Aix-en-Othe

Aix-en-Othe
Aix-en-Othe
Location within Champagne-Ardenne region  Aix-en-Othe
Administration
Country	France
Region	Champagne-Ardenne
Department	Aube
Arrondissement	Troyes
Canton	Aix-en-Othe
Intercommunality	Pays d'Othe aixois
Mayor	Yves Fournier (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	132 m (433 ft) avg.
Land area1	34.76 km2 (13.42 sq mi)
Population2	2,434  (2010)
- Density	70 /km2 (180 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	10003/ 10160
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Aix-en-Othe is a French commune in the Aube departmentin the Champagne-Ardennes region of north-central France. It is the seat of the canton of Aix-en-Othe.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aixois or Aisoises

Geography

Aix-en-Othe is located in the western part of the department of the Aube, 25kms west of Troyes 30 km and 40 km east of Sens. It is in the Nosle valley: the Nosle is a tributary of the Vanne river. The motorway E54/E511/A5 passes west to east about 2 kms north of the commune. The road D374 comes south from the motorway to the town and passes through the commune to Villemoiron-en-Othe. Several other district roads pass through the commune: the D31 from the west and continuing to the north, the D77 and D139 from the south, the D194 from the south-east and the D121 from the east.

The nearest railway station is outside the commune about 3kms north of the town near Villemaur-sur-Vanne accessible from the D374 road.

The Nosle stream flows through the commune from the south-east to the north-west and into the Vanne river. There are forests in the south and north of the commune which is mostly farmland. There are a number of hamlets in the commune. These are: La Vove, Le Jarc, Druisy, Pitoite, Les Cornees Alexandre, Les Cornees Lalliat, La Bouillant, Le Mineroy, and Les Chevreux in the southern corner.

Heraldry

Blazon: Azure, with band of Argent between two cotices potent counter potent of Or, bordure barry wavy of 4 argent and azure, at chief of Or charged with an eagle double-headed of sable.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors of Aix-en-Othe

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1995	2014	Yves Fournier	PS

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010, the commune had 2,434 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses conducted in the town since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of municipalities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.

Evolution of the Population

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
1469	1551	1527	1634	1734	1787	1977	2168	2310

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
2427	2623	2785	2779	2939	2906	3007	3041	2670

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
2646	2484	2523	2184	2320	2410	2383	2218	2231

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2007	2010
2270	2112	2313	2349	2260	2131	2348	2379	2434

From 1962 to 1999 there was no double counting of people who stayed in multiple communes.

Sources:Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962 Local INSEE 1968 INSEE

Sites and Monuments

• Church of Our Lady of the Assumption of Aix-en-Othe
• Chapel Saint-Avit
• A Baltard type Hall (19th century)
• War Memorial. Inaugurated on 27 September 1902, it includes the names of the dead soldiers of France in 1870 - 1871, the two world wars, and the dead in North Africa and TOE. On the base of the monument is a hunter in the position of an alerted sentry.
• A Smokestack from the 19th century. Two of them with a height of 30 to 40 metres, they are from old factories which made Hosiery. They testify to the type of industrial activity in their time.

Notable People linked to the commune

• Ernest Millot (1836-1891), explorer. In his expedition to the Red River (which flows through Hanoi) from 1872-1873 he sought a waterway to bring to Tonkin the immense wealth of Yunnan (South China). Ernest Millot was also mayor of the Shanghai French Concession
• Jacques Chéreau, sculptor, was born in Aix-en-Othe. He has exhibited in Napa (California) as well as Geneva, Brisbane, Miami, and San Francisco. His works are on permanent display in the Michelle Boullet Gallery in Paris, the Cafmeyer gallery in Knokke (Belgium), and recently at the Marie Ricco gallery in Calvi.
• Joachim du Bellay, in his "Ode to the Prince of Melphe" Antoine Caraccioli lauded Aiz, (that is to say Aix-en-Othe) as follows:

Go, see my sweet companion
The soft pleasures of the Champaigne
Its fields, its waves and woods.
..........
Go and see this beautiful edifice
That nature and artifice
Have embellished with a hundred pleasures.
This is Aiz that beautiful abode
Only to be torn away in less than an hour
Our most ambitious desires.
There, a pleasant punishment
The certainty fleeing the plain
Where the "lyèvre suyvrons" us;
There saintly solitary
Long process and affairs,
Happily we live.

Twin cities

• Neresheim, Germany, since 1992

Bibliography

• Aix-en-Othe and the region, by E-L Collot, 1935. reprint of the original edition by Res Universis, Paris, 1993. (ISBN 978-2-7428-0236-4) (French)
• Aix-en-Othe, memory of a commune of Aube, ARPA, 1988. (French)
• Guide to the North of France, Frederic Zégierman, Paris, Arthème Fayard, 1999. (ISBN 978-2-213-59960-1) (French)
• Our land of Othe, by Jeanne Martel and Jeannine Velut, Tourist Office of Othe country and the Vanne Valley, 2003. (ISBN 978-2-907894-32-6) (French)
• Marguerite Beau: Essay on the religious architecture of the southern Champagne from Aube to Troyes (1991) (French)
• Houses of yesterday in Othe country, by Jeanne Martel, ARPA, 2009 (ISBN 978-2-907894-49-4)

External Links

• Official Site for Aix-en-Othe (French)
• Aix-en-Othe on the National Geographic Institute website (French)
• Aix-en-Othe on the INSEE census website (French)
• INSEE

See also

• Communes of the Aube department