Audruicq (; ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.INSEE commune file
Geography A town located 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Calais, at the junction of the D224 with the D309 road.
History 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.
Population
Sights The eighteenth-century church of St. Martin. The eighteenth-century château.
Personalities Gilbert Brazy: Born at Audruicq on 15 February 1902. A pilot, he disappeared, flying a "Latham47" in the Arctic in 1928 with Roald Amundsen.
International relations Audruicq is twinned with: Hawkhurst in Kent, England, since 1998.
See also Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department
References
External links
Audruicq, a stroll in the past The German Air Force in the Great War The 1916 bombing of the ammunition dump at Audruicq