Hermanville-sur-Mer

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Commune in Normandy, France

Coat of arms

Location of Hermanville-sur-Mer

(2020–2026) Pierre Schmit^[1]Area

8.05 km² (3.11 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

3,203 • Density400/km² (1,000/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

14325 /14880

Elevation3–59 m (9.8–193.6 ft)
(avg. 25 m or 82 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Hermanville-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [ɛʁmɑ̃vil syʁ mɛʁ] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	700	—
1800	642	−1.23%
1806	784	+3.39%
1821	799	+0.13%
1831	847	+0.59%
1836	864	+0.40%
1841	844	−0.47%
1846	879	+0.82%
1851	878	−0.02%
1856	822	−1.31%
1861	821	−0.02%
1866	776	−1.12%
1872	801	+0.53%
1876	790	−0.35%
1881	778	−0.31%
1886	715	−1.67%
1891	746	+0.85%
1896	705	−1.12%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	702	−0.09%
1906	722	+0.56%
1911	747	+0.68%
1921	673	−1.04%
1926	612	−1.88%
1931	630	+0.58%
1936	630	+0.00%
1946	882	+3.42%
1954	1,037	+2.04%
1962	1,065	+0.33%
1968	1,160	+1.43%
1975	1,312	+1.77%
1982	1,753	+4.23%
1990	2,113	+2.36%
1999	2,661	+2.60%
2007	2,697	+0.17%
2012	2,801	+0.76%
2017	3,110	+2.11%

Source: EHESS^[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[4]

Sights

13th century church
Commonwealth war cemetery
Old village centre
Villa la Bluette, an 1899 villa by architect Hector Guimard
Villa La Houle
Manoir de Prébois

Normandy landings

The beach of Hermanville, part of the area codenamed Sword, was one of the targets of Operation Overlord on 6 June 1944. The Cod German stronghold was located on the coast. A Norwegian destroyer, the HNoMS Svenner, sank in front of Hermanville.

The sector at Hermanville was known as Queen Beach where elements of the British 3rd Division landed. The South Lancashire Regiment landed on Queen White and East Yorkshire Regiment on Queen Red; by 10:00 the village had been cleared. Offshore from Hermanville a Gooseberry was established, this consisted of a breakwater formed with ships sunk into position, including the French battleship Courbet.

Twin towns

Hermanville is twinned with:

Tangmere, England
Nominingue, Canada, since 2002

Personalities

Hermanville-sur-Mer was the birthplace of:

Jean François Sarrazin (1611?–1654), author
Alain Touraine (born 1925), sociologist

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 9 August 2021.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Hermanville-sur-Mer, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE