La Hoguette

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Commune in Normandy, France

Coat of arms

Location of La Hoguette

(2020–2026) Sylvie Grenier^[1]Area

24.44 km² (9.44 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

662 • Density27/km² (70/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

14332 /14700

Elevation89–267 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.

La Hoguette (French pronunciation: [la ɔɡɛt] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

Geography

Five rivers run through the commune the Filaine, Gronde, Traine-feuilles, Trainefeuille and Bilaine.

The Commune has an area of woods known as Saint-André.^[4]

Archeology

La Hoguette is also the type site of the early Neolithic La Hoguette culture that is found mainly in association with Linear pottery (Linearbandkeramic) or Limburg pottery in Northern France, The Netherlands, Alsace and Western Germany. It is believed to ultimately derive from the Mediterranean Cardial culture 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.^[5]

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	464	—
1975	436	−0.89%
1982	485	+1.53%
1990	532	+1.16%
1999	573	+0.83%
2009	678	+1.70%
2014	717	+1.12%
2020	664	−1.27%
Source: INSEE^[6]

Places of interest

Abbaye de Saint-André-de-Gouffern is the remains of a 12th century Abbey built in 1127 and is classed as a Monument historique^[7]

Personalities

La Hoguette was the birthplace of Georges Marchais (1920–1997), head of the French Communist Party.^[8]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ "La Hoguette · 14700, France". La Hoguette · 14700, France.
^ "Bois de Saint-André forest(s), Basse-Normandie, France". fr.geoview.info.
^ Twelve essential old Scandinavian words (old Norse) in placenames of Normandy (R. Lepelley. Caen University Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ "Abbaye de Saint-André-de-Gouffern". www.pop.culture.gouv.fr.
^ "Obituary: Georges Marchais". The Independent. 17 November 1997.