Biville
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| local community | La Hague | |
| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Some | |
| Arrondissement | Cherbourg | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 37 ′ N , 1 ° 49 ′ W | |
| Post Code | 50440 | |
| Former INSEE code | 50057 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2017 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
| Website | http://www.biville.fr | |
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Biville is a village and a former French commune with 530 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Manche department in the Normandy region . It belonged to the Arrondissement of Cherbourg and the Canton of La Hague . The inhabitants are called bivillais .
With effect from January 1, 2017, the previous municipality of Biville was merged with the other 18 municipalities of the former Communauté de communes de la Hague to form a Commune nouvelle called La Hague and has the status of a Commune déléguée in the new municipality . The administrative headquarters are in Beaumont-Hague.
geography
Biville is on the Cotentin peninsula , in the La Hague countryside . The sand dunes extend over 190 hectares and are managed by the Conservatoire du Littoral. Bordering municipalities were Vauville , Sainte-Croix-Hague and Vasteville .
Toponymy
Biville is derived from the French ending -ville and from the Anglo-Saxon patronymic Boia .
Attractions
- Saint-Pierre church: choir (13th century) and bell tower (1632) built around the tomb of Blessed Thomas Hélye . A new nave , built between 1922 and 1926, replaces the old nave, which was unable to accommodate the numerous pilgrims, especially on October 19th on the feast of the Blessed.
The old entrance gate (from the 17th century) has been kept and added to the list of historical monuments. It was rebuilt at the western end of the new nave. On December 21, 1994, the church was added to the list of historical monuments. It houses listed works, including seven bas-reliefs.
The former orphanage
Saint-Pierre church
Sainte Anne and sainte Marie read the Bible
Bas-relief of Saint Louis
Personalities
- According to tradition, Thomas Hélye (Biville, around 1180 - Vauville, October 19, 1257), who was born in the hamlet of Gardin, was first a schoolmaster in Cherbourg , then a priest and missionary. He was on July 14, 1859 by Pope Pius IX. beatified.
bibliography
- Léopold Delisle : Vie du bienheureux Thomas Hélie, de Biville, composée au XIIIe siècle par Clément, publiée avec une introduction et des notes. In: Mémoires de la Société impériale académique de Cherbourg. Vol. 27, 1861, ISSN 0755-2475 , pp. 173-242 .
- Bernard Jacqueline , Georges Hyernard: Le Bienheureux Thomas Hélye. Pretre de Biville. Vie et miracles. Presses de la Dépêche, Cherbourg 1985.
- Hugues Plaideux: Le Bienheureux Thomas Hélye de Biville. Petit Abrégé. de la Marche et al., Cherbourg et al. 1989, ISBN 2-87807-042-9 .
- Hugues Plaideux: L'église de Biville. In: Annuaire des cinq départements de la Normandie. 2008, ISSN 0755-2475 , pp. 111-116.
- Hugues Plaideux: Biville. 750 ans de pèlerinages au bienheureux Thomas Hélye. In: Bernard Bodinier (ed.): Pèlerinages et lieux de pèlerinage en Normandie. Actes du 44e Congrès, organized by the Fédération des Sociétés Historiques et Archéologiques de Normandie, Fécamp, October 22nd, 24th 2009 (= Congrès des Sociétés historiques et archéologiques de Normandie. Vol. 15). Fédération des Sociétés Historiques et Archéologiques de Normandie, Louviers 2010, ISBN 978-2-9527-7574-8 , pp. 97-110.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Decree of the Prefecture of Arr. 2016-37 on the formation of the Commune nouvelle La Hague of September 27, 2016 .
- ^ 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. 69.
- ^ Église in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
- ↑ Œuvres mobilières à Biville in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ^ E. Milcent, curé de Biville, Thomas Hélye, prêtre de Biville , 32 pg., Mars 1977