Anizy-le-Château
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| local community | Anizy-le-Grand | |
| region | Hauts-de-France | |
| Department | Aisne | |
| Arrondissement | Laon | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 30 ' N , 3 ° 27' E | |
| Post Code | 02320 | |
| Former INSEE code | 02018 | |
| Incorporation | 1st January 2019 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
| Website | www.anizylechateau.com | |
Anizy-le-Château is a former French community and today's commune Déléguée with 1,939 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Aisne in the region of Hauts-de-France ; it belonged to the arrondissement of Laon and the canton of Laon-1 (until 2015: canton of Anizy-le-Château ). Anizy-le-Château, Faucoucourt and Lizy were merged with effect from January 1, 2019 to form the Commune nouvelle Anizy-le-Grand .
geography
Anizy-le-Château is located about 13 kilometers southwest of Laon on the banks of the Ailette River and the Oise-Aisne Canal . Anizy-le-Château is surrounded by the suburbs Brancourt-en-Laonnois and Wissignicourt in the north, Lizy in the east, Pinon in the south and south-east, Vauxaillon in the south-west, Landricourt in the west and Quincy-Basse in the north-west.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
| Residents | 1526 | 1713 | 1788 | 1926 | 1896 | 1903 | 1900 | 1930 |
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Attractions
- Sainte-Geneviève church
Personalities
- Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824–1887), painter and draftsman
