Fontaine-Étoupefour

Fontaine-Étoupefour (French pronunciation: [fɔ̃tɛn etupfuʁ] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

Fontaine-Étoupefour
Commune
St. Pierre Church
Location of Fontaine-Étoupefour
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Coordinates: 49°08′49″N 0°27′10″W
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Caen
Canton	Évrecy
Intercommunality	Vallées de l'Orne et de l'Odon
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Bernard Énault[1]
Area 1	5.08 km2 (1.96 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	2,812
• Density	554/km2 (1,430/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	14274 /14790
Elevation	19–111 m (62–364 ft) (avg. 32 m or 105 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 is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Les Salles, Les Daims and Fontaine-Étoupefour.^[3]

The river the Odon is the only watercourse running through the commune.^[4]

Population

Historical population
Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 491 —     1800 490 −0.03% 1806 642 +4.61% 1821 591 −0.55% 1831 662 +1.14% 1836 668 +0.18% 1841 666 −0.06% 1846 640 −0.79% 1851 662 +0.68% 1856 631 −0.95% 1861 628 −0.10% 1866 604 −0.78% 1872 526 −2.28% 1876 530 +0.19% 1881 517 −0.50% 1886 468 −1.97% 1891 461 −0.30% 1896 426 −1.57%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 404 −1.05% 1906 406 +0.10% 1911 337 −3.66% 1921 290 −1.49% 1926 283 −0.49% 1931 284 +0.07% 1936 286 +0.14% 1946 301 +0.51% 1954 359 +2.23% 1962 465 +3.29% 1968 590 +4.05% 1975 960 +7.20% 1982 1,152 +2.64% 1990 1,627 +4.41% 1999 1,676 +0.33% 2007 1,898 +1.57% 2012 2,080 +1.85% 2017 2,348 +2.45%
Source: EHESS[5] and INSEE (1968-2017)[6]

Points of interest

• Hill 112 Memorial site - is built in recognition of the 10,000 men who lost their lives in the 10 week battle for this strategically important hill as part of Operation Epsom and Operation Jupiter (1944).^[7][8] The memorial is shared across 3 communes whose borders all meet near the top of the hill, so in addition to Fontaine-Étoupefour, there is Esquay-Notre-Dame and Vieux.^[9][10][11] The memorial features a restored A22 Churchill Mk VII tank a 25-pounder Gun and 112 trees planted to form a cross.^[12]

National Heritage Sites

The commune has two sites listed as a Monument historique.^[13]

• Eglise Saint-Pierre a twelfth centaury church listed as monuments in 1927.^[14]
• Château a fifteenth centaury chateau listed as a monument in 1995.^[15]

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department