Banneville-la-Campagne

Banneville-la-Campagne (French pronunciation: [banvil la kɑ̃paɲ] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.[3]

Banneville-la-Campagne
Entrance to the Abbey of Saint Martin of Troarn
Entrance to the Abbey of Saint Martin of Troarn
Location of Banneville-la-Campagne
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Banneville-la-Campagne is located in France
Banneville-la-Campagne
Banneville-la-Campagne
Banneville-la-Campagne is located in Normandy
Banneville-la-Campagne
Banneville-la-Campagne
Coordinates: 49°10′09″N 0°13′07″W / 49.1692°N 0.2186°W / 49.1692; -0.2186
CountryFrance
RegionNormandy
DepartmentCalvados
ArrondissementCaen
CantonTroarn
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Anne Baugas[1]
Area
1
6.44 km2 (2.49 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)[2]
191
 • Density30/km2 (77/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
14036 /14940
Elevation3–24 m (9.8–78.7 ft)
(avg. 10 m or 33 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

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Banneville-la Campagne is located some 8 km east of the centre of Caen just south of Sannerville. Access to the commune is by the D675 from Caen which forms the northern border of the commune as it goes east to Troarn. The D227 comes from Sannerville in the north and goes south through the village then continues to join the D225 south of the commune. The D225 comes from Troarn in the east and passes south-west through the eastern part of the commune and continues south to Émiéville. The A13 autoroute (Autoroute de Normandie: Caen to Paris) passes through the heart of the commune and the village from west to east with the intersection with the A813 autoroute (Banneville-la-Campagne to Frénouville) on the south-western border of the commune. The nearest exit is Exit   30  to the D675 just east of the commune. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of Manneville in the south-west and Le Havre in the south-east. The commune is almost entirely farmland.[4]

The Ruisseau du Pont Bâle forms most of the eastern border of the commune as it flows north to join the Fosse du Val on the northern border of the commune. The Ruisseau de Banneville rises in the commune and flows east to join the Ruisseau du Pont Bâle as does the Cours de Guillerville in the south-east where it forms part of the southern border of the commune.[4]

Toponymy

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The name Banneville was attested as Magnevilla in 1198.[5]

The suffix -ville means in the old sense "rural domain" (cf. vilain), preceded by the Old Norse personal surname Norse Barn meaning "child".[6]

The name is a homonym with all the Barnevilles in Normandy.

The complementary determinant -la-Campagne was attested from 1371[7] and refers to the campagne de Caen (the Caen Plain). This term belongs to the Northern Norman dialect and equivalent to the central French champagne. The Norman-Picard word campagne (Rural area) has been incorporated in standard French.

The name allows it to be distinguished from Banneville-sur-Ajon, another town in Calvados. It is uncertain that it shares the same etymology. The form Barneville sur Ajon was already mentioned in 1371.[7]

History

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In 1828 Banneville-la-Campagne (30 inhabitants in 1821) absorbed Guillerville (100 inhabitants in the southeast of the territory) and Manneville (47 inhabitants in the south-west).[8]

During the Invasion of Normandy Guillerville was attacked on 19 July 1944 by the British 3rd Infantry Division as part of Operation Goodwood as part of the taking of the town of Troarn to the east. British tanks of the 27th Armoured Brigade faced the tanks of the Wehrmacht 21st Panzer Division and Tiger I tanks of the 503rd battalion of heavy tanks. Guillerville was finally liberated in the operation but not Troarn.

Administration

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List of Successive Mayors[9]

From To Name
2001 2008 Robert Barron
2008 2014 Ann Drevon
2014 2026 Anne Baugas

Demography

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The inhabitants of the commune are known as Bannevillais or Bannevillaises in French.[10]

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1793 53—    
1800 33−6.54%
1806 40+3.26%
1821 30−1.90%
1831 167+18.73%
1841 176+0.53%
1846 149−3.28%
1851 141−1.10%
1856 142+0.14%
1861 140−0.28%
1866 130−1.47%
1872 133+0.38%
1876 115−3.57%
1881 141+4.16%
1886 111−4.67%
1891 113+0.36%
1896 113+0.00%
1901 123+1.71%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1906 117−1.00%
1911 118+0.17%
1921 104−1.25%
1926 119+2.73%
1931 123+0.66%
1936 115−1.34%
1946 70−4.84%
1954 92+3.48%
1962 117+3.05%
1968 118+0.14%
1975 89−3.95%
1982 84−0.82%
1990 76−1.24%
1999 88+1.64%
2007 112+3.06%
2012 139+4.41%
2017 173+4.47%
Source: EHESS[8] and INSEE[11]

Sites and monuments

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  • A Chateau Gateway (14th century)  is registered as an historical monument.[12] It is the old gateway of the Abbey of Saint-Martin of Troarn which was removed in 1843 for the construction of the road from Troarn to Saint-Samson. It was re-erected, at the request of Gaston-Robert, Marquis de Banneville, in the commune of Banneville where it now serves as the entrance to the chateau.[13]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. ^ Commune de Banneville-la-Campagne (14036), INSEE (in French)
  4. ^ a b c Google Maps
  5. ^ Ernest Nègre, General Toponymy of France, Librairie Droz, 1990, 708 pages, p. 374, ISBN 2-60002-883-8 (in French).
  6. ^ Origin and Etymology of the anthroponym Barni
  7. ^ a b Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing, Etymological Dictionary of place names in France, Larousse, Paris, 1963 (in French)
  8. ^ a b Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Banneville-la-Campagne, EHESS (in French).
  9. ^ List of Mayors of France (in French)
  10. ^ Le nom des habitants du 14 - Calvados, habitants.fr
  11. ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  12. ^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA00111030 Chateau (in French)
  13. ^ The Heritage of the Communes of Calvados, Vol. 2, Flohic Éditions, 2001, Paris, ISBN 2-84234-111-2, p. 1563 (in French)
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