Beaumont-le-Roger
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| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Your | |
| Arrondissement | Bernay | |
| Canton | Brionne | |
| Community association | Intercom Bernay Terres de Normandie | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 5 ' N , 0 ° 47' E | |
| height | 84-163 m | |
| surface | 36.42 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,879 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 79 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 27170 | |
| INSEE code | 27051 | |
| Website | www.beaumont-le-roger.fr | |
 Town Hall ( Hôtel de ville ) |
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Beaumont-le-Roger is a French commune with 2,879 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Eure in the region of Normandy ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Bernay and the canton of Brionne .
geography
The municipality of Beaumont-le-Roger is located in the Risle valley on the edge of the forest named after Beaumont. This is 3,600 hectares, extends over four municipalities and is the largest private forest in Normandy . The hamlet of La Verrerie is located southwest of the town center in a valley in the forest.
history
The Roman road from Brionne (Breviodurum) to Évreux (Mediolanum) ran through what is now the municipality. In 1882 a gold half-stater from the Baiokassen was found in Beaumont-le-Roger . The obverse shows a head, the lapel a horse and an inscription. In 1830 the archaeologist Charles de Stabenrath carried out excavations in the Beaumont forest near the Saint-Marc chapel and found two Gallo-Roman temple temples . The temples were built in the late 1st or early 2nd century. Various cult objects were found in the buildings , a bust and two vessels made of bronze . The archaeologists also found several coins, a statuette , a key, roof tiles and broken glass. The coins were antoninians and sesterces from the 2nd and 3rd centuries. About four hundred more coins were found under an old oak in the same year. These coins also came from the 2nd and 3rd centuries. In 1831 around 60 silver and bronze coins were found in the hamlet of La Verrerie. Stabenrath recognized the image of Faustinus on one of the coins (after 273). In 1832 in the lieu-dit ('place that is called ..') Château-Simon in the forest east of Gouttières (today: Mesnil-en-Ouche ) a vase with 4,000 to 5,000 antonians were found under a tree, most of them from the reign of Gallienus (253-268) originate.
Beaumont was initially owned by the Dukes of Normandy and was separated in 1008 in favor of Judith of Bretagne, wife of Duke Richard II , who passed the area on to the Abbey of Bernay . Royal domain until 1316, when King Ludwig X. Beaumont for Robert III. elevated by Artois to county and peerage .
The suffix le Roger refers to Roger de Beaumont , called Roger Barbatus, a powerful 11th century nobleman and advisor to William the Conqueror . Roger de Beaumont had a castle built, the city fortified, and founded the Church of Saint-Nicolas and the priory of La Sainte-Trinité. In the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) the castle was razed.
In the Franco-Prussian War (1870/71) Beaumont-le-Roger was captured and devastated by German troops on December 13, 1870.
In the Second World War (1939-1945) Beaumont-le-Roger was the location of a German military airfield and was on June 28, 1943, on 22/23. Bombed by the Allied Air Force on May 8, 1944 and August 17, 1944 . Two people died in the bombings in May 1944. 50 houses and the church were destroyed. When they withdrew, the Wehrmacht plundered the city, but there was no fighting.
Beaumont-le-Roger airfield
In the run-up to the Second World War, a field airfield was built in the Le Bourg-Dessus area , the first military users after the outbreak of war were the British, who had to withdraw in May 1940.
After the occupation of France by the German Wehrmacht , it was expanded from July 1940 to a deployment site for German fighter aircraft, initially of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and later also Focke-Wulf Fw 190 . Principal users was the Jagdgeschwader 2 "Richthofen" the Air Force . Various parts including the staff lay here again and again until the repeated Allied air raids made further flight operations impossible. Another user between July 1940 and June 1941 was Kampfgeschwader 76 (KG 76), initially equipped with a Do 17Z and later with a Ju 88A . Initially the IV. (IV./KG 76) was here until March 1941 and then from April the I. Group (I./KG 76).
Population development
- 1962: 2740
- 1968: 2871
- 1982: 2711
- 1990: 2694
- 1999: 2818
- 2009: 2955
- 2016: 2946
In 1825 the village of Les Vieilles was incorporated.
Culture and sights
Beaumont-le-Roger is represented with two flowers in the Conseil national des villes et villages fleuris (National Council of Flowered Cities and Villages). The "flowers" are awarded in the course of a regional competition, whereby a maximum of three flowers can be achieved.
In the municipality, there are controlled designations of origin (AOC) for Calvados and Pommeau (Pommeau de Normandie) and Protected Geographical Indications (IGP) for pork (Porc de Normandie) , poultry (Volailles de Normandie) and cider (Cidre de Normandie and Cidre normand) .
In the church of Beaumont-le-Roger there is a wooden statue of Rochus de Montpellier from the 17th century. The statue is considered to be miraculous and believers still hang ribbons or small pieces of laundry on the statue to ask for the saint's blessing .
- Ruins of the priory of La Sainte-Trinité (11th-13th centuries)
- The Saint-Nicolas church (12th-17th centuries)
- Manoir du Hom
- Beaumont Forest
Town twinning
- Obersulm , Germany
- Wotton-under-Edge , England
Web links
- Beaumont-le-Roger in the Base Mémoire des Ministère de la culture (French)
- Information on Beaumont-le-Roger airfield on the tourist information website (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ VR 17: De Boulogne à Narbonne par l'ouest de la France. In: Itinéraires Romains en France. Retrieved July 29, 2012 (French).
- ^ Dominique Cliquet: L'Eure . 27. In: Michel Provost, Academie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Ministere de la culture (ed.): Carte Archéologique de la Gaule . Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-87754-018-9 , chap. 65 , p. 75-77 . (French)
- ^ Daniel Delattre, Emmanuel Delattre: L'Eure, les 675 communes . Editions Delattre, Grandvilliers 2000, pp. 27 . (French)
- ↑ Alex Gardin: La guerre de 1870–1871 à Bernay . Les Éditions Page de Garde, Saint-Aubin-les-Elbeuf 1997, ISBN 2-84340-037-6 , p. 30 (French, first edition: 1898, reprint).
- ↑ A.-V. de Walle: Évreux et l'Eure pendant la guerre . Charles Herissey, Évreux 2000, ISBN 2-914417-05-5 , pp. 176 + 178 (French, first published in 1946).
- ↑ Palmarès des villes et villages fleuris. (No longer available online.) Conseil National des Villes et Villages Fleuris, formerly the original ; Retrieved on August 14, 2011 (French). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ La ville de Beaumont-le-Roger. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved July 21, 2012 (French).
- ↑ Bernard Verwaerde: A quels saints se vouer? ... dans l'Eure . les saints protecteurs et guérisseurs. Editions Page de Garde, Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf 2001, ISBN 2-84340-191-7 , p. 105 (French).
