Saint-Germain-d'Aunay

Commune in Normandy, France

(2020–2026) Louis Toque^[1]Area8.51 km² (3.29 sq mi)Population125 • Density15/km² (38/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal codeElevation164–233 m (538–764 ft)
(avg. 221 m or 725 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Germain-d'Aunay (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ donɛ] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Orne department in the Normandy region of France with a population of 144 inhabitants (2018).

History

A manor was built at the end of the 15th century by Guillaume de Mallevouë, knight and lord of the manors of Saint-Germain and Notre-Dame-d'Aulnay. All that is left is the lodge and a bartizan. The majority of the manor was destroyed by the French Catholic League in 1589 and was replaced by a half-timbered building.^[3]

In 1822, Saint-Germain-d'Aunay (377 inhabitants in 1821)^[4] absorbed Notre-Dame-d'Aunay (123 inhabitants),^[5] further to its south. Both villages are shown on the Cassini map of the area.^[6]

Points of interest

National heritage sites

• Manor in Saint-Germain-d’Aunay a sixteenth century Manor house, that was restored by Victor Ruprich-Robert, it was registered as a Monument historique in 1992.^[7] The Manor house was where Henri Breuil wrote most of his work on prehistory in the early 1900s.^[8]

See also

• Communes of the Orne department

References