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Part of Le Castelet in Normandy, France
Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil
Part of Le Castelet
The church in Saint-Aignan-de-CramesnilThe church in Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil
Location of Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil
Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil is located in FranceSaint-Aignan-de-CramesnilSaint-Aignan-de-CramesnilShow map of FranceSaint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil is located in NormandySaint-Aignan-de-CramesnilSaint-Aignan-de-CramesnilShow map of Normandy
Coordinates: 49°04′54″N 0°16′43″W / 49.0817°N 0.2786°W / 49.0817; -0.2786
CountryFrance
RegionNormandy
DepartmentCalvados
ArrondissementCaen
CantonÉvrecy
CommuneLe Castelet
Area6.91 km (2.67 sq mi)
Population662
 • Density96/km (250/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code14540
Elevation63–119 m (207–390 ft)
(avg. 122 m or 400 ft)
French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t‿ɛɲɑ̃ də kʁamenil] ) is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France, approximately 17 kilometres (11 mi) southeast of Caen. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Le Castelet.

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1962330—    
1968337+2.1%
1975363+7.7%
1982332−8.5%
1990325−2.1%
1999361+11.1%
2008496+37.4%

Personalities

This village is known as the site of the death of the famous German tank commander Michael Wittmann on 8 August 1944, when his Tiger tank (number 007) was destroyed during an ambush. The crew of the destroyed tank was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1983, the German War Graves Commission located the burial site. Wittmann and his crew were reinterred together at the La Cambe German war cemetery, plot 47—row 3—grave 120, in France (about 70 km west).

See also

References

  1. Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019, INSEE
  2. Arrêté préfectoral 24 September 2018, p. 129 (in French)
  3. Budanovic, Nikola (2016-09-05). "Michael Wittmann, the Deadly German Panzer Ace Of WWI". WAR HISTORY ONLINE. Retrieved 2017-07-18.


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