Ardres
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| region | Hauts-de-France | |
| Department | Pas-de-Calais | |
| Arrondissement | Calais | |
| Canton | Calais-2 | |
| Community association | Pays d'Opale | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 51 ′ N , 1 ° 59 ′ E | |
| height | 2–17 m | |
| surface | 13.52 km 2 | |
| Residents | 4,405 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 326 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 62610 | |
| INSEE code | 62038 | |
| Website | http://www.mairie-ardres.fr/ | |
 Engraved by James Basire (1774) after a 16th century oil painting. |
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Ardres (Flemish Aarden ) is a French municipality with 4405 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Pas-de-Calais in the region of Hauts-de-France ; it has belonged to the Arrondissement of Calais (previously Saint-Omer ) and the canton of Calais-2 since 2017 .
The municipality is associated with the Caps et Marais d'Opale Regional Nature Park as an access point .
history
The central source for the early history of the city of Ardres is the Historia comitum Ghisnensium (The story of the Counts of Guines), the Ardres pastor Lambert von Ardres . The nucleus of the city was therefore a stage stop on the via regalis between Champagne and Calais. There was already a hostel with a brewery here, and the function of the village meadows as the venue for a game called cheolandum or cheolare (possibly an early form of football game) promoted the centrality of the place. The favor of the location followed around 1050 by the noble lords of the nearby Selnessa Castle, feudal people of the Counts of Guines . They moved their castle and the associated farm buildings to Ardres. At the same time, Ardres received its first modest wall in the form of a simple earth wall. Two decades later, in 1069, a collegiate monastery with 10 canons was added. Arnold II of Ardres had parts of the surrounding rural population resettled to Ardres in the 11th century and a little later obtained a city privilege from Count Baldwin II of Guines based on the model of the nearby commercial and industrial town of Saint-Omer for Ardres. The town charter also established a weekly market in Ardres. The city became not only an economic, but also a military and administrative center for the lords of Ardres. The fortifications of the city were strengthened by a moat and the stately castle expanded in a representative manner, and 12 servants of Arnold II took up residence in the city. The city development process came to an end with the establishment of a civil parish with its own college of aldermen, who swore the citizens' oath to the rulers in the city's Audomarus church. This rule, d. H. the allodial possession of the lords of Ardres had fallen to the counts of Guines in the middle of the 12th century. Under Baldwin II, the city was completely renewed. Ardres was given a regular floor plan and contemporary city fortifications, into which the stately castle was now integrated.
- On October 27, 1396, the French King Charles VI met here . and the English King Richard II to complete the negotiations of Leulinghem (1393), Boulogne-sur-Mer (1394) and Paris (1395), which resulted in an armistice by 1426. Richard received Karl's daughter Isabella of Valois , whom he married on November 4th in Calais .
- From June 1 to 24, 1520, the French King Francis I received the English King Henry VIII between Ardres and Guînes in the so-called Camp du Drap d'Or
- On June 7, 1546, the Treaty of Ardres ended the hostilities between Emperor Charles V and Henry VIII.
- In 1596 Archduke Albrecht VII of Austria seized Ardres after a siege. The city was returned with the Peace of Vervins in 1598 .
Population development
| 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 |
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| 2,997 | 3,195 | 3.126 | 3,390 | 3,936 | 4.154 |
From 1962 only residents with primary residence
Attractions
- former chapel of the Carmelites
- Bastion Condette or Bastion Royal
- Notre-Dame de Grace church
- underground grain silos Les Poires
Personalities
- Jean-Marie Dorsenne (1773-1812), General of the Infantry ( Garde impériale )
- Lambert von Ardres (around 1160–1227), 12th century chronicler
Town twinning
literature
- Johannes Heller (Ed.): Lamberti Ardensis Historia comitum Ghisnensium . (MGH SS XXIV). Stuttgart ² 1964, pp. 550-642.
- Franz Irsigler: About urban development: observations using the example of Ardres . In: Zeitschrift für Archäologie des Mittelalters 11 (1983), pp. 7-19. newly published in: Henn, Volker ; Holbach, Rudolf; Pauly, Michel; Schmid, Wolfgang (ed.): Miscellanea Franz Irsigler. Celebration for the 65th birthday. Trier 2006, pp. 169-185.
