Auquainville

Auquainville
The centre of Auquainville
Auquainville
Location within Normandy region  Auquainville
Coordinates: 49°03′27″N 0°14′24″E / 49.0575°N 0.24°E / 49.0575; 0.24Coordinates: 49°03′27″N 0°14′24″E / 49.0575°N 0.24°E / 49.0575; 0.24
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Lisieux
Canton	Livarot
Intercommunality	Pays de Livarot
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Philippe Soetaert
Area1	9.56 km2 (3.69 sq mi)
Population (2010)2	307
• Density	32/km2 (83/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	14028 / 14140
Elevation	67–184 m (220–604 ft) (avg. 250 m or 820 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.

Auquainville is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Livarot-Pays-d'Auge.^[1]

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Auquainvillais or Auquainvillaises.^[2]

Geography

Auquainville is located some 10 km south of Lisieux and 13 km west by north-west of Orbec. Access to the commune is by the D149 road which comes from Saint-Martin-de-Mailloc in the north-east and passes south through the commune and the village continuing to Livarot in the south-west. The D64 road comes from Saint-Martin-de-la-Lieue in the north and passes south through the east of the commune to Fervaques. The D135B branches east off the D64 in the commune and joins the D135 just east of the commune. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of La Blondeliere in the west with Le Mollants and Le Maubuisson in the east. The commune is mixed forest and farmland with a particularly large forest to the west of the village (the Bois des Grandes Ventes).^[3]

The Touques river passes through the commune from south to north just east of the village and continues north to join the ocean at Trouville-sur-Mer. The Ruisseau de la Marette rises in the commune and flows east into the Touques.^[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages^[3]

	Saint-Germain-de-Livet	Prêtreville	Saint-Julien-de-Mailloc
	Coupesarte		Saint-Cyr-du-Ronceray
		Auquainville
	Le Mesnil-Germain	Fervaques	Cernay

History

In 1831 Auquainville with 456 inhabitants merged with Saint-Aubin-sur-Aquainville with 91 inhabitants which was in the south of the territory.

Administration

The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors^[4]

(Not all data is known)

Demography

Auquainville landscape

In 2010 the commune had 307 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

Culture and heritage

Auquainville landscape

Civil heritage

The commune has a number of buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:

• Lortier Manor (17th century)^[5]
• Caudemone Manor (15th century)^[6]
• A Mill for Fuller's Earth (19th century)^[7]

Religious heritage

The Church of Saint Aubin

The Church of Notre-Dame

The commune has several religious buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:

• The Church of Saint Aubin (15th century).^[8] The church was decommissioned when Saint-Aubin-sur-Auquainville was incorporated into the commune of Auquainville in 1831 and was then used as a burial chapel by the Custine family. The choir with a flat apse indicates the building is from the late Middle Ages. It has a single nave and tower sitting on the western gable. The windows and door have without doubt been re-engineered in the 18th century. Inside, the building has retained all of its former layout. The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects:
  • The Main Altar, seating, Tabernacle urn, Retable, an Altar Painting: the Agony of Christ in the garden of olives, and 2 Statues of St. Aubin and St. Sebastian (1787)^[9]
  • A Secondary Altar, seating, Retables, and 2 Statues of the Virgin and St. Quentin (18th century)^[10]
• The Church of Notre-Dame (15th century).^[11] The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects:
  • A Retable (17th century)^[12]
  • A Group Sculpture: Education of the Virgin (17th century)^[13]
  • A Retable (17th century)^[14]
  • A Painting: The Annunciation (17th century)^[15]
  • A Retable (17th century)^[16]
  • A Tabernacle (17th century)^[17]
  • A fragment of Stained glass (16th century)^[18]
  • A Painting: The placing in the tomb (17th century)^[19]
  • A Painting: The martyrdom of Saint Ursula (17th century)^[20]
  • An Altar (17th century)^[21]
  • An Altar (17th century)^[22]
  • The Altar facing (17th century)^[23]
  • The Altar wood carving of the Annunciation (17th century)^[24]
• The Church of Saint Pierre has a number of items that are registered as historical objects:
  • A Stained glass window with a lady's head (16th century)^[25]
  • Decorative stained glass (19th century)^[26]
  • 2 Stained glass windows: St. John and St. Mark and St. Matthew and St. Luke (19th century)^[27]

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  Church of Notre Dame

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  Church of Notre Dame: the Nave

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  Church of Notre Dame: the Altar

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  Church of Notre Dame: Altar detail

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  Church of Notre Dame: Altar detail

Notable people linked to the commune

• Astolphe Louis Léonor, Marquis de Custine (1790-1857), writer, is buried in the Chapel of Saint-Aubin-sur-Auquainville.

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department

External links

• Auquaniville on the 1750 Cassini Map (N.B. Misspelt on the map)
• Auquainville on the INSEE website (French)

Notes and references

Notes

1. ↑ At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002, the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References

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