Scutched

Écouché is a common French, located in the department of the Orne and the area Basse-Normandie.
Les Écubéens lives there.

Heraldic

Weapons of the city of Scutched:

“ Quartered with 1st and 3rd of Mouths to three gold shells, and with 2nd and 4th of azure with three flowers of gold lily. ”

Geography

Scutched is located on left bank of the Orne at 9 km of Argentan, to 11 km of Rânes, to 18 km of Carrouges and Mortrée, to 19 km of Briouze, to 22 km of Falaise and to 24 km of Ferté-Macé.

History

  • Cité in 1080.
  • Accepted the visit of Charles VII (1450), of Henri IV (1589).
  • With 15th, Ecouché had its importance with the breeding of the mares postières.
  • 1821 : Scutched Meheudin absorbs.
  • the city was very marked by the combat of the Release (August 1944).
  • Accepted the visit of the general de Gaulle (August 1945)

Administration

Demography

Graph of the evolution of the population 1794-1820 & 1836 - 1999 < Br > Until 1820, the population of Meheudin is not included in the graph.

Economy

  • Lime kilns.

  • Cider-house (closed in 1987).
  • Glassmaking.
  • Polishing of glass.
  • Forestry development.
  • Bovine.
  • Agricultural cooperative

Places and monuments

  • Notre-Dame Church.

rebuilt 15th/16th: nave 13th (vestige of the old building), arcades with triple curves on columns with polygonal capitals, chorus with a span, polygonal apse, vaults with intersecting ribs; triforium 16th, furnace bridges 17th, gate vault, retable, low-relief of Cène 15th.
  • vestiges of the old urban enclosure.
  • Saint Nicolas's Day Vault of the cemetery 1140.
  • Ruins of a vault, to the place says Méheudin.
  • Massaoua, a tank, accommodates you at the entry of the city; it gave its name to a local pastry making.

Twinning

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See too

  • Common of the Flowering ash

External bonds

  • Scutched on the chart of Cassini

  • Scutched on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Scutched on the site of INSEE
  • Scutched on the site of Quid
  • the communes closest to Scutched
  • Scutched on Viamichelin

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