Auvillers-les-Forges

Auvillers-les-Forges is a commune in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region of northern France.

Auvillers-les-Forges
Commune
The old railway station
Coat of arms
Location of Auvillers-les-Forges
Auvillers-les-Forges
Auvillers-les-Forges
Coordinates: 49°51′49″N 4°21′31″E
CountryFrance
RegionGrand Est
DepartmentArdennes
ArrondissementCharleville-Mézières
CantonRocroi
IntercommunalityCC Ardennes Thiérache
Government
 • Mayor (2014-2020) Miguel Leroy
Area
1
8.19 km2 (3.16 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
877
 • Density110/km2 (280/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
08037 /08260
Elevation235–296 m (771–971 ft)
(avg. 290 m or 950 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Auvillers-les-Forges is located some 27 km west by north-west of Charleville-Mézières and 22 km east by south-east of Hirson. Access to the commune is by the European route E44 from Maubert-Fontaine in the east which passes through the north of the commune intersecting the D877 in the commune and continuing to Hirson in the west. Access to the village is by the D877 from Éteignières in the north which passes through the length of the commune and the village and continues south to Champlin. The D20 goes south-east from the village to Girondelle. Apart from the village there is the hamlet of Le Chateau-Vert north-east of the village. There is a large forest in the north of the commune (the Bois d'Auviller-les-Forges) but the rest of the commune is farmland.[2]

The Sormonne River flows through the commune from west to east just north of the village and continues east to join the Meuse at Charleville-Mézières. The Ruisseau de Saint-Rémy rises just west of the village and flows south-west to join the Orvaux east of Fontenelle.[2]

Neighbouring communes and villages

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Heraldry
Arms of Auvillers-les-Forges
 Blazon:

Party per chevron, Gules with two fleurs-de-lis of Argent first, Azure a forge tongs of Or and a hammer the same saltirewise, tongs to dexter surmounted by hammer to sinister second; over all a chevron of Or.

Administration
The Town Hall
The covered market

List of successive mayors[3][4]

FromToNamePartyPosition
18911919Gustave Tanton
19191923Camille Decq
19231929Maurice Tourolle
19291944Paul Martin
19441945Edgard Faucon
19451947Georges Pacaux
19471959Julien Lagneaux
19591965Paul Hottiaux
19651980Abdon Lemaire
19801983Pierre Gillot
19831995Martial Guilain
19951998Bruno Coniglio
19982014Daniel Schanen
20142020Miguel Leroy

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 877 inhabitants.

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1793 534—    
1800 559+0.66%
1806 543−0.48%
1821 632+1.02%
1831 661+0.45%
1836 750+2.56%
1841 736−0.38%
1846 712−0.66%
1851 758+1.26%
1866 639−1.13%
1872 672+0.84%
1876 675+0.11%
1881 653−0.66%
1886 689+1.08%
1891 697+0.23%
1896 698+0.03%
1901 720+0.62%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1906 774+1.46%
1911 810+0.91%
1921 753−0.73%
1926 783+0.78%
1931 761−0.57%
1936 760−0.03%
1946 694−0.90%
1954 690−0.07%
1962 803+1.91%
1968 811+0.17%
1975 784−0.48%
1982 799+0.27%
1990 822+0.36%
1999 833+0.15%
2007 894+0.89%
2012 883−0.25%
2017 877−0.14%
Source: EHESS[5] and INSEE[6]
The War Memorial
The Church

See also

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. "Auvillers-les-Forges". Auvillers-les-Forges. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
  3. List of Mayors of France (in French)
  4. "List of Mayors". www.francegenweb.org (in French). Retrieved 2018-11-05.
  5. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Auvillers-les-Forges, EHESS. (in French)
  6. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
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