Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil

Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Le Castelet.[2]

Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil
Part of Le Castelet
The church in Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil
Location of Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil
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Coordinates: 49°04′54″N 0°16′43″W
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Caen
Canton	Évrecy
Commune	Le Castelet
Area ^1	6.91 km^2 (2.67 sq mi)
Population  (2017)[1]	601
• Density	87/km^2 (230/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	14540
Elevation	63–119 m (207–390 ft) (avg. 122 m or 400 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1962	330	—
1968	337	+2.1%
1975	363	+7.7%
1982	332	−8.5%
1990	325	−2.1%
1999	361	+11.1%
2008	496	+37.4%

Personalities

This village is known as the site of the death of the famous German tank commander Michael Wittmann on August 8, 1944, when his Tiger tank (number 007) was destroyed during an ambush. The crew of the destroyed tank was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1983, the German War Graves Commission located the burial site. Wittmann and his crew were reinterred together at the La Cambe German war cemetery, plot 47—row 3—grave 120, in France (about 70 km west).[3]

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department

References

1. Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2017, INSEE
2. Arrêté préfectoral 24 September 2018, p. 129 (in French)
3. Budanovic, Nikola (2016-09-05). "Michael Wittmann, the Deadly German Panzer Ace Of WWI". WAR HISTORY ONLINE. Retrieved 2017-07-18.