Audruicq | |
Native Name: | Ouderwijk |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason ville fr Audruicq (Pas-de-Calais).svg |
Arrondissement: | Calais |
Canton: | Marck |
Insee: | 62057 |
Postal Code: | 62370 |
Mayor: | Olivier Planque[1] |
Term: | 2022 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | CC Région d'Audruicq |
Coordinates: | 50.8797°N 2.0814°W |
Elevation M: | 10 |
Elevation Min M: | 3 |
Elevation Max M: | 22 |
Area Km2: | 14.44 |
Audruicq (in French pronounced as /odʁɥik/; Ouderwijk|lang) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.[2]
A town located 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Calais, at the junction of the D224 with the D309 road.
Baldwin II, Count of Flanders named it a city in 1175, rebuilding the castle and converting the surrounding marshland to tillable soil.After continuously changing authority between the 13th century and the 17th century, Audruicq finally became a French town after the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678.
Audruicq is twinned with: Hawkhurst in Kent, England, since 1998.