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Country
  
Department
  
Intercommunality
  
Haute Picardie

Area
  
9.46 km²

Arrondissement
  
Region
  
Canton
  
Ham

Population (2014)
  
275

Local time
  
Tuesday 3:47 PM

Ablaincourt-Pressoir

Weather
  
6°C, Wind W at 24 km/h, 76% Humidity

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Ablaincourt-Pressoir is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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Map of 80320 Ablaincourt-Pressoir, France

The two villages were formerly separately administered, but were joined in 1966.

Communes de la somme ablaincourt pressoir


Geography

Ablaincourt-Pressoir is found in the Santerre sub-region, where early French Kings made their base, at Noyon.
The town is in a strategic position close to the intersections of the A1 Paris-Lille autoroute and the A29 autoroute between Amiens and Saint-Quentin. Two departmental roads meet nearby (the D150 and the D164). The town also an international TGV rail station, the Gare TGV Haute-Picardie, nicknamed "The sugar-beet station" named after the predominant crop of the area.

Etymology; Ancient forms of the names

  • Ablaincourt
  • Abatix Curtis, Habelini Curtis (1046), Ablani Curtis, Ableni Curia (1106), Abbecourt (1144), Abiaucourt (1215), Ablaincort (1230), Ablincourt (1733) and finally, Ablaincourt, which signifies an abbey.

  • Pressoir
  • Pressurs or Drêsur (1180).

    History

  • Ablaincourt
  • In 1215, Jean I de Nesle built a castle here. Remains of the motte can still be seen, which marks out the position of the keep.

    In 1648, possession of the fiefdom of Ablaincourt passed from the Blattepière family to the Mathieu family.

    During World War I Ablaincourt et Pressoir were at the centre of the Battle of the Somme. Both communes were totally ruined by the fighting.

    Demographics

  • 1851 Census
  • The 2 communes were still separate.

  • 1896 Census
  • The 2 communes were still separate.

    People

  • Eloi Driencourt, born in the hamlet of Bovent, Ablaincourt, doctor of the Sorbonne and for a while, advisor to Louis XV's queen, Maria Leszczyńska (1703–1768),
  • Ludovic Hulin was elected in March 1995 and became the youngest mayor of Ablaincourt-Pressoir, at the age of 28.
  • Reinhard Johannes Sorge, a German Roman Catholic poet and dramatist, died at a First Aid post located at the ruins of Ablaincourt-Pressoir on 20 July 1916. Sorge had been wounded by a hand grenade during the Battle of the Somme.
  • References

    Ablaincourt-Pressoir Wikipedia


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