Aulnoye-Aymeries

Aulnoye-Aymeries (French pronunciation: [o(l)nwaɛm(ə)ʁi]; Picard: Auno-Aymeries) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It was established in 1953 by the merger of the former communes Aulnoye and Aymeries.^[3]

Aulnoye-Aymeries
Commune
The church in Aymeries
Coat of arms
Location of Aulnoye-Aymeries
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Coordinates: 50°12′18″N 3°50′11″E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Avesnes-sur-Helpe
Canton	Aulnoye-Aymeries
Intercommunality	CA Maubeuge Val de Sambre
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Bernard Baudoux[1]
Area 1	8.66 km2 (3.34 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	8,674
• Density	1,000/km2 (2,600/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	59033 /59620
Elevation	125–151 m (410–495 ft) (avg. 148 m or 486 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Before the opening of the high-speed railway line between Brussels and Paris, the railway station of Aulnoye-Aymeries was a major junction, where the lines Paris–Brussels and Calais–Lille–Thionville connected.

Population

The population data given in the table and graph below for 1946 and earlier refer to the former commune of Aulnoye.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 111 —     1800 104 −0.93% 1806 146 +5.82% 1821 134 −0.57% 1831 165 +2.10% 1836 172 +0.83% 1841 200 +3.06% 1846 273 +6.42% 1851 322 +3.36% 1856 338 +0.97% 1861 409 +3.89% 1866 431 +1.05% 1872 644 +6.92% 1876 818 +6.16% 1881 1,085 +5.81% 1886 1,402 +5.26% 1891 1,386 −0.23% 1896 1,457 +1.00%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 1,586 +1.71% 1906 1,686 +1.23% 1911 1,956 +3.02% 1921 3,169 +4.94% 1926 4,399 +6.78% 1931 4,924 +2.28% 1936 5,442 +2.02% 1946 4,724 −1.40% 1954 7,286 +5.57% 1962 9,405 +3.24% 1968 9,750 +0.60% 1975 9,917 +0.24% 1982 10,086 +0.24% 1990 9,882 −0.26% 1999 9,203 −0.79% 2007 8,814 −0.54% 2012 8,754 −0.14% 2017 8,811 +0.13%
Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE (1968-2017)[5]

Twin towns

Aulnoye-Aymeries is twinned with:

• Quedlinburg, Germany, since 1961

See also

• Communes of the Nord department