Firminy
Encyclopedia
Firminy is a commune
in the Loire
department in central France
.
It lies on the Ondaine River 8 mi. S.W. of Saint-Étienne
by rail.
designed a group of modern buildings, called "Firminy Vert", which includes a church Saint-Pierre, Firminy
, cultural center, and an Unité d'Habitation
.
, steel
, and aluminum goods, including railway material, machinery and cannon. Fancy woolen hosiery is also manufactured.
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
in the Loire
Loire
Loire is an administrative department in the east-central part of France occupying the River Loire's upper reaches.-History:Loire was created in 1793 when after just 3½ years the young Rhône-et-Loire department was split into two. This was a response to counter-Revolutionary activities in Lyon...
department in central France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
.
It lies on the Ondaine River 8 mi. S.W. of Saint-Étienne
Saint-Étienne
Saint-Étienne is a city in eastern central France. It is located in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon in the Rhône-Alpes region, along the trunk road that connects Toulouse with Lyon...
by rail.
Sights
Two historic churches from the 12th and 16th centuries are located here. The architect Le CorbusierLe Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and painter, famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930...
designed a group of modern buildings, called "Firminy Vert", which includes a church Saint-Pierre, Firminy
Saint-Pierre, Firminy
Saint-Pierre is a concrete building in the commune of Firminy, France. The last major work of Le Corbusier, it was completed in 2006, forty-one years after his death....
, cultural center, and an Unité d'Habitation
Unité d'Habitation
The Unité d'Habitation is the name of a modernist residential housing design principle developed by Le Corbusier, with the collaboration of painter-architect Nadir Afonso...
.
Economy
It has important coalmines known since the 14th century and extensive manufactures of ironIron
Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. It is a metal in the first transition series. It is the most common element forming the planet Earth as a whole, forming much of Earth's outer and inner core. It is the fourth most common element in the Earth's crust...
, steel
Steel
Steel is an alloy that consists mostly of iron and has a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. Carbon is the most common alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used, such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten...
, and aluminum goods, including railway material, machinery and cannon. Fancy woolen hosiery is also manufactured.