Aubigny-les-Pothées

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Aubigny-les-Pothées
Aubigny-les-Pothées coat of arms
Aubigny-les-Pothées (France)
Aubigny-les-Pothées
region Grand Est
Department Ardennes
Arrondissement Charleville-Mezieres
Canton Signy-l'Abbaye
Community association Ardennes Thiérache
Coordinates 49 ° 47 '  N , 4 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '  N , 4 ° 26'  E
height 177-294 m
surface 10.42 km 2
Residents 315 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 30 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 08150
INSEE code 08026
Website http://www.aubigny-les-pothees.fr/

Town hall (Mairie) of Aubigny-les-Pothées

Aubigny-les-Pothées is a French commune with 315 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region (before 2016: Champagne-Ardenne ). It belongs to the arrondissement Charleville-Mézières , the canton Signy-l'Abbaye (until 2015: Rumigny ) and the municipality association Ardennes Thiérache .

geography

The municipality is located in the Ardennes Regional Nature Park, which was founded in 2011 and is crossed by the Audry River. Aubigny-les-Pothées is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Vaux-Villaine in the northeast, Lépron-les-Vallées in the southeast, the canton capital Signy-l'Abbaye in the south, Marlemont in the southwest, Logny-Bogny in the west, Cernion in the northwest and the in the canton of Rocroi , municipality of Blombay in the north

history

Two Merovingian cemeteries from the sixth and seventh centuries were discovered on the territory of the municipality . During the Hundred Years War the village was besieged by the Armagnaks .

Aubigny-les-Pothées was burned to the ground in 1643 at the Battle of Rocroi .

At the beginning of the First World War in 1914, the village church served as a simple hospital.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2005 2015 2016
Residents 375 410 392 360 319 319 324 319 318
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Saint-Martin Church, built in 1851
Saint Martin Church

Web links

Commons : Aubigny-les-Pothées  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patrick Perin, Revue Historique Ardennaise , number 5, 1971, pp. 22-25.