Vasteville
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| local community | La Hague | |
| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Some | |
| Arrondissement | Cherbourg | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 36 ′ N , 1 ° 46 ′ W | |
| Post Code | 50440 | |
| Former INSEE code | 50620 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2017 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
| Website | http://www.vasteville.fr | |
Vasteville (pronunciation: Vâteville without s) is a village and a former French commune with 1,111 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 .
With effect from January 1, 2017, the previous municipality of Vasteville 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 of a Commune déléguée in the new municipality . The administrative headquarters are in Beaumont-Hague.
geography
Vasteville is on the Cotentin peninsula in the La Hague countryside . Dunes overgrown with pine trees cover around 600 hectares. They are part of the dune massif that extends between Siouville-Hague and Vauville .
Adjacent communities were:
Toponymy
See Le Vast , also on the Cotentin Peninsula.
Attractions
- Notre-Dame church, from the 13th century. It contains a protruding entrance gate, a Gothic tower, and pillars with capitals. It has a nave with five fields and the vault was renovated in 1922. The church windows are younger because they were installed after the second war. The church also has two listed statues:
- a virgin over the entrance gate,
- and a praying saint.
Five bas-reliefs represent the Lord's Supper and the four evangelists. A pointed arch can be seen outside. It is the remains of a small gate.
- Toutfresville manor house, dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, which has been added to the List of Historic Monuments. It has a chapel and a dovecote that served as a defense tower.
- Chapel of Sainte-Madelaine (which is no longer in use today). It's next to the Toutfresville Manor. It was built in 1570. According to tradition, a young woman named Madelaine was found dead after a shipwreck. A chapel was built where she was buried.
Personalities
- Jean Fleury ( 1816 - 1894 ), born in Vasteville, regionalist writer, also a lecturer at the University of Saint Petersburg .