Cabourg

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Cabourg
Cabourg coat of arms
Cabourg (France)
Cabourg
region Normandy
Department Calvados
Arrondissement Lisieux
Canton Cabourg
Community association Normandy-Cabourg-Pays d'Auge
Coordinates 49 ° 17 ′  N , 0 ° 7 ′  W Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′  N , 0 ° 7 ′  W
height 0-15 m
surface 5.52 km 2
Residents 3,650 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 661 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 14390
INSEE code 14117
Website www.cabourg.net

Grand Hotel

Cabourg is a seaside resort with 3650 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the French region of Normandy in the Calvados department . The municipality belongs to the arrondissement of Lisieux .

geography

Cabourg is on the English Channel , at the mouth of the River Dives . The coastline around Cabourg is called Côte Fleurie (flower coast).

history

The name Cabourg indicates a Saxon settlement of the early Middle Ages in Normandy. Cabourg was a small fishing village until 1853. The Paris lawyer Henri Durand-Morimbau decided to build a seaside resort next to the "old" Cabourg. He started a company that bought up the beaches. Paul Leroux, a young architect from Caen , designed the city of Cabourg-les-Bains . The first casino was built out of wood in 1854 and hundreds of trees were planted along the planned avenues. In 1861 the first Grand Hotel was built in Cabourg.

In 1887 a group of concerned citizens built an accessible dike that was 1,800 meters long. In 1912 the city took over maintenance of the dike.

The newly built Grand Hotel was used as a hospital during the First World War . During the Second World War , Cabourg was occupied by the German army and liberated by the Belgian Piron Brigade on August 21, 1944 .

Number of inhabitants
(source:)
year 1793 1856 1861 1866 1881 1911 1936 1946 1962 1999 2016
Residents 165 375 563 718 1.014 1,957 2,095 3,479 3,022 3,520 3,657

Since 1793 the population of Cabourgs has increased continuously.

politics

Beach

Twin cities

Culture and sights

Casino

Buildings

The Casino and the Grand Hôtel in Cabourg were designed in 1908 by the architects Lucien Viraut and Émile Mauclerc. The buildings are among the best-preserved examples of Belle Époque seaside resorts . The buildings were entered in the supplementary directory of the Monuments historiques in 1993.

Many villas date from the 19th century (to the beginning of the 20th), e.g. B. the Villa Marie-Antoinette , Villa Saint-Laurent and Villa Millet .

Regular events

The Festival du Film de Cabourg has been celebrated in June since 1983 and the Festival du Théâtre Universitaire et des Grandes Ecoles since 1996 in April . The Trophées Epona film festival takes place every autumn and focuses on the best international film on the subject of horses. In winter, the meeting of European performing artists takes place, Les Rencontres Européennes des Artistes , organized by the Société civile pour l'administration des droits des artistes et musiciens interprètes (Society for the Administration of the Rights of Artists and Musicians), known as Adami for short . Every summer there is also Le Salon du Livre de Cabourg , an event with readings organized by Les Amis de Cabourg (the Friends of Cabourg) since 1988 .

economy

Advertising poster from 1897

Tourism is an important industry in Cabourg. Market day on Wednesdays and Fridays from June to September. The casino is open all year round. In the Hippodrome find from June to August horse racing and exhibitions. Cabourg also has an 18-hole golf course. A park train runs through the city from July to August .

Personalities

  • Marcel Proust (1871–1922), the writer, spent every summer in Cabourg from 1907 to 1914. In the Grand Hotel he wrote his novel In Search of Lost Time (original title: "À la recherche du temps perdu"), in which he named Cabourg Balbec .
  • Jean-François Dubos (* 1945), manager, chief executive officer of Vivendi

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Calvados. Volume 1, Flohic Editions, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-111-2 , pp. 364-368.

Web links

Commons : Cabourg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cabourg on cassini.ehess.fr (French). Retrieved May 5, 2010
  2. ↑ Cabourg in the Base Mérimée des Ministère de la culture (French). Retrieved on May 5, 2010
  3. ↑ {{Web archive | text = archive link | url = http: //www.quid.fr/communes.html? Mode = detail & id = 4601 | wayback = 20090721114459 | archiv-bot = 2018-04-03 06:32:24 InternetArchiveBot }} Cabourg on quid.fr (French), no longer available since March 25, 2010