Mortrée () is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France. On 1 January 2019, the former commune Saint-Hilaire-la-Gérard was merged into Mortrée.Arrêté préfectoral 28 September 2018, modified 12 November 2018
Geography
The commune of Mortrée is made up of the following villages and hamlets, Mortrée, Méhéran, La Grande Fosse and Saint-Hilaire-la-Gérard.
Mortrée has a total of seven water courses running through it, three rivers Orne, Senneviere and Thouane. The other four watercourses are all streams, la Gironde, The Ponts Besnard, La Forêt & The Renardieres.
Parts of the commune is within the Normandie-Maine Regional Natural Park and Forêt d'Écouves.
Mortrée, along with another 65 communes, is part of a 20,593 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, called the Haute vallée de l'Orne et affluents.
Notable buildings and places
La carrière des Vaux is a Regional Nature Reserve that is 0.37 hectares in area, making it the smallest nature reserve in France. The reserve was a former quarry that contains many fossils from Conodonts that are naked to the human eye.
National heritage sites
The Commune has 3 buildings and areas listed as a Monument historique.
Château d'O a 15th-century castle built by Jean d'O, captain of the Scottish guard of François I. Logis a 15th-century house used for accommodation, listed as a monument in 1995. Saint-Pierre Church a 19th-century church, listed as a monument in 2006.
Notable people René Hardy (1911-1987) a French Resistance member was born here.
Heraldry
Town twinning
Mortrée is twinned with towns are: Shrivenham, Oxfordshire – England.
See also Communes of the Orne department
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