Audruicq

Audruicq
Commune
The town hall of Audruicq

Coat of arms
Audruicq
Location within Hauts-de-France region
Audruicq
Coordinates: 50°52′47″N 2°04′53″E / 50.8797°N 2.0814°E / 50.8797; 2.0814Coordinates: 50°52′47″N 2°04′53″E / 50.8797°N 2.0814°E / 50.8797; 2.0814
Country France
Region Hauts-de-France
Department Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement Calais
Canton Marck
Intercommunality CC Région Audruicq
Government
 • Mayor (2014-2020) Nicole Chevalier
Area1 14.44 km2 (5.58 sq mi)
Population (2015)2 5,380
 • Density 370/km2 (960/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 62057 /62370
Elevation 3–22 m (9.8–72.2 ft)
(avg. 10 m or 33 ft)

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

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Audruicq (in Dutch: Ouderwijk) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.

Geography

A town located 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Calais, at the junction of the D224 with the D309 road.

History

Baldwin II, Count of Flanders named it a city in 1175, rebuilding the castle and converting the surrounding marshland to tillable soil. After continuously changing authority between the 13th century and the 17th century, Audruicq finally became a French town after the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678.

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
19623,388—    
19683,606+6.4%
19753,616+0.3%
19824,078+12.8%
19904,586+12.5%
19994,555−0.7%
20094,741+4.1%
20155,380+13.5%

Sights

  • The eighteenth-century church of St. Martin.
  • The eighteenth-century château.

Personalities

  • Gilbert Brazy: Born at Audruicq on 15 February 1902. A pilot, he disappeared, flying a "Latham47" in the Arctic in 1928 with Roald Amundsen.1

International relations

Audruicq is twinned with: England Hawkhurst in Kent, England, since 1998.

See also

References


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