Pont-Audemer (Pont-Audemer)
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| local community | Pont-Audemer | |
| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Your | |
| Arrondissement | Bernay | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 21 ' N , 0 ° 31' E | |
| Post Code | 27500 | |
| Former INSEE code | 27467 | |
| Incorporation | 1st January 2018 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
 former town hall ( Hôtel de ville ), now a music school |
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Pont-Audemer is a town and a former French municipality with 8552 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Eure in the region of Normandy . It belonged to the arrondissement of Bernay and the canton of Pont-Audemer .
With effect from January 1, 2018, the former municipalities of Pont-Audemer and Saint-Germain-Village were merged to form the Commune nouvelle Pont-Audemer of the same name , where they have the status of a Commune déléguée . The administrative headquarters are in Pont-Audemer.
location
Neighboring towns are Saint-Mards-de-Blacarville and Manneville-sur-Risle in the north, Corneville-sur-Risle in the east, Campigny and Saint-Germain-Village in the south and Toutainville in the west.
history
middle Ages
Ordericus Vitalis (1075–1142) describes in his Historia Ecclesiastica the siege of Pont-Audemer from November to December 1123. Symeon of Durham (1060–1130) describes the siege in great detail. Henry I of England (1068–1135) attacked, plundered and sacked the city. While the castle was besieged, Heinrich's troops plundered the villages within a radius of over 30 kilometers. The castle was defended by 140 knights led by the Grand Cupid of France Louis de Senlis. The weather got worse and Henry I had siege engines built to speed up the conquest of the castle. After seven weeks, the besieged gave up and negotiated. They were allowed to leave the castle. Heinrich I then stationed a garrison in Pont-Audemer and moved on. The rebels under Galéran IV. De Meulan (1104–1166) and Amaury III. de Montfort († 1137) attacked Pont-Audemer and burned down the houses that the population had just rebuilt. In March 1124 this civil war was ended with the battle of Bourgtheroulde .
Modern times
After an official Reformed church was established in Rouen in 1557 and in Évreux in 1559 , Pont-Audemer followed suit. The Protestant church in Pont-Audemer existed until the revocation of the Edict of Nantes with the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685. During the Huguenot Wars (1562 to 1598), Pont-Audemer fell into the hands of the Protestants in May 1562 and was already on the 16th Recaptured July by the royal army. On February 23, 1589, the Catholic Holy League took over the place, which was recaptured by the royal army in June 1589. In November 1589 Pont-Audemer was besieged and taken by Charles I d'Aumale, a member of the Holy League, and in December it fell back to the king's troops. In 1590 King Henry IV of France wrote that Pont-Audemer had already been besieged six times during the wars of religion. In 1592 Pont-Audemer fell back to the league until it was handed over to the royal troops on April 19, 1594.
During the Second World War (1939-1945), Pont-Audemer was bombed by the Allied Air Force on June 14 and July 9, 14, 16 and 18, 1944 during Operation Overlord . Further bombardments took place on August 13, 16 and 17. On the 16th, the streets of Rue Notre Dame du Pré , Rue Sadi Carnot and Boulevard Pasteur were particularly hard hit. On August 17th, the bombs fell on the same district, killing 24 people. On August 26th troops of the British I Corps and Belgian units came from the southwest on the A13 autoroute to Pont-Audemer. They met little resistance. Most of the soldiers in the Wehrmacht had withdrawn. Before their retreat, the Germans blew up the bridges. The liberation of the orographic left side of the Risle took until August 28th. Over 60 residents were killed in fighting in the city during World War II. Around a quarter of the houses were damaged and uninhabitable, and three factories were destroyed.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 8663 | 8969 | 9586 | 9750 | 8975 | 8981 | 8675 | 8552 |
Culture and sights
Pont-Audemer is represented with four flowers in the Conseil national des villes et villages fleuris (National Council of Flowered Cities and Villages). The "flowers" are awarded in the course of a regional competition, whereby a maximum of three flowers can be achieved. The regional jury decides which municipalities can apply for the fourth flower, which is awarded by the national jury.
There are many half-timbered houses in the city center , some of which used to be used by tanners to dry leather. For decades, Pont-Audemer was known as the “leather capital”. The winding, narrow streets are often roofed over and small bridges lead over picturesque canals. That is why Pont-Audemer is also called the “Norman Venice”. The city center is officially classified as a Site Inscrit ("cultural monument").
The Catholic Church of St-Ouen has stained glass windows from the 15th and 16th centuries.
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Guillaume Tirel (1312–1395), head chef of King Charles V of France
- Guillaume Costeley (1531–1606), organist and composer
- Odile Pierre (1932-2020), organist
- Hervé Morin (* 1961), politician ( UDF )
- Laetitia Casta (* 1978), photo model
- Alexis Vastine (1986-2015), boxer
Personalities who have worked on site
- Gaston Lenôtre (1920–2009), pastry chef , chocolatier , confectioner, entrepreneur and author of several baking and cookery books. He spent part of his training in Pont-Audemer and opened his first shop here.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Decree of the Prefecture No. 27-2017-12-06-007 on the formation of the Commune nouvelle Pont-Audemer of November 21, 2017.
- ^ David Crouch: The Beaumont Twins: The Roots and Branches of Power in the Twelfth Century . In: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series . 2nd Edition. tape 1 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-09013-1 , pp. 18–24 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ Laurence Riviale: Le vitrail en Normandie entre Renaissance et Réforme (1517–1596) . In: Corpus Vitrearum . tape 7 . Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2007, ISBN 978-2-7535-0525-4 , pp. 28 f . (French).
- ↑ Bernard Bodinier (ed.): L'Eure de la Préhistoire à nos jours . Jean-Michel Bordessoules, Saint-Jean-d'Angély 2001, ISBN 2-913471-28-5 , pp. 248 (French).
- ↑ Pont-Audemer, une petite ville de Normandie, pendant les guerres de Religion by Bernard Michelin (pdf, French; 201 kB) Retrieved on November 3, 2009
- ↑ A.-V. de Walle: Évreux et l'Eure pendant la guerre . Charles Herissey, Évreux 2000, ISBN 2-914417-05-5 , pp. 177 + 181–183 (first published in 1946, French).
- ↑ Palmarès des villes et villages fleuris. (No longer available online.) Conseil National des Villes et Villages Fleuris, archived from the original on December 17, 2015 ; Retrieved on August 14, 2011 (French). 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.
- ↑ A. Blanchard, M. Delafenêtre, Lisa Pascual: Jardins de Normandie . Your. Connaissance des Jardins, Caen 2001, ISBN 2-912454-07-7 , pp. 30 . (French)
- ↑ List of the municipalities of Eure. (No longer available online.) In: eure.pref.gouv.fr. Préfecture of Eure, archived from the original on April 27, 2013 ; Retrieved on August 14, 2011 (French). 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.
