Audruicq

Audruicq
Audruicq
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region  Audruicq
Coordinates: 50°52′47″N 2°04′53″E / 50.8797°N 2.0814°E / 50.8797; 2.0814Coordinates: 50°52′47″N 2°04′53″E / 50.8797°N 2.0814°E / 50.8797; 2.0814
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Saint-Omer
Canton	Audruicq
Intercommunality	Région d'Audruicq
Government
• Mayor	Nicole Chevalier
Area
• Land1	14.44 km2 (5.58 sq mi)
Population (2009)
• Population2	4,741
• Population2 Density	330/km2 (850/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	62057 / 62370
Elevation	3–22 m (9.8–72.2 ft) (avg. 10 m or 33 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Audruicq (in Dutch: Ouderwijk) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.

Geography

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

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.

Population

Sights

• The eighteenth-century church of St. Martin.
• The eighteenth-century château.

Personalities

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

International relations

Audruicq is twinned with: Hawkhurst in Kent, England, since 1998.

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Audruicq.

• Audruicq, a stroll in the past
• Audruicq on the Quid website (French)
• The German Air Force in the Great War The 1916 bombing of the ammunition dump at Audruicq