Auberville


Auberville is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aubervillais or Aubervillaises.

Geography

Auberville is located on the northern Normandy coast some 8 km east by north-east of Cabourg and 13 km south-west of Deauville. Access to the commune is by road D513 from Houlgate in the west which passes through the village and continues north-east to Villers-sur-Mer. The D163 branches off the D513 in the village and goes south to Branville. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of Les Genets, Les Bruyeres, and Le Manoir. The north of the commune is forested along the coast with slopes down to the beach while the rest of the commune is farmland.

Toponymy

The name was attested in the form Osbertivilla in 1082. It came from the Germanic anthroponym Osbert or alternatively from the Scandinavian Osbern and the old French ville in its original sense of "rural domain".

History

Archaeological excavations have found Merovingian tombs.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors
FromToNamePartyPosition
20012008William Lemarchand
20082020Antoine GrieuForeman

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 487 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.

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