Mortrée

Mortrée ( ) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France. On 1 January 2019, the former commune Saint-Hilaire-la-Gérard was merged into Mortrée.

Mortrée ( ) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France. On 1 January 2019, the former commune Saint-Hilaire-la-Gérard was merged into Mortrée.

Geography

The commune of Mortrée is made up of the following villages and hamlets, Mortrée, Méhéran, La Grande Fosse and Saint-Hilaire-la-Gérard. Mortrée has a total of seven water courses running through it, three rivers Orne, Senneviere and Thouane. The other four watercourses are all streams, la Gironde, The Ponts Besnard, La Forêt & The Renardieres. Parts of the commune is within the Normandie-Maine Regional Natural Park and Forêt d'Écouves. Mortrée, along with another 65 communes, is part of a 20,593 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, called the Haute vallée de l'Orne et affluents.

Notable buildings and places

La carrière des Vaux is a Regional Nature Reserve that is 0.37 hectares in area, making it the smallest nature reserve in France. The reserve was a former quarry that contains many fossils from Conodonts that are naked to the human eye.

National heritage sites

The Commune has 3 buildings and areas listed as a Monument historique. Château d'O a 15th-century castle built by Jean d'O, captain of the Scottish guard of François I. Logis a 15th-century house used for accommodation, listed as a monument in 1995. Saint-Pierre Church a 19th-century church, listed as a monument in 2006.

Notable people

René Hardy (1911-1987) a French Resistance member was born here.

Heraldry

Town twinning

Mortrée is twinned with towns are: Shrivenham, Oxfordshire – England.

See also

Communes of the Orne department

References

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