Chauny

Chauny
region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Aisne
Arrondissement	Laon
Canton	Chauny
Community association	Chauny Tergnier la Fère
Coordinates	49 ° 37 ' N , 3 ° 13' E Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ' N , 3 ° 13' E
height	42-96 m
surface	13.28 km 2
Residents	11,878 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	894 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	02300
INSEE code	02173
Website	www.ville-chauny.fr

Chauny is a French municipality with 11,878 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Aisne in the region of Hauts-de-France ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Laon and is the seat of the community association Chauny Tergnier la Fère .

geography

Chauny is located on the Oise and the parallel Oise Lateral Canal , 34 kilometers from Soissons , 36 kilometers from Laon and 30 kilometers from Saint-Quentin . Two shipping canals branch off from the Oise Lateral Canal near Chauny :

the Canal de Saint-Quentin (to the north)
the Oise-Aisne Canal (to the south).

history

Philip of Alsace , Count of Flanders and Vermandois , approved the first Chauny charter in 1167. Chauny is placed under the direct authority of the king in 1213; here the name Ville de Chauny appears for the first time ; until then the name was only associated with a château. The place is conquered in 1417 by the Bourguignons . Maria von Kleve, mother of the future King Ludwig XII. , who has been in Chauny for several years, dies in August 1487. She resided in the “Maison d'Orléans” near the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville. In 1557 a Spanish occupation destroyed the churches of Saint-Martin and Notre-Dame. Chauny was besieged by Spanish troops for four days in 1662. The Oise was navigable from Paris from the beginning of the 18th century; a little later, the Compagnie de Saint-Gobain installed a glass warehouse on the bank. During the revolution in 1789 both churches were destroyed again.

From 1840 the young Baptist pastor Victor Lepoids gathered believers around him, who in 1850 opened a Temple évangélique , a Baptist church, in the town. The church, which had about 80 people, was closed in 1852 by order of the prefect; it could not be reopened until 1866.

In February 1917 the town was blown up when the German army withdrew ( company Alberich ) - with the exception of the suburb of Le Brouage. From 1920 to 1930 Chauny was rebuilt.

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2007	2016
Residents	12,626	13,920	14,405	13,435	12,926	12,523	12,518	11,975

Town twinning

Andenne (Belgium)
Bergheim (Germany)

Personalities

Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer (1747–1804), French revolutionary general and Minister of War of France
Marie-Françoise Constance Mayer-La Martinière (1775–1821), French painter
Louis Bergeron (1811–1890), writer
Jean-Olivier Hucleux (1923–2012), French contemporary painter and draftsman
Philippe Saudé (* 1960), former French cyclist
Mylène Troszczynski (* 1972), French politician

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ Sébastian Fath: You ghetto au réseau. Le protestantisme évangélique en France 1800–2005. (= Histoire et société. N ° 47). Labor et Fides, 2005, ISBN 2-8309-1139-3 , p. 116 and p. 332.

[1] Sébastian Fath: You ghetto au réseau. Le protestantisme évangélique en France 1800–2005. (= Histoire et société. N ° 47). Labor et Fides, 2005, ISBN 2-8309-1139-3 , p. 116 and p. 332.