Neuville-sur-Touques

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Neuville-sur-Touques
Neuville-sur-Touques (France)
Neuville-sur-Touques
region Normandy
Department Orne
Arrondissement Mortagne-au-Perche
Canton Vimoutiers
Community association Vallées d'Auge and Merlerault
Coordinates 48 ° 51 ′  N , 0 ° 17 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′  N , 0 ° 17 ′  E
height 153-260 m
surface 15.35 km 2
Residents 226 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 15 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 61120
INSEE code

former Neuville station

Neuville-sur-Touques is a French municipality with 226 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in Orne in the region Normandy (2015 Basse-Normandie ). It belongs to the Arrondissement of Mortagne-au-Perche and to the Vallées d'Auge et Merlerault municipal association founded in 2016 .

geography

The municipality is located on the Touques in the Pays d'Auge countryside , 24 kilometers northeast of Argentan and about 58 kilometers southwest of Caen . Neuville does not have a grown village center, but is a combination of several scattered hamlets and individual farms. Mairie and church are located roughly in the middle of the 15.35 km² community area, which is characterized by an alternation of meadows, small forests and the typical hedges ( bocages ). The largest of the numerous districts are Les Moulins, La Halte (with the former station buildings), La Berrière, La Piroudière, La Bersotière, La Cotillière, La Jaunière and Les Mares Hary . Neuville-sur-Touques is bounded by the neighboring communities of Sap-en-Auge in the north and east, Chaumont in the south-east, Mardilly in the south, Aubry-le-Panthou in the west and Roiville in the north-west.

Place name

In its original meaning, the name Neuville denotes nine estates , derived from the Latin villa rustica . At the time the church was founded in 1793, the place was called Neuville sur Tongue , and since 1801 the name Neuville-sur-Touques has been in effect .

Population development

1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2009 2016
326 277 214 200 208 191 251 226
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

The Saint-Germain-d'Auxerre church houses an altarpiece, an eagle lectern and a carved wooden Christ. The inventories mentioned are shown as monuments historiques . In the district of La Jaunière there are still remnants of the underground refuge Bove des Chevaliers, which collapsed in 1952 . According to the records that have been preserved, it was a cruciform vaulted cellar with two large rooms called the "chapel" and the "knight".

Economy and Infrastructure

The municipality is dominated by agriculture. There are 25 farms in the commune of Neuville-sur-Touques (cereal growing, dairy farming, cattle, goat and sheep breeding, two orchards).

The D 979 trunk road runs from Lisieux to Gacé on the southern municipal boundary of Neuville-sur-Touques . In Gacé, ten kilometers away, there is a connection to the A28 autoroute .

supporting documents

  1. René Lepelley : Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de communes de Normandie, Condé-sur-Noireau, Edition Charles Corlet, 1996 ( ISBN 2-905461-80-2 , notice BnF no FRBNF36174448), p. 187
  2. ↑ toponym on cassini.ehess.fr
  3. Neuville-sur-Touques on cassini.ehess.fr
  4. Neuville-sur-Touques on insee.fr
  5. thomaslemousquetaire.free.fr. Retrieved May 21, 2019 (French).
  6. Jérôme and Laurent Triolet: Souterrains et croyances , Rennes, Éditions Ouest-France, coll. "Mémoires de l'histoire", February 2002, 124 pp. ( ISBN 978-2-7373-2872-5 )
  7. ↑ Farms on annuaire-mairie.fr

Web links

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