Fosses

Commune in Île-de-France, France

Coat of arms

Location of Fosses

(2023–2026) Jacqueline Haesinger^[1]Area

3.61 km² (1.39 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

9,929 • Density2,800/km² (7,100/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

95250 /95470

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Fosses (French pronunciation: [fos] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	2,209	—
1975	6,453	+16.55%
1982	8,832	+4.59%
1990	9,620	+1.07%
1999	9,998	+0.43%
2007	9,701	−0.38%
2012	9,582	−0.25%
2017	9,679	+0.20%
Source: INSEE^[3]

Heraldic

D'azur à la champagne cousue de sinople, à la devise ondée d'argent brochant sur la partition, à l'arbre chimérique du même, le fût arraché et sommé de deux mains, l'une dextre et l'autre senestre, soutenant et supportant une ville d'or, brochant sur le tout.

Translation:Azure champagne sewn Vert, currency wavy Argent surmounting the partition, the tree of the same chimerical, was snatched and ordered the two hands, one dextral and sinistral the other, supporting and supporting a city of gold stitching on the whole.

Education

Schools in Fosses:^[4]

Preschools (écoles maternelles): Alphonse Daudet, Alexandre Dumas, La Fontaine, and Frédéric Mistral
Elementary schools: Henri Barbusse, Alphonse Daudet, Alexandre Dumas, and Frédéric Mistral
Collège Stendhal (junior high schools)
Lycée Polyvalent Charles Baudelaire (senior high school)

International relations

Fosses is twinned with:

Serres, Greece^[5]
Bil'in, Palestine
Kampti, Burkina Faso

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 16 April 2024.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ "La vie scolaire Archived 2016-07-30 at the Wayback Machine." Fosses. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.
^ "Twinnings" (PDF). Central Union of Municipalities & Communities of Greece. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-01-15. Retrieved 2013-08-25.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fosses.

Official website Archived 2006-04-02 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
Land use (IAURIF)
Association of Mayors of the Val d'Oise (in French)