Saint-Germain-des-Vaux
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| local community | La Hague | |
| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Some | |
| Arrondissement | Cherbourg | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 43 ′ N , 1 ° 55 ′ W | |
| Post Code | 50440 | |
| Former INSEE code | 50477 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2017 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
 Port-Racine (Port Racine) |
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Saint-Germain-des-Vaux is a village and a former French commune with 316 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Manche department in the Normandy region . It belonged to the Arrondissement of Cherbourg and the Canton of La Hague . The inhabitants call themselves Saint-Germaniais .
With effect from January 1, 2017, the previous municipality of Saint-Germain-des-Vaux was merged with the other 18 municipalities of the former Communauté de communes de la Hague to form a Commune nouvelle called La Hague and has the status in the new municipality a commune déléguée . The administrative headquarters are in Beaumont-Hague.
geography
Saint-Germain-des-Vaux is almost at the end of the Cotentin peninsula , in the area of La Hague . Adjacent parishes were Omonville-la-Petite in the east, Jobourg in the south and Auderville in the west.
Saint-Germain-des-Vaux was the northernmost municipality in Lower Normandy. The parish consisted of the hamlets of Le Bourg and Hameau Danneville.
As part of the European Natura2000 initiative, Saint-Germain-des-Vaux is affected by the special protection zone heaths and dunes of La Hague and by the protection zone of European importance coast and heaths of La Hague .
Toponymy
des-Vaux means from the family of les Vaux.
history
On January 7, 1700, the Ignès meteor fell into the sea near Alderney . It made a lot of noise, the houses in Auderville and Saint-Germain-des-Vaux were shaken. The phenomenon was also noticed in Cherbourg and Valognes .
Attractions
- Roche Gélétan: excavations that unearthed one of the oldest inhabited sites, dating back to the early Paleolithic, on the Cotentin peninsula (see Fermanville ).
- Port Racine, named after the privateer François-Médard Racine (1774–1817).
- The menhir de la Bergerie des Étennevaux is in Saint-Germain-des-Vaux
- Jacques Prévert's garden, laid out in the Moulins Valley 10 years after J. Prévert died in neighboring Omonville-la-Petite . Yves Montand donated a pine, Mouloudji a eucalyptus and Serge Reggiani a pear tree poirier pleureur
- Saint-Germain church from the 13th and 17th centuries, dedicated to Saint Germain à la Rouelle. It was added to the list of historical monuments on December 18, 1981. The baptismal font has been included in the list of historical items (as an item) since May 1959.
Personalities
- François-Médard Racine (1774–1817), privateer after whom port Racine was named.
- Jean-Baptiste Auguste Digard de Lousta was born on December 19, 1803 in Saint-Germain-des-Vaux.
Regional writer and librarian from Cherbourg .
bibliography
Hugues Plaideux, "Archives religieuses inédites de la Hague (4): À propos de l'église de Saint-Germain-des-Vaux", dans Annales de Biville, n ° 27, June 1989, p.19-22. Hugues Plaideux, "Le prieuré de Saint-Germain-des-Vaux", dans Annales de Biville, n ° 30, avril 1990, pp. 20-32, et n ° 31, juil. 1990, p. 24-40. Hugues Plaideux, "Le Port Racine à Saint-Germain-des-Vaux", dans Annuaire des cinq départements de la Normandie, Congrès de Cherbourg et de la Hague, 2008, pp.65-68.
Individual evidence
- ^ Saint-Germain-des-Vaux website Wikimanche (French).
- ^ Decree of the Prefecture of Arr. 2016-37 on the formation of the Commune nouvelle La Hague of September 27, 2016 .
- ↑ René Lepelley. Dictionnaire étymologique des communes de Normandie . Presses universitaires de Caen . Page 224. ISBN 2-905461-80-2
- ↑ Annuaire du Département de la Manche, Volume 11, page 384 et 385
- ^ Saint-Germain-à-la-Rouelle website Wikimanche (French).
- ↑ Entry no. PA00110569 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)