Giverny

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Giverny
Giverny (France)
Giverny
region Normandy
Department Your
Arrondissement Les Andelys
Canton Vernon
Community association Its Normandy agglomeration
Coordinates 49 ° 5 '  N , 1 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 5 '  N , 1 ° 32'  E
height 10-139 m
surface 6.46 km 2
Residents 494 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 76 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 27620
INSEE code 27285
Website http://www.giverny.fr/

the church of Sainte-Radegonde

Giverny is a French municipality with 494 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Eure in the region of Normandy . The place belongs to the arrondissement Les Andelys .

geography

Giverny is located on the eastern edge of the Norman department of Eure at the confluence of the Seine and Epte , 5 kilometers west of the Vexin français regional nature park (fr: Parc naturel régional du Vexin français ), 63 kilometers northwest of Paris , 6 kilometers southwest of Gasny and 4 kilometers east of Vernon .

Origin of name

Giverny was first mentioned in 671 as Warnacus , in 863 as Wariniacus and around 1026 as Givernacus . The place name is composed of the originally Germanic name Warinus and the Celtic place name ending -acum .

It is more of a Gallo-Roman place name "* GABRINIACU". The second component is the well-known suffix "* -ACU" of Celtic descent * -āko .

history

In the 7th century, wine was grown near Giverny . The vineyards belonged to Saint-Wandrille Abbey and were given to the county by Abbot Teutsind in the 8th century . In 863 the Abbey of Saint-Denis owned land. The Abbey of Saint-Ouen in Rouen also owned land in the Epte Valley in Giverny and Gasny since the 9th century. Before 1066, the Saint-Ouen Abbey received the vineyards and before the 13th century it received the Sainte-Radegonde Church. In 1678 it was finally attested that the Giverny fiefdom belonged to the Saint-Ouen Abbey. But there was a second fiefdom in Giverny that belonged to a family that named itself after the village.

In 1793 Giverny received in the course of the French Revolution (1789-1799) the status of a municipality and in 1801 the right to local self-government .

Giverny- Limetz station was on the Gisors  - Vernonnet railway line , which was inaugurated on July 15, 1869. Passenger traffic was discontinued in March 1940, freight traffic in 1941. During World War II (1939–1945) , the railway was used by German troops to transport the materials for the construction of the Atlantic Wall .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2017
Residents 363 386 509 502 548 524 506 494
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

Claude Monet's house and garden, who was inspired here for some of his most famous motifs.

The house and garden of Claude Monet were in the supplementary list of official 1976 historical monuments registered. The property is also classified as site classé (natural monument). Around 1890 Monet bought three parcels of land on which there were three houses. He set up his garden there and built a house between 1911 and 1918 that is now a museum. The first part of the garden he set up was the Clos Normand , an enclosed garden full of roses , peonies , gold lacquer , nasturtiums , clematis , poppies , tulips and irises . The second part was a water garden, with a pond, a Japanese bridge covered with wisteria , water lilies , a weeping willow , bamboo and rhododendrons .

When Monet moved to Giverny in 1883, the old Hôtel Baudy was just an épicerie with a bar. It was named after the owners at the time. In 1891 the building was converted into a hotel with 20 rooms and mainly housed painters from the United States . The rose garden of the Hôtel Baudy was also laid out towards the end of the 19th century. Today the building is used as a restaurant .

Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny

The Musée des impressionnismes Giverny was founded as the Musée d'Art Américain by the Fondation Terra and opened in 1992. His garden is laid out in the style of the gardens of the painters who lived in Giverny towards the end of the 19th century. The museum also has several properties owned by painters from the United States, including the Maison du Hameau , which was owned by painter Lilla Cabot Perry from 1884 to 1928 . The property is adjacent to Monet's property. The garden was laid out in 1988 after paintings from the 1890s. Since 2009, the Musée des impressionismes Giverny has been showing temporary exhibitions in collaboration with the Musée d'Orsay .

The Romanesque church of Sainte-Radegonde dates from the 11th century and has been rebuilt several times. The southern apse and gable have been preserved from the 11th century . The north wall of the nave and the north apse date from the 12th century. The church was entered in the supplementary register of historical monuments in 2009. Claude Monet's grave is in the church cemetery.

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

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Village de Giverny. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved June 1, 2010 (French).
  2. ^ Ernest Nègre: Toponymie générale de la France . tape 2 . Librairie Droz, 1996, ISBN 978-2-600-00133-5 , pp. 749 ( in Google Books [accessed June 12, 2010]). (French)
  3. ↑ 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, S. 180-182 ( from Archive.org [accessed June 12, 2010]). (French)
  4. ^ Daniel Delattre, Emmanuel Delattre: L'Eure, les 675 communes . Editions Delattre, Grandvilliers 2000, pp. 130 . (French)
  5. ↑ Giverny - notice communal. In: Cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved June 12, 2010 (French).
  6. ↑ les lignes ferroviaires fermées ou déclassées. In: la vie du rail en haute normandie. Collectif des Transports Ferroviaires de Haute Normandie, accessed July 7, 2010 (French).
  7. ↑ a b Giverny. In: Base Mérimée. Ministère de la culture, accessed June 12, 2010 (French).
  8. ↑ A. Blanchard, M. Delafenêtre, Lisa Pascual: Jardins de Normandie . Your. Connaissance des Jardins, Caen 2001, ISBN 2-912454-07-7 , pp. 107-115 . (French)
  9. ↑ histoire du musée. Le musée des impressionnismes à Giverny, village normand, s'intéresse à l'histoire de l'impressionnisme et à ses suites, notamment la colonie de Giverny et la vallée de la Seine. In: museedesimpressionnismesgiverny.com. musée des impressionnismes giverny, accessed on August 9, 2012 (French).
  10. ^ Yves Lecouturier: Célèbres de Normandie . Orep Editions, 2007, ISBN 978-2-915762-13-6 , pp. 34 . (French)