Azé (Mayenne)

Azé
local community	Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne
region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Mayenne
Arrondissement	Château-Gontier
Coordinates	47 ° 49 ′  N , 0 ° 41 ′  W Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′  N , 0 ° 41 ′  W
Post Code	53200
Former INSEE code	53014
Incorporation	1st January 2019
status	Commune déléguée
Website	http://www.aze-53.fr/

Azé is a town and commune Déléguée in the French commune of Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne with 3419 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Mayenne in the region Pays de la Loire . The inhabitants are called Azées .

On January 1, 2019, the municipality of Azé merged with Château-Gontier and Saint-Fort to form the Commune nouvelle Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne. Since then it has had the status of a Commune déléguée. The municipality of Azé was part of the arrondissement of Château-Gontier and the canton of Azé (until 2015: canton of Château-Gontier-Est ).

geography

Azé is located on the Mayenne River and is a banlieue of Château-Gontier . The municipality of Azé was surrounded by the neighboring municipalities of Fromentières in the north, Gennes-sur-Glaize and Châtelain in the east, Coudray in the southeast, Ménil in the south, Saint-Fort in the southwest, Château-Gontier in the west and Loigné-sur-Mayenne in the northwest.

Route Nationale 162 runs through the Commune déléguée .

Population development

year	1793	1800	1876	1901	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2011
Residents	1,150	1,169	1,215	1,135	1,048	1.103	1,361	2.003	2,670	2,999	3,229	3,279
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

Saint-Saturnin Church

• Saint-Saturnin church from the 11th century with renovations up to the 17th century

literature

• Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Mayenne. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-84234-135-X , pp. 180-184.

Web links

Commons : Azé  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Names of the inhabitants in the Mayenne department , accessed on May 2, 2015 (French)