Aubencheul-aux-Bois

Aubencheul-aux-Bois
Aubencheul-aux-Bois
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Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardy
Department	Aisne
Arrondissement	Saint-Quentin
Canton	Le Catelet
Intercommunality	Pays du Vermandois
Government
• Mayor (1977–2020)	Francis Passet
Area1	2.11 km2 (0.81 sq mi)
Population (2012)2	298
• Density	140/km2 (370/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	02030 / 02420
Elevation	105–139 m (344–456 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.

Aubencheul-aux-Bois is a French commune in the department of Aisne in the Picardy region of northern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aubencheulois or Aubencheuloises^[1]

Geography

Aubencheul-aux-Bois is located some 20 km south of Cambrai and 30 km east of Combles. The north-west border of the commune is the border between Aisne and Nord departments. The D644 road from La Gaite in the north runs south along the western border of the commune changing to D1044 in the commune and continuing south to Le Catelet. The D16 road runs east from the D644 to the village changing to D281 within the commune then continuing east as the D16 to Villers-Outreaux. The commune is composed entirely of farmland.^[2]

Two streams rise in the commune - one flowing south-west and one flowing east.^[2]

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

History

The War memorial

An Oratory in the commune

Aubencheul-aux-Bois was the seat of a small abbey founded in the 11th century in the middle of the forest of Arrouaise. It was part of the province of Cambrésis. The village was ravaged in 1584 by the Duke of Parma and in 1636 by the Spaniards. The first inhabitants back to 1663 were the families of Loubry, Lévêque, Grau, Deboucq, Dessains, Dessenne, Guéguin, Carpentier, Milhem, Ferlier, Fichaux, Bernerd, Biar, Simon, Val, Bancourt, Noblécourt, Dubois, Caré, Faucon, Dazin, Savary, Malézieux, Lanthoine, Coupé, Pattée, Dambraine, Gressier, Thibaut, Billon, Domont, and Bantigny. On 16 July 1735, after five days of strong winds, a swarm of grasshoppers destroyed the stocks of straw and hay. There was a shortage in 1709 due to the freezing conditions from January to March with most fruit trees and corn crop being destroyed. This happened again in 1740 when poverty was extreme until the end of harvest in 1741 - during the famine the population lost about a quarter of its population. On 15 June 1839 a tornado a mile wide with hail as large as chicken eggs arrived and everything was destroyed. A fire destroyed 63 houses on 17 June 1827. In 1848 there was famine, in 1849 Cholera. The village was almost completely destroyed during the First World War.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors of Aubencheul-aux-Bois^[3]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1708		Louys Caron		Mayor
1740	1742	Henri Caron		Mayor
1751	1755	Paul Passé		Mayor
1758	1765	Alexandre Dominique Passet		Mayor
1773		Michel Carron		Mayor
1776		Philippe Joseph Caron		Mayor
1786	1788	Charles Joseph Passet
1792		Antoine Joseph Millot
1792		Maximilien Caré		Mayor
1800	1816	Hyacinthe Passet
1816	1831	Augustin Passet
1832	1836	Noël Milhem
1836	1847	Ildefonce Désiré Passet
1848	1861	Charles Clavier
1861	1871	Benoît Hyacinthe Passet
1871	1871	Louis Lévêque
1871	1875	Eugéne Loubry
1875	1878	Simon Philemont
1878	1892	Eugéne Loubry
1892	1896	Ernest Fontaine
1896	1904	Charles Passet
1904		Ernest Passet
1954		Lucien Passet
1977	2020	Francis Passet	DVD

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2012 the commune had 298 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses conducted in the town since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of municipalities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
629	570	553	551	661	686	715	726	729

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
730	742	764	785	785	741	743	710	702

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
644	601	606	410	409	370	343	295	328

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2007	2010
324	332	309	300	275	272	301	305	310

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

A Wayside Cross in the Commune

Population of Aubencheul-aux-Bois

Sites and Monuments

The Church

A Church, rebuilt after the 1914-18 war in a neo-Romanesque style mostly in brick.

Notes and references

Notes

↑ At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002 [1], the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" which allow, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For municipalities with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these municipalities is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References

[4] At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002 [1], the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" which allow, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For municipalities with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these municipalities is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

[1] Inhabitants of Aisne (French)

[Google-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Google Maps

[3] List of Mayors of France (French)

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