Municipality of Vierville-sur-Mer
Municipal Information - Bulletin No. 5 - November 2004 - "http://vierville.free.fr"
Editorial
The large number of visitors still walking on the beach of Vierville in the last days of October confirms that, despite a cool and humid summer, tourist attendance in 2004 was significant.
Last month, the Departmental Directorate of Health Affairs informed us that the bathing waters of Vierville had been classified as A (the best quality) in view of the results of the analyses carried out weekly from June 15 to September 15 (consequence of the start-up of collective sanitation).
The sale of communal land for the expansion of the museum could allow us to finance the development work of the village in 2005/2006.
Requests from families looking for housing or land to build in Vierville are increasingly addressed to us. We are studying the feasibility of a small municipal subdivision.
The work undertaken to preserve our village as a pleasant place to live or attractive resort is therefore bearing fruit.
Yet the laws of the market, the "health and safety" regulations, the opening of the public service to competition, the never-ending extension of supermarkets, the change in consumer habits are all factors that mistreat the services and trade of the rural world.
The Management of La Poste seeks to eliminate small offices; the summer turnover of retail trade will soon no longer be enough to ensure the maintenance of its activity all year round. As the post offices and shops in our villages close, the consumers that we are regret the disappearance of these professions, of this work that still made families live, of the services rendered, of a world that we will not see again.
But before joining his voice to the concert of regrets, everyone will first have to question their personal commitment. Of course, every consumer is free and must remain so; but that he does not recriminate during this or that closure if he had made the choice not to use this service or not to be a customer: wouldn't it be wanting butter and butter money?
Jean-Marie Oxéant
Vierville residents consulted in two public inquiries
1 - The classification of Omaha Beach "Grand Site of National Heritage"
A file has been filed at the town hall of Vierville since the beginning of October 2004. A public information meeting was held on October 28 in Vierville, with the participation of a representative of DIREN (Regional Directorate of the Environment). All those who wish can send their observations to the Sub-Prefect of Bayeux, by registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt, before November 20, 2004.
The spaces to be classified belong to the domains of Vierville, St-Laurent and Colleville (seaside, cliff, plateau up to the limit of the first urbanizations of the village or RD 514) and the maritime public domain (the entire surface of the former artificial port)
The purpose of the classification of a site is to maintain the quality of the premises. It retains the existing POS urban planning rules, various protections currently in force, but it submits to special authorization all work likely to change the appearance of the premises. The decision is made by the Minister in charge of the sites or by the Prefect, after consulting the Site Commission (elected officials, experts, various administrations).
The assessment criteria are not as precise as those of a regulation of the Land Use Plan type. They are not quantified and leave the administration a significant margin to choose between refusal and acceptance:
- Usefulness for the local economy, security, etc.,
- Impossible to install outside the site,
- Precautions to ensure the best integration into the site and minimum negative effects on the surrounding environment,
2 - A plan for spreading pork slurry
These are slurry produced by Mr. Deshayes' pigsty, (2038 animals equivalent), located in Etreham.
Part of the spreading is planned on agricultural areas in our municipality, located between the Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer and Formigny roads.
The file is in City Hall to receive public notices, from October 27 to November 29, 2004.
A little history of Vierville: The old residences of Vierville - When were they built and who lived there?
Among the memories of past centuries that remain in our municipality, in addition to the church and the port, we can note several castles, mansions or old farms. All originate from seigneurial fiefdoms, but it is impossible today to make a complete history. The history of Vierville's past is lost in old chronicles from which we can nevertheless draw some milestones.
In the Middle Ages, the lords of Vierville had a fortified castle at the crossroads towards the sea. The Hundred Years' War temporarily dispossessed them for the benefit of lords more docile to the King of England, but in 1450, after the battle of Formigny, the castle of Vierville was then probably destroyed by the fighting and dismantling ordered during the war. Only medieval remains remain today: the very elegant turret (destroyed in 1944) whose base can be seen near the current castle, the dovecote and some elements of an East perimeter wall, with a low tower.
Before 1939, the remains of the fortified castle
In 1450, it is unlikely that the Sieur de Vierville lived there because since 1397 he had become Baron de Creully by his marriage to Marie de Creully. He also owned property in the Cotentin (village of Vierville, near Sainte-Marie-du-Mont). Perhaps for all these reasons he sold his domain of Vierville-sur-la-Mer (as they said at the time) to the Bailleul family in 1523.
A generation later, Pierre de Bailleul, who became Sieur de Vierville, married in 1553 his daughter Françoise de Bailleul to Guillaume Canivet, rich owner, ennobled in 1543 (his coat of arms are "of mouths with three silver-plated knifees with gold")
Guillaume Canivet already owned many estates here, including the Vaumissel, the Ormel and Saint-Sever. It was he who built the beautiful mansion of the Vaumissel that we know well and that Guillaume had to live in as well as his descendants in the 17thth century
The Vaumicel before 1857
Guillaume Canivet had 7 sons, 3 of whom shared, towards the end of the 16thth century, the domains of our commune: Jehan Canivet inherited the Vaumissel (and also the Molay), Marin Canivet inherited from Vierville and the Ormel, Michel Canivet inherited Saint-Sever.
L'Ormel in the 1920s
The current house of l'Ormel had to be built at the end of the 16thth century, probably by Marin Canivet to serve as his residence, because he does not seem to have lived in what was left of the castle of Vierville
As for the lot of Michel Canivet, Saint-Sever, we do not know exactly what this domain represented in 1553, but a descendant of Michel Canivet, Marie-Thérèse Canivet, sold the domain of Saint-Sever in the 17th century to the widow of François de Cauvigny.
It was the Cauvigny who had the current castle built. They were from a family of officers in the service of the King of France: François-Philippe de Cauvigny was a colonel of cuirassiers, killed in the battle of Etingen in 1743. They are the ancestors of Etienne de Cauvigny, mayor of Vierville around 1900, who left his name on the boulevard along the sea. Léon de Mons, Etienne's son-in-law, was mayor around 1930.
Marin Canivet's great-granddaughter, Marie-Thérèse Canivet-Maillard, heiress to the 2 domains of Ormel and Vierville, married Gilles de Marguerye (from a Colleville family) in 1670. They had rebuilt at that time the Château de Vierville in its current general form.
Their descendants, the Marguerye, were lords of Vierville until 1809, residents of the new castle, depicted opposite by an engraving dating from before 1857.
The castle of Vierville,
Built around 1670 by the family of Marguerye
But Marie-Thérèse Canivet-Maillard, then remarried in 1685 with a distant cousin, Guillaume Canivet, great-grandson of Jehan Canivet, and heir to the Vaumissel. Their children inherited the Vaumissel and the Ormel at the beginning of the 18th century.
In 1755, the Canivet, sold the Vaumissel to the father-in-law of the Lord of Vierville, Gilles-Edouard de Marguerye. Thus, after 200 years, the Vaumissel and Vierville domains were reunited again.
This meeting lasted until the sale of the Vaumissel by the Marguerye in 1820. This domain was then sold several times before being bought in 1903 by the Bellaigue family. Captain François De Bellaigue died for France on October 13, 1915 in Tahure. His son François, born in 1915, was mayor of Vierville in the 70s and 80s.
As for the Ormel, he also ended up returning in 1765, by inheritance between cousins, to Gilles-Edouard de Marguerye. The descendants of the Marguerye did not live in this aging house and they exchanged it in 1843 with another family, which sold the Ormel, in 1922, to a family of farmers, the Leterrier family. Fernand Leterrier was mayor of Vierville in 1944. The old house was burned down during the fighting, then rebuilt. In 1976, the farm ceased and the Ormel was acquired by Mr. and Mrs. Manson.
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Let's go back to the château de Vierville, in the 18thème century, the Marguerye were lords of the place and patrons of the parish (since its foundation in the Middle Ages) and their tombstones can be seen in the cemetery. Their coat of arms was " of azure with three daisies of silver meadows". These daisies are now found in the carved coat of arms on the east wing of the castle and in the coat of arms of our commune (which also bears 3 ducks in memory of the 1944 Landings)
It was especially Gilles-Edouard de Marguerye, born in 1709, died at the age of 93 in 1802, who marked the 18th century, he lived in the castle almost all his life. He survived the turmoil of the Revolution, but his son was guillotined in Paris in 1794.
Than's mansion before 1939
Than's domain was at 17Eme Century owned by the La Roche de Normanville who allied themselves with the Marguerit de Rochefort, (which should not be confused with the Marguerye of the Château de Vierville). They are the ones who built Than's old mansion at the end of the 18thEme Century.
The Marguerye and Marguerit de Rochefort families allied themselves by marriage in 1798, Henri de Marguerye's wedding with Constance de Marguerit de Rochefort.
Their descendant, the Countess of Goussencourt, sold Than to the Poivre family in 1938.
This 1791 mansion disappeared in 1944 during the fighting and the farm buildings were then completely redeveloped by the Chedal-Anglay family.
The castle of Vierville in 1923
This castle remained in the hands of the heirs of the Marguerye and the Marguerit de Rochefort until 1882. They were the ones who modified the castle of the 17thth century by replacing the East wing (perhaps disappeared after a fire) with a turret, adding stone skylights, marquises at the entrance doors and a bell tower on the West wing.
One of them, Henri de Lépesse, was mayor of Vierville in 1858. After 1882, the castle was sold to an ancestor of the Godard family, then finally bought by the Hausermann family in 1910. The landing was fatal to the old pointed turret that was not rebuilt.
Several other areas have marked history in Vierville, including:
· The old mansion of Crespigny, on the Grandcamp road, built in the 16thth century, of which the remains of an old house with a curious dovecote of facade, and the remains of a portal. The Crespigny, Protestants, had left for England around 1685 during the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and their English descendants, bearing the name of Crespigny-Vierville, had returned in the 1930s to visit Vierville as tourists.
· The domain of Normanville, also on the Grandcamp road, was in the 17thth and 18th centuries owned by the Roche de Normanville family, also owner of the mansion of Than.
· The domain of Vacqueville was owned by the Canivet, then by the Marguerye in the 18thth century, before being sold in 1837 to the Ygouf family. It is now a beautiful farm, accompanied by rural cottage and bed and breakfast, belonging to the D'Hérouville family.
· The domain of the Isles are the heirs of the Mesnil family, the builders of the port of Vierville in the 16th century, who were lords of the Isles. Their mansion was replaced by a castle built by the Ygouf family in the 19th century, but completely destroyed in 1944.
Practical information
Town hall: Opening hours:
Monday and Friday 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Tel.: 02.31.22.42.66 Fax: 02.31.21.38.57
La Poste: In Vierville: Monday and Friday from 9am to 12pm; Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm;
In St-Laurent: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday from 2:30 pm to 4:45 pm
Mail up from Monday to Friday at 4:15 p.m.,
And on Saturday at 11:30 am.
Party room: capacity 100 people, information at the City Hall.
Cult: mass in Trévières in principle on Sunday at 10:30 am,
On December 24, Christmas service in Vierville at 9:00 pm
Firefighters: Tel. 18
Gendarmerie: Tel. 17, or 02 31 22 51 03,
SAMU: Tel. 15
Diste disposal: (winter hours until March 15)
The Port en Bessin waste disposal facility is open on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., Friday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., closed on Thursday and Sunday. Other waste disposal facilities are available in the West of Bessin.
Information in City Hall which issues the essential access card.
Tennis Club Viervillais: an outdoor court open all year round from 8am to 10pm.
Information: Multiservice Grocery Store
Tel. 02 31 51 08 05
Household Waste:From September 15 to June 15, collection early on Tuesday morning
Waste sorting and recycling
Containers are at your disposal, rue de la Chasse aux Prix, for glasses, paper and plastic and metallic packaging.
Take care to respect the sorting, because sorting errors result in additional costs charged to our taxes.
In addition, make sure not to deposit household waste on the space reserved for containers.
Library
It is open to all on Mondays from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., at the City Hall. The secretariat will take the registrations.
Computer information
Website: http://vierville.free.fr
Cadastral plan of Vierville sur Mer on the General Council website: http://www.cg14.fr
Municipal Social Action Center
The extension work of the housing of the CCAS located on rue du Hamel aux Prêtres, financed under the OPAH with the help of the Municipality, should be carried out in 2005.
Viervillais Educational Leisure
Contact: Georgette RACINE, tel. 02.31.22.40.83
From September to June, manual activities every Tuesday from 2pm to 5pm. A Telethon will be organized on Saturday, December 4, 2004.
D.Day Omaha Museum open from 1er April to November 11 and at the request of groups, off-season
Contact: Mr. Brissard -
Tel.: 02.31.21.71.80 - Fax: 02.31.21.71.80.
Email: "dday-omaha@dday-omaha.com"
Vierville-St-Laurent Hunting Society
Contact: René LENOURICHEL 02.31.22.40.27
OMAHA-BEACH BEDFORD Association (VA)
Subject: duty of Memory and reception of Americans visiting our sites.
President: Bertrand Le Jemtel, tel: 02 31 10 03 59
Website: "www.omahabeach-bedford.com"
Email: "omaha-bedford@wanadoo.fr"
Old Combatants
Contact: Henri Guédon, tel. 02.31.22.49.83
Hotels-Restaurants
Casino Hotel:
Tel.: 02.31.22.41.02 - Fax: 02.31.22.41.12
Closed from November 15 to March 15
Restaurants
La Plage d'Or, Brasserie Tel.: 02.31.22.40.30
Crêpe shop: Tel.: 02.31.22.44.47
Camping: Mr. and Mrs. Chitel, Tel.: 02.31.22.41.73
Gîtes, Bed and Breakfast, Furnished: according to the list available at the Community of Municipalities.
Shops:
Bazar de la Plage d'Or (beach and fishing articles, souvenirs, press): Mr. and Mrs. HAMEL - 14, bd de Cauvigny - Tel.: 02.31.22.40.30
Grocery store, bread deposit: Episervice, M. GODARD -
Pavée Street - Tel.: 02.31.51.08.05
Buchery-charcuterie: M. LEMAROIS -
Paved Street - Tel.: 02.31.22.40.07
Garage / service station / breakdown: Mr. and Mrs. GICQUIAU - Route de Port en Bessin -
Tel.: 02.31.22.40.18
The Friends of the Beach
Contact: Danielle GUILLOTTE, tel. 02 31 22 60 41
On December 31, evening with dancing meal at the party hall.
All Fair scheduled for Sunday, August 7, 2005