Longpré-les-Corps-Saints
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| region | Hauts-de-France | |
| Department | Somme | |
| Arrondissement | Abbeville | |
| Canton | Gamaches | |
| Community association | Baie de Somme | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 1 ′ N , 2 ° 0 ′ E | |
| height | 6-98 m | |
| surface | 8.06 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,660 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 206 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 80510 | |
| INSEE code | 80488 | |
 War memorial next to the church |
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Longpré-les-Corps-Saints ( Picard : Longpre-attachés-Corps-Saints ) is a northern French municipality with 1660 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Somme in the region of Hauts-de-France . The municipality is located in the Arrondissement of Abbeville and is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de la Baie de Somme and the canton of Gamaches .
geography
The municipality, which has largely grown together with the neighboring municipality of Condé-Folie , is located on the left (southern) bank of the Somme , whose wide valley is interspersed with numerous ponds, at the mouth of the Airaines river . The community is crossed by the railway line following the river, from which the branch line to Gamaches, which was closed in 1993, branched off. The distance to Airaines is around seven kilometers, the distance to Hallencourt around ten kilometers, Abbeville is around 18 kilometers downstream from Longpré. The railway station in the junction to Gamaches, established in 1847, used to be of greater importance to traffic.
history
Before 1190 a collegiate foundation was founded in Longpré by Aléaume de Fontaines , which in 1205 received valuable relics from Constantinople, to which the epithet Les Corps Saints goes back. The original collegiate church was built towards the end of the 12th century, from which the crypt has been preserved. The church soon numbered twelve canons and five chaplains. The original parish church of Saint-Martin was abandoned in favor of the collegiate church and later disappeared.
In the Hundred Years' War Longpré was sacked twice. After a renovation, the collegiate church was rededicated in 1505. The collegiate monastery also suffered heavily in the Huguenot Wars . It came to an end during the French Revolution .
During the Second World War , the place was 90% destroyed.
Residents
| 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 |
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| 1858 | 1902 | 1857 | 1641 | 1519 | 1561 | 1660 | 1664 |
Attractions
- Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption collegiate church, classified as a monument historique since 1908 , which lost its spire in the Second World War
- two war memorials for the dead of the Franco-German War and the First World War
- Memorial to the fighting in June 1940
- British war cemetery with 79 burials
Historic postcard
Portal of the collegiate church
Crypt of the collegiate church
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
