Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf
{{Infobox French commune
|name = Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf
|commune status = Commune
|image = Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf.jpg
|caption = The church in Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf
|image coat of arms = Blason Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf.svg
|arrondissement = Rouen
|canton = Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf
|INSEE = 76165
|postal code = 76320
|term = 2020–2026
|intercommunality = Métropole Rouen Normandie
|coordinates = {{coord|49.2817|1.0222|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation m = 13
|elevation min m = 4
|elevation max m = 75
|area km2 = 3.68
|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
}}
File:NG 63 - CAUDEBEC-LES-ELBEUF - Place de l'Hotel-de-Ville et rue Sadi-Carnot.JPG
Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf ({{IPA|fr|kodbɛk lɛ.z‿ɛlbœf}}, literally Caudebec near Elbeuf) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.
Geography
A residential and light industrial town situated by the banks of the river Seine, some {{convert|13|mi|km}} south of Rouen, at the junction of the D919 and the D921 roads.
It used to be the site of the Caudebec bore, or tidal wave, which several times a year rushed up the river from the sea. However the tidal estuary was changed to improve shipping access and the bore ceased to function.
=Heraldry=
{{Blazon-arms
|img1=Blason Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf.svg
|legend1=Arms of Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf
|text=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 populations
|source = INSEE[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-76165#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE
|percentages = pagr
|align = none
|graph-pos = right
|1968 |9595
|1975 |9469
|1982 |8963
|1990 |9902
|1999 |9904
|2007 |9640
|2012 |10030
|2017 |10335
}}
Places of interest
- The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the twelfth century.
- A twentieth-century château.
Twin towns
- {{Flagicon|ENG}} Dereham, England
- {{Flagicon|ITA}} Vigarano Mainarda, Italy
- {{Flagicon|GER}} Bad Dürrenberg, Germany
- {{Flagicon|CZE}} Prague - Libuš, Czech Republic[http://www.caudebecleselbeuf.fr/pages/les-echanges-internationaux-8.html Twin towns - in French] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121217072935/http://www.caudebecleselbeuf.fr/pages/les-echanges-internationaux-8.html |date=2012-12-17 }}
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
{{commons category}}
- [http://www.caudebecleselbeuf.fr/ Official town website] {{in lang|fr}}
{{Seine-Maritime communes}}
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Category:Communes of Seine-Maritime
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