Goussainville (French pronunciation: [ɡusɛ̃vil] ⓘ) is a commune in the department of Val-d'Oise, northern France.[3] It is located 20.6 km (12.8 mi) north-northeast from the centre of Paris, near Charles de Gaulle Airport. Goussainville is part of the urban unit (agglomeration) of Paris.[3] The old village Goussainville, 2 km south of the current town centre, is known as a ghost town.[4]
Goussainville | |
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 Saint Pierre-Saint Paul | |
 Coat of arms | |
 Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs | |
 Location of Goussainville | |
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| Coordinates: 49°01′57″N 2°28′29″E / 49.0325°N 2.4747°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Île-de-France |
| Department | Val-d'Oise |
| Arrondissement | Sarcelles |
| Canton | Goussainville |
| Intercommunality | CA Roissy Pays de France |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Abdelaziz Hamida[1] |
Area 1 | 11.52 km2 (4.45 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | 31,301 |
| • Density | 2,717/km2 (7,037/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 95280 /95190 |
| Elevation | 56–109 m (184–358 ft) (avg. 70 m or 230 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
1973 air show crash
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In 1973, Goussainville was the site of the crash of a supersonic Russian Tupolev Tu-144 which had been performing aerobatic manoeuvres in the Paris Air Show at le Bourget airport, 8 km to the south. All six people on board the aircraft and eight more on the ground were killed, and fifteen houses in Goussainville's south-east district were destroyed. Sixty people on the ground were injured.[5]
In 1974, a year after the Tupolev Tu-144 crash, Charles de Gaulle Airport opened, putting Goussainville directly under the flight path to a busy airport. The noise of aircraft flying low overhead became a major disturbance and acted as a "constant reminder of the deadly crash."[6][7]
The town is less than 6 km from Gonesse, the site of the crash of the supersonic Concorde operating as Air France Flight 4590 on 25 July 2000.[8]
The Hôtel de Ville was completed in 1995.[9]
Population
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Transport
editGoussainville is served by two stations on Paris RER line D: Goussainville and Les Noues. Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport is located 9 km (5.6 mi) away, which is a 15 minutes drive from Goussainville.
Education
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ↑ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- ↑ "Populations de référence 2023" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 18 December 2025.
- 1 2 Commune de Goussainville (95280), INSEE
- ↑ "The ghost town of Goussainville". Reuters. 1 October 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
- ↑ "Russian SST crashes". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington, U.S. Associated Press. 4 June 1973. p. 1. Archived from the original on 27 November 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ↑ "French ghost town deserted for 40 years - thanks to Charles de Gaulle". uk.news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2020-05-03.
- ↑ Holt, Ophelia (2014-08-15). "40 Years of Vacancy in the Eerie Paris Ghost Town of Goussainville". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 2020-05-03.
- ↑ Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Aérospatiale / BAC Concorde 101 F-BTSC Gonesse". Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
- ↑ "La Ville et Son Histoire". Guide de La Ville. 2017. p. 11. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
- ↑ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Goussainville, EHESS (in French).
- ↑ Population municipale entre 1968 et 2023, INSEE
- ↑ "Les établissements Archived 2016-09-11 at the Wayback Machine." Goussainville. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.
- ↑ Home. Collège Georges Charpak de Goussainville. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.
- ↑ Home. Collège Montaigne. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.
- ↑ Home. Lycée Romain Rolland. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.
External links
edit- Official website (in French)
- Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
- Land use (IAURIF) (in English)
- Association of Mayors of the Val d'Oise (in French)
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