Savigny-sur-Orge
Commune in Île-de-France, France
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Savigny-sur-Orge (French pronunciation: [saviɲi syʁ ɔʁʒ] ⓘ; lit. 'Savigny-on-Orge') or simply Savigny is a commune in the southern outer suburbs of Paris, France. It is located in the Essonne department, 19.1 km (11.9 mi) from the centre of Paris.
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The Château de Savigny, now the Lycée Corot | |
.svg) Coat of arms | |
 Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs | |
 Location of Savigny-sur-Orge | |
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| Coordinates: 48°40′47″N 2°20′45″E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Île-de-France |
| Department | Essonne |
| Arrondissement | Palaiseau |
| Canton | Savigny-sur-Orge |
| Intercommunality | Grand Paris |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2021–2026) | Alexis Teillet[1] |
Area 1 | 6.97 km2 (2.69 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | 37,601 |
| • Density | 5,390/km2 (14,000/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Saviniens |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 91589 /91600 |
| Elevation | 33–99 m (108–325 ft) |
| Website | www |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
It is home to a renowned high school, the Lycée Jean-Baptiste Corot – Le Château, comprising a 15th-century château, which was the property of Louis-Nicolas Davout, Duke of Auerstaedt, Prince of Eckmühl, a marshal of France under Napoleon. Davout served as mayor, and the city's main square bears his name.
Inhabitants of Savigny-sur-Orge are known as Saviniens (masculine) and Saviniennes (feminine) in French. Writer Patrick Erouart-Siad (born 1955 in Savigny) won the 1993 Prix Ève Delacroix of the Académie Française. During the 2005 civil unrest, Savigny-sur-Orge was the first city to implement a curfew.
Toponymy
The name Savigny derives from the Latin Sabiniacum, meaning the 'estate of Sabinius', a Gallo-Roman landowner.[3]
History
The Hôtel de Ville was completed in 1999.[4]
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Sport
The city hosts a baseball team called The Lions of Savigny-sur-Orge which plays at a national level.
Transport
Savigny-sur-Orge is served by Savigny-sur-Orge station on Line C of the Paris Réseau Express Régional (RER).
In May 1909 a venue for aviation races and exhibitions, Port-Aviation, opened to the public in neighbouring Viry-Châtillon as the world's first purpose-built aerodrome. Distinguished visitors arrived at Savigny-sur-Orge station, about 900 metres (980 yd) from Port-Aviation in Savigny-sur-Orge. This led the press and post card publishers occasionally to refer to Port-Aviation by the misnomer "Sauvigny Airfield." However, the general public attending events at Port-Aviation arrived from Paris by rail at Juvisy station in Juvisy-sur-Orge, just under a kilometre (0.6 mile) from the airfield, and the Juvisy railway station had a sign directing visitors to "Juvisy Airfield." As a result, the press and post card publishers more frequently — and just as inaccurately — referred to Port-Aviation as "Juvisy Airfield" or simply "Juvisy," which became the dominant misnomer for Port-Aviation.[7]
