Buchères

Buchères
Commune
Coat of arms
Location of Buchères
Buchères Buchères
Coordinates: 48°14′19″N 4°06′33″E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Aube
Arrondissement	Troyes
Canton	Vendeuvre-sur-Barse
Intercommunality	CA Troyes Champagne Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Philippe Gundall
Area 1	7.14 km2 (2.76 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	1,895
• Density	270/km2 (690/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	10067 /10800
Elevation	111–133 m (364–436 ft) (avg. 118 m or 387 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Buchères (French pronunciation: [byʃɛʁ]) is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France.

World War II

On August 24, 1944, men of the 51st SS-Brigade massacred 68 people, of whom ten were children under ten year old, five were elderly above seventy years, including 35 women and three babies of 18, 11 and 6 months.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 277 —     1800 408 +47.3% 1806 421 +3.2% 1821 446 +5.9% 1831 556 +24.7% 1836 570 +2.5% 1841 618 +8.4% 1846 634 +2.6% 1851 653 +3.0% 1856 580 −11.2% 1861 552 −4.8% 1866 555 +0.5% 1872 508 −8.5% 1876 497 −2.2% 1881 490 −1.4% 1886 475 −3.1% 1891 426 −10.3% 1896 434 +1.9%

Year Pop. ±% 1901 429 −1.2% 1906 458 +6.8% 1911 422 −7.9% 1921 435 +3.1% 1926 485 +11.5% 1931 533 +9.9% 1936 514 −3.6% 1946 483 −6.0% 1954 531 +9.9% 1962 602 +13.4% 1968 727 +20.8% 1975 1,072 +47.5% 1982 1,314 +22.6% 1990 1,328 +1.1% 1999 1,345 +1.3% 2006 1,394 +3.6% 2009 1,404 +0.7% 2012 1,435 +2.2%

See also

• Communes of the Aube department

Bibliography

• Crimes allemands : Le Martyre de Buchères (Aube) : 24 août 1944, Troyes : Grande impr. de Troyes, 1945, 48 p., ill.