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Orgeval, village of Yvelines in Island-of-France,
bordered of forests and close to Poissy and Saint Germain, with the
crossroads of A13, the motorway of Normandy, and A14, turnpike which
emerge with Defense, counts 5.200 inhabitants at the
end of 2001 (4800 in 1999 and 4500 in 1990) and approximately 1.850
houses.
From Paris by the road :
A 13 Rouen Direction - Exit n° 7 Poissy then Orgeval.
Or : A 14 Defense - Poissy - Orgeval.
From Paris by the rail :
Park of Paris Saint Lazare until Poissy : 20 min.
Or : R.E.R. Line A5 Direction Poissy. From Chatelet-Les-Halles : 55
min.
Then take the Bus (15 min) or your car : 7 min.
T emps of Course in the Orgeval car/Paris Triumphal arch by
A14 . To go: 45min the morning, Return: 30
minutes the evening. (20 minutes in the 2 directions when the
traffic is fluid on all the course).
Distances in km : Paris 31 - Mantes-the-Pretty 23
- Pontoise 22 - St-Germain-11 - Versailles 22. Source: Michelin.
Its surface is 1.533 hectares including 310 ha of
wood, 120 ha urbanisables (including 72 already built) for an average
altitude of 100 meters. Its birth rate is of 8,8 /° ° and its
death rate of 5,7 /° °.
The rental tax is 7,1 % of the cadastral rental value
(vlc), the land tax is equal to 7,73% of the vlc on the frame and 46,7
% on not built.
Photographs of Orgeval seen of the sky (you can acquire
them at the IGN) :
The word "Orgeval" of
Celtic origin wants to
say edge of the valley. A source was undoubtedly exploited there by the
Romans for its therapeutic virtues. It was rediscovery
besides about
1708 by the doctor of the Abbey. Despite
everything, its use was abandoned about 1850 .
But its first mention in the History is the foundation of the
abbey
of Abbecourt in 1180 by Gasce de Poissy, suzerain d' Orgeval.
This abbey of men which depended on the diocese of Chartres, located close
to the hotel the Mill of Orgeval, was destroyed near the beginning of
the XIXe century. Orgeval nowadays has a Romance church of XIe century
with an arrow and an octagonal tower. The nave is of XVIe century.
Jeanne d' Arc passed there while going delivers Poissy
and one sought there gold at the beginning of the XVIIe century - A your
detectors!
More recent, a trapper was elected this year by the
Town hall to get rid of also harmful species - Hum - that foxes, magpies
or other terrible rabbits.
Orgeval, it is also the name of a mountain pasture in the Alps
close to Féclaz, a small station, in the heart of the Regional
Natural reserve of the Wallows in the Alps, especially famous for the
ski touring and leaned with a large forest. That of a very small village
in Aisne in Picardy, close to Laon. And finally the name given to a
swimming pool of Rheims. Why not?
