Houesville

Houesville
local community	Carentan-les-Marais
region	Normandy
Department	Some
Arrondissement	Saint-Lô
Coordinates	49 ° 21 ′  N , 1 ° 17 ′  W Coordinates: 49 ° 21 ′  N , 1 ° 17 ′  W
Post Code	50480
Former INSEE code	50249
Incorporation	January 1, 2016
status	Commune déléguée

Houesville is a town and commune Déléguée in the French commune of Carentan-les-Marais with 287 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Manche in the region of Normandy .

With effect from January 1, 2016, the former municipalities of Angoville-au-Plain , Carentan , Houesville and Saint-Côme-du-Mont were merged to form the Commune nouvelle Carentan-les-Marais. The municipality of Houesville belonged to the arrondissement of Saint-Lô and the canton of Carentan .

geography

Houesville is located 10.7 kilometers southwest of Utah Beach between Blosville in the north and Saint-Côme-du-Mont in the southeast 6.4 kilometers northwest of Carentan on the Cotentin Peninsula in the Marais du Cotentin et du Bessin Regional Nature Park on the N13 . The Douve flows through the area.

Attractions

Voie de la Liberté : Landmark in Houesville

The castle of le Vivier was built in the 18th century and pavilions were added in the 19th century . It is privately owned.

The Saint-Gilles church is dedicated to St. Egidius (640-720). It belongs to the diocese of Coutances and was built in the 15th century. The western entrance portal was redesigned in 1791, the roof vault was renewed around 1879. In the church there is an altar , antependium and tabernacle from the 18th and 19th centuries, classified as a monument historique in 1978 as a group . An old Protestant cemetery from the time of the Huguenot Wars (1562–1598) is located by the church .

The "Path of Freedom" ( Voie de la Liberté ), which is marked with a series of landmarks, runs through Houesville . It runs from Sainte-Mère-Église via Utah Beach to Bastogne in Belgium and commemorates the liberation of France, Luxembourg and Belgium through the Allied invasion of Normandy at the end of the Second World War . It follows the advance of General George S. Patton and the 3rd US Army and is over 1,000 kilometers long.

economy

The main occupations are the breeding of domestic cattle and domestic horses.

Web links

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

• Information about Houesville in French
• Houesville on cartesfrance.fr in French

Individual evidence

1. ^ Houesville in Base Mérimée (French), accessed on October 28, 2009.
2. ^ Houesville in the Base Palissy des Ministère de la culture (French). Retrieved October 28, 2009.
3. ↑ Houesville on the website of the CC Sainte-Mère-Église ( Memento des Originals of April 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (French) Retrieved October 28, 2009.  
4. ↑ La Voie de la Liberté - Colonel er G. Spoiden ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (French) Retrieved October 28, 2009.  
5. ↑ Culture et production animale, chasse et services annexes à Houesville on annuaire-mairie.fr (French). Accessed March 15, 2015.