Audouville-la-Hubert

Audouville-la-Hubert is a commune in the Manche department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

Audouville-la-Hubert
Commune
Sainte-Honorine church
Location of Audouville-la-Hubert
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Coordinates: 49°24′33″N 1°14′27″W
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Manche
Arrondissement	Cherbourg
Canton	Carentan-les-Marais
Intercommunality	CC Baie Cotentin
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Pascal Leconte
Area ^1	6.40 km^2 (2.47 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	79
• Density	12/km^2 (32/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	50021 /50480
Elevation	1–22 m (3.3–72.2 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

History

Audouville La Hubert was the scene of a mass murder of 30 disarmed German POWs by American paratroopers in 1944 during the Battle of Normandy.[2]

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 226 —     1800 236 +4.4% 1806 248 +5.1% 1821 249 +0.4% 1831 259 +4.0% 1836 301 +16.2% 1841 305 +1.3% 1846 245 −19.7% 1851 242 −1.2% 1856 197 −18.6% 1861 212 +7.6% 1866 217 +2.4% 1872 210 −3.2% 1876 214 +1.9% 1881 200 −6.5% 1886 196 −2.0% 1891 188 −4.1% 1896 176 −6.4%

Year Pop. ±% 1901 169 −4.0% 1906 165 −2.4% 1911 192 +16.4% 1921 162 −15.6% 1926 163 +0.6% 1931 165 +1.2% 1936 154 −6.7% 1946 138 −10.4% 1954 135 −2.2% 1962 161 +19.3% 1968 128 −20.5% 1975 129 +0.8% 1982 93 −27.9% 1990 97 +4.3% 1999 83 −14.4% 2006 73 −12.0% 2009 57 −21.9% 2015 80 +40.4%

See also

• Communes of the Manche department

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. Wiegrefe, Klaus (4 May 2010). "The Horror of D-Day: A New Openness to Discussing Allied War Crimes in WWII". Der Spiegel. Spiegel-Verlag. Retrieved 19 March 2017.