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    Mussidan

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    Mussidan
    Commune
    Crempse River
    Crempse River
    Coat of arms of Mussidan
    Coat of arms
    Location of Mussidan
    Map
    Mussidan is located in France
    Mussidan
    Mussidan
    Mussidan is located in Nouvelle-Aquitaine
    Mussidan
    Mussidan
    Coordinates: 45°02′09″N 0°21′59″E / 45.0358°N 0.3664°E / 45.0358; 0.3664
    CountryFrance
    RegionNouvelle-Aquitaine
    DepartmentDordogne
    ArrondissementPérigueux
    CantonVallée de l'Isle
    Government
     • Mayor (2020–2026) Stéphane Triquart[1]
    Area
    1
    		3.85 km2 (1.49 sq mi)
    Population
     (Jan. 2020)[2]
    		2,788
     • Density720/km2 (1,900/sq mi)
    Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
     • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
    INSEE/Postal code
    24299 /24400
    Elevation42–106 m (138–348 ft)
    (avg. 50 m or 160 ft)
    1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

    Mussidan (French pronunciation: [mysidɑ̃]; Occitan: Moissida) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Mussidan station has rail connections to Bordeaux, Périgueux, Brive-la-Gaillarde and Limoges.

    Population[edit]

    Historical population
    YearPop.±% p.a.
    1793 1,286—    
    1800 1,176−1.27%
    1806 1,411+3.08%
    1821 1,630+0.97%
    1831 1,700+0.42%
    1836 1,953+2.81%
    1841 1,744−2.24%
    1846 1,862+1.32%
    1851 1,919+0.60%
    1856 2,028+1.11%
    1861 1,917−1.12%
    1866 2,070+1.55%
    1872 1,980−0.74%
    1876 2,062+1.02%
    1881 2,025−0.36%
    1886 2,037+0.12%
    1891 2,206+1.61%
    1896 2,215+0.08%
    YearPop.±% p.a.
    1901 2,284+0.62%
    1906 2,350+0.57%
    1911 2,416+0.56%
    1921 2,453+0.15%
    1926 2,449−0.03%
    1931 2,416−0.27%
    1936 2,653+1.89%
    1946 3,018+1.30%
    1954 3,006−0.05%
    1962 3,024+0.07%
    1968 3,048+0.13%
    1975 3,235+0.85%
    1982 3,236+0.00%
    1990 2,985−1.00%
    1999 2,843−0.54%
    2007 2,823−0.09%
    2012 2,908+0.60%
    2017 2,710−1.40%
    Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)[4]

    Roundup of 16 January 1944[edit]

    On 16 January 1944, 35 hostages were arrested by the Germans for acts of resistance. They were deported to German work camps.[5]

    Battle and executions of 11 June 1944[edit]

    On 11 June 1944 Francs-Tireurs et Partisans[6] destroyed a German armoured train at Mussidan station. During the fight, eight guerrillas and the train guard were killed. At the same time a convoy of the 11th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht arrived from Bordeaux. The guerrillas were obliged to withdraw. As a reprisal, a detachment of the Gestapo from Périgueux led by Second Lieutenant Michaël Hambrecht, reinforced by a platoon led by Alexandre Villaplane, head of one of the five sections of the North African Brigade and former captain of the France football team at the 1930 World Cup in Uruguay, 350 men over the age of sixteen from the city and its surroundings were arrested. The village was plundered by the North Africans.[7] In the evening, 47 civilians were shot near the town hall; five others were massacred in the street, including Raoul Grassin, the mayor of the town, and a councillor. Eight boys were under 18. Only two people survived despite their serious injuries. The Mussidan massacre constitutes the largest massacre of civilians committed in the Dordogne during the Second World War, the tenth largest in France. 115 inhabitants were deported.[5]

    These sufferings earned Mussidan the award of the 1939-1945 war cross on 11 November 1948, a distinction also awarded to eighteen other municipalities in the Dordogne.[8]

    International relations[edit]

    It is twinned with:

    • Woodbridge, Suffolk, England
    • Vigy, France; since 1990

    See also[edit]

    • Communes of the Dordogne department

    References[edit]

    1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
    2. ^ "Populations légales 2020". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 29 December 2022.
    3. ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Mussidan, EHESS (in French).
    4. ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
    5. ^ a b "Histoire de Mussidan". Agenda 2019 de Mussidan. p. 24..
    6. ^ D'après le panneau d'information intitulé Le 11 juin 1944 à Mussidan, parc Voulgre, Mussidan.
    7. ^ Lormier, Dominique (1994). Les FFI au combat. Jacques Grancher. p. 18. ISBN 9782402100120.
    8. ^ "Communes décorées de la Croix de guerre 1939 - 1945" (PDF).
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