Cherbourg-Octeville
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| local community | Cherbourg-en-Cotentin | |
| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Some | |
| Arrondissement | Cherbourg | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 38 ′ N , 1 ° 37 ′ W | |
| Post Code | 50100 | |
| Former INSEE code | 50129 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2016 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
| Website | ville-cherbourg.fr | |
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Cherbourg-Octeville is a commune Déléguée in the French city of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin with 35,493 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) and from 2000 to 2015, the association of municipalities Cherbourg (at that size) and Octeville in the Manche department in the region Normandy . At the beginning of 2016, Cherbourg-Octeville, Équeurdreville-Hainneville , La Glacerie , Querqueville and Tourlaville merged to form Cherbourg-en-Cotentin.
Toponymy
Cherbourg is most likely derived from the Scandinavian kjarr = swamp and borg = fortification (cf. German: castle). Before the Viking Age, Cherbourg was called coriallum in Gallic , which probably already had the same meaning. Or Cherbourg comes from the Anglo-Saxon ker (English: moor) and burgh (English: town). The root kjarr / ker can also be found elsewhere in Normandy , as can be seen from Villequier and Gonfreville-l'Orcher .
Octeville consists of the Scandinavian name Otti (or Otto ) and the French ending of Latin origin -ville (see also Octeville-l'Avenel on the Cotentin peninsula and Octeville-sur-Mer next to Le Havre ).
geography
The Cherbourg-Octeville area is on the Cotentin Peninsula . To the east lies the Val de Saire and to the west La Hague .
Adjacent communities were Tourlaville , La Glacerie , Martinvast , Nouainville and Équeurdreville-Hainneville .
geology
The rocky subsoil of the roadstead consists of slate from the Neoproterozoic . In La Glacerie , slate from the Cambrian was extracted. The typical houses in Cherbourg have slate facades. The Montagne du Roule, which slopes at 45 °, is made of Armorican sandstone . The sandstone was folded from the Ordovician during the Variscan orogeny .
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Economy and Infrastructure
Cherbourg is the terminus of the Paris – Caen – Cherbourg railway line , which opened in 1858.
The Cherbourg-Maupertus Airport is located eleven kilometers east of Cherbourg.
The Route nationale 13, coming from Paris, has ended in Cherbourg since 1824
From mid-January 2014, a ferry service will be running for the first time from the port of Cherbourg to Dublin directly to the Irish capital.
In the Quartier de la Divette (La Divette district) there have been two heat pumps of 1,092 MW each since 2013 , which tap the sea heat from the commercial basin . 84% of the heating requirement in Quartier de la Divette is covered, the rest (16%) is supplemented thanks to the already existing gas boiler. 1730 t CO 2 are avoided per year.
Twin cities
There are town partnerships with:
- Bremerhaven (Germany), since 1961
- Poole (UK), since 1977
- Coubalan (Senegal), since 2001
- Sarh (Chad), since 2001
swell
- ^ René Lepelley: Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de communes de Normandie. S.?.
- ^ "Bourg" In: Louis Guinet: Les emprunts gallo-romans au germanique (du 1er à la fin du Vème siècle). Klincksieck, Paris, 1982.
- ^ René Lepelley: Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de communes de Normandie. P. 191.
- ↑ a b c Guide géologique Normandie-Maine. Edition Dunod. 2nd edition. P. 82, ISBN 2-10-050695-1 .
- ↑ New direct ferry from France to Dublin ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ^ Marie-Jo Sader:, Sea water to heat the apartments , Actu environnement.
Web links
- The city of Cherbourg (French)