Auvillers-les-Forges

Auvillers-les-Forges is a commune in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region of northern France.

Auvillers-les-Forges
Commune
The old railway station
Coat of arms
Location of Auvillers-les-Forges
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Coordinates: 49°51′49″N 4°21′31″E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Ardennes
Arrondissement	Charleville-Mézières
Canton	Rocroi
Intercommunality	CC Ardennes Thiérache
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Miguel Leroy
Area 1	8.19 km2 (3.16 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	896
• Density	110/km2 (280/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	08037 /08260
Elevation	235–296 m (771–971 ft) (avg. 290 m or 950 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Auvillers-les-Forges is located some 27 km west by north-west of Charleville-Mézières and 22 km east by south-east of Hirson. Access to the commune is by the European route E44 from Maubert-Fontaine in the east which passes through the north of the commune intersecting the D877 in the commune and continuing to Hirson in the west. Access to the village is by the D877 from Éteignières in the north which passes through the length of the commune and the village and continues south to Champlin. The D20 goes south-east from the village to Girondelle. Apart from the village there is the hamlet of Le Chateau-Vert north-east of the village. There is a large forest in the north of the commune (the Bois d'Auviller-les-Forges) but the rest of the commune is farmland.

The river Sormonne flows through the commune from west to east just north of the village and continues east to join the Meuse at Charleville-Mézières. The Ruisseau de Saint-Rémy rises just west of the village and flows south-west to join the Orvaux east of Fontenelle.

Heraldry

Arms of Auvillers-les-Forges

Blazon: Party per chevron, Gules with two fleurs-de-lis of Argent first, Azure a forge tongs of Or and a hammer the same saltirewise, tongs to dexter surmounted by hammer to sinister second; over all a chevron of Or.

Administration

The Town Hall

The covered market

List of successive mayors

From	To	Name
1891	1919	Gustave Tanton
1919	1923	Camille Decq
1923	1929	Maurice Tourolle
1929	1944	Paul Martin
1944	1945	Edgard Faucon
1945	1947	Georges Pacaux
1947	1959	Julien Lagneaux
1959	1965	Paul Hottiaux
1965	1980	Abdon Lemaire
1980	1983	Pierre Gillot
1983	1995	Martial Guilain
1995	1998	Bruno Coniglio
1998	2014	Daniel Schanen
2014	current	Miguel Leroy

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 877 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 534 —     1800 559 +0.66% 1806 543 −0.48% 1821 632 +1.02% 1831 661 +0.45% 1836 750 +2.56% 1841 736 −0.38% 1846 712 −0.66% 1851 758 +1.26% 1866 639 −1.13% 1872 672 +0.84% 1876 675 +0.11% 1881 653 −0.66% 1886 689 +1.08% 1891 697 +0.23% 1896 698 +0.03% 1901 720 +0.62%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1906 774 +1.46% 1911 810 +0.91% 1921 753 −0.73% 1926 783 +0.78% 1931 761 −0.57% 1936 760 −0.03% 1946 694 −0.90% 1954 690 −0.07% 1962 803 +1.91% 1968 811 +0.17% 1975 784 −0.48% 1982 799 +0.27% 1990 822 +0.36% 1999 833 +0.15% 2007 894 +0.89% 2012 883 −0.25% 2017 877 −0.14%
Source: EHESS and INSEE

The War Memorial

The Church

See also

• Communes of the Ardennes department

External links

• Auvillers-les-Forges on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
• Auvillers-les-Forges on the 1750 Cassini Map