Fontenay-sur-Mer

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Fontenay-sur-Mer
Fontenay-sur-Mer (France)
Fontenay-sur-Mer
region Normandy
Department Some
Arrondissement Cherbourg
Canton Valognes
Community association Cotentine
Coordinates 49 ° 29 ′  N , 1 ° 19 ′  W Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′  N , 1 ° 19 ′  W
height 0-43 m
surface 8.18 km 2
Residents 178 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 22 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 50310
INSEE code 50190

Town hall ( mairie ) of Fontenay-sur-Mer

Fontenay-sur-Mer is a French commune with a population of 178 (as at 1st January 2017) in the department of Manche in the region of Normandy . The municipality belongs to the Arrondissement of Cherbourg and to the municipal association Agglomération du Cotentin . The inhabitants call themselves Fontenayais .

geography

Fontenay-sur-Mer is located about 33 kilometers southeast of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin on the east coast of the Cotentin peninsula in the Marais du Cotentin et du Bessin Regional Nature Park . The English Channel limits the community in the northeast with a 400 m long stretch of beach. Fontenay-sur-Mer is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Quinéville in the north, Saint-Marcouf in the southeast, Saint-Floxel in the west and Ozeville in the northwest. The northeast half of the municipality is criss- crossed by numerous drainage ditches around the Marais du Pas de Languedi bog . The slightly higher inland areas are characterized by meadows and fields, which are partially bordered by hedges. A golf course ( Golf de la Presqu'île du Cotentin ) occupies the narrow coastal strip . Fontenay-sur-Mer includes the villages of Sotosville, Dangueville and Le Bas de Fontenay as well as several individual farms.

Place name

The name of the village first appeared in the Latin Fontenetum in the 12th century . From this the spellings Fontanetum (1192), Fonteneio (around 1280), Fonteney le Bercheur (1552) and Fontenay le Berceur (1755) developed into Fontenai-sur-Mer in 1828. The name comes from the Latin word Fontana (source, Brunne) back. From the 16th to the 18th centuries, the alternative name Fontenay-le-Berceur was used to distinguish it from a community a little further south called Fontenay . It was not until 1890 that the spelling Fontenay-sur-Mer , which is still valid today, was established.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2016
Residents 242 219 190 191 186 176 181 180
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Saint-Martin church with origins from the 12th century with a statue of the Virgin Mary, Monument historique
  • 17th century Château de Courcy, Monument historique
  • Château de Franqueville from the 17th century, Monument historique
  • Pigeon tower

  • Saint Martin Church

  • Church altar

  • Château de Courcy

  • former presbytery

  • Pigeon tower

Economy and Infrastructure

In the municipality of Fontenay-sur-Mer there are 18 farms (grain cultivation, dairy farming, horse breeding). The proximity to the sea favors the high occupancy of several holiday homes and guest houses.

A few kilometers west of Fontenay-sur-Mer, the motorway-like RN 13 runs from Cherbourg to Caen . The train station in the town of Valognes, 13 kilometers away, is on the Mantes-la-Jolie-Cherbourg railway line .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Ernest Nègre - 1990 - Toponymie générale de la France - p. 300 - ( ISBN 2600028838 )
  2. ^ Eugène Robillard de Beaurepaire et le Comte Auguste de Blangy, Le Journal du Sire de Gouberville (t. I), Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de Normandie XXXI, Caen, 1892, p. 230
  3. ^ François de Beaurepaire, Les noms de communes et anciennes paroisses de la Manche, Picard, Paris, 1986, p. 119
  4. ↑ Louis Du Bois, Itinéraire descriptif, historique et monumental des cinq départements de la Normandie, Mancel, Caen, 1828, p. 454.
  5. ↑ Le latin popular fontana représente l'emploi substantivé de l'adjectif fontanus “relatif à la source”, “de source”, accordé au féminin (avec aqua “eau” sous-entendu)
  6. ^ Bertrand Pâris, Registres des gardes nobles de la Chambre des Comptes de Normandie, t. 1, SPHAN, Limeil-Brévannes, 1995 [Répertoire Périodique de Documentation Normande, deuxième série, n ° 4]
  7. ^ Bulletin des lois de la République française, Imprimerie Nationale, Paris
  8. ↑ Fontenay-sur-Mer on cassini.ehess.fr
  9. ↑ Fontenay-sur-Mer on insee.fr
  10. ↑ Virgin Mary statue in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  11. ↑ Château de Courcy in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  12. ↑ Château de Franqueville in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  13. ↑ Farms on annuaire-mairie.fr

Web links

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