Bénouville (Calvados)
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| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Calvados | |
| Arrondissement | Caen | |
| Canton | Ouistreham | |
| Community association | Caen la Mer | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 14 ′ N , 0 ° 17 ′ W | |
| height | 1-50 m | |
| surface | 5.28 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,049 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 388 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 14970 | |
| INSEE code | 14060 | |
 Château de Bénouville |
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Bénouville is a French commune with 2049 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the canton of Ouistreham in the department of Calvados in the Normandy region . It is located about ten kilometers northeast of the city of Caen . The Canal de Caen à la Mer , which is spanned by the Pegasus Bridge , runs near Bénouville .
On July 15, 1892, the narrow-gauge railway connection from Bénouville to Dives was opened. Just four weeks later, trains were also running from Benouville via Ouistreham to Luc , and on July 4, 1893, the tracks of what would later become the Chemins de fer du Calvados up to the Saint-Pierre station in Caen went into operation. After destruction as a result of the fighting in World War II in 1944, the railway was shut down.
During the Second World War, the Pegasus Bridge and the surrounding area, including Bénouville , were captured and occupied by Allied troops of the British 6th Airborne Division , which landed in Normandy during Operation Tonga . Some of the Allied soldiers during the operation fell are buried in the nearby at the Church of Bénouville cemetery.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2016 |
| Residents | 754 | 739 | 827 | 828 | 61,258 | 1,741 | 1.924 | 2,069 |
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Attractions
The Château de Bénouville , which was built in 1769 by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux , one of the main exponents of French revolutionary architecture, is one of the town's most important buildings in terms of architecture and history.
Bénouville station on the Chemins de fer du Calvados
Pegasus Bridge after the Allied conquest, June 1944
Church and cemetery with graves of fallen Allied soldiers
Web links
- Bénouville , history 1866–1972
Individual evidence
- ^ Alain de Dieuleveult: Calvados pour les Petits Trains . Éditions Cénomane, Le Mans 1997, ISBN 2-902808-74-7 , p. 165 ff .