Le Tourneur
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local community | Souleuvre en Bocage | |
region | Normandy | |
Department | Calvados | |
Arrondissement | Vire | |
Coordinates | 48 ° 58 ′ N , 0 ° 49 ′ W | |
Post Code | 14350 | |
Former INSEE code | 14704 | |
Incorporation | January 1, 2016 | |
status | Commune déléguée | |
Saint Martin Church |
Le Tourneur ( French community with 638 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017), the Tournerais , in the department of Calvados in the region of Normandy .
) is a formerOn January 1, 2016, Le Tourneur was incorporated into the new municipality of Souleuvre en Bocage as a district as part of a regional reform together with 19 neighboring municipalities, which, like Le Tourneur, all belonged to the disbanded municipal association Bény-Bocage .
geography
Le Tourneur is located around 18 kilometers north-northeast of Vire Normandie and 28 kilometers southeast of Saint-Lô . The Souleuvre flows through the local area .
history
In the Middle Ages , Le Tourneur was the capital of a sergenterie made up of 22 parishes. During the Second World War , the place was badly damaged by fighting.
Population development
year | 1793 | 1836 | 1876 | 1926 | 1946 | 1968 | 1990 | 2013 |
Residents | 1,691 | 1,830 | 1,357 | 897 | 821 | 687 | 506 | 624 |
Source: Cassini, EHESS and INSEE |
Attractions
- Church of Saint-Martin from the 18th century ( partial reconstruction ), most of the former furnishings of the church, which was badly destroyed in 1944, had been classified as a Monument historique since 1911
- Saint-Quentin Chapel
Culture
Since 1969 the folk festival fête des jonquilles (" Easter Bells Festival ") has taken place on the last Sunday in March .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Calvados. Volume 1, Flohic Editions, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-111-2 , pp. 213-214.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the municipal merger on calvados.gouv.fr (French)
- ↑ Le Tourneur - Cassini
- ^ Sculpture Portrait of the Virgin Mary (destroyed) in Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Sculpture St. Aegidius (destroyed) in the base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Altarpiece (I) (destroyed) in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Bronze chandelier (destroyed) in the base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Painting Genoveva of Paris (destroyed) in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Reliefs with biblical motifs (destroyed) in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Lectern (destroyed) in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Altar (destroyed) in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Altarpiece (II) (destroyed) in the base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)