Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais

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Location within Centre-Val de Loire region

Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais

Coordinates: 48°34′53″N 1°14′31″E / 48.5814°N 1.2419°ECoordinates: 48°34′53″N 1°14′31″E / 48.5814°N 1.2419°E

Country

Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais

Intercommunality

Thymerais

Government

• Mayor (2008–2014)

Jean-Pierre Gaboriau

Area¹

4.07 km² (1.57 sq mi)

Population (2008)²

2,549

• Density

630/km² (1,600/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

INSEE/Postal code

28089 / 28170

Elevation

183–223 m (600–732 ft)
(avg. 209 m or 686 ft)

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

²Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais is a commune Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.

The commune was once an important stronghold reigning over the whole natural and historic province of Thymerais.

Born of the fierce determination of his first lords to face the threat weighed the Duke of Normandy on the Kingdom of France, and devastated much debated over the ages, the castle was eventually demolished, but the city remained. It gradually lost its importance and the feud was the center of which she was dismembered so that it became a barony in the eighteenth century was far from having the same extent in the thirteenth century.

The city known since the end of second war a fragile revival by taking advantage of its location due to its proximity to Paris and employment areas of Chartres and Dreux. It managed to attract some industrial enterprises to retain part of its business while achieving a low but steady demographic development. Already head of Canton, belonging to the Country Drouais the city became in 2003 the center of the Community of communes of Thymerais.

Former capital of Thymerais having taken over this status from its neighbor Thimert, Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais is located south of Normandy and Drouais, west and north of the Beauce and Chartrain and east of the Perche . The city was built following the vicissitudes of history in a forested area called, around 600 or even at a much earlier period, the Perche. This designation did not yet apply at the early eleventh century to the political or administrative divisions. However, the woodland region of the Perche was divided between the County of Corbon (Mortagne), the Barony of Châteauneuf, the county and bishopric of Chartres, the Viscounty of Châteaudun and County of Vendôme. Progressive clearing of this forest caused the retreat of the Perche, giving place to the Thymerais. A crossroads, the town is now the headquarters of the canton and the center of the community of communes of the Thymerais.

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