Verneuil-sur-Avre

Verneuil-sur-Avre
local community	Verneuil d'Avre et d'Iton
region	Normandy
Department	Your
Arrondissement	Evreux
Coordinates	48 ° 44 ' N , 0 ° 56' E Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ' N , 0 ° 56' E
Post Code	27130
Former INSEE code	27679
Incorporation	January 1, 2017
status	Commune déléguée
Website	www.verneuil-sur-avre.fr
	; Maison de la Renaissance

Verneuil-sur-Avre is a town and a former French commune with 6,885 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the south of the department Eure in the region of Normandy . The municipality belonged to the arrondissement of Évreux and the canton of Breteuil .

With effect from January 1, 2017, the former municipalities of Francheville and Verneuil-sur-Avre were merged to form the Commune nouvelle with the name Verneuil d'Avre et d'Iton and have the status of a Commune déléguée in the new municipality . The administrative headquarters are in Verneuil-sur-Avre.

geography

Verneuil-sur-Avre is about 110 kilometers west of Paris in Normandy on the edge of the Paris basin in the Le Perche countryside . The place is located in the south of the Eure department on the border with the Eure-et-Loir and Orne departments .

The Avre and a branch of the Iton , which flows into the Avre here, flow in the south of the city .

history

Verneuil-sur-Avre's history is shaped by the location of the city. It used to be on the border between France and Normandy. The place was founded in 1120 by the English King Henry I to defend his duchy. In 1173 the city was besieged for weeks in the war between Ludwig VII and Heinrich II . In August 1424, a battle of the Hundred Years War took place near Verneuil , during which the English took the city and thus controlled Normandy. Only in 1447 did the French recapture Verneuil in a decisive battle.

During the Second World War (1939-1945) Verneuil-sur-Avre was bombed by the Allied Air Force in the summer of 1944 during Operation Overlord and shelled by American artillery . The churches of La Madeleine and Notre-Dame were damaged. In the last days of the occupation, the Wehrmacht executed six young men from the Forces françaises libres .

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2005	2014
Residents	5551	6012	6499	6698	6446	6619	6655	6680
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Community partnerships

Trebur , Germany

Economy and Infrastructure

South of the village, the N12 runs from Paris to Brest . Verneuil has its own train station , which can be reached in around an hour from Paris with TER regional trains or Intercités express trains.

The former railway line La Loupe - Verneuil-sur-Avre was transformed into a 9-kilometer walking and cycling path (voie verte) in 2009 .

Protected geographical indications (IGP) apply to pork (Porc de Normandie) , poultry (Volailles de Normandie) and cider (Cidre de Normandie and Cidre normand) in the former municipality .

Attractions

The La Madeleine church is the city's landmark. The Gothic church with its 56 meter high tower dates from the 12th century and was expanded in the 15th century. It is classified as a monument historique .
The Tour Grise (dt. 'Gray Tower') is a round tower from the 13th century and was built by Philip II .
Saint-Nicolas Abbey from the 17th century
15th century ruins of the Saint-Jean church , destroyed in an air raid in 1944.
Old town with half-timbered and renaissance houses.

Personalities

Louise Colet (1810–1876), writer
Maurice de Vlaminck (1876–1958), painter, lived in Verneuil for 50 years
Jérôme Carcopino (1881–1970), ancient historian , archaeologist , epigraphist and high-ranking functionary
Nicolas Miguet (* 1961), publisher
Bérangère Sapowicz (born 1983), football player

Web links

Commons : Verneuil-sur-Avre - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ adoption DRCL / B1 / 2016/112 prefecture on the formation of commune d'nouvelle Verneuil Avre et d'Iton.
↑ A.-V. de Walle: Évreux et l'Eure pendant la guerre . Charles Herissey, Évreux 2000, ISBN 2-914417-05-5 , pp. 175 + 177 (first published in 1946, French).
^ Jean-Noël Le Borgne, Véronique Le Borgne, Pascale Eudier, Annie Etienne: Archeologie Aérienne dans l'Eure . Ed .: Association Archéo 27. Page de Garde, Caudebec-les-Elbeuf 2002, ISBN 2-84340-230-1 , p. 81 .
↑ La ville de Verneuil-sur-Avre. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved July 22, 2012 (French).

[1] tion DRCL / B1 / 2016/112 prefecture on the formation of commune d'nouvelle Verneuil Avre et d'Iton.

[2] A.-V. de Walle: Évreux et l'Eure pendant la guerre . Charles Herissey, Évreux 2000, ISBN 2-914417-05-5 , pp. 175 + 177 (first published in 1946, French).

[3] Jean-Noël Le Borgne, Véronique Le Borgne, Pascale Eudier, Annie Etienne: Archeologie Aérienne dans l'Eure . Ed .: Association Archéo 27. Page de Garde, Caudebec-les-Elbeuf 2002, ISBN 2-84340-230-1 , p. 81 .

[annu-4] La ville de Verneuil-sur-Avre. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved July 22, 2012 (French).