Audruicq

Audruicq (Template:IPA; Template:Langx) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.<ref>INSEE commune file</ref>

Geography

A town located 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Calais, at the junction of the D224 with the D309 road.

History

Baldwin II, Count of Flanders named it a city in 1175, rebuilding the castle and converting the surrounding marshland to tillable soil. After continuously changing authority between the 13th century and the 17th century, Audruicq finally became a French town after the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678.

Sights

• The eighteenth-century church of St. Martin.
• The eighteenth-century château.

Personalities

• Gilbert Brazy: Born at Audruicq on 15 February 1902. A pilot, he disappeared, flying a "Latham47" in the Arctic in 1928 with Roald Amundsen.

International relations

Audruicq is twinned with: Template:Flag icon Hawkhurst in Kent, England, since 1998.

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

External links

• Audruicq, a stroll in the past
• The German Air Force in the Great War The 1916 bombing of the ammunition dump at Audruicq

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