Douchy (Aisne) – Wikipedia

Shy is a French commune located in the department of Aisne, in the Hauts-de-France region.

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Climate [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The climate that characterizes the municipality was qualified, in 2010, as “degraded oceanic climate of the plains of the center and the North”, according to the typology of the climates of France which then has eight main types of climates in metropolitan France ^{[ first ]} . In 2020, the municipality came out of the type “altered ocean climate” in the classification established by Météo-France, which now only has, at first glance, only five main types of climates in mainland France. It is a transitional area between the oceanic climate, the mountain climate and the semi-continental climate. The temperature differences between winter and summer increase with the removal of the sea. The rainfall is lower than in the sea, except near the reliefs ^{[ 2 ]} .

The climatic parameters which made it possible to establish the typology of 2010 have six variables for temperatures and eight for precipitation, whose values ​​correspond to normal 1971-2000 ^{[ Note 1 ]} . The seven main variables characterizing the municipality are presented in the box below.

With climate change, these variables have evolved. A study carried out in 2014 by the Directorate General of Energy and Climate ^{[ 5 ]} supplemented by regional studies ^{[ 6 ]} provides indeed that the average temperature should grow and the average rainfall is lower, with high regional variations. These changes can be noted on the nearest Météo-France weather station, “Saint-Quentin”, in the town of Fontaine-lès-Clercs, commissioned in 1933 ^{[ 7 ]} and which is 6 km as the crow flies ^{[ 8 ] , [ Note 4 ]} , where the average annual temperature evolves from ten °C For the period 1971-2000 ^{[ 9 ]} To 10.3 °C For 1981-2010 ^{[ ten ]} , then 10.8 °C For 1991-2020 ^{[ 11 ]} .

Typology [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Douchy is a rural commune ^{[ Note 5 ] , [ twelfth ]} . It is indeed one of the municipalities that are not very little dense, in the sense of the municipal gate of INSEE density ^{[ 13 ] , [ 14 ]} .

In addition, the municipality is part of the Saint-Quentin attraction area, of which it is a town in the crown ^{[ Note 6 ]} . This area, which brings together 120 municipalities, is categorized in the areas of 50,000 to less than 200,000 inhabitants ^{[ 15 ] , [ 16 ]} .

Land use [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Map of infrastructure and land use of the municipality in 2018 (CLC).

The occupation of the soils of the municipality, as it appears from the European Database for Biophysics of Corine Land Cover (CLC), is marked by the importance of agricultural territories (90.9% in 2018) , a proportion identical to that of 1990 (90.9%). The detailed distribution in 2018 is as follows:
Arable land (90.9%), urbanized areas (6.4%), forests (2.7%) ^{[ 17 ]} .

The IGN also provides an online tool to compare the evolution over time of the soil occupation of the municipality (or territories to different scales). Several eras are accessible in the form of aerial cards or photos: the Cassini card ( XVIII ^{It is} century), the staff map (1820-1866) and the current period (1950 to today) ^{[ 18 ]} .

The portal of the old Romanesque church of Douchy dating from the XII ^{It is} century has been safeguarded and is today in the Parc des Champs-Élysées in Saint-Quentin.

Portal of the old church of Douchy.	Drawing of the church portal.
Portal of the church of Douchy.	The church portal at XIIecentury. Drawing by Joachim Malézieux (1851/1906).

Territorial division [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The municipality of Douchy is a member of the community of communes of the Pays du Vermandois, a public establishment for inter -municipal cooperation (EPCI) with own taxation created the December 31, 1993 whose headquarters are in Bellicourt. The latter is also a member of other inter -municipal groups ^{[ 19 ]} .

Administratively, it is attached to the arrondissement of Saint-Quentin, the department of Aisne and the Hauts-de-France region ^{[ 20 ]} . On the electoral level, it depends on the canton of Saint-Quentin-1 for the election of departmental advisers, since the cantonal redistribution of 2014 entered into force in 2015 ^{[ 20 ]} , and the second district of Aisne for the legislative elections, since the last electoral division of 2010 ^{[ 21 ]} .

Administration municipale [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses made in the municipality since 1793. From 2006, the legal populations of the municipalities are published annually by INSEE. The census is now based on an annual information collection, successively concerning all the municipal territories during a period of five years. For municipalities with less than 10,000 inhabitants, a census survey relating to the entire population is carried out every five years, the legal populations of the intermediate years being estimated by interpolation or extrapolation ^{[ 26 ]} . For the municipality, the first exhaustive census falling within the framework of the new system was carried out in 2008 ^{[ 27 ]} .

In 2020, the town had 164 inhabitants ^{[ Note 7 ]} , increased by 4.46%compared to 2014 (Aisne: −1.93%, France excluding Mayotte: +1.9%).

Histogram of demographic evolution

• Saint-Laurent church.
• The Douchy manor, its courtyard and its dovecote, at the entrance to the manor, a 1944 war -victim commemorative plaque.
• Memorial.
• Calvary.
• The old Saint-Quentin line station in Ham

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  The Douchy manor, the interior courtyard.

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  Cross cross Calvary of Douchy .

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  Former Douchy station located on the Saint-Quentin line in Ham.

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