Beaune-la-Rolande

Beaune-la-Rolande (French pronunciation: ​[bon la ʁɔlɑ̃d]) is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.

Beaune-la-Rolande
Commune
Church of Saint Martin
Coat of arms
Location of Beaune-la-Rolande
Beaune-la-Rolande
Beaune-la-Rolande
Coordinates: 48°04′14″N 2°25′48″E
CountryFrance
RegionCentre-Val de Loire
DepartmentLoiret
ArrondissementPithiviers
CantonMalesherbes
IntercommunalityPithiverais-Gâtinais
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Michel Masson[1]
Area
1
20.55 km2 (7.93 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2019)[2]
2,021
 • Density98/km2 (250/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
45030 /45340
Elevation91–119 m (299–390 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

History

On 28 November 1870 it was the site of a battle during the Franco-Prussian War, in which French impressionist painter Frédéric Bazille was killed.

During World War II, it was the site of the Nazi Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp, a transit and deportation center for Jews closely associated with the Pithiviers internment camp. Eighteen thousand Jews were held at Beaune-la-Rolande; most of them were transported to Auschwitz where they were murdered.[3]

Polish artist Zber was imprisoned there from 1941 to 1942,[4] and the composer Ralph Erwin died there.

Population
Historical population
YearPop.±%
1793 2,028—    
1800 2,057+1.4%
1806 2,062+0.2%
1821 2,169+5.2%
1831 2,119−2.3%
1836 2,128+0.4%
1841 2,122−0.3%
1846 2,174+2.5%
1851 2,131−2.0%
1856 2,055−3.6%
1861 1,987−3.3%
1866 1,962−1.3%
1872 1,818−7.3%
1876 1,967+8.2%
1881 1,874−4.7%
1886 1,845−1.5%
1891 1,792−2.9%
1896 1,753−2.2%
YearPop.±%
1901 1,860+6.1%
1906 1,776−4.5%
1911 1,762−0.8%
1921 1,620−8.1%
1926 1,695+4.6%
1931 1,703+0.5%
1936 1,746+2.5%
1946 1,765+1.1%
1954 1,721−2.5%
1962 1,758+2.1%
1968 1,792+1.9%
1975 1,929+7.6%
1982 1,928−0.1%
1990 1,877−2.6%
1999 2,097+11.7%
2006 2,073−1.1%
2009 2,039−1.6%
Belltower of Saint-Martin church

See also

References
  1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
  2. "Populations légales 2019". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 29 December 2021.
  3. Megargee, G.P.; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2009). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933-1945. Indiana University Press.
  4. Paris for Dummies. Wiley Publishing, Inc. 2007. pp. 220. ISBN 978-0-470-08584-4.


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