Domfront en Poiraie
{{short description|Commune in Orne, France}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox French commune
|name = Domfront en Poiraie
|commune status = Commune
|image = Domfront - La mairie.JPG
|caption = The town hall of Domfront
|arrondissement = Argentan
|canton = Domfront en Poiraie
|INSEE = 61145
|postal code = 61700
|term = 2020–2026
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|area km2 = 65.49
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Domfront en Poiraie ({{IPA|fr|dɔ̃fʁɔ̃ ɑ̃ pwaʁɛ}}, literally Domfront in Pear Orchard) is a commune in the department of Orne, northwestern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 by merger of the former communes of Domfront (the seat), La Haute-Chapelle and Rouellé.[https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/arrete/2015/12/21/INTB1532157A/jo/texte Arrêté préfectoral] 21 December 2015 {{in lang|fr}} Its seat, Domfront, is classed as a Petites Cités de Caractère.{{Cite web|url=https://actu.fr/normandie/domfront-en-poiraie_61145/tourisme-domfront-a-decroche-le-label-petite-cite-de-caractere_1641384.html|title=(Tourisme) Domfront a décroché le label Petite cité de caractère|date=27 December 2015|website=actu.fr}}
Geography
The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Le Châtellier, Buais, La Guerdais, Rouellé, L'Hargrinière, La Pichellerie, La Croix Pavée, Saint-Front, Collière and Domfront.{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/61700+Domfront+en+Poiraie,+France/@48.5866299,-0.6966032,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x4809827bc687ca41:0xfc525d3dc44550c!8m2!3d48.6058965!4d-0.6690744!16s/g/11bxfvrbll?entry=ttu|title=Domfront en Poiraie · 61700, France|website=Domfront en Poiraie · 61700, France}}
It is {{convert|6550|ha|sqmi|1}} in size. The highest point in the commune is {{convert|187|m|ft}}.
The commune is within the Normandie-Maine Regional Natural Park.{{Citation |url=https://www.parc-naturel-normandie-maine.fr/upload/document/rapportcharte_020621_web_BD.pdf|title=rapport de charte|website=parc-naturel-normandie-maine.fr/}} Domfront en Poiraie along with the communes of Perrou, Les Monts d'Andaine, Juvigny Val d'Andaine, Dompierre and Champsecret shares part of the Bassin de l'Andainette a Natura 2000 conservation site.{{Cite web|url=https://inpn.mnhn.fr/site/natura2000/FR2500119|title=INPN - FSD Natura 2000 - FR2500119 - Bassin de l'Andainette - Description}} The site measures 617 hectares and is home to creatures such as the Bullhead, Brook lamprey and white-clawed crayfish.{{Cite web|url=https://www.donnees.normandie.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/pdf/N2000/FR2500119f.pdf |title=Bassin de l’Andainette| website=Ministère de la Transition écologique}}
Domfront en Poiraie also shares another Natura 2000 protected area, Landes du Tertre Bizet et Fosse Arthour, which it shares with two other communes Lonlay-l'Abbaye and Saint-Georges-de-Rouelley.{{Cite web|url=https://inpn.mnhn.fr/site/natura2000/FR2500076|title=INPN - FSD Natura 2000 - FR2500076 - Landes du Tertre Bizet et Fosse Arthour - Description}}
The Andainette, The Varenne, The Egrenne and The Sonce are the four rivers, flowing through this commune.
{{Geographic location
| title = Neighbouring communes
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|state=expanded
|Centre = Domfront en Poiraie
|North = Saint-Bômer-les-Forges & Lonlay-l'Abbaye
|Northeast = Champsecret
|East = Perrou
|Southeast = Avrilly & Juvigny-Val-d'Andaine
|South = Saint-Mars-d'Égrenne & Torchamp & Saint-Brice
|Southwest = Saint-Roch-sur-Égrenne & Saint-Gilles-des-Marais
|West = Saint-Georges-de-Rouelley
|Northwest =
}}
Population
{{Historical populations
|source = INSEE[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-61145#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE
|percentages = pagr
|align = none
|1968 |4936
|1975 |5169
|1982 |5291
|1990 |5202
|1999 |5085
|2007 |4761
|2012 |4571
|2017 |4243
}}
Points of interest
=National heritage sites=
The Commune has eight buildings and areas listed as a Monument historique.{{Cite web|url=https://monumentum.fr/departement/61/orne|title=Les Monuments Historiques en Orne - 61|website=monumentum.fr}}
- Château de Domfront are the remains of a castle which was first constructed in the 11th century, which was registered as a monument in 1875.{{Cite web|url=https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00110791/domfront-en-poiraie-chateau|title=Château à Domfront en Poiraie - PA00110791|website=monumentum.fr}} The castle was the birthplace of Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile, daughter of Henry II, King of England, and Eleanor of Aquitaine.<{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
- Church of Notre-Dame-sur-l'Eau an eleventh century church, registered as a Monument historique in 1840.{{Cite web|url=https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00110792/domfront-en-poiraie-eglise-notre-dame-sur-leau-ou-notre-dame-sous-leau|title=Eglise Notre-Dame-sur-l'Eau ou Notre-Dame-sous-l'Eau à Domfront en Poiraie - PA00110792|website=monumentum.fr}}
- Saint-Julien Church a twentieth century church, decorated internally by Jean Gaudin, it was registered as a Monument historique in 1993.{{Cite web|url=https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00125312/domfront-en-poiraie-eglise-saint-julien|title=Eglise Saint-Julien à Domfront en Poiraie - PA00125312|website=monumentum.fr}}
- City walls of Domfront, the walls were first constructed in 1014 by William of Bellême, and later improved on by Robert II, Count of Artois who added 24 enclosure towers.{{Cite web|url=https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00110793/domfront-en-poiraie-enceinte-de-la-ville|title=Enceinte de la ville à Domfront en Poiraie - PA00110793|website=monumentum.fr}} Today there are 14 remaining towers. The walls were registered as a monument in 1929.
- Lyvonnières Manor a seventeenth century manor house, registered as a Monument historique in 2005.{{Cite web|url=https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa61000038/domfront-en-poiraie-manoir-de-lyvonnieres|title=Manoir de Lyvonnières à Domfront en Poiraie - PA61000038|website=monumentum.fr}}
- Manoir de la Guyardière a sixteenth century manor house, registered as a Monument historique in 1992.{{Cite web|url=https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00111000/domfront-en-poiraie-manoir-de-la-guyardiere|title=Manoir de la Guyardière à Domfront en Poiraie - PA00111000|website=monumentum.fr}}
- Manoir de la Palue a sixteenth century manor house, registered as a Monument historique in 2004.{{Cite web|url=https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00110794/domfront-en-poiraie-manoir-de-la-palue|title=Manoir de la Palue à Domfront en Poiraie - PA00110794|website=monumentum.fr}}
- Sausserie Manor a fourteenth century fortified house, registered as a Monument historique in 1955.{{Cite web|url=https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00110821/domfront-en-poiraie-manoir-de-la-sausserie|title=Manoir de la Sausserie à Domfront en Poiraie - PA00110821|website=monumentum.fr}}
Sport
- Hippodrome de la Croix des Landes - Is a Race course that every has Harness racing in the last Sunday of every July.{{Cite web|url=https://www.letrot.com/hippodromes/domfront/6105|title=Hippodrome de la Croix des Landes | LETROT|website=www.letrot.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ornetourisme.com/visites-loisirs/hippodrome-de-domfront/|title=Hippodrome de Domfront - Hippodrome - DOMFRONT EN POIRAIE|website=Orne Tourisme}}
Notable people
- Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile - ({{circa|1161}} – 1214), Queen of Castile and Toledo as wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile, was born here.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
- Claude Duval - (1643 - 1670) a French highwayman in Restoration England, was born here.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/claude-duval-great-european-lives/|title=Claude Duval: The archetypal dandy highwayman and embodiment of the English Restoration|first=Charlie|last=Connelly|date=20 January 2022|website=The New European}}
- Émile Deshayes de Marcère - (1828 – 1918) a French politician, was born here.{{Cite web|url=https://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche/(num_dept)/8188|title=Emile Deshayes de Marcère - Base de données des députés français depuis 1789 - Assemblée nationale|website=www2.assemblee-nationale.fr}}
- Auguste Chevalier - (1873 – 1956) a French botanist, taxonomist, and explorer of tropical Africa was born here, and later buried here at the Croix des Landes cemetery.{{Cite web|url=https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000001449|title=Chevalier, Auguste Jean Baptiste (1873-1956) on JSTOR|website=plants.jstor.org}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.landrucimetieres.fr/spip/spip.php?article5670|title=61 - PATRIMOINE FUNERAIRE DE L'ORNE : Etat des lieux - Cimetières de France et d'ailleurs|website=www.landrucimetieres.fr}}
- Gabriel Bablon - (1905 - 1956) a French army officer and Compagnon de la Libération was born here.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ordredelaliberation.fr/fr/compagnons/gabriel-bablon|title=Gabriel BABLON|website=Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération}}
Twin towns – sister cities
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in France}}
Domfront en Poiraie is twinned with:{{Cite web|url=https://www.ouest-france.fr/normandie/24-jumelages-franco-allemands-dans-lorne-1506706|title=24 jumelages franco-allemands dans l'Orne|date=21 January 2013|website=Ouest-France.fr}}{{Cite web|url=https://actu.fr/normandie/domfront-en-poiraie_61145/a-domfront-la-passion-du-velo-a-consolide-leur-amour_57224951.html|title=A Domfront, la passion du vélo a consolidé leur amour|date=9 February 2023|website=actu.fr}}
See also
References
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