Audincourt

Audincourt is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

Audincourt
The town hall in Audincourt
Coat of arms
Location of Audincourt
Audincourt
Audincourt
Coordinates: 47°29′01″N 6°50′25″E
CountryFrance
RegionBourgogne-Franche-Comté
DepartmentDoubs
ArrondissementMontbéliard
CantonAudincourt
IntercommunalityPays de Montbéliard Agglomération
Government
  Mayor (2017-2020) Marie-Claude Gallard
Area
1
8.76 km2 (3.38 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
13,387
  Density1,500/km2 (4,000/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
25031 /25400
Elevation314–417 m (1,030–1,368 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

History

Bords du Doubs a Audincourt ("Banks of the Doubs at Audincourt") by Alfred de Curzon

Audincourt belongs to the County of Montbéliard which became part of France in 1793, during the French Revolutionary Wars. At that time Audincourt was called Adincoürt.

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1793 660    
1800 535−18.9%
1806 734+37.2%
1821 936+27.5%
1831 1,265+35.1%
1836 1,432+13.2%
1841 1,627+13.6%
1846 2,024+24.4%
1851 2,144+5.9%
1856 2,513+17.2%
1861 2,864+14.0%
1866 3,236+13.0%
1872 3,724+15.1%
1876 4,258+14.3%
1881 4,599+8.0%
1886 4,865+5.8%
1891 5,228+7.5%
1896 5,482+4.9%
1901 7,347+34.0%
1906 7,633+3.9%
1911 8,694+13.9%
1921 8,760+0.8%
1926 9,648+10.1%
1931 9,918+2.8%
1936 9,720−2.0%
1946 9,040−7.0%
1954 10,282+13.7%
1962 12,433+20.9%
1968 13,488+8.5%
1975 18,578+37.7%
1982 17,454−6.1%
1990 16,361−6.3%
1999 15,537−5.0%
2008 14,534−6.5%
2012 14,787+1.7%
2015 14,121−4.5%

Economy

An iron foundry was established early in the nineteenth century to refine the ore from the rich mines near Bethoncourt.

Personalities

gollark: We should just dump it diffusely in the ocean; nobody will notice.
gollark: Sound would still propagate through the ground.
gollark: The angle at the top of the small (W_y/W/W_x) triangle is also 30 degrees, probably.
gollark: It's an irrelevant semantic issue.
gollark: It doesn't really matter.

See also

References

  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.


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