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Pont-Audemer
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| Commune of Pont-Audemer | |
| Location | |
| Longitude | 00° 30' 53" E |
| Latitude | 49° 21' 18" N |
| Administration | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Haute-Normandie |
| Department | Eure |
| Arrondissement | Bernay |
| Canton | Pont-Audemer (chief town) |
| Intercommunality | Communauté de communes de Pont-Audemer |
| Mayor | Gaston Lecureur (2001-2008) |
| Statistics | |
| Altitude | 2 m–115 m (avg. 9 m) |
| Land area¹ | 9.35 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
8,981 (Pont-Audemériens) |
| - Density (1999) | 960/km² |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 27467/ 27500 |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| ² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
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Pont-Audemer is a commune and the chief town of a canton of the département of Eure, in the Haute-Normandie région of Normandy, in France.
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The commune is situated on the Risle between the Roumois and the Lieuvin.
The commune was spared substantial damage to its historic buildings during the Battle of Normandy. Nowadays the half-timbered buildings and the canals running between them are a tourist attraction. The church of Saint-Ouen is noted for its Renaissaince stained glass.
Pont-Audemer has no rail services but the station building remains open and sells rail tickets. PontAuRail, a preserved railway, runs two Diesel multiple units (a X4500 and a X2400) from Pont-Audemer to Honfleur.
Until 1926, Pont-Audemer was the seat of a sous-préfecture of the Eure département.
Its coat of arms is a four arch bridge over a river argent in chief azure three fleur-de-lis or.
