Audinghen

Audinghen is a common French, located in the department of the Pas-de-Calais and the area Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

Geography

The territory of the commune of Audinghen, which comprises the Cape Gray-Nose, is the French territory nearest to England.

History

Nommé Odingehem by the Saxon ones which established a sanctuary dedicated to the Odin god to with it, Audinghen, village martyr, was rebuilt several times after being completely destroyed and in particular:

in 1643 or 1644, according to interpretations, by a party of roughneck soldiers of king d' Angleterre, who burned the population of the village to the interor of the church;
three centuries later, in 1943, always by the English, who bombarded and shaved completely the borough, then occupied by the German army.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

a bunker of the Atlantic Wall reconverted in museum of the Second world war, with for showpiece an imposing naval gun Krupp K5, single in Europe.

the wood of Haringzelle and four blockhouses.

the church and the bell-tower of the borough rebuilt after the Second world war, in 1960, by the architect Antoine Colladant.

ruins of the fort built by Henri VIII (16th century), of which a part fell into the sea.

the Headlight of the Gray course Nose.

the guérite of the cliff parrot (19th century).

the medieval hillock.

Personalities related to the commune

Raoul de Godewaersvelde, type-setter interprets.
Klaus Momber, botanist who planted the wood of Haringzelle
Francis Tattegrain (1852-1915), painter, painted in particular in Audinghen the naufrageurs of cliff of the notch to eggs (table decorating the auction-room with Boulogne on sea)
Maurice Boitel (1919), painter, in particular painted cliffs in the south of the commune

Close villages

Audresselles, Tardinghen, Bazinghen.

See too

Common of the Pas-de-Calais
parish Our-Lady-of-Floods

External bonds

history of Audinghen on the site Histopale
Audinghen on the site of the national geographical Institute
Audinghen on the site of INSEE
Audinghen on the site of Quid
Localization of Audinghen on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Audinghen on Mapquest

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