Le Tourneur

This article covers the former French community. For the French politician of the same surname, see Étienne-François Le Tourneur .

Le Tourneur
local community	Souleuvre en Bocage
region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Vire
Coordinates	48 ° 58 ′  N , 0 ° 49 ′  W 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 ( pronunciation ^{? / I} ) is a former French community with 638 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017), the Tournerais , in the department of Calvados in the region of Normandy .

On 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

British troops in Le Tourneur, in the background the badly damaged church tower of Saint Martin (1944)

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

Commons : Le Tourneur  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on the municipal merger on calvados.gouv.fr (French)
2. ↑ Le Tourneur - Cassini
3. ^ Sculpture Portrait of the Virgin Mary (destroyed) in Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
4. ↑ Sculpture St. Aegidius (destroyed) in the base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
5. ↑ Altarpiece (I) (destroyed) in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
6. ↑ Bronze chandelier (destroyed) in the base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
7. ↑ Painting Genoveva of Paris (destroyed) in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
8. ↑ Reliefs with biblical motifs (destroyed) in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
9. ↑ Lectern (destroyed) in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
10. ↑ Altar (destroyed) in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
11. ↑ Altarpiece (II) (destroyed) in the base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)