Cresserons

Cresserons is a common French, located in the department of the Calvados and the area Basse-Normandie. The inhabitants name Cresseronnaises and Cresseronnais.

Geography

Cresserons is located at ten kilometers of Caen, near to the Côte of Mother-of-pearl and Lion-on-Sea, of which it was a hamlet before.

History

The first document concerning with the hamlet of Cresserons names it Criselon. In XVè century, Cresserons is invaded by English then the plague devastates the village.

A first protesting temple was destroyed during the Wars of religion, new was built in 1866, then a third to replace this one, was become too small, in 1877.

Errors of allied bombardments partly destroy the castle in the night of the June 6th 1944. The commune is released the June 7th 1944 by the British soldiers of the 1st South Lancashire One will need ten years to rebuild the buildings and transportation the routes of the commune.

Today, Cresserons is a residential commune of the aglomeration of Caen, the farmers account for nothing any more but 2% of the population which is composed now especially of often graduate and relatively easy young couples, inhabitants in the suburban zones.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Church Saint-Jacob (XVè century)
protesting Temple (1877) and cemetery (1867), transformed today into versatile room.
Old stud farm of Charles Labbé, reconverts in farm in 1929, a horse test of Vincennes bears the name of Cresserons.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Apple-brandy

External bonds

Cresserons on the site of INSEE
Cresserons on the site of Quid
Localization of Cresserons on a chart of France and communes bordering

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