Saint Clement (Jersey)
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 10 ′ 13 " N , 2 ° 4 ′ 20" W | ||
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| Country | jersey | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | JE | ||
| surface | 4.2 km² | ||
| Residents | 9221 (2011) | ||
| density | 2,195.5 Ew. / km² | ||
| Website | www.parish.gov.je/st_clement/ (English) | ||
 The defense tower of Le Hocq
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Saint Clement ( Jèrriais : St Cliément) is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey . The municipality is located in the southeast of the island. It covers 2440 vergées (4 km², 4% of the land area of Jersey) and is the smallest of the Jersey municipalities in terms of area. In turn, this means that their population density is second only to St. Helier .
Neighboring communities are Saint Savior in the west and northwest, in the north and northeast it borders on Grouville . In the south, the municipality has a border on the Bay of St. Aubin (English: St. Aubin's Bay), which extends from Le Dicq to the port of La Rocque. Due to the border with St. Helier, the community in the west is heavily urbanized and structurally has the characteristics of a suburb .
history
Much of the municipal area is below the tidal line and was often flooded before the Le Dicq dam was built. Large floods of 1688, 1796 and 1812 tore z. B. removed the coastal road and led to the fact that it had to be built further inland. For this reason, parts of the forests that used to be there are still conserved below sea level in the mudflat area off St. Clement in Greve d'Azette.
In 1172 there were reports of a chapel and a parish already existed there. In the 16th and 17th centuries it was believed that the church was a center of witchcraft and witches to their Sabbath on Fridays on the Rocque Mountain (now known as Witches Rock , German Hexenberg ) träfen.
After the Edict of Nantes was repealed by the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685, as the church register shows, numerous French Protestants settled in Saint Clement. In the 18th century, starting from the west, Saint Clement increasingly urbanized due to the general population growth, especially starting from St. Helier.
Attractions
The entire mudflat area with its rocky fissures in front of Saint Clement is part of a Ramsar area that was placed under the protection of the Ramsar Convention of 1971 for the protection of wetlands.
The Le Hocq Tower was built as a coastal defense tower in 1778 when France allied with the American colonies in the American War of Independence against Great Britain. The Seymour Tower , also built in 1792 for coastal defense, is about three kilometers off the coastline and is on one of the largest tidal reefs in the world. This tower can be rented as an overnight place under special conditions.
The dolmens of Mont Ubé are believed to have originated from the pre-Celtic Iberian people around 3000 BC. Were created. The remains of a cemetery on La Motte (Green Island) are believed to come from later years of settlement. Neolithic Cairns were also discovered during his investigations.
Samarès Manor ( Jèrriais : Mangni d'Sanmathès ), a mansion in the Vingtaine de Samarès with original medieval parts, is the traditional residence of the Seigneur de Samarès . The garden of Samarès Manor is designed as a botanical garden and is open to the public. The name Samarès stands for an old French word thatmeans salt marsh or marshland and thus the type of soil that is (or was) predominantly located here in the low-lying areas.
Population development
Historical populations:
- 1991: 7393
- 1996: 7986
- 2001: 8196
- 2011: 9221
politics
The municipality is divided into three parts ( vingtaines ):
St. Clement forms an electoral district and elects two MPs.
All parishes in Jersey, including Saint Clement, have an honorary police force made up of volunteer members who have certain rights organized in a police-like manner.
The seat of the local government is the Parish Hall in Le Hocq . The building is the newest ward building in Jersey's twelve parishes.
There is a partnership with Cancale in Brittany ( France ).
education
Saint Clement offers with Samarès and St. Clement two state primary schools, both of which are each a creche (nursery) is connected. St. Christopher is another primary school in the parish that is privately owned. There are also the Le Rocquier -Schule a state secondary school (secondary school, secondary school) .
Churches
The parish church of Saint Clement, the Parish Church , an Anglican church, dates back to the 11th century ( Ecclesia Sancti Clemtentis de Petravilla in Gersuis , its Latin name) and was rebuilt in 1880–1882, including the old substance restored. Further changes followed in the 20th century. The parish also includes St. Nicholas Church, which was built in 1927 near the bay of Greve D'Azette as a mission church and was initially independent before it was affiliated with the Parish Church in 1942.
A Catholic church, St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, can be found in Samarès.
After more than 100 years of parish service, the Methodist Church of St. Clement closed for services in 2012, the congregation only had twelve members. It has been converted into a meeting center.
Personalities
After the coup by Napoleon III. In 1851, against which he had rebelled, Victor Hugo was exiled and settled in the then exclusively French-speaking Jersey, namely in Marina Terrace in St. Clement. He wrote a collection of poems Les Châtiments ( punishments ) here in 1853 . The Connétable of St. Clement arranged for Hugo to be expelled because he had expressed criticism of the British royal family in his letters. Hugo left Jersey after three years and settled in Guernsey before returning to France in 1871.
Photo gallery
The St. Clement Council Building is the most modern of any Jersey Council building
The former Methodist Church of Samarès
Houses in the parish of St. Clement
Individual evidence
- ↑ Size and land cover of Jersey , Area of Jersey by Parish (2017), on gov.je . Retrieved September 9, 2017.
- ↑ Jersey Heritage: Seymour Tower - An offshore tower standing within a unique Ramsar Wetland site , accessed September 1, 2017.
- ↑ Census 2011 , accessed August 30, 2017.
- ↑ List of Elementary Schools in Jersey , accessed August 31, 2017.
- ↑ List of Secondary Schools in Jersey , accessed August 31, 2017.
- ↑ History on the website of St. Clement's Church ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 1, 2017.
- ↑ Samarès Methodist Church to close after century of worship , accessed September 1, 2017.
