Auquainville

Auquainville
The centre of Auquainville The centre of Auquainville
Auquainville
Location within Lower Normandy region Auquainville
Coordinates:
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)
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.

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Auquainville is a French commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region of north-western France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Auquainvillais or Auquainvillaises.

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).

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.

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

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The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1983	2014	Raymond Géret		Farmer
2014	2020	Philippe Soetaert

(Not all data is known)

Demography

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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.

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
578	507	639	507	456	500	452	454	393

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
374	371	421	388	367	284	330	287	245

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
247	265	239	216	225	207	204	262	223

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
240	213	180	228	249	258	293	307	-

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

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Population of Auquainville

Culture and heritage

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Auquainville landscape

Civil heritage

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

• Lortier Manor (17th century)
• Caudemone Manor (15th century)
• A Mill for Fuller's Earth (19th century)

Religious heritage

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The Church of Saint Aubin

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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). 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)
  • A Secondary Altar, seating, Retables, and 2 Statues of the Virgin and St. Quentin (18th century)
• The Church of Notre-Dame (15th century). The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects:
  • A Retable (17th century)
  • A Group Sculpture: Education of the Virgin (17th century)
  • A Retable (17th century)
  • A Painting: The Annunciation (17th century)
  • A Retable (17th century)
  • A Tabernacle (17th century)
  • A fragment of Stained glass (16th century)
  • A Painting: The placing in the tomb (17th century)
  • A Painting: The martyrdom of Saint Ursula (17th century)
  • An Altar (17th century)
  • An Altar (17th century)
  • The Altar facing (17th century)
  • The Altar wood carving of the Annunciation (17th century)
• 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)
  • Decorative stained glass (19th century)
  • 2 Stained glass windows: St. John and St. Mark and St. Matthew and St. Luke (19th century)

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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

• Auquainville on the old IGN website (French)
• Auquainville on Google Maps
• Auquainville on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
• Auquaniville on the 1750 Cassini Map (N.B. Misspelt on the map)
• Auquainville on the INSEE website (French)
• INSEE (French)