Plumetot
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| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Calvados | |
| Arrondissement | Caen | |
| Canton | Courseulles-sur-Mer | |
| Community association | Coeur de Nacre | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 17 ′ N , 0 ° 21 ′ W | |
| height | 29-59 m | |
| surface | 1.23 km 2 | |
| Residents | 215 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 175 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 14440 | |
| INSEE code | 14509 | |
.JPG) Town hall (Mairie) of Plumetot |
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Plumetot is a French municipality with 215 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Calvados in the region of Normandy . It belongs to the arrondissement of Caen and the canton of Courseulles-sur-Mer (until 2015: canton of Douvres-la-Délivrande ). The inhabitants are called Plumetotais .
geography
Plumetot is about ten kilometers north of Caen near the coast of the English Channel. Plumetot is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Cresserons in the north and west, Hermanville-sur-Mer in the east and Mathieu in the south.
history
Plumetot Airfield
During the Second World War there was an airfield to the south of the town, the Plumetot Aérodrome or Mathieu or Cressons. It was created in 1938/1939 for the French Air Force.
During the occupation of France by the German Wehrmacht , it was a Luftwaffe airfield . At the time of the Battle of Britain , the 1st group of Jagdgeschwader 27 , equipped with Bf 109s , lay here from the beginning of July to the end of August 1940 ; previously, the 1st group of Jagdgeschwader 1 had already been here for a few days at the turn of the month of June / July . As the war continued, the airfield was hardly used by the Germans.
After the liberation of the area by the Allies in the early summer of 1944, Airfield B.10 , its Allied code name, became a base of the British Royal Air Force . The first formation lying here in the first three weeks of July 1944 was a Typhoon squadron, the 123rd Wing with two squadrons, the 198th and 609th Squadron . The 131st (Polish) Wing followed in August / September with the 302nd , 308th 'City of Krakow' and 317th Squadron , equipped with the Spitfire XIb . Other users were the 35th Recce Wing (subordinated to the 2nd ( Mustang II ), 4th (Spitfire XI) and 268th Squadron (Typhoon FR 1), the 135th Wing with the 33rd Squadron (Spitfire IXE) and a observation squadron with his subordinate and Auster Mk IV equipped 652nd squadron . the latter did not return until 70 years later, in the summer of 2013 in the United Kingdom back the last twenty years of her stay in mainland Europe it was in the East Westphalian Gütersloh .
After the end of the war, the area was returned to the previous owner and used for agriculture.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
| Residents | 185 | 159 | 163 | 229 | 260 | 233 | 217 | 229 |
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Attractions
- Saint-Samson church from the 13th century, monument historique
- 18th century mansion
Saint Samson Church
Mansion
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Calvados. Volume 1, Flohic Editions, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-111-2 , pp. 690-692.
