Bourth
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| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Your | |
| Arrondissement | Bernay | |
| Canton | Verneuil-sur-Avre | |
| Community association | Interco Normandie Sud Eure | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 46 ' N , 0 ° 48' E | |
| height | 179-217 m | |
| surface | 18.63 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,255 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 67 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 27580 | |
| INSEE code | 27108 | |
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Bourth is a French commune with 1,255 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Eure in the region of Normandy .
geography
Bourth is 37 kilometers southwest of Évreux and about 10 kilometers southwest of Breteuil in the Pays d'Ouche in the Iton Valley on the D54 .
history
The main road from Bourth was in Gallo-Roman times (v. Chr 52nd to 486 n. Chr.) A Roman road .
Since the Norman invasion, the place has belonged to the castellany of Tillières-sur-Avre and the barony of Damville . The Count of Tillières-sur-Avre was Seigneur von Bourth until the French Revolution (1789–1799) .
Shortly after the establishment of the Saint-Sauveur Abbey of Évreux , the parish of Bourth was subordinated to it.
From the 16th century iron ore was mined in the municipality. The watermills on the Iton were converted into workshops. There were several blacksmiths in Bourth well into the 19th century. The ore mining had an eponymous effect on streets and hamlets: Rue de la Forge ('street of the forge'), Le Minerai ('the ore').
Until the 18th century there were different spellings for the place name, variants were Bourth , Bourt and Bourg . In 1793, during the French Revolution, the town received the status of a municipality as Bourth and in 1801 the right to local self-government.
During the Second World War , Bourth was bombed twelve times by the Allied Air Force during Operation Overlord in the summer of 1944 . In the last days of the occupation, the Wehrmacht executed several civilians, including three children aged 16, 11 and 9 years.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 | 2016 |
| Residents | 1084 | 1070 | 1074 | 1013 | 1064 | 1124 | 1244 | 1255 |
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politics
Bourth is part of the Interco Normandie Sud Eure municipal association .
There has been a town partnership with Kronstorf in Austria since 1972 .
Culture and economy
Bourth 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.
An irrigation canal about 30 kilometers long from the 12th century called Becquet de l'Iton has been entered in the supplementary directory of Monuments historiques (historical monuments) since 2002 ( inscrit MH ). Henry I of England (1068–1135) had the canal excavated and the masonry erected that regulates the flow of water between the canal and Iton. The walls were repaired in 1808. In 1843 the canal was enlarged. It is owned by the community.
Bourth was a place of pilgrimage until the 1960s . A statue of Saint Barbara of Nicomedia was venerated in the Saint-Just church.
Local products
Protected Geographical Indications (IGP) apply to pork (Porc de Normandie) , poultry (Volailles de Normandie) and cider (Cidre de Normandie and Cidre normand) in the municipality .
Personalities
- Marie-Claude-Cyprienne Brard (1736–1794), one of the martyrs of Compiègne .
- Victor Hubert (1786–1874), painter.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Daniel Delattre, Emmanuel Delattre: L'Eure, les 675 communes . Editions Delattre, Grandvilliers 2000, pp. 52 (French).
- ↑ Bourth, official website of the CDC Pays de Verneuil ( Memento of the original of August 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French) Retrieved August 21, 2012.
- ^ Bourth from cassini.ehess.fr (French). Retrieved October 22, 2009.
- ↑ A.-V. de Walle: Évreux et l'Eure pendant la guerre . Charles Herissey, Évreux 2000, ISBN 2-914417-05-5 , pp. 175 + 177 (French, first edition: 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.
- ↑ Bourth in the Base Merimée des Ministère de la culture (French). Retrieved October 22, 2009.
- ↑ 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. 55 (French).
- ↑ Les Communes de l'Eure et leurs églises (French)
- ↑ Le village de Bourth. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved July 21, 2012 (French).
- ^ Bienheureuse Euphrasie (Marie-Claude Brard) (French) Retrieved October 22, 2009.
