Flers (Orne)
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| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Orne | |
| Arrondissement | Argentan | |
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Flers-1 (main town) Flers-2 (main town) |
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| Community association | Flers Agglo | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 45 ′ N , 0 ° 34 ′ W | |
| height | 182-276 m | |
| surface | 21.15 km 2 | |
| Residents | 14,734 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 697 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 61100 | |
| INSEE code | 61169 | |
| Website | https://www.flers-agglo.fr/ | |
 Saint Germain Church |
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Flers is a French municipality with 14,734 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Orne in the region of Normandy .
geography
Flers is 51 kilometers southwest of Caen .
history
At the beginning of the 19th century, Flers was a small town. In 1806 the place had just 2800 inhabitants. But with the industrial revolution, the population grew and Flers became an economic center in Normandy.
Originally, Flers was a small medieval village, the center of which was its church. Its history goes back to the 12th century. At that time it belonged to the Aunou family who had a castle built. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Flers became the property of the Harcourt family . The village grew and eventually became a barony . Between 1527 and 1541, Baron von Flers had Flers Castle built on the old site . The castle was rebuilt again and again, especially in the 18th century when the Corps de Logis was added. During the uprising of the loyal Chouans in the course of the French Revolution, the castle was initially the seat of the Chouans. However, it was later occupied by the Republicans and set on fire in 1800. In 1820 it was first acquired by a family, in 1901 it became the property of the municipality. From 1820, many textile factories were built in Flers. In June 1944, the Allies decided to bomb the city to stop the German reinforcements. Seventy percent of the city was destroyed. Flers was rebuilt until the 1960s. In addition to the textile industry, Flers has also had an important food industry since the 1970s.
Town twinning
- Warminster , United Kingdom, since 1973
- Poundou , Burkina Faso, since 1977
- Wunstorf , Lower Saxony, since 1994
Demographics
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 |
| Residents | 14,634 | 17,683 | 20,486 | 18,911 | 17,888 | 16,947 | 15,716 |
age structure
24 percent of the population are 19 years old or younger. Nine percent of the population are 75 years of age or older.
Personalities
- Fernand Jourdant (1903–1956), French fencer
- Guy Mollet (1905–1975), socialist politician and French Prime Minister
- Gérard Larcher (* 1949), politician
- Nelly Viennot (* 1962), soccer referee and player
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on annuaire-mairie.fr and is crossed by the Vère river.
- ↑ History on the website of the community association ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Demographic data on toutes-les-villes.com ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
