Saint-Pierre-Église
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| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Some | |
| Arrondissement | Cherbourg | |
| Canton | Val-de-Saire | |
| Community association | Cotentine | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 40 ′ N , 1 ° 24 ′ W | |
| height | 4-138 m | |
| surface | 8.06 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,803 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 224 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 50330 | |
| INSEE code | 50539 | |
 The church of Saint-Pierre-Église |
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Saint-Pierre-Église is a French commune in the department of Manche in the region of Normandy . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Cherbourg and the Canton of Val-de-Saire . The residents are called the "Saint-Pierrais" (female also: "Saint-Pierraises").
geography
The community is 8.06 square kilometers and lies at 4 to 138 m above sea level about 13 km northwest of Cherbourg on the department road 901. It has 1803 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).
history
During the Second World War (1939–1945) the German occupiers built a radar station in 1940 , which was built using seven thousand cubic meters of concrete and two hundred and fifty tons of steel . The sentry box, the command post and a log cabin that housed a generator have been preserved, but cannot be visited as the site is privately owned. Two kilometers south of it, on Mont Etolan , was a power station .
Attractions
- Parish church “Notre-Dame du Val de Saire”, Romanesque portal (12th / 13th century), nave from the 17th century (barrel vault), tower from the same period with platform, balustrade and four corner turrets, altar from 1824
- Chapelle des Augustines (19th / 20th centuries)
- Modern statue of the Abbé de Saint-Pierre (in the square by the church)
- Grotte d'Hacouville (1876)
- Château, destroyed in the Wars of Religion, rebuilt in the 18th century
- Hôtel Michel de Beauval (17th / 18th century)
- The menhir La Longue Pierre one of the three princesses ("Les trois princesses")
Personalities
- Charles Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre , also: Abbé de Saint-Pierre; Catholic clergyman and philosopher (enlightenment), born here in 1658, † 1743 in Paris
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eddy Florentin: Guide des plages du Débarquement et de la Bataille de Normandie . Perrin, Caen 2003, ISBN 2-262-02024-8 , chap. 7 , p. 238 (French).