Carquebut
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| local community | Sainte-Mère-Église | |
| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Some | |
| Arrondissement | Cherbourg | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 22 ′ N , 1 ° 20 ′ W | |
| Post Code | 50480 | |
| Former INSEE code | 50103 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
Carquebut is a town and commune Déléguée in the French commune of Sainte-Mere-Eglise with 310 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Manche in the region of Normandy . The village is located on the Cotentin peninsula and lives mainly from agriculture.
history
The name Carquebut ( Querquebu 1165/1173, Kirkebi 1204, Kerkebu 1228) comes from Scandinavia. The name is derived from the words kirkja for church and bú for house, farm or village.
During the Second World War, there was a field airfield of the German Air Force near Carquebut . He used it during the Battle of Britain . At the beginning of July, the Bf 109s of the I. Group of Jagdgeschwader 1 (I./JG 1) arrived here . Gruppe des Jagdgeschwader 27 (III./JG 27) and which was stationed in Carquebut until the end of August 1940.
On January 1, 2019, Carquebut and Ravenoville were incorporated into the Commune nouvelle Sainte-Mère-Église. Since then, Carquebut has been a commune déléguée.
Individual evidence
- ^ Léopold Delisle , Recueil des actes de Henri II , revu et publié par Élie Berger, t. I, Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, 1916, p. 540, § CCCCXII.
- ^ Jean Renaud, Vikings et noms de lieux de Normandie , OREP Verlag, 2009, p. 89.
- ^ François de Beaurepaire, Les noms de communes et anciennes paroisses de la Manche , Picard Verlag, Paris, 1986, p. 93.
- ^ Ernest Nègre, Toponymie Générale de la France , Droz, Geneva, t. II, 1991, p. 1015, § 18283.