La Hoguette

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La Hoguette

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Town hall
La Hoguette is located in France
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La Hoguette
Administration
Country France
Region Lower Normandy
Department Calvados
Arrondissement Caen
Canton Falaise-Sud
Intercommunality Pays de Falaise
Mayor Alain Guilmart
(2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation 89–267 m (292–876 ft)
(avg. 220 m or 720 ft)
Land area1 24.44 km2 (9.44 sq mi)
Population2 668  (2018)
 - Density 27 /km2 (70 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 14332/ 14700
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.

Coordinates: 48°52′42″N 0°09′32″W / 48.8783°N 0.1589°W / 48.8783; -0.1589

La Hoguette is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France.

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[edit] Archeology

La Hoguette is also the type site of the early Neolithic La Hoguette culture that is found mainly in association with Linearbandkeramic or Limburg pottery in Northern France, The Netherlands, Alsace and Western Germany. It is believed to ultimately derive from the Mediterranean Cardial-Traditions. Important sites of the La-Hoguette culture include Stuttgart-Wilhelma, Dautenheim and Godelau.

The La Hoguette pottery was found under a later megalithic tomb and first misidentified as Linearbandkeramic. La Hoguette marks the westernmost point of the distribution of this culture. The place name La Hoguette is believed to derive from the Old Norse word Haugr meaning a knoll or a hill.[1]

[edit] Population

Historical population of La Hoguette
Year 1793 1800 1806 1821 1831 1836 1841 1846 1851 1856
Population 422 374 575 496 641 684 688 737 720 697
Year 1861 1866 1872 1876 1881 1886 1891 1896 1901 1906
Population 664 701 639 631 588 553 546 505 519 475
Year 1911 1921 1926 1931 1936 1946 1954 1962 1968 1975
Population 434 386 402 373 405 425 431 454 464 436
Year 1982 1990 1999 2008
Population 485 532 573 668

[edit] Personalities

La Hoguette was the birthplace of Georges Marchais (1920–1997), head of the French Communist Party.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

[edit] External links

  • [1] La Hoguette (M.O. Baldwin)


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