Anisy

Anisy
Commune
Church of Saint Peter
Coat of arms
Location of Anisy
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Coordinates: 49°15′07″N 0°23′27″W / 49.2519°N 0.3908°W / 49.2519; -0.3908
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Caen
Canton	Courseulles-sur-Mer
Intercommunality	Cœur de Nacre
Government
• Mayor (2026–32)	Pierre Paumier
Area 1	4.19 km2 (1.62 sq mi)
Elevation	50 m (160 ft)
Highest elevation	67 m (220 ft)
Lowest elevation	44 m (144 ft)
Population  (2023)	819
• Density	195/km2 (506/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	14015 /14610
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Anisy (French pronunciation: [anizi] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.

Geography

Anisy is located some 8 km north by north-west of Caen and 4 km south of Douvres-la-Délivrande. It can be accessed by the D79 road from Caen passing through the west of the commune and continuing to Anguerny. The village can be accessed by the D220 road from Mathieu in the east passing through the village and the commune and continuing to Villons-les-Buissons in the south-west. The D220A branches off the D220 in the village and goes south to Cambes-en-Plaine. The D141 from Mathieu to Anguerny also passes through the north-eastern tip of the commune. Apart from the village the commune is entirely farmland.

History

The commune was founded in the 11th century by the Anisy family.

Anisy was liberated by The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada on the first evening of the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944. The Rifles were the only Regiment to reach its assigned objective that day.

Heraldry

Blazon: Argent, semy of billetty of Sable with a lion the same crowned in Or, tongued and armed in Gules debruised by all.

Administration

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List of Successive Mayors

Population

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Anisiens or Anisiennes in French.

Sites and monuments

• Church of Saint Peter (12th and 13th centuries), registered as a historical monument in 1927.

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  The entrance of the Church of Saint-Pierre.
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  The source of the Dan river.

Notable people linked to the commune

• Madeleine Barbulée, French actress, born on 2 September 1910 at Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle. She died on 1 January 2001 in Paris and was buried in the cemetery at Anisy.

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department

References

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