Quay of Polangis

This district is completely situated on the old Park of the castle of Polangis, provided gradually with the end of 19 ° century until 1929.


In 2012, the inhabitants of this part(party) trained an association " Réunissons Polangis ", to ask for their fastening with the municipality of Joinville-le-Pont, historic and unique cradle of the district of Polangis, and so reunite the whole district on the location of the old park of the castle of Polangis. A petition collecting 411 inhabitants on 700 asked expressly for this fastening: the association put down as such, in April, 2013, a file in the Prefecture of Val-de-Marne. After the municipal elections of March, 2014, the Prefect will engage the procedure of fastening. This site possesses the famous open-air dance hall " Chez Gégène ", the "Petit Robinson" (neglected for several years, in the course of rehabilitation and of enlargement since April, 2013) and the old open-air dance hall become "Pomme d'Api" restoring of the ANAS (association of the national police force).

This place is steeped in history. The linen produced on the lands of the Brie was of use to the Middle Ages to make fibers for clothes and to produce some oil for the food and the lighting. In the xiie century, a tub allows the passage of the Marne, in the current location of the bridge of Joinville.

In 1205, the monks of the abbey of Saint-Maur build the first bridge on the Marne to connect their lands of Portus Longini, who will become Poulangis (xixe century) then Polangis. A tub is created to connect the district in Nogent-sur-Marne: it existed to 1970s.

The small arm of Polangis, also called river or canal of Polangis or the same brook of Polangis, is an artificial channel dug in 1886 and 1.500 meters long, to sell better the surrounding plots of land to the Parisians followers of the boating. Then the flood of 1910, considered since as a centennial floods, the Marne reinstalls in its old alluvial plain and both thirds of the district of Polangis are covered with water. The floods of 1924 flood again the district.