Val de Saire

Cows in the meadows of the Val de Saire

Saint-Pierre-Église near Cherbourg

Val de Saire is a landscape in the Norman Cotentin in the extreme northeast of the department of Manche ; There is the Pointe de Barfleur . In the south lies the plain . The name refers to the coastal river Saire , which rises in the municipality of Le Mesnil-au-Val and after about 30 km between Réville et Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue , near the Pointe de Saire and the island of Tatihou , in the English Channel flows. Saint-Vaast, which was not originally included in the Val de Saire, is now the most important port in the region alongside Barfleur . Variscan granites are exposed in Fermanville and Barfleur.

Other important places are Saint-Pierre-Église , Gatteville and Tocqueville . The 242 meter long bridge (Viaduc) of Fermanville was used by the long-abandoned Cherbourg-Barfleur railway line. This railway line got the Norman -speaking nickname tue-vaques ( fz. Tue -vaches) because the trains supposedly killed several cows.

Val de Saire was one of four archdeaconates of the diocese of Coutances , along with the adjacent archdeaconates La Hague ( Cherbourg ) and Valognes , and the archdeaconate Bauptois .

During the personal union between the Kingdom of England and the Duchy of Normandy (1066–1204), Barfleur was the rulers' favorite port for crossing to and from England .

Saint Adelheid, Adela of France († 1079), daughter of King Robert the Pious and wife of Duke Richard III. of Normandy , carried the title of "Countess of Contenance", and thus a county that is not identifiable. David C. Douglas writes in William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy : “... at the beginning of the second quarter of the 11th century, Duke Richard III, the conqueror's uncle, awarded his wife Adela all the pagi of Saire, La Hague and Bauptois in the far north of the Cotentin ”.

See also

• Former Communauté de communes de la Saire
• Former Communauté de communes de Saint-Pierre-Église
• Former Communauté de communes du Val de Saire

Web links

• Photos from the Val de Saire

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Val de Saire website Wikimanche (French).

Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 32.2 "  N , 1 ° 18 ′ 36.4"  W.