Herqueville (Manche)
| Herqueville | ||
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| local community | La Hague | |
| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Some | |
| Arrondissement | Cherbourg | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 40 ′ N , 1 ° 53 ′ W | |
| Post Code | 50440 | |
| Former INSEE code | 50242 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2017 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
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Herqueville is a village and a former French commune with 153 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 Herqueville 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
Herqueville is on the Cotentin peninsula in the La Hague countryside . Adjacent communities were:
On the coast you can contact between the Cadomian granites and the conglomerates and arkose from the Cambrian observed.
Toponymy
Herqueville is derived from the French ending -ville and from the Germanic name Hericus .
There is a place called Herquemoulin , which is made up of Herqueville and moulin ( fr.
Mill) (cf. Gattemare in Gatteville-le-Phare ).
history
A smaller Neolithic archaeological site was discovered during excavations carried out between 1967 and 1969. The Er Lannic style is recognizable.
economy
The La Hague reprocessing plant is partly located in the municipality of Herqueville.
The low-level radioactive waste water from the reprocessing plant (and the adjacent Center de stockage de la Manche ) is discharged from the town of Anse des Moulinets into the Strait of Alderney .
Attractions
- The wooden vault of the nave looks like an inverted ship. The choir was built in 1785 . The bell comes from the church of Omonville-la-Petite .
- Together with Port-Racine in Saint-Germain-des-Vaux , Goury in Auderville and Le Hâble , the Houguet port ( port du Houguet ) in Treize Vents ( Thirteen Winds ) at the foot of the cliffs in Herqueville is one of the four ports in La Hague . The port was known for tobacco smuggling with Alderney around 1800-1850.
Personalities
- Rémi Mauger (born 1958 in Herqueville), journalist for France 3 Normandie Caen and film director for Paul dans sa vie . It's about the life of Paul Bedel , a farmer in Auderville who leads an old-fashioned life.
- Le père Brumant (1858–1943): The ship Frédéric from Boulogne-sur-Mer , which left Portsmouth , was supposed to deliver briquettes to Saint-Quay-Portrieux . On January 11, 1903, the ship lost part of the sails due to a storm. The ship was off Port-Racine when it was shipwrecked. Of three men on board, only the youngest was rescued by a Herqueville sailor named père Brumant . Le père Brumant became famous for his portrait painted by Lucien Goubert. The portrait also became the logo of the Café du Vieux Pêcheur .
Individual evidence
- Altitude, coordonnées, superficie : IGN.
- ^ Decree of the Prefecture of Arr. 2016-37 on the formation of the Commune nouvelle La Hague of September 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Guide géologique Normandie -Maine. 2nd Edition. Editions DUNOD. pp. 85-86. ISBN 2-10-050695-1
- ↑ René Lepelley. Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de communes de Normandie . Presses universitaires de Caen . Page 146. ISBN 2-905461-80-2
- ↑ " Le site néolithique moyen II of the" Treize vents "à Herqueville (Manche) ," Bulletin de la Société française préhistorique , ISSN 0249-7638
- ↑ Anse des Moulinets website www.laradioactivite.com (French).
- ↑ Anse des Moulinets website Greenpeace (French).
- ↑ Herqueville sur le site de l'Institut geographique national . Archived from the original on February 23, 2011. 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. (archive Wikiwix)
