Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville
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| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Seine-Maritime | |
| Arrondissement | Rouen | |
| Canton | Barentine | |
| Community association | Métropole Rouen Normandy | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 27 ' N , 0 ° 58' E | |
| height | 2-134 m | |
| surface | 12.91 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,521 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 118 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 76840 | |
| INSEE code | 76614 | |
| Website | S.-M.-de-Boscherville | |
 Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville - the townscape |
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Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville is a French city and a municipality with 1,521 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Seine-Maritime in the region Normandy . Their restored abbey church is now considered a textbook example of Norman Romanesque .
location
The place Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville lies in a loop of the Seine just under 13 km (driving distance) west of Rouen at an altitude of 16 m . The place is part of the Boucles de la Seine Normande Regional Nature Park . The climate is temperate and winter frosts are rare; Rain (approx. 655 mm / year) falls throughout the year.
Surname
In medieval sources, the place was around 1050-1066 as Balchervilla as Baucheri villa or as Bauquervilla and by the 15th century as Bauquierville known. Bauquier could be a given name ( Baldchar ) of Germanic origin; the place name was Frenchized as Boscher , because it was believed that this first element was the corresponding Norman form ( boquier ) of the Old French word ( boscher ) for lumberjack. -ville is an appellative that used to mean "farm".
Population development
| year | 1800 | 1851 | 1901 | 1954 | 2015 |
| Residents | 1,160 | 964 | 615 | 917 | 1,506 |
The slight increase in population since the 1950s is mainly due to the proximity to the city of Rouen.
economy
Traditionally, livestock farming (milk, cheese, meat) played the most important role in the life of the self-sufficient peasant population; The cultivation of grain and fruit (apples, plums, cherries) were also important. Surplus could be marketed in Rouen. Little craft and service companies were added. Since the 1970s tourism has played an increasingly important role in the municipality's economic life.
history
Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville is a Gallic foundation from the end of the 1st century AD. Archaeologists have excavated the foundations of a Gallo-Roman temple in the cloister of the abbey . In the 7th century, a burial chapel dedicated to Saint George was built in place of the pagan temple . Raoul de Tancarville or Fitz-Gerald , chamberlain of William the Conqueror , settled Augustinian canons who were replaced by Benedictine monks after 1114 . In 1225 the new abbey church Abbaye Saint-Georges de Boscherville was consecrated. During excavation work, an abbot's cross made of brass with engravings was found, which dates from the 13th century. During the French Revolution , the monastery was closed and most of the convent buildings were demolished. The abbey church, which was converted into the local parish church, was preserved. As a result, the older parish church, consecrated to the patron saint Martin of Tours , had become superfluous; it served as a saltpetre store for a while before it was demolished.
On June 16, 1997, there was significant flooding as a result of a Seine flood.
Culture and sights
- The three-nave Church of Saint-Georges is a well preserved example of Norman Romanesque - it has two petite west towers, a richly articulated and ornamented stepped portal with lateral blind arches ( Arch scheme ), a three-storey wall elevation with walkway and abschließendem ribbed vault in the nave and transept , and a towering lantern tower above the crossing ; only the apse is two-story and is illuminated by five arched windows. The sculptural decoration includes numerous vegetable and figurative capitals ; the upper transepts are decorated with figural relief panels. The church has been recognized as a monument historique since 1840 ; the addition of the annex buildings followed a few decades later.
- The restored chapter house from the 12th / 13th centuries Century surprised with an extraordinarily richly designed three-part portal zone with some column figures and a remarkable rib vault in the 6 m wide interior.
- The adjacent park with a vegetable garden is a 17th century addition and was reconstructed in the last years of the 20th century.
View into the transept
Abbot relief in the transept
- Surroundings
- In the hamlet of Genetey there is a Manoir of the Knights Templar from the 13th century, which was changed in the 16th century; it has been recognized as a monument historique since 1974 . The privately owned facility cannot be viewed. The Saint-Gorgon chapel dates from the 16th century.
- A half-timbered house in the hamlet of Brécy has also been recognized as a monument historique since 1968 .
Personalities
- Jean-Pierre Aumer (1774 / 1776–1833), dancer and choreographer, died in the community
- Louis Fabulet (1862–1938), translator of Rudyard Kipling's novels , died in the community
- Jean Lecanuet (1920–1993), French politician, was buried in the abbey's chapter house
- David Hallyday (* 1966) married his fiancée Estelle Lefébure here on September 15, 1989
Twin town
- There is a town partnership with Hurstpierpoint in Mid Sussex / England.
literature
- Joseph Bunel et Albert Tougard: Géographie du département de la Seine Inférieure, Arrondissement de Rouen . Rouen , 1879.
- Georges Dubosc: Les Environs de Rouen . E. Augé, Rouen , 1890.
- Gilbert Fromager: Le Canton de Duclair à l'aube du XXe siècle . Duclair , 1986, ISBN 2-9501653-0-3 .
- Gilbert Fromager: Le Canton de Duclair 1925–1950 . Duclair , 1993, ISBN 2-9501653-1-1 .
- Le Patrimoine des communes de la Seine-Maritime . tome 1, éditions Flohic, 1997, ISBN 2-84234-017-5 .
- Daniel Delattre: La Seine-Maritime, les 745 communes . Grandvilliers , 1999.
- André Renaudin: Louis Fabulet traducteur de Kipling, un précurseur de l'écologie en forêt de Roumare! . Center régional de documentation pédagogique de Rouen, Rouen , 1980.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville - Climate tables
- ^ Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville - Economy
- ↑ Saint-Martin de Boscherville - Abbey church in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Saint-Martin de Boscherville - Manoir / Ferme des Templiers in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Saint-Martin de Boscherville - Half-timbered house in Brécy in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)