean-Bryan Boukaka, footballer
- Barbara Buatois, cyclist
- Georges Charpy (1865–1945)
- Patrice Garande, footballer
- Sabrina Palie, basketball athlete
- Joseph Marie Jacquard
- Clémence Lortet, naturalist, botanist
- Louis Charles Émile Lortet, physician, botanist, zoologist and Egyptologist.
- Lionel Bah, professional football player
- Féthi Harek, professional football player
- Patrick de Gayardon, skydiver
- Charles Le Gendre, American Civil War general & first foreign advisor in Japan
- Dora Jemaa-Amirouche, Athlete(400m hurdles)
- Clément Turpin, football referee
- Olivier Panis, racing driver
- Jean-Louis Ubaud, politician
Twin towns
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Populations de référence 2022" [Reference populations 2022] (PDF) (in French). INSEE. December 2024.
- ↑ "La commune d'Oullins-Pierre-Bénite officiellement créée". leprogres.fr. 15 December 2023. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
- ↑ "Recueil des Actes Administratifs du Département du Rhône N°69-2023-285 publié le 14 décembre 2023" (pdf).
- ↑ Bonhomme, Michèle (2003). 100 ans de vie à Oullins promenade d'un siècle à l'autre, 1903–2003. Olympus. p. 7. ISBN 978-2951998209.
- ↑ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Oullins, EHESS (in French).
- ↑ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Oullins.
- Official website Archived 2015-06-01 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
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