Aubigny-les-Pothées is a commune in the Ardennesdepartment in the Grand Est region of northern France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aubignois or Aubignoises.
Geography
Aubigny-les-Pothées is located some 25 km west of Charleville-Mézières and 13 km north of Signy-l'Abbaye. Access to the commune is by road D978 from Logny-Bogny in the west which passes through the commune and the village and continues east to Rouvroy-sur-Audry. The D985 branches off the D978 at the eastern border of the commune and goes south to Signy-l'Abbaye. The minor D20 road goes north from the village to Auvillers-les-Forges. A railway line passes through the commune from east to west but there is no station in the commune. The nearest station is at Liart to the west. The commune is mixed forest and farmland. The Audry river flows through the commune and the village from west to east and continues east to join the Sormonne south of Sormonne.
Neighbouring communes and villages
History
Two Merovingian cemeteries have been identified in the commune: one at a place called Bocmont, the other at a place called Croix-Ancelet. The bodies showed the characteristic positioning of arms along the body and legs separated which predominated in the region in the 6th and 7th centuries. In the 13th century the village was the main town in les Potées ecclesiastical domain which was a possession of the chapter of Reims. The letter h in Pothées was introduced later. Aubigny was the main town of this possession. In 1436 people from Liège burned the Chateau of Aubigny. In the early days of the First World War in 1914, the village church was a very basic hospital. Straw scattered on the ground served as a bed for the wounded.
In 2010 the commune had 349 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.
Sites and monuments
Notable people linked to the commune
Edouard Piette Archaeologist and pre-historian, born in Aubigny-les-Pothées
