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Jouars-Pontchartrain (French pronunciation: [ʒwaʁ pɔ̃ʃaʁtʁɛ̃] ⓘ) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is approximately 35 kilometres from Paris. This city is famous for the Château de Pontchartrain.
Jouars-Pontchartrain | |
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 Castle of Pontchartrain | |
.svg) Coat of arms | |
Location of Jouars-Pontchartrain  | |
  Jouars-Pontchartrain  Jouars-Pontchartrain | |
| Coordinates: 48°48′14″N 1°54′08″E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Île-de-France |
| Department | Yvelines |
| Arrondissement | Rambouillet |
| Canton | Aubergenville |
| Intercommunality | Cœur d'Yvelines |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2023–2026) | Thomas Mengelle-Touya[1] |
Area 1 | 9.65 km2 (3.73 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | 5,814 |
| • Density | 600/km2 (1,600/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 78321 /78760 |
| Elevation | 67–171 m (220–561 ft) (avg. 112 m or 367 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
The town of Jouars-Pontchartrain is located 35 km west of Paris, 18 km west of Versailles and 22 km from Rambouillet, on a buttress which delimits the western end of the plain of Versailles and at the foot from which begins the plain of Montfort-l'Amaury. Its territory is irrigated by the Mauldre whose south-north oriented course follows the eastern limit of the town and receives in the park of the Château de Pontchartrain the Élancourt brook, a diversion of which feeds its pond. This brook, oriented east-west, is enlarged a little upstream by the Maurepas brook which joins it at Chennevières.
Hamlets of the municipality
The commune comprises seven hamlets:[3][4]
- Pontchartrain, in the north of the municipal territory, heart of the municipality, where are located, around the town hall, the Saint-Lin church and the Saint-Louis hospital, the majority of local shops and most of housing.
- Chennevières, south-east of Pontchartrain and adjoining it. It is a residential and old hamlet, formerly a humid places where the culture of hemp prospered.
- La Richarderie, to the east of Chennevières and adjoining it, is a semi-residential, semi-rural hamlet.
- Jouars, away to the south of Pontchartrain, has a church and has only a few dwellings and rural farms.
- Ergal, in the far east and on the edge of the municipal territory is adjoining the hamlet of Launay in the municipality of Élancourt, half-residential, half-rural.
- Les Mousseaux, south of Jouars, on the edge of the municipal territory and adjoining the hamlet of Villeneuve (parc aux Loups) in the municipality of Maurepas, is half-residential, half-rural with a few small craft businesses.
- La Dauberie, a very wooded residential area, is on the edge of Saint-Rémy-l'Honoré.
The last two hamlets form a kind of enclave between the municipal territories of Maurepas, Coignières, Saint-Rémy-l'Honoré and Le Tremblay-sur-Mauldre.
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| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 2,159 | — |
| 1975 | 2,549 | +2.40% |
| 1982 | 3,774 | +5.77% |
| 1990 | 4,282 | +1.59% |
| 1999 | 4,569 | +0.72% |
| 2007 | 5,145 | +1.50% |
| 2012 | 5,289 | +0.55% |
| 2017 | 5,658 | +1.36% |
| Source: INSEE[5] | ||
- The Château de Pontchartrain built in the 17th century. It was held for many years by the family Phélypeaux.
- St Martin's Church from the 12th century.
- St-Lin's church from the beginning of the 20th century.
Entrance of St Martin's Church .
St-Lin's church.
The farm of the Ithe, located on the banks of the Mauldre and to the west of the hamlet of Jouars corresponds to an ancient Gallo-Roman settlement called Diodurum or Divo durum, one of the largest secondary settlements recorded in Île-de-France. This site, prospected since the middle of the 20th century. The data[6] show that it occupies an area of approximately 40 ha. The recognized chronological sequence, from the beginning of the 1st century BC to the 5th-6th centuries, and the very good preservation of the archaeological levels associated with a humid context make it an exceptional site. The settlement developed in the valley of La Mauldre, at the crossroads of several roads leading to other Gallo-Roman settlements: Le Vieil-Évreux, Dreux, Chartres, Orléans, Sens, Paris, Beauvais. It is a vicus as attested by a fragment of an inscription. As a large crossroad located on the borders of the territory of the Carnutes, near Belgian Gaul and possessing pre-urban characteristics, this vicus is one of the assumptions[7] for the consecrated place of the druids assembly mentioned by Caesar.
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