Hourtin

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Hourtin
Hourtin Coat of Arms
Hourtin (France)
Hourtin
region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Gironde
Arrondissement Lesparre-Médoc
Canton Le Sud-Médoc
Community association Médoc Atlantique
Coordinates 45 ° 11 ′  N , 1 ° 3 ′  W Coordinates: 45 ° 11 ′  N , 1 ° 3 ′  W
height 0-64 m
surface 190.50 km 2
Residents 3,506 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 18 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 33990
INSEE code
Website http://www.mairie-hourtin.fr/

Sainte-Hélène church

Hourtin is a French municipality with 3506 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Gironde department in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . Hourtin is on an alternative route to the Via Turonensis , the northernmost Way of St. James through France .

geography

Beach and dunes in Hourtin-Plage
Sandy beach by the lake in the village of Piqueyrot

Hourtin is located on the peninsula west of the Gironde estuary, in the Médoc , about 60 kilometers northwest of Bordeaux , 25 kilometers west of Pauillac and 40 kilometers south of Soulac-sur-Mer . In the West Hourtin borders the Atlantic Ocean and shares with the neighboring village of Carcans one of the largest natural freshwater lakes in France, the Lac d'Hourtin-Carcans . A tourist complex of hotels, restaurants and a sailing boat harbor, which is now called Hourtin-Port, was built on the lake in the 1980s.

On the Atlantic coast, about twelve kilometers from the main town, is the seaside resort of Hourtin-Plage, which lies in the middle of the Forêt des Landes ("Heidewald"). The forest consists mainly of maritime pines . In addition to access to the sea, there are restaurants, surf schools and a large campsite with a water park. The coastal strip is called here Côte d'Argent ("Silver Coast"). The coast is very rich in mussels and oysters at this point. The abrasion and remains of the shells of these shellfish mixed with the sand over the millennia. As a result, with a certain incidence of light in the evening hours, the sand in the surf glistens like silver dust.

The place itself has sufficient infrastructure around the church with a post office, a few shops, doctors, etc. There is a market once a week, 3 times a week in the summer months. Hourtin was connected to the rail network until the 1960s. A small museum for modern art is housed in the newly renovated station building (built between 1854 and 1856).

Other localities of Hourtin are Contaut, Piqueyrot and Lachanau.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2010 2016
Residents 2128 2062 2290 2048 2072 2324 3235 3487
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Architectural monuments

See: List of Monuments historiques in Hourtin

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Gironde. Flohic Éditions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-125-2 , pp. 1290-1296.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. http://olivier.munin.free.fr/liens/histoire.htm History of Hourtin (French)
  2. Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 14, 2008 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mairie-hourtin.fr