Plancy-l'Abbaye
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Aube | |
| Arrondissement | Nogent-sur-Seine | |
| Canton | Creney-près-Troyes | |
| Community association | Seine et Aube | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 34 ′ N , 3 ° 58 ′ E | |
| height | 76-132 m | |
| surface | 41.38 km 2 | |
| Residents | 973 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 24 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 10380 | |
| INSEE code | 10289 | |
| Website | http://www.plancy-abbaye.fr/ | |
 former Château de Plancy (1920) |
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Plancy-l'Abbaye is a French commune with 973 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Aube department in the Grand Est region ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Nogent-sur-Seine and the canton of Creney-près-Troyes (until 2015: canton of Méry-sur-Seine ).
geography
Plancy-l'Abbaye is about 25 kilometers north-northwest of Troyes . The Aube is in the south of the municipality. Plancy-l'Abbaye is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Faux-Fresnay in the north and north-west, Salon in the north, Champfleury in the north and north-east, Viâpres-le-Petit in the east, Bessy in the south-east, Rhèges in the south, Droupt-Sainte-Marie in the South and south-west, Longueville-sur-Aube in the south-west, Boulages in the west and Courcemain in the west and north-west.
La Perthe military airfield / La Perthe State Forest
North of the community, on both sides of the road between Courcemain and Champfleury, there was a military airfield between 1918 and the end of the Second World War. It was created in the last year of the First World War as a training airfield for combat and bomber pilots with the Center d'Entrainement pour l'Aviation de Combat et de Bombardement (CIACB). The military stayed in La Perthe after the war and in the 1930s the airfield, at that time a satellite field of the base in Romilly-sur-Seine , was expanded. In the first year of the war, 1939/1940, he served various flying groups of the Armée de l'air as a temporary base. During the German occupation of France, after the start of the Allied invasion of Normandy , Bf 109G groups of the Luftwaffe were also briefly located on the site, also known as Champfleury . Initially it was the IV. Group of Jagdgeschwader 27 (IV./JG 27), which was here until mid-July and then again from the beginning to mid-August 1944. In addition, the II. Group of Jagdgeschwader 53 (II./JG 53) came from the end of June to mid-July . After the war, the airfield was given up and the area was reforested. The resulting forest is known as the Forêt domaniale de la Perthe .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2013 |
| Residents | 697 | 757 | 931 | 964 | 957 | 849 | 922 | 949 |
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Attractions
- Saint Martin Church
- Saint-Julien-l'Hospitalier church
Personalities
- Jacques Collin de Plancy (1793 / 1794–1881), writer
- Louis Brisson (1817–1908), priest
