Équeurdreville-Hainneville

Équeurdreville-Hainneville is a common department of the Manche, in the area Basse-Normandie, in France. Gentilés the Équeurdrevillais and Hainnevillais perdurent in spite of the fusion of the two communes, even if this last tends to disappear little by little, to the profit of Équeurdrevillais .

Geography

Équeurdeville-Hainneville is located at the north of the Cotentin, in the department of the Manche. It is joint of Cherbourg-Octeville, which it borders on its west coast. It is the main door of the La Hague.

History

January 1st, 1965, Équeurdreville and Hainneville amalgamate, becoming a commune of 12.000 inhabitants approximately.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • War memorial the : Équeurdreville-Hainneville is one of the rare cities to accommodate a pacifist war memorial. Indeed, instead of “Died for the fatherland”, it is written there “That cursed is the war”. The monument was carved by Emilie Rolez at the request of the mayor of then, Hippolyte Mars.
  • the site of Brécourt , property of the National marine.
In the beginning park with fuel of a capacity of 80.000 m ³, built as from 1932 and brought into service in 1938, he was sabotaged at the time of the catch of Cherbourg in 1940, to become a launching base of V2 Atlantic Wall, finally the greatest site of assembly and launching of V1 in Europe - if work had been undertaken in the long term. The site is classified with the Historic buildings since 1995. Churchill, visiting the complex with the Release, would have, of stupor vis-a-vis the width of the installations, released an apple which he ate, exclaiming: " Oh, my God! ". Since, an apple tree pushed at this place.

Celebrities

Sports

  • Tennis shoe: UST Équeurdreville
  • Football: UST Équeurdreville, ACE Hainneville
  • Cycling: UST Équeurdreville
  • Failures: UST Equeurdreville.

association war veterans:

  • UNC National union of the Combatants

References and sources

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