Anisy

Anisy
Church of Saint Peter
Coat of arms
Anisy
Location within Lower Normandy region  Anisy
Coordinates: 49°15′07″N 0°23′27″W / 49.2519°N 0.3908°WCoordinates: 49°15′07″N 0°23′27″W / 49.2519°N 0.3908°W
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Caen
Canton	Creully
Intercommunality	Cœur de Nacre
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Maurice Lambert
Area^1	4.19 km^2 (1.62 sq mi)
Population (2009)^2	666
• Density	160/km^2 (410/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	14015 / 14610
Elevation	44–67 m (144–220 ft) (avg. 50 m or 160 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Anisy is a French commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Anisiens or Anisiennes^[1]

Geography

Anisy is located some 8 km north by north-west of Caen and 4 km south of Douvres-la-Délivrande. It can be accessed by the D79 road from Caen passing through the west of the commune and continuing to Anguerny. The village can be accessed by the D220 road from Mathieu in the east passing through the village and the commune and continuing to Villons-les-Buissons in the south-west. The D220A branches off the D220 in the village and goes south to Cambes-en-Plaine. The D141 from Mathieu to Anguerny also passes through the north-eastern tip of the commune. Apart from the village the commune is entirely farmland.^[2]

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

History

The commune was founded in the 11th century by the Anisy family.

Anisy was liberated by The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada on the first evening of the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944.

Heraldry

Blazon: Argent, semy of billetty of Sable with a lion the same crowned in Or, tongued and armed in Gules debruised by all.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[3]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
?	1995	Michel Leparquier
1995	2001	Daniel Armand		Telecoms technician
2001	2014	Maurice Lambert	SE	Retired Farmer

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2009 the commune had 666 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
426	407	508	498	500	537	513	474	417

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
405	396	371	346	343	303	264	247	232

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
206	204	201	188	159	193	165	267	286

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2009	-
274	290	318	388	520	633	663	666	-

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Sites and monuments

• Church of Saint Peter (12th and 13th centuries), registered as a historical monument in 1927.

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  The entrance of the Church of Saint-Pierre.

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  The source of the Dan river.

Notable people linked to the commune

• Madeleine Barbulée, French actress, born on 2 September 1910 at Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle. She died on 1 January 2001 in Paris and was buried in the cemetery at Anisy.

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department
• Anisy on the INSEE website (French)
• INSEE

Notes and references

Notes

1. At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002 , the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References

1. Inhabitants of Calvados (French)
2. Google Maps
3. List of Mayors of France