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Welcome to Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon


Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon is situated in the very heart of the Seine Valley and offers an exceptional scenery where chalk cliffs alternate with wooded slopes and forest.

At 35 km from Le Havre, Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon enjoys the proximity of the seaside : Honfleur, Deauville are reached in 30 to 45 minutes via the Normandy Bridge ; Etretat is 45 minutes away.

Jumieges Abbey, " the route of fruit ", Saint-Wandrille abbey and Gruchet le Valasse, Villequier's Victor Hugo museum, Etelan manor are prestigious places which give the area its touristic interest.



The national commitee awarded " 4 flowers " to Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon.

The town owns 90 hectares of parks with 90 000 flowers in summers and 50 000 in winter.


The natural park of the Télhuet

 

This park deserved the distinction of the Ministery for country planning and environment Award in 1995.

A natural park of 20 hectares, it offers a superb promotion of nature an dits ecological balances, with a mixture of formal gardens and natural lands along the Telhuet, a small river which crosses the town. The park has got a water garden, a rose-garden, a ? vicar ?-garden with herbs (in front of our lady's church, 11th century) but also a discovery wood, pastures with Highland cattle?

The place refers to the traditional ? cauchois ? scenery, with beech trees on banks, a field with 280 different apple trees and some restored barns and treadmills of Norman origin.

The park is open to the public at any time all year round.


The archeologic site of La fontaine Saint-Denis


Recently restored, these ruins offer a splendid view on the whole park.

The site is open to the public during the day.

These remains can be regerded as a reference because they have been compltely and carrefully dug and protected. They belong to a large fortified wall from the Middle Ageswich was an important property of the Earls of Evreux in the XI and XIIth centuries, the castle had been built on a Neolithic site.



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Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon in numbers

Population : 8,617 inhabitants and 225 students (last census in 1999)

Number of homes : 3,100

By age-groups

  • 0 - 14 years old : 1,846
  • 15 - 24 years old : 1,085
  • 25 - 29 years old : 572
  • 30 - 39 years old : 1,213
  • 40 - 59 years old : 2,323
  • 60 - 74 years old : 1,124
  • 75 years old and more : 454

Working population : 3,623

Area : about 1800 hectares, divided in three nearly equal parts : industrial area, urban area and green area

Altitude : from 4 metres to 129, from the banks of the Seine to the top

Post code : 76330

CCPJ : association of towns which replaced the District of Lillebonne on Jannery 1st 2001. The district existed for about thirty years

The town council

Mayor


Jean-Claude Weiss
: Mayor

Deputy-Mayors


Christian Morisse
: 1st deputy mayor in charge of finances and politics of the city

Fabienne Beaudoin-Vaucelle
: Deputy mayor in charge of sports, scolarity and youth

Catherine Liandrat
: Deputy mayor in charge of social affairs

Yves Guégaden
: Deputy mayor in charge of environnement

Patricia Guirand
: Deputy council in charge of culture and heritage

Marie-Françoise Loison
: Deputy council in charge of training, intregration and intercommunity connexions

Andre Chevin
: Deputy council in charge of works

Councillors


Christian Hauchard
: Councillor

Martine Moulard
: Councillor

Patrice Pichon
: Councillor

Marie-France Christophe
: Councillor

Jean-Philippe Rigaud
: Councillor

Valérie Colé
: Councillor

Michèle Lôpitaux
: Councillor

Sylvain Oursel
: Councillor

Catherine Déhais
: Councillor

Alain Czelaj
: Councillor

Farida Amarouche
: Councillor

Christèle Oursel
: Councillor

Mohamed El Ouardi
: Councillor

Samuel Boulanger
: Councillor

Sébastien Le Coq
: Councillor

Hélène Duval
: Councillor

Hervé Loisel
: Councillor

Jean-Louis Patin
: Councillor

Marie-Odile Lecourtois
: Councillor

Patricia L'Antoine
: Councillor

Anisse Chagraoui
: Councillor


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Port-Jérôme, the history of the site

A long experience


The first industrial setting up in Port-Jér?me dates back to 1933.

The two rafineries Esso and Mobil are the first ones in the area. They are deliberatly burnt down in 1940, and then rebuilt after the war.

Towards the last years of the fifties the development of petrochemistry, thanks to the raw materials from the rafineries, leads to the establishment of the plants which make today's industrial site of Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon / Lillebonne.


The industrial area in the local economy

The plants on the site employ directly 4 000 people. You can easily double this figure with the indirect jobs. They produce every year more than 11 millions tons of products and export all over the world. They play a large part every year in the local economy with 153 millions euros of salaries and expenses, 107 millions euros of investments, 23 millions euros of local taxes.

From oil and petrochemistry to consummers

The main products made on the site are the following :

  • Petroleum : gas, gasolines, distillates, lubes-oil, asphalt
  • Liquefield petroleum gas
  • Chemical products : bases from crude oil partially transformed on the side
  • Polymeres
    • Plastics : polyethylene and polypropylene
    • Synthetic resins
    • Latex and rubber
  • Carbon black for tyres
  • Acetaldehgde and Glyoxylic acid, pharmacy, cosmetology
  • Solvents and alcohols
  • Additives for lubes

The products are transported by pipelines, road, rail or ships.

All these cover a range of oil, products used by economy and chemicals which in thirty years contributed to progresse in everyday life in fields like home, agriculture, transports, packaging, hygiene and health.



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