Audruicq

French commune
name= Audruicq
region=
departement=
arrondissement=Saint-Omer
canton= Audruicq
insee=62057
cp=62370
maire=Philippe Caron
mandat=
intercomm=Communauté de communes de la Région d'Audruicq
longitude=2.08138888889
latitude=50.8797222222
alt moy=10 m
alt mini=3
alt maxi=22 m
hectares=1444
km²=14.44
sans=4555
date-sans=1999
dens=315|

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

Geography

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

Population

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.

Places of interest

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

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

Twinned with

flagicon|ENG Hawkhurst in Kent, England, since 1998.

See also

Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

External links

* [http://home.nordnet.fr/~gbally/ Audruicq, a stroll in the past]
* [http://www.recensement.insee.fr/RP99/rp99/co_navigation.co_page?nivgeo=C&codgeo=62057&theme=ALL&typeprod=ALL&lang=FR&quelcas=LISTE Audruicq on the Insee website] fr
* [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=26556&req=Audruicq Audruicq on the Quid website] fr

Notes

*"This article is based on the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia."