Condé-en-Normandie

Condé-en-Normandie
Commune
St. Martin's Church in Condé-sur-Noireau
Location of Condé-en-Normandie
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Coordinates: 48°51′04″N 0°33′11″W
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Vire
Canton	Condé-en-Normandie
Intercommunality	Intercom de la Vire au Noireau
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Valérie Desquesne[1]
Area ^1	62.98 km^2 (24.32 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	6,157
• Density	98/km^2 (250/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	14174 /14110, 14770
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Condé-en-Normandie (French pronunciation: [kɔ̃de ɑ̃ nɔʁmɑ̃di]) is a commune in the department of Calvados, northwestern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 by merger of the former communes of Condé-sur-Noireau (the seat), La Chapelle-Engerbold, Lénault, Proussy, Saint-Germain-du-Crioult and Saint-Pierre-la-Vieille.^[3]

Geography

The commune is part of the area known as Suisse Normande.^[4]

The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Le Mesnil, Lénault, Le Tremblay, Cresme, Rousseville, Saint-Pierre-la-Vieille, Le Hamel Roger, Le Vieux Douet, La Chapelle-Engerbold, Le Hamel, Le Mont Hue, Proussy, Les Haies, Le Coudray, Le Hamel, Les Îles, Bouilly, Solier, Vaux, Condé-sur-Noireau, Le Bosq and L'Abbaye.^[5]

The Commune along with another nine communes shares part of a 5,729 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, called the Bassin de la Druance.^[6]

The Tortillon, la Druance plus The Noireau are the three rivers flowing through the commune.^[7][8][9] In addition the commune has five streams flowing through its borders, La Blare, The Cresme, The Vaux, The Hamelet and The Val Fournet.^[10][11]

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	8,335	—
1975	8,889	+0.92%
1982	8,805	−0.14%
1990	8,055	−1.11%
1999	7,595	−0.65%
2007	7,503	−0.15%
2012	7,260	−0.66%
2017	6,634	−1.79%
Source: INSEE[12]

Points of Interest

Museums

• Musée Charles Léandre - Based in Condé-sur-Noireau, museum dedicated to Charles Lucien Léandre and other Normandy based artists.^[13]
• Musée de l'Imprimerie Typographique - a museum dedicated to Typographic Printing based in Condé-sur-Noireau.^[14]

National heritage sites

The Commune has two buildings and areas listed as a Monument historique^[15]

• Galland-Duclos House an eighteenth century private house, that was classed as a Monument historique in 1996.^[16]
• House on Grand Rue - listed as a monument in 1929, it was destroyed in the second world war.^[17]

• 
  Saint-Pierre-la-Vieille Church
• 
  Chateau dor bigny
• 
  La Chapelle-Engerbold
• 
  Saint-Gerbold church in La Chapelle Engerbold
• 
  Saint Sauveur Church in Condé-sur-Noireau
• 
  Condé-sur-Noireau Municipal lake with beach
• 
  Hospice in Condé-sur-Noireau
• 
  Monument dedicated to asbestos victims in Condé-sur-Noireau

Notable People

• Jules Dumont d'Urville - (1790 – 1842) a French explorer and naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica, was born here.^[18]
• Henri Duret - (1849 - 1921) a French neurologist whose contributions to the knowledge of cerebral circulation and the physiology of the brainstem were important for the early years of brain surgery, was born here.^[19]
• Maximilien Vox - (1894–1974) a French writer, cartoonist, illustrator, publisher, journalist, critic art theorist and historian of the French letter and typography, was born here.^[20]
• Michèle Fabien - (1945 – 1999) a Belgian writer and playwright, is buried at Saint-Pierre-la-Vieille cemetery.^[21][22]

Twin towns – sister cities

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France

Condé-en-Normandie is twinned with:

• Ross-on-Wye, United Kingdom since 1980^[23]
• Elsenfeld, Germany since 2004^[24]

Former Twin Towns

• Poggio Rusco, Italy - from 1999 to 2021.^[25][26]

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
2. "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3. Arrêté préfectoral 1 December 2015 (in French)
4. "Map of Suisse Normande" (PDF).
5. "Condé-en-Normandie · France". Condé-en-Normandie · France.
6. "INPN - FSD Natura 2000 - FR2500118 - Bassin de la Druance - Description".
7. Sandre. "Fiche cours d'eau - Le Noireau (I24-0400)".
8. Sandre. "Fiche cours d'eau - la Druance (I24-0420)".
9. Sandre. "Fiche cours d'eau - le Tortillon (I2439000)".
10. Sandre. "Fiche cours d'eau - Ruisseau du Val Fournet (I2506400)".
11. Sandre. "Fiche cours d'eau - Ruisseau de Cresme (I2429000)".
12. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
13. "Condé-en-Normandie. Le musée Léandre prête ses œuvres". caen.maville.com.
14. "Le musée de l'imprimerie typographique a rouvert à Condé-en-Normandie". Ouest-France.fr. 15 November 2021.
15. "Les Monuments Historiques en Calvados - 14". monumentum.fr.
16. "Maison dite Galland-Duclos à Condé-en-Normandie - PA14000001 - Monumentum". monumentum.fr.
17. "Maison à Condé-en-Normandie - PA00111242 - Monumentum". monumentum.fr.
18. LECORNU-BAERT, Nathalie (19 March 2023). "Condé-en-Normandie. Le contre-amiral Dumont d'Urville demeure un enfant du pays". Ouest-France.fr.
19. Walusinski, Olivier; Courrivaud, Philippe (11 September 2014). "Henry Duret (1849-1921): A Surgeon and Forgotten Neurologist". European Neurology. 72 (3–4): 193–202. doi:10.1159/000361046 – via Silverchair.
20. LELION, Mélanie (18 October 2014). "Le long parcours pour avoir un timbre de Maximilien Vox". Ouest-France.fr.
21. "Poster un commentaire - Cimetières de France et d'ailleurs". www.landrucimetieres.fr.
22. "Michèle Fabien - biographie". michelefabien.be.
23. "HRH The Princess Royal visits Coleford to celebrate the town's twinning links". Visit Dean Wye. 16 May 2023.
24. "Condé-en-Normandie. Jumelage avec Elsenfeld : les habitants invités aux 20 ans". caen.maville.com.
25. "Une classe en moins, clocher de Saint-Sauveur... que faut-il attendre en 2023 à Condé-en-Normandie ?". actu.fr. 14 January 2023.
26. "Le dernier conseil municipal de l'année étoffé à Condé-en-Normandie". Ouest-France.fr. 14 December 2021.