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{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in France}}
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Bricquebec is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with:<ref name="Bricquebec twinnings">{{cite web | url =http://www.cncd.fr/frontoffice/bdd-region.asp?action=getRegion&id=4#tabs3 | title = National Commission for Decentralised cooperation | accessdate = 2013-12-26|work = Délégation pour l’Action Extérieure des Collectivités Territoriales (Ministère des Affaires étrangères) | language = French}}</ref>
Bricquebec is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with:<ref name="Bricquebec twinnings">{{cite web|url=http://www.cncd.fr/frontoffice/bdd-region.asp?action=getRegion&id=4#tabs3 |title=National Commission for Decentralised cooperation |accessdate=2013-12-26 |work=Délégation pour l’Action Extérieure des Collectivités Territoriales (Ministère des Affaires étrangères) |language=French |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714151106/http://www.cncd.fr/frontoffice/bdd-region.asp?action=getRegion&id=4 |archivedate=2014-07-14 |df= }}</ref>
*{{flagicon|UK}} [[New Alresford]], United Kingdom<ref name="Bricquebec twinnings"/><ref name="Archant twinning">{{cite web|url=http://www.completefrance.com/language-culture/twin-towns|title=British towns twinned with French towns|accessdate = 2013-07-11|work=Archant Community Media Ltd}}</ref><ref name="Alesford twinning">{{cite web|url=http://www.alresford-twinning.org.uk/|title=Alresford Twinning Association|accessdate=2013-07-12|last=Hudson|first=Jean}}</ref>
*{{flagicon|UK}} [[New Alresford]], United Kingdom<ref name="Bricquebec twinnings"/><ref name="Archant twinning">{{cite web|url=http://www.completefrance.com/language-culture/twin-towns |title=British towns twinned with French towns |accessdate=2013-07-11 |work=Archant Community Media Ltd |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130705094933/http://www.completefrance.com/language-culture/twin-towns |archivedate=2013-07-05 |df= }}</ref><ref name="Alesford twinning">{{cite web|url=http://www.alresford-twinning.org.uk/|title=Alresford Twinning Association|accessdate=2013-07-12|last=Hudson|first=Jean}}</ref>
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Lachendorf]], Germany<ref name="Bricquebec twinnings"/>
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Lachendorf]], Germany<ref name="Bricquebec twinnings"/>
*{{flagicon|SRB}} [[Sremski Karlovci]], Serbia<ref name="Bricquebec twinnings"/>
*{{flagicon|SRB}} [[Sremski Karlovci]], Serbia<ref name="Bricquebec twinnings"/>

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Bricquebec
Château de Bricquebec
Château de Bricquebec
Coat of arms of Bricquebec
Coat of arms
Location of Bricquebec
Map
CountryFrance
RegionNormandy
DepartmentManche
ArrondissementCherbourg
CantonBricquebec
IntercommunalityCœur du Cotentin
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Henri-Louis Védie (PR)
Area
1
32.66 km2 (12.61 sq mi)
Population
 (2009)
4,252
 • Density130/km2 (340/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
50082 /50260
Elevation7–161 m (23–528 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

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.[1]

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.

Heraldry

Arms of Bricquebec
Arms of Bricquebec
 The arms of Bricquebec are blazoned :
Or, a lion vert armed and langued gules.



International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France

Bricquebec is twinned with:[2]

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
17934,266—    
18004,000−6.2%
18064,345+8.6%
18214,349+0.1%
18314,255−2.2%
18364,414+3.7%
18414,484+1.6%
18464,504+0.4%
18514,446−1.3%
18563,988−10.3%
18613,969−0.5%
18663,779−4.8%
18723,622−4.2%
18763,667+1.2%
18813,757+2.5%
18863,647−2.9%
18913,661+0.4%
18962,761−24.6%
19012,778+0.6%
19062,817+1.4%
19112,816−0.0%
19212,536−9.9%
19262,596+2.4%
19312,604+0.3%
19362,682+3.0%
19462,882+7.5%
19542,732−5.2%
19622,873+5.2%
19683,063+6.6%
19753,142+2.6%
19823,724+18.5%
19904,363+17.2%
19994,360−0.1%
20094,252−2.5%

Inhabitants are referred to as Bricquebétais.

Sights

  • Château (XIIe), with polygonal ramparts, towers and turret (historical monument class).
  • Château des Galleries (XVIe/XVIIe)
  • Abbaye Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (Cistercian) (XIXe)
  • Château Saint-Blaise (XVIIe/XIXe)

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)

See also

References

  1. ^ Arrêté préfectoral 4/15 December 2015 Template:Fr
  2. ^ a b c d "National Commission for Decentralised cooperation". Délégation pour l’Action Extérieure des Collectivités Territoriales (Ministère des Affaires étrangères) (in French). Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2013-12-26. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ "British towns twinned with French towns". Archant Community Media Ltd. Archived from the original on 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2013-07-11. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ Hudson, Jean. "Alresford Twinning Association". Retrieved 2013-07-12.
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