Damville

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Damville
Damville Coat of Arms
Damville (France)
Damville
local community Mesnils-sur-Iton
region Normandy
Department Your
Arrondissement Evreux
Coordinates 48 ° 52 '  N , 1 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '  N , 1 ° 4'  E
Post Code 27240
Former INSEE code 27198
Incorporation January 1, 2016
status Commune déléguée

Former Damville Town Hall

Damville is a town and commune Déléguée in the French municipality of Mesnil-sur-Iton with 2,099 inhabitants (2016) in the department of Eure in the region of Normandy . Damville is the administrative seat of the municipality of Mesnils-sur-Iton.

geography

Damville is located on the Iton River , 18 kilometers southwest of Évreux . The hamlets of Le Coudray and Les Minières also belonged to the municipality. In Le Coudray there is an industrial area (zone artisanale) . The Départementsstraße D833 leads through the town center and the industrial park.

history

Damville already existed in Gallo-Roman times (52 BC to 486 AD). On aerial photographs structures are visible from buildings in the eastern municipality, which were surrounded by a moat and connected by a bridge. It was not until 1882 that the buildings were leveled and the area was used for agriculture. The building can not be dated without prospecting . Such finds mostly come from Gallo-Roman times, but they can also come from the Iron Age or the Middle Ages.

Later, the village was of certain importance due to its location on the French side of the Normandy border. The castle of Damville was built in the 1035th It was burned down by Henry II of England in 1189 and rebuilt by Richard the Lionheart . The castle, together with the castles of Tillières-sur-Avre and Breteuil, formed a line of fortresses. Around 1285 the village came into the possession of the Montmorency family . When Henri II. De Montmorency died on the scaffold in 1632 , Damville fell to his sister Marguerite (1577-1660), and thus by marriage to the Levis de Ventadour family . In 1648 Damville was raised to a duchy (Duché) . Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse (1678–1737), received the town later . For him she was raised to duché pairie . He sold them in 1720.

Mousseaux was incorporated in 1808 and Les Minières in 1974 . Les Minières was an independent seigneurie in the Ancien Régime , whose owners had adopted the name of the village by the 15th century.

During the Second World War (1939-1945) Damville was bombed by the Allied Air Force on the night of July 11-12, 1944 during Operation Overlord . Eight people were killed in the process.

With effect from January 1, 2016, the former municipalities of Condé-sur-Iton , Damville , Gouville , Manthelon , Le Roncenay-Authenay and Le Sacq were merged into a commune nouvelle called Mesnils-sur-Iton. The municipality of Damville belonged to the arrondissement of Évreux and the canton of Damville .

Population development

1968 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2016
985 1321 1349 1345 1666 1897 2.017 2,031 2,099

Community partnerships

In 2011, the 40th anniversary of the partnership with Kiefersfelden , a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Rosenheim on the border with Austria, was celebrated.

Attractions

The Saint-Evroult church

The Saint-Evroult church dates back to the 15th century, its nave and bell tower were classified as Monument historique (historical monument) in 1921 . In the church there is a bell dated 1535, which was classified as a monument historique in 1941.

Protected geographical indications (IGP) apply to pork (Porc de Normandie) , poultry (Volailles de Normandie) and cider (Cidre de Normandie and Cidre normand) in the former municipal area .

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Damville  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-Noël Le Borgne, Véronique Le Borgne, Pascale Eudier, Annie Etienne: Archeologie Aérienne dans l'Eure . Ed .: Association Archéo 27. Page de Garde, Caudebec-les-Elbeuf 2002, ISBN 2-84340-230-1 , p. 26 + 83 + 86 .
  2. ^ A b Daniel Delattre, Emmanuel Delattre: L'Eure, les 675 communes . Editions Delattre, Grandvilliers 2000, pp. 91 f . (French)
  3. ^ Damville - notice communal. In: Cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved June 3, 2010 (French).
  4. ↑ A.-V. de Walle: Évreux et l'Eure pendant la guerre . Charles Herissey, Évreux 2000, ISBN 2-914417-05-5 , pp. 176 f . (first published in 1946, French).
  5. ^ Arrêté préfectoral 23 November 2015
  6. ↑ Damville and Kiefersfelden celebrate partnership. In: rosenheim24.de. August 29, 2011, accessed March 5, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Damville. In: Base Mérimée. Ministère de la culture, accessed June 3, 2010 (French).
  8. ↑ Damville. In: Base Palissy. Ministère de la culture, accessed June 3, 2010 (French).
  9. ↑ Lea ville de Damville. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved July 21, 2012 (French).