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Audruicq (French pronunciation: ​[odʁɥik]; West Flemish: Ouderwijk) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.[3]

Audruicq Ouderwijk
Commune
The town hall of Audruicq
Coat of arms
Location of Audruicq
Audruicq Show map of France Audruicq Show map of Hauts-de-France
Coordinates: 50°52′47″N 2°04′53″E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Calais
Canton	Marck
Intercommunality	CC Région d'Audruicq
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Nicole Chevalier[1]
Area 1	14.44 km2 (5.58 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2019)[2]	5,434
• Density	380/km2 (970/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	62057 /62370
Elevation	3–22 m (9.8–72.2 ft) (avg. 10 m or 33 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

A town located 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Calais, at the junction of the D224 with the D309 road.

History

Baldwin II, Count of Flanders named it a city in 1175, rebuilding the castle and converting the surrounding marshland to tillable soil. After continuously changing authority between the 13th century and the 17th century, Audruicq finally became a French town after the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	3,606	—
1975	3,616	+0.04%
1982	4,078	+1.73%
1990	4,586	+1.48%
1999	4,555	−0.08%
2007	4,636	+0.22%
2012	5,204	+2.34%
2017	5,412	+0.79%
Source: INSEE[4]

Sights

• The eighteenth-century church of St. Martin.
• The eighteenth-century château.

Personalities

• Gilbert Brazy: Born at Audruicq on 15 February 1902. A pilot, he disappeared, flying a "Latham47" in the Arctic in 1928 with Roald Amundsen.1

International relations

Audruicq is twinned with: Hawkhurst in Kent, England, since 1998.

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

External links

• Audruicq, a stroll in the past
• The German Air Force in the Great War The 1916 bombing of the ammunition dump at Audruicq

На других языках

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[ru] Одрюик

Одрюик (фр. Audruicq) — коммуна во Франции, регион О-де-Франс, департамент Па-де-Кале, округ Кале, кантон Марк. Расположена в 80 км к северо-западу от Лилля и в 18 км к юго-востоку от Кале, в 5 км от автомагистрали А26 «Англия». В центре коммуны находится железнодорожная станция Одрюик линии Лилль-Кале.

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