Redeemed, the factory specialised under the name of Thomson-CSF audiovisual in surveillance and medical cameras, then in the production of electronic circuits of computer terminals on behalf of Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie and the Arsenal. At the time of the 1999 census the city of Cherbourg had an area of 6.91 square kilometres (2.668 sq mi), while the city of Octeville had an area of 7.35 km (2.838 sq mi). According to estimates from INSEE for 2010,[note 3] Cherbourg-Octeville has 35,493 inhabitants. 1175). The population increased from 800 feus (4,000 inhabitants) in Cherbourg and 95 in Octeville, around 1715, to 7,300 people in Cherbourg by 1778.[45]. For comparison, the port had 1.7 million passengers and 138,000 trucks in 1995. Registered as a historical monument since March 1944, Trinité has a rich religious furniture, including a high altar of 1809, a wood pulpit carved by Pierre Fréret [fr] (1767), a retable of Armand Fréret (1814) and the great organs by Cavaillé-Coll. There is limited parking close to the old town and you may have to pay for it during the day. According to tradition the Basilica of the Holy Trinity was built by Saint Ereptiole in 435 and destroyed by the Normans in 841. [167] Another Church was built on Octeville during those years: The Church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine-Postel opened in 1966 in the quarter of Fourches and decommissioned in 1990. [37], During the conquest of Normandy by Philippe Auguste, Cherbourg fell without a fight in 1204. With the awarding of autoroute status to the RN13 in 2006, the work of upgrading to motorway standard between Cherbourg and Caen is being undertaken over a 10-year period. On 6 June 1954, René Coty inaugurated the first French Museum of Liberation there. The influence of the Gulf Stream and the mildness of the winter allow the naturalisation of many Mediterranean and exotic plants (mimosas, palms, agaves, etc.) It also has a Norman fonds, an old fonds devoted to botany and another to travel. Manufacturing guns in 1870 and 1939, the company became a world leader in churns and mixers for the butter industry. The first cone was immersed on 6 June 1784, and the King attended the launching of the ninth cone [fr] on 22 June. Located in the cultural centre, at the back of the theatre, it presents paintings by French, Flemish, Spanish and Italian artists, as well as sculptures. After three years of loss and liabilities estimated at €1.5 million, it was placed into liquidation in September 2006 and replaced the following month, under the leadership of elders of its teachers by the Institut des métiers du cinéma de Normandie (IMC Normandie) that itself closed its doors in 2011. With Caen, Cherbourg-Octeville is the main cultural centre of Lower Normandy. After the completion of the bypass east of the agglomeration, a western bypass project is under study, and a 'zone' corresponding to the future final route has been selected. The fort de l’Île Pelée [fort of Pelée Island], a defensive element to the east of the sea wall, was designed by Ricard and Decaux and built between 1777 and 1784. The Val-de-Saire, annexed in 1811, beyond the Divette and swing-bridge. Built by René Levavasseur [fr] from 1928 and inaugurated in 1933 by President Lebrun, it could accommodate two ships simultaneously. See the Battle of Cherbourg (1864). Mieści się tutaj baza wojskowa. He charged Joseph Cachin with the resumption of the work of the sea wall, the digging of military outer harbour, and the construction of the new arsenal. In 1798, it had 1,332 men, or a tenth of the population, divided mainly between the barracks of the Abbey, current historical Service of the Navy, which housed 542 men of the 4th brigade and the Maurice Quarter, in the Hôtel Epron de la Horie, home to 227 men. Later, the UIE began business in Cherbourg in 1973, for the construction of oil platforms, but closed in 1985.[50]. more, Cherbourg-Octeville Tourism: Best of Cherbourg-Octeville, Create a Trip to save and organize all of your travel ideas, and see them on a map. A 3-star hotel and the relocation of the casino is also planned. On 28 June 2013, this became the professional maritime and aquaculture lycée. Trade employs nearly 1,400 people in the city centre,[89] but the decline in cross-Channel traffic has caused a big shortfall, exacerbated by the fragile local economy. The postal codes from prior to the merger of 2000 have been preserved: 50130 for addresses of the former territory of Octeville, 50100 for Cherbourg. Cherbourg can be reached from Paris St Lazare on a direct train, otherwise there are services to Brittany and to (sometimes) the southwest of France. The Polyclinic of the Cotentin, at the border between Octeville and, Cherbourg (or to be precise its analog in the, Photographs of Tsar Nicholas II and family, This page was last edited on 15 September 2020, at 18:33. Economic partners now rely on the "mastery of atmosphere", i.e. The factory in La Glacerie was destroyed by Allied bombardments in 1944 during the Normandy invasion. On the eve of the 1980s, the Cherbourg agglomeration was hit by several violent social conflicts, particularly due to the closure of the Babcock factories.[51]. The commune takes its name from Cherbourg, the main town of the commune, and the Cotentin Peninsula.Cherbourg is an important commercial, ferry and military port on the English Channel Sightseeing: Located at the tip of the Cotentin Peninsula, the busy town of Cherbourg has been an important naval base since Napoleonic times, and is a popular gateway to the magnificent region of Normandy. They developed Cherbourg as a port. | At the tip of the Cotentin Peninsula, the port city of Cherbourg plays host to French warships, transoceanic cargo ships, cruise liners, yachts and passenger ferries from Britain and Ireland. But the technique did not withstand storms, and it was abandoned in 1788 in favour of scuttling of old warships and a rockfill to lost stones that had been touted by La Bretonnière. Public employment represents an important part with, in addition to the hospital and schools, municipal and community staff. ), but also chemical products of soda extracted from kelp, granite from nearby quarries, and important wood and iron from Nord, tar, hemp, and food from the colonies. The name of Octeville appears meanwhile, in 1063, in a Charter of William the Conqueror about allocations made to the Collegiate Church of Cherbourg. Built 4 km (2.5 mi) from the coast, the offshore seawall is 3.64 km (2.26 mi) long, with an average width of 100 m (330 ft) at its base and 12 m (39 ft) at its peak, and a height of 27 m (89 ft). As a result of the justice reform presented in 2007 by Rachida Dati, the jurisdiction of the Court of Valognes will be integrated to that of Cherbourg. W Cherbourg-Octeville dominuje przemysł stoczniowy, metalowy, maszynowy i elektrotechniczny. In the commercial wet dock is the Jacques-Louise, the last wooden trawler built in the shipyards of Cherbourg Bellot in 1959, the former Cherbourg Blue Riband, decommissioned in 1991, registered in 1996, then classified as a historic monument in 1999. Cherbourg was a departure city in 1994. A farm raising salmon in the harbour, abattoirs handling farmed livestock of Nord-Cotentin, and several processing companies exist. Completed in 1816, it consists of an obelisk of 25 ft (7.6 m) in pink granite of Flamanville, surmounting a fountain of grey granite, where four bronze lions' heads spew water into a basin dug in the same block. In 1786, a part of Equeurdreville joined Cherbourg, during the construction of the port, and then in 1802, a portion of Octeville. A remand prison is located in the city centre, behind the buildings of the court. The Biennial of the 9th Art exhibits the works of comic cartoonists (Enki Bilal in 2002, François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters in 2004, André Juillard in 2006, and Loustal in 2008). ), connected between them and the Saint-Martin Church by a network of paths, Octeville became chef-lieu of the canton in 1801 (Decree of 23 Vendémiaire, year X) and also its population, to increase by the influx of workers who came to build the port of Cherbourg and work at the Arsenal. After the closure of Ultrasound in Équeurdreville-Hainneville, a unique room of contemporary music of Nord-Cotentin, several associations have come together within the network "La Voix des oreilles" ["The voice of the ears"] and of the place Épicentre, in the former yacht club on Quai Lawton-Collins,[141] where the festival La Terra Trema takes place. The amalgamated city today has an area of 14.26 km2 (5.506 sq mi). With one daily round-trip, it operated experimentally for three years and gave the people of Cherbourg direct access by rail to France's primary airport. Cherbourg-Octeville – miejscowość (i gmina w latach 2000–2015) w północnej Francji, w regionie Normandia, w departamencie Manche. The Thomas Hélye private high school, the Sainte-Chantal private lycée and the La Bucaille technological lycée (1,005 students, courses) general and technical. It also benefits from the IGP of the cider of Normandy, Normandy pork and Normandy poultry [fr]. Cherbourg-en-Cotentin is located at the northern tip of the Cotentin Peninsula, in the department of Manche, of which it is a subprefecture. In the 18th century, the economic resources came mainly through maritime trade, the preparation of cured meats and the harbour and breakwater works, plus a moribund textile industry. Cherbourg became the place of arrival for equipment and the British and American troops, and for departure on leave and injuries. 1932), in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. For a decade, the electronic workshop expanded, adding a production line for mobile television relays, and a workshop for mechanical surface treatment. The docks where the Titanic made one of its last stops before sinking. Located at the end of the Armorican Massif, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin retains traces of the geologic formation, deformed granites and metamorphic schists of the Precambrian of Hercynian orogeny by the folding of the arkoses of the Cambrian and Armorican sandstone and shale of the Ordovician. [6] On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin. Cinema then gave Cherbourg another lasting reputation, through the images of Jacques Demy (1931–1990) and music by Michel Legrand (b. The correctional court closed after the Act of 17 February 1800 and Cherbourg was made a town and township of the Arrondissement of Valognes [fr]. Originally hosted by CMN to build aluminium hulls designed by James Ébénistes (Saint-Laurent-de-Cuves), Allures Yachting has specialised in cruising sailboats. the control of contamination from industrial processes, through the Cherbourg-Normandy technopole [fr] created in 2001. The largest city in the Department of Manche, it is the result of the merger of the communes of Cherbourg and Octeville. After the basilica you can head away from the port to explore the pedestrianised historic centre of Cherbourg which includes the market halls and some imposing stone buildings. The food industry, essential in Lower Normandy, is not absent from the employment pool. The expansion of the city from the 18th century contributed to the diversity of materials. [30], In 497, the village was sold with all of Armorica to Clovis. Octeville-Bourg, from both sides of the Salengro and Barbusse streets. [45] Opened in 1793 at the location of the current Lawton-Collins Wharf, the arsenal was moved in 1803 on a decision by Napoleon, within the project of the military port. The Cherbourg – Maupertus Airport, located in Maupertus-sur-Mer, serves the city. which are present in the public and private gardens of the city, despite average insolation. In 1655, Louis Lucas de Néhou built a glass factory which produced windows and mirrors for such buildings as the Galerie des Glaces and Château de Versailles. The film was shot in the summer of 1963, and which still contributes to the international renown of the city. Today the fort is home to the Liberation Museum, which contains many memories of the World War II relating to the people of Cherbourg, with photographs and documents of the period, also accompanied by audiovisual material, which tell the occupation of the fort by the Germans and the Allied struggles for the liberation. The operation of the military port is borne by the directions of the Commissioner of the Navy, maritime works and information systems of the Navy, as well as the branch of the support service of the fleet and the military workshop of the Cherbourg fleet.[170]. NC'HOP left the competition in 2010. Grocery chains, equipment and home appliances have left the city centre for out-of-town shopping centres. Cherbourg-en-Cotentin is located at the northern tip of the Cotentin Peninsula, in the department of Manche, of which it is a subprefecture. In 1913, Cherbourg received 500 ships and 70,000 passengers.[48]. 50.5% were houses and 48.8% were apartments. The local dialect is known as Cotentinais. Cherbourg was the first site outside the United States to be designated as an American Civil War Heritage Site by the Civil War Preservation Trust, because a sea battle was fought nearby in 1864 by Union and Confederate warships. Thus, Charles François Dumouriez (1739–1823), Governor of Cherbourg who was responsible for the first work, at the dawn of the French Revolution, Joseph Cachin (1757–1825), engineer assigned by Napoleon to the general direction of the maritime work of Cherbourg in 1804. Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816–1872), Director of the Paris Observatory, drowned while visiting the harbour. After the creation of the Route des Pieux (current Rue Salengro and Rue Carnot), the town was formed around an homogenised street-village then urbanising at the beginning of the 20th century.[33]. The municipal council is composed of 39 members including the mayor and eleven assistants. [116], The main initial budget for 2007 amounted to €73,994,364, divided between the operating section (€54,126,712) and investment section (€19,867,652). Among the curiosities it includes the so-called “Ocean Pole”, with several very deep aquariums (more than 10 metres), and the “Submarine Pole”, where you can admire the “Redoutable”, a huge submarine very popular with visitors due to its war time associations. Cherbourg is a town in Lower Normandy, France.. Get in [] Car []. From 1898, the Arsenal specialised in the construction of submarines [fr]. Cherbourg had 43,000 inhabitants at the beginning of the 20th century. Recreational and leisure facilities are located here (pool, skating rink, bowling, services for boaters, etc.). Around this emblematic monument of the city, registered in August 2006 and classified as an historic monument on 31 January 2008, extends the Plage verte, the old artificial beach until the postwar period, which runs along the marina. In the approach to Cherbourg, this road has undergone development, in recent years, with amenities (roundabouts, traffic lights, urban development) by virtue of the peri-urbanisation of the communes in its path. [162], The monument to the dead of the Surcouf, inaugurated at the end of the marina pier on 23 September 1951 by General de Gaulle, commemorates the memory of 130 sailors from the Free French Naval Forces submarine, built at Cherbourg and which sank on 18 February 1942 in the Pacific.[163]. After many hesitations, it was decided in 1779 to build a 4 km (2.5 mi)-long sea wall between île Pelée and the tip of Querqueville, using a method developed by Louis-Alexandre de Cessart, a pier of 90 wooden cones of 20 m (66 ft) by 20, filled with masonried rubble, connected by iron chains. [56], The former Gare Maritime de Cherbourg is the largest French Art Deco monument. M. Canel had explained before him that the bezants and stars respectively illustrated trade and sea port. This now forms part of the Cité de la mer. JMV Industries [fr], a subsidiary of CMN with 100 employees, built racing yachts. Under the Empire, the coat of arms was completed by a free area of second-class towns which is to dexter azure to an "N" of or, surmounted by a pointed star of the same, brocading at the ninth of the escutcheon. After restoration by Pierre Bataille of Poclain, they were each placed in 1990 and 1993 on a roundabout, the Minerva of Philippe-Laurent Roland, near the Cité de la Mer, the Themis of Jean-Antoine Houdon at the foot of the Montagne du Roule. The sub-prefect is Jacques Troncy, former sub-prefect of Montbéliard, appointed 17 March 2014.[92]. Weakened since the 1990s, the commercial port sees the transit of 110,000 trucks to or from Ireland and Great Britain. Położona jest na północnym wybrzeżu półwyspu Cotentin, nad kanałem La Manche. Over the centuries the abbey became badly damaged. Management of the public service is delegated to Keolis, the CTC took the name of Zephir Bus in 1991.[22]. Outside and to the south of the city walls, the suburb along the Divette was frequented by sailors. Le Boué-jaun a Cherbourg-based magazine, published his texts in Norman, and one of three popular Norman universities is based here. [132], Three other clubs have teams in district divisions [fr]:[133], The Association sportive Amont-Quentin, which had two district teams until June 2013,[134] had to cease its activities. Today, the Intercités Paris-Caen-Cherbourg line is the most profitable in its class with profit over €10 million per year despite numerous incidents and delays.[20]. The former home of Emmanuel Liais, mayor of Cherbourg, astronomer and explorer, houses since 1905 the Museum of Natural History and Ethnography, the oldest museum in Cherbourg (founded in 1832), with curio cabinet, collection of stuffed animals, fossils, minerals and ethnographic objects (Egypt, Asia, Oceania, America and Africa), archaeological treasures and library science. The military port experienced an increase in activity, and the garrison stationed at Cherbourg was reinforced. In the 1990s, a deviation from the road, now European routes E03 and E46, referred traffic through La Glacerie and Tourlaville on a three-way axis from La Glacerie, to the Penesme roundabout at Tourlaville and then a dual carriageway to a roundabout located between Collignon Beach and the Port des Flamands. France 3 Normandie boasts a local editorial office in the city; Cherbourg's edition of La Manche libre [fr] covers the agglomeration, La Hague and the Val de Saire; local television 5050 TV [fr] has installed its headquarters and its main studio in the area. It is installed in the Fort du Roule, centrepiece of the defence of Cherbourg taken by the Americans on 25 June 1944 . During the construction of the Concorde prototypes in the 1960s, some sections built in the United Kingdom passed by ferry through Cherbourg, for transfer to Toulouse. Cherbourg and Octeville experienced two major waves of immigration of Muslim population, the late 1950s and during the 1960s, after the construction of the neighbourhoods of Amont-Quentin, Provinces and Maupas, and then in the 1980s, with the major construction sites of the La Hague reprocessing site and the Flamanville Nuclear Power Plant. Due to its union, it is the most populated city in its department with 37,121 inhabitants[note 1] (over 85,000[8] with its suburbs)[note 2] making it the first city of the department before the Saint-Lô prefecture and the second in the region after Caen. In addition, a flotilla 35 F Dauphin helicopter is based at Cherbourg – Maupertus Airport. Cherbourg originally developed on the left bank of the mouth of the Divette [fr], around the castle. Incorporated in 1970, the Communauté urbaine de Cherbourg [fr] gathered together Cherbourg and Octeville, La Glacerie, Tourlaville, Querqueville and Équeurdreville-Hainneville. Explore Cherbourg holidays and discover the best time and places to visit. It has been classified a historical monument since 1984 with its two side returns and corresponding roofing; also classified are the vestibule, the grand staircase, the hall and foyer, as well as the 13 original decorations. [83], The fishing industry is affected by the crisis affecting the entire industry, and the port has seen its fleet decline. Fort du Roule (Museum of the War and Liberation) is located on the Montagne du Roule. Protestants have a temple of the Reformed Church (since 1835, rebuilt after the war in 1964), and a Pentecostal Evangelical church affiliated with the Assemblies of God. This page was last edited on 28 July 2018, at 12:49. The marina of 1,500 spaces is the first French port of call (11,000 per year). Its 2,440 m (8,010 ft) runway hosts charter flights. The Church of Saint-Martin of Octeville, dating from the 12th century, is the historic parish church of Octeville which depended on the Abbey of Notre-Dame-du-Vœu [fr]. The Ingénieur-Cachin private professional high school (320 students). Despite this redistribution often perceived as advantageous for the right, the outgoing Socialist deputy of the 5th constituency, Bernard Cazeneuve, was re-elected in the first round with 55% of the vote. Frequently, cruise ships which have planned for another destination have taken refuge in the port, for protection from the frequent storms. Cherbourg-Octeville hosts the headquarters of France Bleu Cotentin [fr] public radio, and the departmental daily La Presse de la Manche [fr] (120 employees with his CES press), successor to the Libération de Cherbourg-Éclair [fr], and subsidiary of the Groupe SIPA - Ouest-France [fr] since 1990. [50] Félix Amiot's shipyard Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie, specialised in military armaments, became famous during the Christmas of 1969 in an episode of the Cherbourg Project. During the Seven Years' War, the British briefly occupied the town after the Raid on Cherbourg in 1758. The town also hosts the National Institute of Science and Technology of the Sea [fr] (Intechmer), Tourlaville. [7] Cherbourg-en-Cotentin is a Maritime prefecture and sub-prefecture of la Manche. [24], From the Empire, the coat of arms was accompanied by external ornaments: Mural crown with five rounds of argent, crest crossed fess a caduceus bypassed same on which are suspended two scallops used as mantling, one dexter olive, the other sinister oak, argent knotted and fastened by strips of azure. At the end of furious street fighting and bitter resistance from the Fort du Roule, Generalleutnant Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben, Konteradmiral Walter Hennecke and 37,000 German soldiers surrendered on 26 June to Major General Joseph Lawton Collins, Commanding General (CG) of the U.S. VII Corps. [151] Alexandre Dumas also presented the recipe of the "queue de merlan à la mode de Cherbourg " [tail of whiting in the Cherbourg manner], with butter and oysters. [151] Fleury indicated that at the beginning of the 19th century, the principal food of Nord-Cotentin was barley bread, buckwheat porridge and pork-based products, and on feast days, the galette, a "type of dough composed of buckwheat flour, milk and eggs, and cooked in a thin film on the tile with butter", watered, of course, with cider.[55]. [19] This line continued, at the beginning of the 20th century, up to the resort of Urville-Nacqueville and was complemented by the Tue-Vâques [fr] which served from Cherbourg to Val de Saire between 1911 and 1950. To this date, it is merged to the deanery of La Hague, to become the Deanery of Cherbourg-Hague [fr], therefore adding the parishes covering the Community of communes of La Hague [fr] and of Les Pieux. The parish of Saint-Sauveur of Octeville, which also covers Nouainville has three sites in the commune: Saint-Martin, the historic site, Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul, at Provinces, and the Chapel of Saint-Barthélemy.[139]. The service ceased prematurely, as the minimum threshold of passenger traffic was not met.[21]. Presentations of works by Fra Angelico, Simon Vouet, Camille Claudel, and one of the largest collections of works by Jean-François Millet, as well as paintings by Guillaume Fouace native of Réville or the Navy painters. In 1981, Claude Miller also located the action film Garde à Vue there, though shot in the studio. Bertrand du Guesclin besieged it for six months using many machines of war, but abandoned the siege in December 1378. [157] It has hosted the services of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Cherbourg-Cotentin [fr] since 1991. The docks and Port Chantereyne are regularly brought to life by various events: Stopovers of prestigious liners (Queen Elizabeth 2, Queen Mary 2, etc.
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