Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf

Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf
Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf
Location within Upper Normandy region  Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf
Coordinates: 49°16′54″N 1°01′20″E / 49.2817°N 1.0222°ECoordinates: 49°16′54″N 1°01′20″E / 49.2817°N 1.0222°E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf
Intercommunality	CREA
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Laurent Bonnaterre
Area^1	3.68 km^2 (1.42 sq mi)
Population (2012)^2	10,030
• Density	2,700/km^2 (7,100/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	76165 / 76320
Elevation	4–75 m (13–246 ft) (avg. 13 m or 43 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.

Past Times in the Town

Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

Geography

A residential and light industrial town situated by the banks of the river Seine, some 13 miles (21 km) south of Rouen, at the junction of the D919 and the D921 roads.

Heraldry

The arms of Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf are blazoned : Gules, a sickle reversed and sprig of mistletoe in saltire between (a lance inverted and a throwing axe [francisca] in saltire surmounting a gaulish shield bendwise topped with a winged gaulish helmet contourny) and a dolmen Or charged with the letters ESUS sable impaled with Azure, a she-wolf nursing Romulus and Remus, standing on a pedestal Or charged with the inscription ROMA sable, and in chief a round shield surmounted by (i.e. overall over the shield), a sword palewise, a fasces bendwise, a Aquila bendwise sinister and a trumpet fesswise Or. (An Aquila is a Roman legion's eagle standard; the trumpet is a Roman trumpet 'tuba').

Population

Historical population of Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf
(Source: EHESS to 1999, then Insee)

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2012
Population	9,270	9,595	9,469	8,963	9,902	9,904	9,676	10,030

Places of interest

• The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the twelfth century.
• A twentieth-century château.

Twin towns

• Dereham, England
• Vigarano Mainarda, Italy
• Bad Dürrenberg, Germany
• Prague - Libuš, Czech Republic^[1]

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department
• Seine-Maritime
• Normandy

References

• INSEE

1. Twin towns - in French

External links

• Official town website (French)
• Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf on the Quid website (French)