Condé-en-Normandie facts for kids

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Commune
St. Martin's Church in Condé-sur-Noireau
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Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Vire
Canton	Condé-en-Normandie
Intercommunality	Intercom de la Vire au Noireau
Area 1	62.98 km2 (24.32 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	6,157
• Density	97.761/km2 (253.20/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	14174 /14110, 14770
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Condé-en-Normandie (French pronunciation: [kɔ̃de ɑ̃ nɔʁmɑ̃di]) is a commune in the department of Calvados, northwestern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 by merger of the former communes of Condé-sur-Noireau (the seat), La Chapelle-Engerbold, Lénault, Proussy, Saint-Germain-du-Crioult and Saint-Pierre-la-Vieille.

Geography

The commune is part of the area known as Suisse Normande.

The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Le Mesnil, Lénault, Le Tremblay, Cresme, Rousseville, Saint-Pierre-la-Vieille, Le Hamel Roger, Le Vieux Douet, La Chapelle-Engerbold, Le Hamel, Le Mont Hue, Proussy, Les Haies, Le Coudray, Le Hamel, Les Îles, Bouilly, Solier, Vaux, Condé-sur-Noireau, Le Bosq and L'Abbaye.

The Commune along with another nine communes shares part of a 5,729 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, called the Bassin de la Druance.

The Tortillon, la Druance plus The Noireau are the three rivers flowing through the commune. In addition the commune has five streams flowing through its borders, La Blare, The Cresme, The Vaux, The Hamelet and The Val Fournet.

Neighbouring communes In addition to Pontécoulant which Condé-en-Normandie completely surrounds

	Terres de Druance & Périgny	Les Monts d'Aunay	Cauville
	Valdallière		Clécy, La Villette & Saint-Lambert
		Condé-en-Normandie
	Moncy & Saint-Pierre-d'Entremont	Caligny & Montilly-sur-Noireau	Saint-Pierre-du-Regard & Saint-Denis-de-Méré

Population

Points of Interest

Museums

• Musée Charles Léandre - Based in Condé-sur-Noireau, museum dedicated to Charles Lucien Léandre and other Normandy based artists.
• Musée de l'Imprimerie Typographique - a museum dedicated to Typographic Printing based in Condé-sur-Noireau.

National heritage sites

The Commune has two buildings and areas listed as a Monument historique

• Galland-Duclos House an eighteenth century private house, that was classed as a Monument historique in 1996.
• House on Grand Rue - listed as a monument in 1929, it was destroyed in the second world war.

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  Saint-Pierre-la-Vieille Church

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  Chateau dor bigny

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  La Chapelle-Engerbold

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  Saint-Gerbold church in La Chapelle Engerbold

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  Saint Sauveur Church in Condé-sur-Noireau

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  Condé-sur-Noireau Municipal lake with beach

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  Hospice in Condé-sur-Noireau

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  Monument dedicated to asbestos victims in Condé-sur-Noireau

Notable People

• Jules Dumont d'Urville - (1790 – 1842) a French explorer and naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica, was born here.
• Henri Duret - (1849 - 1921) a French neurologist whose contributions to the knowledge of cerebral circulation and the physiology of the brainstem were important for the early years of brain surgery, was born here.
• Maximilien Vox - (1894–1974) a French writer, cartoonist, illustrator, publisher, journalist, critic art theorist and historian of the French letter and typography, was born here.
• Michèle Fabien - (1945 – 1999) a Belgian writer and playwright, is buried at Saint-Pierre-la-Vieille cemetery.

Twin towns – sister cities

Condé-en-Normandie is twinned with:

• Ross-on-Wye, United Kingdom since 1980
• Elsenfeld, Germany since 2004

Former Twin Towns

• Poggio Rusco, Italy - from 1999 to 2021.

See also

In Spanish: Condé-en-Normandie para niños