La Hoguette

La Hoguette

Town hall

Coat of arms
La Hoguette

Coordinates: 48°52′42″N 0°09′32″W / 48.8783°N 0.1589°W / 48.8783; -0.1589Coordinates: 48°52′42″N 0°09′32″W / 48.8783°N 0.1589°W / 48.8783; -0.1589
Country France
Region Normandy
Department Calvados
Arrondissement Caen
Canton Falaise-Sud
Intercommunality Pays de Falaise
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Alain Guilmart
Area1 24.44 km2 (9.44 sq mi)
Population (2011)2 699
 • Density 29/km2 (74/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code 14332 / 14700
Elevation 89–267 m (292–876 ft)
(avg. 220 m or 720 ft)

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.

La Hoguette is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

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]

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1793422—    
1800374−11.4%
1806575+53.7%
1821496−13.7%
1831641+29.2%
1836684+6.7%
1841688+0.6%
1846737+7.1%
1851720−2.3%
1856697−3.2%
1861664−4.7%
1866701+5.6%
1872639−8.8%
1876631−1.3%
1881588−6.8%
1886553−6.0%
1891546−1.3%
YearPop.±%
1896505−7.5%
1901519+2.8%
1906475−8.5%
1911434−8.6%
1921386−11.1%
1926402+4.1%
1931373−7.2%
1936405+8.6%
1946425+4.9%
1954431+1.4%
1962454+5.3%
1968464+2.2%
1975436−6.0%
1982485+11.2%
1990532+9.7%
1999573+7.7%
2008668+16.6%

Personalities

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

See also

References

  1. ↑ Twelve essential old Scandinavian words (old Norse) in placenames of Normandy (R. Lepelley. Caen University
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