Berru

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Berru
Commune
The town hall in Berru
Location of Berru
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Coordinates: 49°16′21″N 4°09′09″E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Marne
Arrondissement	Reims
Canton	Bourgogne-Fresne
Intercommunality	CU Grand Reims
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Marie-Hélène Bastogne[1]
Area ^1	13.65 km^2 (5.27 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	609
• Density	45/km^2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	51052 /51420
Elevation	275 m (902 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Berru (French pronunciation: [beʁy]) is a commune in the Marne department in northeastern France.

Berru, along with the neighboring commune of Cernay-lès-Reims, is the site of a geologic formation (part of the Paris Basin) that has yielded a significant number of Paleocene-strata fossils.^[3][4]

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	287	—
1975	296	+0.44%
1982	320	+1.12%
1990	459	+4.61%
1999	454	−0.12%
2009	503	+1.03%
2014	513	+0.39%
2020	599	+2.62%
Source: INSEE[5]

See also

• Communes of the Marne department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
2. "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3. Simpson, George Gaylord (1936). "Census of Paleocene Mammals" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (848). American Museum of Natural History: 1–15. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
4. Ladevèze, Sandrine; Missiaen, Pieter; Smith, Thierry (September 2010). "First Skull of Orthaspidotherium Edwardsi (Mammalia 'Condylarthra') from the Late Paleocene of Berru (France) and Phylogenetic Affinities of the Enigmatic European Family Pleuraspidotheriidae". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (5). Society of Vertebrate Paleontology / Taylor & Francis: 1559–1578. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.501440. S2CID 85220182. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
5. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE