Vismes

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Vismes
Coat of arms of Vismes
Vismes (France)
Vismes
region Hauts-de-France
Department Somme
Arrondissement Abbeville
Canton Gamaches
Community association Aumale Blangy-sur-Bresle
Coordinates 50 ° 1 ′  N , 1 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′  N , 1 ° 40 ′  E
height 71-124 m
surface 13.26 km 2
Residents 483 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 36 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 80140
INSEE code 80809

Church of the Nativity of the Virgin

Vismes ( Picard : Vinme ) is a northern commune with 483 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Somme department in the region of Hauts-de-France . The municipality is located in the arrondissement of Abbeville and is part of the canton of Gamaches .

geography

Former railway line to Gamaches

The municipality, which is divided into the districts of Vismes-au-Mont and Vismes-au-Val, is located in the Vimeu in the headwaters of the Vimeuse river, almost entirely to the northwest of the A 28 autoroute ; to the east is the municipality of Martainneville and to the west the municipality of Frettemeule . The place is on the 1993 disused railway line from Longpré-les-Corps-Saints to Gamaches . Vismes includes the districts of Hantecourt in the west and Le Plouy in the east and Wiammeville and Morival in the south.

Toponymy and History

The place name is traced back to the same Celtic word stem as the Wümme river in Lower Saxony . A cemetery from the Latène period testifies to early settlement.

In 1066 a motte (castle) was built by Theobald Fretel de Vismes; she used a natural hill surrounded by a moat. Vismes was raised to a barony in 1320. The castle was destroyed in 1372 by John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster .

Residents

Development of the population
1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2011
412 395 367 326 314 306 326 440

administration

Mayor ( maire ) has been Nicolas Plé since 2001.

Attractions

  • Plouy Castle, built in 1711
  • Moth castrale from Vismes-au-Mont
  • Church of the Nativity from the 15th century, classified as a monument historique in 1920 .
  • medieval walling in Vismes-au-Mont

Personalities

  • Eugène Verlant (1867–1958), engineer and creator of the French railway signaling system, born here.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Xavier Delamarre: Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, Paris, éditions Errance, 2003, pp. 226–227
  2. ↑ culture.gouv.fr
  3. ↑ Église in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Web links

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