Greville-Hague
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| local community | La Hague | |
| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Some | |
| Arrondissement | Cherbourg | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 40 ′ N , 1 ° 48 ′ W | |
| Post Code | 50440 | |
| Former INSEE code | 50220 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2017 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
| Website | www.greville-hague.fr | |
 Rocher du Castel Vendon (rocks) |
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Gréville-Hague is a village and a former French commune with 703 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Manche department in the Normandy region . It belonged to the Arrondissement of Cherbourg and the Canton of La Hague .
With effect from January 1, 2017, the previous municipality of Gréville-Hague was merged with the other 18 municipalities of the former Communauté de communes de la Hague to form a Commune nouvelle called La Hague and has the status of a Commune déléguée in the new municipality . The administrative headquarters are in Beaumont-Hague.
geography
Gréville-Hague is located on the Cotentin peninsula , in the La Hague countryside . The oldest rocks in France are exposed.
Adjacent communities were:
The municipality of Gréville was bordered by two valleys, the Sabine valley in the west and the Hubiland valley in the east. The steep 30 to 70 m high rocks of Castel-Vendon in the hamlet of Landemer separate La Hague from the Cherbourger suburb, which opens onto the Bay of Urville-Nacqueville .
The landscape consists of a wild, protected coastline forming a heather and a bocage landscape (i.e., a landscape of hedges). The Castel Vendon tunnels are home to an important colony of bats.
Toponymy
Gréville is derived from the French ending -ville and from the Germanic name Gairo .
history
In 1905 a milk cooperative was founded. In 1962 it merged with other dairy cooperatives to create the Maîtres laitiers du Cotentin cooperative . The butter was initially named Beurre de la Hague . Due to the proximity of the La Hague reprocessing plant , which has a bad reputation, the Butter Beurre du Val de Saire was renamed. Today the dairy is closed.
Attractions
Sainte-Colombe Church
The Sainte-Colombe church is a listed building. The old building consisted of a main nave flanked by a side aisle. The arcades of the nave and the choir are supported by square columns. These are very interesting in that they are a very rare type of column. In 1774 a yoke was added to the nave , where the baptismal font is now located. At that time, the nave was covered by a ribbed vault. The church tower was built in 1554.
Le Castel Vendon
The rocks painted by Jean-François Millet were a military site until 2009. They were part of the Cherbourg fortress built by the Germans during World War II .
Birthplace of Jean-François Millet
The house where Jean-François Millet was born has been renovated and turned into a museum. It is about the youth and the education of the important painter at the beginning of the 19th century.
La maison du puits (the fountain house)
The well house built in the hamlet of Gruchy, together with the steps outside and the covered well, was included in the list of historical monuments due to its depiction in several of Millet's paintings in 1993.
Personalities
- Jean-François Millet ( 1814 - 1875 ), painter who in the hameau de Gruchy born (Weiler Gruchy). His statue stands in front of the church he painted. He painted many landscapes in Gréville (hamlet of Gruchy, Castel Vendon, hamlet of Cousin ...).
- Jean Fleury ( 1816 - 1894 ) (died in Gréville), he had the legends of Gréville told and written down on paper: Sainte Colombe , the goblin from the Ferrand valley le goubelin du Val-Ferrand and the young lady from Gruchy demoiselle de Gruchy . His daughter ( 1842 - 1902 ) wrote under the pseudonym Henry Gréville .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Decree of the Prefecture of Arr. 2016-37 on the formation of the Commune nouvelle La Hague of September 27, 2016 .
- ^ Gréville-Hague website Wikimanche (in French).
- ↑ les plus vieilles Roches de France sont dans la Hague (article) ( French ). La Presse de la Manche (daily newspaper), Paris August 27, 2009, p. 5: “ The oldest rocks in France are declared in la Hague , these rocks are not only exposed in Jobourg , but also in Omonville-la-Rogue , Eculleville and Gréville-Hague, d. H. from Pointe Jardeheu to Omonville-la-Rogue , then from Gréville-Hague to Landemer . "
- ↑ "La Hague bocagère» et «Falaises septentrionales de la Hague", in Pierre Brunet et Pierre Girardin, L'inventaire régional des paysages , you édition Conseil régional de Basse-Normandie / Direction régionale de l'environnement de Basse-Normandie, 2004
- ↑ René Lepelley. Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de communes de Normandie . Presses universitaires de Caen . Page 139. ISBN 2-905461-80-2
- ↑ fr: Les Maîtres laitiers du Cotentin (French).
- ↑ Église in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Maison Au Puits in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)