Cormeilles (yours)

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Cormeilles
Cormeilles coat of arms
Cormeilles (France)
Cormeilles
region Normandy
Department Your
Arrondissement Bernay
Canton Beuzeville
Community association Lieuvin Pays d'Auge
Coordinates 49 ° 15 '  N , 0 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '  N , 0 ° 23'  E
height 59-151 m
surface 3.05 km 2
Residents 1,161 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 381 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 27260
INSEE code 27170

Cormeilles is a French commune with 1,161 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Eure in the region of Normandy . It belongs to the Bernay arrondissement of the canton of Beuzeville .

geography

Cormeilles is located on the western edge of Eure between the Pays d'Auge and the Lieuvin , 25 kilometers southeast of Honfleur and 19 kilometers northeast of Lisieux between the neighboring communities of Saint-Pierre-de-Cormeilles in the south and Chapelle-Bayvel in the north. The Calonne flows west of the town center through the municipality. The hamlet of Le Val-Hébert belongs to the municipality.

history

Cormeilles was already a small market town in Gallo-Roman times (52 BC to 486 AD), on the Roman road from Lisieux (Noviomagus) to Lillebonne (Juliobona) . The village was first mentioned in 1060 as Cormeliae . Cormeille is derived from corme and in Langue d'oïl refers to the fruit of the whitebeam , or a service grove .

After the Norman invasion, Cormeilles was owned by the Dukes of Normandy . In the 10th century, Raoul d'Ivry († after 1015) received the village. His grandson, William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford (* 1020; † February 22, 1071) founded the Notre-Dame Abbey around 1055, the main building of which, however, was in the parish of Saint-Pierre-de-Cormeilles. The abbey was dissolved in 1779.

Population development

1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2016
1077 1143 1140 1129 1069 1191 1201 1158

Community partnerships

Half-timbered houses on the Place du Général de Gaulle

Since 1970 there has been a town partnership with Arnoldsweiler in Germany , since 1975 there has been a partnership with Chepstow in Wales . In addition, the canton of Cormeilles has a partnership with Montappone and Falerone in Italy and since 2001 a partnership with Decs in Hungary .

Attractions

The Sainte-Croix church was built in the 12th century and later rebuilt several times. The sacristy dates from the first half of the 19th century. The southern part of the nave was renewed in 1878 and the western facade in 1882.

The Saint-Firmin-et-Saint-Fiacre chapel was built in the 15th century, rebuilt in the 18th century and destroyed in 1980. Both churches belonged to the abbey.

Economy and Infrastructure

In Cormeilles, the largest is Calvados - Distillery Normandy and joinery , focusing on producing since 1960 gloriettes specializes. A branch of business for the Cormeillais (residents) is tourism, there are several private rooms (French: Chambre d'hôtes ) and a campsite .

A local product is the soft cheese Petit Cormeillais . It is made from cow's milk. In the municipality there are controlled designations of origin for Camembert (Camembert de Normandie) , Livarot , Pont-l'Évêque , Calvados (Calvados Pays d'Auge) , Pommeau (Pommeau de Normandie) and cider (Pays d'Auge) as well as protected geographical indications ( IGP) for pork (Porc de Normandie) , poultry (Volailles de Normandie) and cider (Cidre de Normandie and Cidre normand) .

traffic

In 1865 the first drafts of a railway line from Cormeilles to Pont-Authou were made. The line was opened on August 3, 1902. On November 9, 1902, the line was led to Glos-sur-Risle (Glos-Montfort station). At that time, the train took two and a half hours to cover the distance of 30.328 kilometers. In 1944 the railway line and the station in Cormeilles were badly damaged in the course of the Second World War . The railway line was shut down in 1946 and dismantled in 1952.

Personalities

  • Albert Demangeon (1872–1940), geographer
  • René Schmitt (1903–1968), politician

literature

  • Jacques Guesnet, Michel Campion, Jean-Marc Derrien: Le petit train de Cormeilles, Glos-Montfort et extensions . Éditions Page de Garde, Elbeuf 2004. (French)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gilles Rossignol: Your . La Renaissance du Livre, Tournai 2001, ISBN 978-2-8046-0507-0 , pp. 236 f . (French)
  2. ↑ Comment venir à Cormeilles? In: office-tourisme-cormeilles.com. Office de Tourisme de Cormeilles, accessed on June 2, 2010 (French).
  3. ^ A b c Daniel Delattre, Emmanuel Delattre: L'Eure, les 675 communes . Editions Delattre, Grandvilliers 2000, pp. 81 f . (French)
  4. ^ Ernest Nègre: Toponymie générale de la France . tape 1 . Librairie Droz, 1990, ISBN 978-2-600-02884-4 , pp. 281 ( in Google Books [accessed June 2, 2010]). (French)
  5. ↑ Abbaye de Bénédictins Notre-Dame. In: Base Mérimée. Ministère de la culture, accessed June 2, 2010 (French).
  6. ^ Communauté de Communes du Canton de Cormeilles. In: cormeilles.com. Retrieved June 2, 2010 (French).
  7. ^ Cormeilles. In: Base Mérimée. Ministère de la culture, accessed June 2, 2010 (French).
  8. ↑ A. Blanchard, M. Delafenêtre, Lisa Pascual: Jardins de Normandie . Your. Connaissance des Jardins, Caen 2001, ISBN 2-912454-07-7 , pp. 28-30 . (French)
  9. ↑ Le village de Cormeilles. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved July 21, 2012 (French).
  10. ↑ Le petit train de Cormeilles pp. 5-7, 39 + 298