Quinéville

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Quinéville
Quinéville (France)
Quinéville
region Normandy
Department Some
Arrondissement Cherbourg
Canton Valognes
Community association Cotentine
Coordinates 49 ° 31 ′  N , 1 ° 18 ′  W Coordinates: 49 ° 31 ′  N , 1 ° 18 ′  W
height 0-67 m
surface 4.60 km 2
Residents 273 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 59 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 50310
INSEE code 50421

Mairie Quinéville

Quinéville is a French municipality with 273 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Manche in the region of Normandy . The municipality belongs to the Arrondissement of Cherbourg and to the municipal association Agglomération du Cotentin . The inhabitants call themselves Quinévillais .

geography

Quinéville is located about 35 kilometers southeast of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin on the east coast of the Cotentin peninsula in the Marais du Cotentin et du Bessin Regional Nature Park . The English Channel limits the municipality to the east. Quinéville is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Lestre in the north, Fontenay-sur-Mer in the south and Ozeville in the west. The village of Quinéville is located on a hill, about 30 m above the coastline about 1000 m away. In the north the coastal river Sinope borders the community. At its confluence with the English Channel, a tide-dependent small harbor was created by dredging. The district of Le Havre is named after this port and stretches south to Le Bourg Neuf for around 1,500 m along the coast. Le Havre has the typical infrastructure for tourists: hotels, holiday homes, camping sites, restaurants and cafes. Other districts in the hinterland of the coast are Beaurepaire, Les Landes, Launay and Les Roques .

history

The first mention of the place as a Chinevilla in 1159 is considered certain. Later spellings of the place name were Kinevilla (1210), Quinevilla (1224) and Kinelvilla (1280). The front part of the name probably comes from the Gaelic Cináed , to which the modern name Kenneth goes back.

During the naval battles of Barfleur and La Hougue in 1692, the deposed English King Jacob II, allied with the French King Louis XIV, took quarters in Quinéville Castle.

On June 6, 1944, American troops land in Utah Beach , a few kilometers south of Quinéville. The aim of the Allies was to take Quinéville on the same day, called D-Day , in order to advance quickly to Cherbourg and to conquer the port, which is important for the Allied supply. Due to the strong German resistance, this only succeeded on June 17, 1944.

From 1886 to 1950 Quinéville had a common train station on the railway line from Valognes to Barfleur with the northern neighboring municipality of Lestre .

Former Lestre-Quinéville train station around 1900

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2016
Residents 323 314 249 192 306 292 302 279
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Notre-Dame church

  • Church portal

  • Quinéville Castle

  • Chimney in the castle park

  • World War Museum

Economy and Infrastructure

Ten farms are based in Quinéville (cattle breeding, dairy farming, grain cultivation).

Ten kilometers west of Quinéville there is a connection to the motorway-like RN 13 from Cherbourg-en-Cotentin to Bayeux . The nearest train station is 13 kilometers away in the town of Valognes on the Mantes-la-Jolie-Cherbourg railway .

supporting documents

  1. ^ François de Beaurepaire: Les Noms des communes et anciennes paroisses de la Manche, Paris, A. et J. Picard, 1986 ( ISBN 2-7084-0299-4 , OCLC 15314425)
  2. ↑ Lucien Musset : aperçus sur la colonization scandinave dans le nord du Cotentin, Annuaire des cinq départements de la Normandie, IIIe congrès, 1953
  3. ↑ Claude Quetel: Dictionnaire du Débarquement, 2001
  4. ↑ Michel Harouy: Le Val de Saire au temps du Tue-Vâques, Le Coudray-Macouard, Cheminements, 2004 ( ISBN 2-84478-266-3 )
  5. ↑ Quinéville on cassini.ehess.fr (French)
  6. ↑ Quinéville on INSEE
  7. ^ Entry in the Base Mérimée of the Ministry of Culture. Retrieved August 4, 2018 (French).
  8. ^ Entry in the Base Mérimée of the Ministry of Culture. Retrieved August 4, 2018 (French).
  9. ↑ Farms on annuaire-mairie.fr (French)

Web links

Commons : Quinéville  - Collection of Images