Bricquebec

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Country France Department Manche Intercommunality Cœur du Cotentin Area 32.66 km² Arrondissement Cherbourg-Octeville		Region Normandy Canton Bricquebec Population (2009) 4,252 Local time Friday 10:45 AM

Weather 10°C, Wind SE at 21 km/h, 90% Humidity

Bricquebec is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Bricquebec-en-Cotentin.

Map of 50260 Bricquebec, France

History

As revealed by the etymology of its name, the origin of Bricquebec (from the Scandinavian bekkr, a course of water; in turn from brekka, slope) is connected to the Viking colonisation of the Cotentin Peninsula at the beginning of the 10th century. Tradition attributes the foundation of the château to the Norman, Anslech. The dukes of Normandy made Bricquebec one of their strongholds.

International relations

Bricquebec is twinned with:

New Alresford, United Kingdom

Lachendorf, Germany

Sremski Karlovci, Serbia

Population

Inhabitants are referred to as Bricquebétais.

Sights

Château (XII^e), with polygonal ramparts, towers and turret (historical monument class).

Château des Galleries (XVI^e/XVII^e)

Abbaye Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (Cistercian) (XIX^e)

Château Saint-Blaise (XVII^e/XIX^e)

Events

Market every Monday morning

La Sainte Anne traditional fair on the last weekend in July

Personalities

Jean Le Marois (1776–1836), a general under Napoléon, député of la Manche.

Armand Le Véel (1821–1905), statue sculptor

Aristide Frémine (1837–1897), writer

Roger Lemerre, soccer player, born in 1941, selected for national team of France, 1998–2002

William Bertram Baron of Briquebec, 1012, father of Hugue (named de Roussel) who was appointed Marshal of England by King William I (Duke of Normandy)

References

Bricquebec Wikipedia

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