Barneville-Carteret

Barneville-Carteret
region	Normandy
Department	Some
Arrondissement	Cherbourg
Canton	Les Pieux
Community association	Cotentine
Coordinates	49 ° 23 ′ N , 1 ° 45 ′ W Coordinates: 49 ° 23 ′ N , 1 ° 45 ′ W
height	0-100 m
surface	10.29 km 2
Residents	2,231 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	217 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	50270
INSEE code	50031
Website	www.barneville-carteret.net
	; Carteret Harbor

Barneville-Carteret is a French commune with 2,231 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Manche in the region of Normandy . It was created in 1965 through the merger of the two previously independent communities Barneville-sur-Mer and Carteret.

geography

Barneville-Carteret is located on the French Channel coast in the west of the Cotentin peninsula , on the Côte des Havres , in the Côte des Isles landscape , opposite the island of Jersey . The Écréhous are 10 km away.

Adjacent municipalities are:

geology

Cape of Carteret

The Cape of Carteret is made of shale and sandstone from the early Cambrian , although the rest of the village was built on limestone and shale from the Devonian .

Origin of name

Barneville is derived from the Scandinavian patronymic Barni , followed by the French ending -ville . Carteret most likely comes from the Scandinavian words reidh anchorage and kart stony place.

history

On the Cape of Carteret are the ruins of the old Saint-Germain church. The church is said to have formed the core of the original settlement, which was later moved further inland due to the encroachment of the dunes .

traffic

From the port of Carteret, several ferry services connect the Channel Islands with mainland France every day .

Barneville-Carteret is served by the Manéo No. 11 bus line operated by the Manche department ( Valognes - Portail bus line ). Indeed, Valognes is the nearest train station on the Paris-Caen-Cherbourg railway line . The Manéo bus route number 10 connects Barneville-Carteret with Cherbourg .

Carteret is also one of the two terminus of the tourist train, Train Touristique du Cotentin , a section of the former Carteret- Carentan railway line . The 9 km long section runs along the coastal landscape across from the islands in the English Channel to Portbail . This museum train is therefore also called the Train de la Côte des Isles .

Sons and daughters of the church

Clément Rosset (1939–2018), philosopher

Web links

Commons : Barneville-Carteret - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Francis Doré, Claude Pareyn, Claude Larsonneur, Michel Rioult, Pierre Juignet: Guide géologique Normandy Maine. = Normandy, Maine (= Guides Géologiques Régionaux. ). 2ème édition, revisée et complétée, nouvelle présentation. asson, Paris et al. 2006, ISBN 2-10-050695-1 , pp. 94-95.
^ René Lepelley : Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de communes de Normandie. 2nd edition, review and corrigée. Corlet et al., Condé-sur-Noireau 1996, ISBN 2-905461-80-2 , p. 59.
↑ Map of Manéo (French)

[1] Francis Doré, Claude Pareyn, Claude Larsonneur, Michel Rioult, Pierre Juignet: Guide géologique Normandy Maine. = Normandy, Maine (= Guides Géologiques Régionaux. ). 2ème édition, revisée et complétée, nouvelle présentation. asson, Paris et al. 2006, ISBN 2-10-050695-1 , pp. 94-95.

[2] René Lepelley : Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de communes de Normandie. 2nd edition, review and corrigée. Corlet et al., Condé-sur-Noireau 1996, ISBN 2-905461-80-2 , p. 59.

[3] Map of Manéo (French)