Buchères

Commune in Grand Est, France

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Commune in Grand Est, France

Coat of arms

Location of Buchères

(2020–2026) Philippe Gundall^[1]Area

7.14 km² (2.76 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

1,895 • Density270/km² (690/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

10067 /10800

Elevation111–133 m (364–436 ft)
(avg. 118 m or 387 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Buchères (French pronunciation: [byʃɛʁ]) is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France.

World War II

On August 24, 1944, men of the 51st SS-Brigade massacred 68 people, of whom ten were children under ten year old, five were elderly above seventy years, including 35 women and three infants of 18, 11 and 6 months.^[3]

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	727	—
1975	1,072	+5.70%
1982	1,314	+2.95%
1990	1,328	+0.13%
1999	1,345	+0.14%
2009	1,404	+0.43%
2014	1,534	+1.79%
2020	1,889	+3.53%
Source: INSEE^[4]

Bibliography

Crimes allemands : Le Martyre de Buchères (Aube) : 24 août 1944, Troyes : Grande impr. de Troyes, 1945, 48 p., ill.^[5]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ (in French) Bruge, Roger (1994) 1944 Le temps des Massacres, les crimes de la Gestapo et de la 51e Brigade SS, Albin Michel, ISBN 2-226-06966-6
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ ÉGO 1939-1945 - Centre de Recherche d'Histoire Quantitative (CRHQ)/ par Françoise Passera