Audruicq

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Coordinates: 50°52′47″N 2°04′53″E / 50.8797222222, 2.08138888889

Commune of Audruicq
Location
Administration
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Saint-Omer
Canton	Audruicq
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de la Région d'Audruicq
Mayor	Philippe Caron
Statistics
Elevation	3 m–22 m (avg. 10 m)
Land area¹	14,44 km²
Population² (1999)	4555
- Density	315/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	62057/ 62370
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Audruicq (in Flemish: Ouderwijk) is a commune and the chief town of a canton in the Pas-de-Calais département in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.

Contents 1 Geography 2 Population 3 History 4 Places of interest 5 People linked with the commune 6 Twinned with 7 See also 8 External links 9 Notes

[edit] Geography

A town located 11 miles (18km) southeast of Calais, at the junction of the D224 with the D309 road.

[edit] Population

Population Evolution

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999
3388	3606	3616	4078	4586	4555
Census count starting from 1962 : Population without double counting

[edit] History

Baldwin II, Count of Flanders named it a city in 1175, rebuilding the castle and converting the surrounding marshland to tillable soil. After continuously changing authority between the 13th century and the 17th century, Audruicq finally became a French town after the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678.

[edit] Places of interest

• The 18th century church of St.Martin.
• The 18th century château.

[edit] People linked with the commune

• Gilbert Brazy: Born at Audruicq on 15/02/1902. A pilot, he disappeared, flying a "Latham47" in the Arctic in 1928 with Roald Amundsen.1

[edit] Twinned with

Hawkhurst in Kent, England, since 1998.

[edit] See also

Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

[edit] External links

• Audruicq, a stroll in the past
• Audruicq on the Insee website (French)
• Audruicq on the Quid website (French)

[edit] Notes

• This article is based on the original and the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia, consulted on May 1st 2008.