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Country
  
France

Department
  
Calvados

Intercommunality
  
Pays de Livarot

Area
  
9.56 km²

Arrondissement
  
Lisieux

Region
  
Normandy

Canton
  
Livarot

Population (2010)
  
307

Local time
  
Thursday 1:09 PM

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Weather
  
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Auquainville is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Livarot-Pays-d'Auge.

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Map of 14140 Auquainville, France

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Auquainvillais or Auquainvillaises.

Geography

Auquainville is located some 10 km south of Lisieux and 13 km west by north-west of Orbec. Access to the commune is by the D149 road which comes from Saint-Martin-de-Mailloc in the north-east and passes south through the commune and the village continuing to Livarot in the south-west. The D64 road comes from Saint-Martin-de-la-Lieue in the north and passes south through the east of the commune to Fervaques. The D135B branches east off the D64 in the commune and joins the D135 just east of the commune. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of La Blondeliere in the west with Le Mollants and Le Maubuisson in the east. The commune is mixed forest and farmland with a particularly large forest to the west of the village (the Bois des Grandes Ventes).

The Touques river passes through the commune from south to north just east of the village and continues north to join the ocean at Trouville-sur-Mer. The Ruisseau de la Marette rises in the commune and flows east into the Touques.

History

In 1831 Auquainville with 456 inhabitants merged with Saint-Aubin-sur-Aquainville with 91 inhabitants which was in the south of the territory.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 307 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.

Population Change (See database)

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Civil heritage

The commune has a number of buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:

  • Lortier Manor (17th century)
  • Caudemone Manor (15th century)
  • A Mill for Fuller's Earth (19th century)

    • Religious heritage

    The commune has several religious buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:

  • The Church of Saint Aubin (15th century). The church was decommissioned when Saint-Aubin-sur-Auquainville was incorporated into the commune of Auquainville in 1831 and was then used as a burial chapel by the Custine family. The choir with a flat apse indicates the building is from the late Middle Ages. It has a single nave and tower sitting on the western gable. The windows and door have without doubt been re-engineered in the 18th century. Inside, the building has retained all of its former layout. The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects:
  • The Main Altar, seating, Tabernacle urn, Retable, an Altar Painting: the Agony of Christ in the garden of olives, and 2 Statues of St. Aubin and St. Sebastian (1787)
  • A Secondary Altar, seating, Retables, and 2 Statues of the Virgin and St. Quentin (18th century)
  • The Church of Notre-Dame (15th century). The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects:
  • A Retable (17th century)
  • A Group Sculpture: Education of the Virgin (17th century)
  • A Retable (17th century)
  • A Painting: The Annunciation (17th century)
  • A Retable (17th century)
  • A Tabernacle (17th century)
  • A fragment of Stained glass (16th century)
  • A Painting: The placing in the tomb (17th century)
  • A Painting: The martyrdom of Saint Ursula (17th century)
  • An Altar (17th century)
  • An Altar (17th century)
  • The Altar facing (17th century)
  • The Altar wood carving of the Annunciation (17th century)
  • The Church of Saint Pierre has a number of items that are registered as historical objects:
  • A Stained glass window with a lady's head (16th century)
  • Decorative stained glass (19th century)
  • 2 Stained glass windows: St. John and St. Mark and St. Matthew and St. Luke (19th century)

    • Notable people linked to the commune

  • Astolphe Louis Léonor, Marquis de Custine (1790-1857), writer, is buried in the Chapel of Saint-Aubin-sur-Auquainville.

    • References

    Auquainville Wikipedia
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