Cauvigny

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Cauvigny
Cauvigny (France)
Cauvigny
region Hauts-de-France
Department Oise
Arrondissement Beauvais
Canton Chaumont-en-Vexin
Community association Thelloise
Coordinates 49 ° 18 ′  N , 2 ° 15 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′  N , 2 ° 15 ′  E
height 67-208 m
surface 17.50 km 2
Residents 1,662 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 95 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 60730
INSEE code 60135
Website http://cauvigny.fr/

The Saint-Martin church

Cauvigny is a French commune with 1,662 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in Oise in the region of Hauts-de-France . The municipality is located in the arrondissement of Beauvais and is part of the Communauté de communes Thelloise and the canton of Chaumont-en-Vexin . The inhabitants are called Mavais (es) .

geography

The municipality in the Pays de Thelle with the districts of Fayel, Fercourt, Bonvillers, Les Caillerets, Château Rouge and Les Terriers is about seven kilometers west of Mouy and five kilometers southeast of Noailles . From 1880 to 1949 it was served by the Chemin de fer de Hermes à Beaumont railway line (with meter gauge) (Cauvigny-Novillers stop).

history

In 1070 the place is called as Cauvignacum.

Residents

Development of the population
1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2011
808 759 743 933 1107 1199 1377 1458

administration

The Mairie

Mayor ( maire ) has been Michel Druez since 2014.

Attractions

Chapel in Château Rouge

See also: List of the Monuments historiques in Cauvigny

  • Church of Saint-Martin, conversion of a Romanesque church from the 12th century in the flamboyant Gothic style of the 16th century, with an octagonal tower and old ribbed vault , classified as a monument historique in 1920
  • Chapel Sainte-Restitute in Château Rouge, built in 1625 for Count Gilles de Fay, with a side lantern tower, classified as a monument historique in 1961, during the Second World War on August 27, 1944, the site of a massacre by members of the SS of resistance fighters who prepared an ambush had
  • War memorial

Personalities

  • André Siméon (1893–1970), film actor, born in Cauvigny.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://cauvigny.fr/fr/information/65036/notre-histoire
  2. ↑ Eglise in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  3. ↑ http://clochers.org/Fichiers_HTML/Accueil/Accueil_clochers/60/accueil_60135.htm
  4. ↑ Chapelle de Châteaurouge in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  5. ↑ http://cauvigny.fr/fr/information/65036/notre-histoire

literature

  • Dominique Vermand, Églises de l'Oise: Canton de Noailles, Pays de Bray, Pays de Thelle et Vallée de Thérain, Beauvais, undated, 32 pp., Pp. 7–9

Web links

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