Jobourg
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| local community | La Hague | |
| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Some | |
| Arrondissement | Cherbourg | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 41 ′ N , 1 ° 54 ′ W | |
| Post Code | 50440 | |
| Former INSEE code | 50257 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2017 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
| Website | http://www.mairie-jobourg.fr/ | |
 View of the Nez (Cape) de Jobourg and the cove of Sennival as seen from the Nez des Voidries. |
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Jobourg is a village and a former French commune with 520 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 1 January 2017, the previous municipality of Jobourg 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
Jobourg is on the Cotentin Peninsula and even on a smaller peninsula called La Hague that juts out into the English Channel. Alderney is approximately 15 km away. The community adjoined
- Auderville in the northwest,
- Saint-Germain-des-Vaux in the northeast,
- Omonville-la-Petite to the east and
- Herqueville in the southeast.
From Cape Nez de Jobourg you have a wonderful view of all the Channel Islands ( Jersey , Guernsey and Sark ).
geology
Jobourg lies in the Armorican massif . And there the oldest rocks in France come to the fore.
Toponymy
Jobourg is derived from Scandinavian: jorth (cf. German earth ) and borg (fortification, cf. German castle). François de Beaurepaire believes that this could be traced back to the Anglo-Saxon eordhburg with a similar meaning.
Attractions
- Église Notre Dame , 12th century church - Monument historique
- the capes of Nez de Jobourg and Nez de Voidries
- little bay of Écalgrain
economy
The controversial La Hague reprocessing plant is located on part of Jobourg .
The French government is investigating the construction of ocean current power plants in the Strait of Alderney (just like before Barfleur ), in one of the strongest tidal currents in Europe between Cape Cap de la Hague and the British channel island of Alderney .
The CROSS-ma Jobourg, operated by the French Navy, monitors the traffic separation area between Mont-Saint-Michel and Cape Antifer near Le Havre .
Because of the picturesque landscape, tourism has developed favorably in recent years.
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 .
- ↑ Bay of Écalgrain and Bay of Cul-Rond Website Lithothèque de Normandie .
- ^ René Lepelley: Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de communes de Normandie. Presses Universitaires de Caen, 1996, ISBN 2-905461-80-2 , p. 154.
- ^ François de Beaurepaire: Les Noms des communes et anciennes paroisses de la Manche. P. 253.
- ↑ Église Notre Dame in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Renewable energies ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. developpement-durable.gouv.fr, mars 2013. see in particular p. 46.
- ^ CROSS Jobourg Official website (in French).
