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Ablaincourt-Pressoir

Commune in Hauts-de-France, France

Field	Value
name	Ablaincourt-Pressoir
commune status	Commune
image	Ablaincourt (9).JPG
caption	The town hall of Ablaincourt
arrondissement	Péronne
canton	Ham
INSEE	80002
postal code	80320
mayor	Dany Domont
term	2020–2026
intercommunality	Terre de Picardie
coordinates
elevation m	83
elevation min m	67
elevation max m	88
area km2	9.46
population
population date
population footnotes
demonym	Ablaincourtois, Ablaincourtoises

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Ablaincourt-Pressoir (Picard: Ablaincourt-Pressor) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

The two villages were formerly separately administered, but were joined in 1966.

Geography

Ablaincourt-Pressoir is found in the Santerre sub-region, where early French kings made their base, at Noyon.

The town is in a strategic position close to the intersections of the A1 Paris-Lille autoroute and the A29 autoroute between Amiens and Saint-Quentin. Two departmental roads meet nearby (the D150 and the D164). The town also an international TGV rail station, the Gare TGV Haute-Picardie, nicknamed "The sugar-beet station" named after the predominant crop of the area.

Etymology; Ancient forms of the names

Ablaincourt Abatix Curtis, Habelini Curtis (1046), Ablani Curtis, Ableni Curia (1106), Abbecourt (1144), Abiaucourt (1215), Ablaincort (1230), Ablincourt (1733) and finally, Ablaincourt, which signifies an abbey.
Pressoir Pressurs or Drêsur (1180).

History

Ablaincourt In 1215, Jean I de Nesle built a castle here. Remains of the motte can still be seen, which marks out the position of the keep.

In 1648, possession of the fiefdom of Ablaincourt passed from the Blattepière family to the Mathieu family.

During World War I Ablaincourt et Pressoir were at the centre of the Battle of the Somme. Both communes were totally ruined by the fighting.

Demographics

Data before 1966 in the table and graph below refer to the old commune Ablaincourt, before the merger with Pressoir.

|1793 |388 |1800 |413 |1806 |436 |1821 |466 |1831 |452 |1836 |444 |1841 |464 |1846 |433 |1851 |445 |1856 |419 |1861 |393 |1866 |368 |1872 |367 |1876 |353 |1881 |365 |1886 |334 |1891 |327 |1896 |312 |1901 |295 |1906 |281 |1911 |259 |1921 |76 |1926 |159 |1931 |180 |1936 |200 |1946 |158 |1954 |177 |1962 |191 |1968 |224 |1975 |194 |1982 |185 |1990 |206 |1999 |227 |2009 |261 |2014 |275 |2020 |267

People

Eloi Driencourt, born in the hamlet of Bovent, Ablaincourt, doctor of the Sorbonne and for a while, advisor to Louis XV's queen, Maria Leszczyńska (1703–1768).
Ludovic Hulin was elected in March 1995 and became the youngest mayor of Ablaincourt-Pressoir, at the age of 28.
Reinhard Johannes Sorge, a German Roman Catholic poet and dramatist, died at a First Aid post located at the ruins of Ablaincourt-Pressoir on 20 July 1916. Sorge had been wounded by a hand grenade during the Battle of the Somme.

References

(13 September 2022). "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises.
The population of Pressoir was 144 in 1851, 106 in 1896 and 64 in 1962.{{Cassini-Ehess. 28017. Pressoir
{{Cassini-Ehess. 62. Ablaincourt-Pressoir
[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/7633058?geo=COM-80002#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE

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