Thennes

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Coordinates: 49°48′41″N 2°28′17″E / 49.8113888889, 2.47138888889

Commune of Thennes

Location

Administration

Communauté de communes Avre Luce Moreuil

Mayor

Philippe Marotte
(2001-2008)

Statistics

Elevation

32 m–110 m
(avg. 33 m)

Land area^¹

8 km²

Population^²
(2007)

432

- Density

44/km²

Miscellaneous

INSEE/Postal code

80751/ 80110

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.

Thennes is a commune in the Somme département in the Picardie region of France.

1 Geography
2 Population
3 History
4 See also
5 External links
6 Notes

[edit] Geography

Situated some 12 miles southeast of Amiens, on the D11a road and bordered to the north and northwest by the river Luce, and to the west by the river Avre

[edit] Population

Population Evolution
1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2007
195	218	256	298	338	355	432
Census count starting from 1962 Population without double counting

[edit] History

Known as Tanes in 1128, because of the tanneries in the area, it became known as Thannes then Thannes-Thennes in 1507.
The history of Thennes has always been closely linked with that of the neighbouring commune of Berteaucourt-les-Thennes.
From 780, Thennes was the property of the abbey at Corbie, later, as a fiefdom, it passed to the seigneurs of Boves, before returning to Corbie in the 13th century.
Thennes has seen more than its fair share of war:

During the 16th century against the Spanish, particularly with the siege of Corbie in 1636. Some boatmen of Thennes and Castel burned the Spanish supplies destined for their troops outside Corbie. Louis XIII subsequently exempted them and their descendants from all taxes.
During the Napoleonic wars of 1814-1815, Cossacks were seen in the commune.
The Franco-Prussian War of 1870, saw the town very tested. Battles at nearby Mézières and Cachy saw two local men die, of the 22 men who fought.
During the First World War, being so close to the front line meant the town was all but destroyed.