Aunay-sur-Odon
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| local community | Les Monts d'Aunay | |
| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Calvados | |
| Arrondissement | Vire | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 1 ′ N , 0 ° 38 ′ W | |
| Post Code | 14260 | |
| Former INSEE code | 14027 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2017 | |
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Aunay-sur-Odon is a former French commune with last 3,283 inhabitants (as of January 1 2014) in the department of Calvados in the region of Normandy ; it belonged to the Arrondissement of Vire and the canton of Aunay-sur-Odon .
On January 1, 2017, Aunay-sur-Odon was incorporated into the new municipality of Les Monts d'Aunay together with six neighboring municipalities as part of a regional reform . Aunay-sur-Odon acts as the “superordinate district” as the administrative seat of Les Monts d'Aunay.
geography
Aunay-sur-Odon is crossed by the Odon river. Neighboring communities to Aunay-sur-Odon were Le Mesnial-au-Grain in the north, Bauquay and Saint-Agnan-le-Malherbe in the northeast, Courvaudon in the east, Bonnemaison in the southeast, Roucamps in the south, Ondefontaine in the southwest, Saint-Georges-d 'Aunay to the west and Longvillers to the northwest.
history
Aunay-sur-Odon is at the crossroads of the roads from Caen to Vire and Bayeux to Falaise . Due to this situation, the city was from 12th and 14th / 15th centuries. June 1944 (i.e. one week after D-Day on June 6, 1944) completely destroyed by Allied bombing. A quarter of the population was killed in the attacks. In the years 1947 to 1951, Aunay was newly laid out as a planned town.
Population development
| year | 1793 | 1836 | 1876 | 1926 | 1946 | 1968 | 1990 | 2013 |
| Residents | 1,394 | 2,033 | 1.925 | 1,601 | 1,145 | 3.117 | 2,878 | 3,275 |
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Attractions
- Ruins of the 12th century Aulnay Cistercian Abbey
- moth
Community partnerships
- Holsworthy (England)
- Mömbris (Bavaria)
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Calvados. Volume 1, Flohic Editions, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-111-2 , pp. 49-51.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the municipal merger on calvados.gouv.fr (French)
- ↑ the information can be read on memorial stones that are embedded in the house walls in Aunay
- ↑ Aunay-sur-Odon - Cassini