Saint-Aubert-sur-Orne

Saint-Aubert-sur-Orne
local community	Putanges-le-Lac
region	Normandy
Department	Orne
Arrondissement	Argentan
Coordinates	48 ° 47 ′ N , 0 ° 20 ′ W Coordinates: 48 ° 47 ′ N , 0 ° 20 ′ W
Post Code	61210
Former INSEE code	61364
Incorporation	January 1, 2016
status	Commune déléguée
	; Church Saint-Aubert

Saint-Aubert-sur-Orne is a commune Déléguée in the French community Putanges-le-Lac with 100 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in Orne in the region of Normandy .

geography

Saint-Aubert-sur-Orne is eighteen kilometers northeast of Flers . The Commune déléguée covers an area of 9.69 km² and is traversed by the Orne . It consists, among other things, of 200 hectares of forest. There is a campsite in the hamlet of La Saussaie .

Culture and history

Church in the abandoned old town center

Saint-Aubert-sur-Orne was founded by the monks of Mont-Saint-Michel , who built a church there around the year 800. They named it Saint Aubert and began clearing the forests. For a long time the village was dependent on the Abbey of Saint-Étienne in Caen . The farmers sent their pigs into the forest to grow acorns and the like. to eat. From this arose the custom that the pigs were presented annually to a representative of the ruling abbey. During the Huguenot Wars , the church was destroyed and rebuilt. A poor nobleman from Saint-Aubert produced counterfeit money, was caught, fled to the Roche d'Oëtre and was killed there.

Before the French Revolution , the village was important: there was a pastor and two vicars . There was also a prison and a notary next to the church. A land survey recorded 1596 area divisions. The existence of a wage mill is documented, another mill was used to process grain. In the past century the village shifted, a new church was built and the old church was abandoned. To this day, Saint-Aubert-sur-Orne has lost much of its former importance.

With effect from January 1, 2016, the previous municipalities of Chênedouit , La Forêt-Auvray , La Fresnaye-au-Sauvage , Ménil-Jean , Putanges-Pont-Écrepin , Rabodanges , Les Rotours , Saint-Aubert-sur-Orne and Sainte- Croix-sur-Orne amalgamated to a Commune nouvelle with the name Putanges-le-Lac and have the status of a Commune déléguée in the new municipality . The administrative headquarters are in Putanges-Pont-Écrepin. The municipality of Saint-Aubert-sur-Orne belonged to the Arrondissement of Argentan and the canton of Athis-de-l'Orne .