Auvers-le-Hamon

Auvers -le- Hamon is a commune with 1524 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) in the Pays de la Loire Sarthe in the arrondissement of La Flèche in the canton of Sablé- sur- Sarthe.

Location and Transport

The municipality, which, with 47.83 square kilometers to the larger communities of France, south-west of Le Mans on 29-93 meters above sea level on the banks of the river erve, near the confluence of its tributary Treulon. Transportation is provided by the A81 road and the Department D 24.

Attractions

  • Church, of Romanesque origin (11th century), bell tower of 12-13. century; consecrated in the 19th century Saint- Pierre; Choir and transept in the 19th century reconstructed (architect: Paul Lemesle ); Nave with a wooden barrel vault; to the nave walls frescoes of the 16th century
  • Château du Plessis (1890)
  • Château fort de Monfrou ( ruins )
  • Manoir ( Manor House ) de Pontigné

Personalities

  • Michel Lejeune, born 1946, politicians
  • Julien Lelasseux - Lafosse, * 1791, Polytechnic

Twinning

  • Since 1980 Had in Lower Saxony ( Germany )
  • Since 2000, Wilde squatting in Lower Saxony ( Germany )
Cantons of France Postal codes in France Hatten Wildeshausen
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