Douains

Douains
region	Normandy
Department	Your
Arrondissement	Les Andelys
Canton	Pacy-sur-Eure
Community association	Its Normandy agglomeration
Coordinates	49 ° 2 ′  N , 1 ° 26 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′  N , 1 ° 26 ′  E
height	97-148 m
surface	11.27 km 2
Residents	513 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	46 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	27120
INSEE code	27203
Château de Brécourt

Douains is a French municipality with 513 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Eure in the region of Normandy . The inhabitants are called Duniens .

geography

Douains is located on the eastern edge of Eure, 70 kilometers northwest of Paris , 50 kilometers southeast of Rouen , about 20 kilometers east of Évreux and 7 kilometers southwest of Vernon .

history

Douains was first mentioned in the 11th century as Duni and Dunos . In 1264 it was mentioned as Doens . The place name was probably derived from the Germanic name Dodenus .

In August 1026, Duke Richard II (966-1027) donated the church in what was then the village of Dunos to Fécamp Abbey . The church included stables and three farms. In the 12th century, Douains was part of the Pacy-sur-Eure castellany . In what is now the municipality of Douains, there were three fiefdoms before the French Revolution (1789–1799) , Douains, Brécourt and La Sablonnière.

In 1809 the hamlets of Boisset-Hennequin (now Saint-Vincent-des-Bois ) and Brécourt were incorporated.

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2005	2016
Residents	293	261	233	298	346	465	468	513
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

The Château de Brécourt is located on the road to Vernon, it is a 17th century castle surrounded by a moat that has burned, bombed and served as a holiday colony over the centuries. Today it is used as a hotel-restaurant and in 1967 it was entered in the additional directory of the Monuments historiques ("historical monuments"). The castle can be reached through an avenue of lime trees . The main courtyard is planted like a baroque garden .

The original Church of Notre-Dame already existed in the 11th century. However, nothing remains of the building. Most of the current building dates from the 17th century. In the 19th century the church was rebuilt and parts of the destroyed church of the hamlet Boisset-Hennequin were built into the north wall of the church of Douains. Two openings in the south wall date from the 14th century.

In Douains there is the Les Jardins du Souvenir animal cemetery , which opened in 1989 and contains around 400 grave sites. In 1999 it was expanded.

economy

Protected Geographical Indications (IGP) apply to pork (Porc de Normandie) , poultry (Volailles de Normandie) and cider (Cidre de Normandie and Cidre normand) in the municipality .

Personalities

• Emir Kusturica (* 1954 in Sarajevo), the Serbian- French film director stays regularly in Douains.

Web links

Commons : Douains  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Village de Douains. In: Actuacity.com. Retrieved June 5, 2010 (French). 
2. ^ Ernest Nègre: Toponymie générale de la France . tape 2 . Librairie Droz, 1996, ISBN 978-2-600-00133-5 , pp. 838 ( in Google Books ). (French)
3. ↑ Charpillon, Anatole Caresme: Dictionnaire historique de toutes les communes du département de l'Eure, histoire, geographie, statistique . Delcroix, Les Andelys 1868, p. 947-950 ( in Google Books [accessed June 18, 2010]). (French)
4. ↑ Auguste Le Prevost : Mémoires et notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost pour servir à l'histoire du département de l'Eure . Ed .: Léopold Delisle , Louis Paulin Passy. tape 2 . Auguste Herissey, Évreux 1864 ( from Archive.org [accessed June 18, 2010]).
5. ↑ Douains - notice communal. In: Cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved June 4, 2010 (French). 
6. ↑ A. Blanchard, M. Delafenêtre, Lisa Pascual: Jardins de Normandie . Your. Connaissance des Jardins, Caen 2001, ISBN 2-912454-07-7 , pp. 34 f . (French)
7. ↑ Douains. In: Base Mérimée. Ministère de la culture, accessed June 18, 2010 (French). 
8. ↑ Historique. (No longer available online.) In: Les Jardins du Souvenir. Dominique Paulin, archived from the original on April 27, 2010 ; Retrieved June 5, 2010 (French). 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.  
9. ↑ Le village de Douains. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved July 21, 2012 (French). 
10. ↑ List of the municipalities of Eure. (No longer available online.) In: eure.pref.gouv.fr. Préfecture of Eure, archived from the original on April 27, 2013 ; Retrieved on August 14, 2011 (French). 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.