Bazenville
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| Coordinates: 49°18′13″N 0°35′06″W / 49.3036°N 0.585°WCoordinates: 49°18′13″N 0°35′06″W / 49.3036°N 0.585°W | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Department | Calvados |
| Arrondissement | Bayeux |
| Canton | Courseulles-sur-Mer |
| Intercommunality | Seulles Terre et Mer |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Marcel Dubois[1] |
| Area 1 | 4.07 km2 (1.57 sq mi) |
| Population (Jan. 2018)[2] | 136 |
| • Density | 33/km2 (87/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 14049 /14480 |
| Elevation | 53–67 m (174–220 ft) (avg. 30 m or 98 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Bazenville is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.[3]
Bazenville Airfield was a former World War II Advanced Landing Ground, mostly located outside the commune of Bazenville 1.8 km to the north-east.
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Bazenvillais or Bazenvillaises.[4]
Geography[]
Bazenville is located some 6 km east by north-east of Bayeux and 4 km south by south-east of Arromanches-les-Bains. Access to the commune is by the D87 road from Ryes in the north-west which passes through the commune south of the village and continues south-east to Villiers-le-Sec. The D112 from Sommervieu to Crépon forms the north-western border of the commune. Apart from the village there is the hamlet of Les Noyaux. There is a British Military Cemetery in the west of the commune on the D87. The commune is entirely farmland.[5][6]
Bazenville
Toponymy[]
Bazonille is mentioned as Basonni villa in 875.
Bazenville appears as Bazanville on the 1750 Cassini Map[7] and as Bazan ville on the 1790 version.[8]
History[]
Bazenville was liberated on the same day as the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944. An interim Canadian aerodrome (referred to as Bazenville Airfield, Advanced Landing Ground B-2 Bazenville, or B-2 Crépon) was built commencing the following night near the commune in a large part of the triangle formed by the Bazenville, Crépon, and Villiers-le-Sec villages.[9]
It was on this aerodrome that the French ace Pierre Clostermann flew, on 11 June 1944, for the first time in France after his entry into the war in 1942: "All my life I will remember the people of Bazenville the first French to whom I spoke".[10]
Administration[]
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| From | To | Name | Party | Position |
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| 2001 | 2005 | Pierre Vallerend | Farmer | |
| 2005 | 2026 | Marcel Dubois | Retired |
Demography[]
In 2017 the commune had 137 inhabitants.
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Culture and heritage[]
Civil heritage[]
- A Commemorative plaque remembering the site of the airfield where Pierre Clostermann arrived on 11 June 1944.
The commune has many buildings and sites that are registered as historical monuments:
- A Farmhouse at Rue des Alliés (1759)
[14] - A Tradesman's house at Rue des Cordiers (19th century)[15]
- The Bazenville Farmhouse at Rue de l'Eglise (17th century)[16]
- A House at Rue de l'Eglise (18th century)[17]
- A Notable's House at Rue de l'Eglise (18th century)[18]
- The Chateau of Bazenville at Rue de la Grotte (17th century)[19]
- The Manor of Tournebu at Rue des Noyaux (17th century)[20]
- A Worker's House at Route de Villiers-le-Sec (19th century)[21]
- The Chateau de la Croix at Route de Villiers-le-Sec (1727)[22]
- The British Cemetery of Ryes (20th century).[23] The cemetery contains 979 graves: 630 British, 21 Canadians, one Australian, one Pole, and 326 Germans.
- The War Memorial (1929)[24]
- The Grotto of Lourdes (1947)[25]
- Bazenville Village (Ancient times)[26]
- Houses (17th-19th century)[27]
Religious heritage[]
The commune has several religious buildings and sites that are registered as historical monuments:
- A Presbytery at Rue de l'Eglise (19th century)[28]
- The Parish Church of Saint-Martin at le Bourg (13th century)[29][30] The Church contains a large number of objects which are registered as historical objects.[29][30]
Heritage Picture Gallery[]
The British Military Cemetery in Bazenville
The Chateau of Bazenville
The Grotto of Lourdes
The Church of Saint Martin
The Chateau de la Croix
Notable people linked to the commune[]
- Antoine Halley, born in 1593 at Bazenville died in 1675, poet.
See also[]
- Communes of the Calvados department
References[]
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
- ^ Bazenville on Lion1906
- ^ Inhabitants of Calvados (in French)
- ^ Jump up to: a b Bazenville on Google Maps
- ^ Bazenville on the Géoportail from National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
- ^ Bazanville on the 1750 Cassini Map
- ^ Bazan ville on the 1790 Cassini Map
- ^ Abandoned Airfields in Lower Normandy Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine (in Dutch)
- ^ Claude Quétel (under the direction of), Dictionary of the Landings, éditions Ouest-France, Rennes, 2011, 725 pages, p. 174 "Clostermann (Pierre)", ISBN 978-2-7373-4826-6 (in French)
- ^ List of Mayors of France (in French)
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Bazenville, EHESS. (in French)
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00121792 Farmhouse at Rue des Alliés (in French)
- ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00121788 Tradesman's house at Rue des Cordiers (in French)
- ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00121785 'Bazenville Farmhouse at Rue de l'Eglise
(in French)
- ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00121789 House at Rue de l'Eglise (in French)
- ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00121790 Notable's House at Rue de l'Eglise (in French)
- ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00121783 Chateau of Bazenville (in French)
- ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00121786 Manor of Tournebu (in French)
- ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00121791 Worker's House at Route de Villiers-le-Sec (in French)
- ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00121784 Chateau de la Croix (in French)
- ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00121793 British Cemetery of Ryes (in French)
- ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00121782 War Memorial (in French)
- ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00121781 Grotto of Lourdes (in French)
- ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00121779 Bazenville Village (in French)
- ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00121778 Houses (in French)
- ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00121787 Presbytery at Rue de l'Eglise (in French)
- ^ Jump up to: a b Base Mérimée: IA00121780 Church of Saint-Martin, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
- ^ Jump up to: a b Base Mérimée: PA00111069 Church of Saint-Martin, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
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