Châteaudun

Châteaudun
Chateau
Location of Châteaudun
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Eure-et-Loir
Arrondissement	Châteaudun
Canton	Châteaudun
Intercommunality	Dunois
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Didier Huguet
Area 1	28.48 km2 (11.00 sq mi)
Population  (2008)	13,905
• Density	490/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	28088 /28200
Elevation	102–152 m (335–499 ft) (avg. 140 m or 460 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Châteaudun (French pronunciation: [ʃɑtodœ̃]) is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.

Geography

Châteaudun is located about 45 km northwest of Orléans, and about 50 km south-southwest of Chartres, on the river Loir, a tributary of the Sarthe.

Employment

The area is rich agricultural land, but a major local employer is the Châteaudun Air Base just to the east of the town and much larger than it.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1793	5,957	—
1800	6,046	+1.5%
1806	6,161	+1.9%
1821	6,042	−1.9%
1831	6,461	+6.9%
1836	6,776	+4.9%
1841	6,580	−2.9%
1846	6,788	+3.2%
1851	6,745	−0.6%
1856	6,542	−3.0%
1861	6,719	+2.7%
1866	6,781	+0.9%
1872	6,552	−3.4%
1876	6,694	+2.2%
1881	7,036	+5.1%
1886	7,284	+3.5%
1891	7,147	−1.9%
1896	7,460	+4.4%
1901	7,146	−4.2%
1906	7,147	+0.0%
1911	7,296	+2.1%
1921	6,587	−9.7%
1926	6,558	−0.4%
1931	6,790	+3.5%
1936	7,057	+3.9%
1946	8,145	+15.4%
1954	9,687	+18.9%
1962	11,982	+23.7%
1968	14,450	+20.6%
1975	15,338	+6.1%
1982	15,319	−0.1%
1990	14,511	−5.3%
1999	14,543	+0.2%
2008	13,905	−4.4%

Main sights

Its château is known for being the first on the road to Loire Valley, from Paris.

Churches

• 
  Saint-Valérien
• 
  La Madeleine
• 
  Saint-Jean-de-la-Chaîne
• 
  Saint-Lubin ruins
• 
  Saint-Lubin ruins
• 
  Notre-Dame-du-Champdé chapel (now cemetery entrance)
• 
  La Boissière chapel

Medieval houses

• 
  Cuirasserie street and Huileries street angle
• 
  Cuirasserie street and Huileries street angle
• 
  Louis Esnault house
• 
  Château's architects' house
• 
  Virgin's house
• 
  Virgin's house (detail)

Personalities

Châteaudun was the birthplace of:

• Pierre Guédron (1570–1620), composer
• Nicolas Chaperon (1612–1656) painter
• Edmond Modeste Lescarbault (1814), doctor and amateur astronomer
• Romain Feillu (1984) road racing cyclist
• Brice Feillu (1985) road racing cyclist

International relations

Châteaudun is twinned with:

• Schweinfurt, Germany
• Cap-de-la-Madeleine (amalgamated into the City of Trois-Rivières in 2002), Canada
• Arklow, Ireland
• Marchena, Spain
• Kroměříž, Czech Republic
• Stranraer, United Kingdom

• 
  Châteaudun (Eure-et-Loir) Donjon and chapel of the château
• 
  Fountain and façade of the town hall of Châteaudun
• 
  Watched by two small boys, a member of the FFI (French Forces of the Interior) poses with his Bren gun at Chateaudun - 1944

See also

• Communes of the Eure-et-Loir department

References

• INSEE

External links

• Official website (in French)
• Tourist office website (in English and French)