Mortrée
Commune in Normandy, France
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Mortrée (French pronunciation: [mɔʁtʁe] ⓘ) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France. On 1 January 2019, the former commune Saint-Hilaire-la-Gérard was merged into Mortrée.[3]
Mortrée | |
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The chateau in Mortrée | |
 Location of Mortrée | |
  Mortrée Location within France  Mortrée Location within Normandy | |
| Coordinates: 48°38′25″N 0°04′44″E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Department | Orne |
| Arrondissement | Alençon |
| Canton | Sées |
| Intercommunality | Sources de l'Orne |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2021–2026) | Reine-Marie Puitg[1] |
Area 1 | 32.26 km2 (12.46 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | 1,115 |
| • Density | 34.56/km2 (89.52/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 61294 /61570 |
| Elevation | 161–277 m (528–909 ft) (avg. 173 m or 568 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Geography
The commune of Mortrée is made up of the following villages and hamlets, Mortrée, Méhéran, La Grande Fosse and Saint-Hilaire-la-Gérard.[4]
Mortrée has a total of seven water courses running through it, three rivers Orne, Senneviere and Thouane.[5][6][7] The other four watercourses are all streams, la Gironde, The Ponts Besnard, La Forêt & The Renardieres.[8][9][10]
Parts of the commune is within the Normandie-Maine Regional Natural Park and Forêt d'Écouves.[11][12]
Mortrée, along with another 65 communes, is part of a 20,593 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, called the Haute vallée de l'Orne et affluents.[13]
Notable buildings and places
- La carrière des Vaux is a Regional Nature Reserve that is 0.37 hectares in area, making it the smallest nature reserve in France.[14] The reserve was a former quarry that contains many fossils from Conodonts that are naked to the human eye.[15]
National heritage sites
The Commune has 3 buildings and areas listed as a Monument historique.
- Château d'O a 15th-century castle built by Jean d'O, captain of the Scottish guard of François I.[16]
- Logis a 15th-century house used for accommodation, listed as a monument in 1995.[17]
- Saint-Pierre Church a 19th-century church, listed as a monument in 2006.[18]
Notable people
- René Hardy (1911-1987) a French Resistance member was born here.[19]
Heraldry
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The arms of Mortrée are blazoned : Ermine, on a chief indented gules an escallop Or.
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Town twinning
Mortrée is twinned with towns are:
Shrivenham, Oxfordshire – England.[20]
