Saint-Jouin-Bruneval

Saint-Jouin-Bruneval
Saint-Jouin-Bruneval
Location within Upper Normandy region  Saint-Jouin-Bruneval
Coordinates: 49°38′38″N 0°09′49″E / 49.6439°N 0.1636°ECoordinates: 49°38′38″N 0°09′49″E / 49.6439°N 0.1636°E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Le Havre
Canton	Criquetot-l'Esneval
Intercommunality	Canton of Criquetot-l'Esneval
Government
• Mayor	François Auber
Area^1	18.82 km^2 (7.27 sq mi)
Population (2006)^2	1,808
• Density	96/km^2 (250/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	76595 / 76280
Elevation	0–137 m (0–449 ft) (avg. 120 m or 390 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Saint-Jouin-Bruneval is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

Geography

A farming village in the Pays de Caux, situated some 14 miles (23 km) north of Le Havre, at the junction of the D940, D139 and D111 roads. France’s 2nd largest oil-tanker port (built 1973-1975) and oil depot of ‘’Havre-Antifer’’ is entirely within the borders of the commune.

History

During World War II, Operation Biting (also known as the Bruneval Raid) was a successful Combined Operations raid to capture components of a German Würzburg radar set at La Poterie-Cap-d’Antifer and evacuated by the Bruneval beach on 27/28 February 1942.

Population

Historical population of Saint-Jouin-Bruneval

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	817	880	913	1227	1437	1576	1808
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

• The eighteenth-century château de La Marguerite.
• The monument commemorating the raid in 1942.
• The church of St. Jouin, dating from the sixteenth century.
• The cliffs and the beach, a mixture of sand and pebbles.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department
• Seine-Maritime
• Normandy

References

• INSEE

External links

• Official commune website (French)
• Saint-Jouin-Bruneval on the Quid website (French)