Marquee floor
The Marquenterre is a small French natural landscape that includes the area of the English Channel coast in the arrondissements of Montreuil ( Pas-de-Calais ) and Abbeville ( Somme ) and thus the coastal parts of the Ponthieu landscape .
The Marquenterre is an alluvial land that has been drained since the 13th century in front of the cliffs of the Picardy plateau, which was wrested from the sea. The 23,000 hectare region, through which the Authie River flows, is rich in dunes, bogs and ponds and extends from Somme Bay in the south, the home of the Henson horses, to Canche Bay in the north. In the municipality of Saint-Quentin-en-Tourmont and Quend lies the Parc du Marquenterre, a bird sanctuary covering 250 hectares .
The Marquenterre includes the communes of Rue , Noyelles-sur-Mer , Le Crotoy , Favières , Quend , Fort-Mahon-Plage , Arry , Vercourt , Vron , Villers-sur-Authie in the Somme department, as well as Groffliers , Berck , Rang-du- Fliers , Verton , Merlimont , Cucq , Le Touquet-Paris-Plage , in the Pas-de-Calais department.
history
The historic community of Marquenterre, based in Vieux-Quend, had a charter as early as 1199. It was dissolved in 1791 and the parishes of Quend and Saint-Quentin-en-Tourmont were formed, from Quend in 1923 Fort-Mahon-Plage was separated as an independent parish. For the origin of the name, see the article Parc du Marquenterre .
literature
- Sonia Lesot (text), Henri Gaud (photos): Le Marquenterre en Baie de Somme. Une réserve naturelle et un parc ornithologique entre terre et mer. Editorial Gaud, Moisenay-le-Petit 2006, ISBN 978-2-840-80150-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Guide Michelin . North de la France . 1980, p. 151, ISBN 2-06-003420-5 .