Cherbourg-Octeville

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"Cherbourg-en-Cotentin is protected by Cherbourg Harbour, between La Hague and Val de Saire, and the city has been a strategic position over the centuries, disputed between the English and French. Cited as one of the "keys to the kingdom" by Vauban, it became, by colossal maritime development work, a first-rate military port under the leadership of Napoleon I, and holds an arsenal of the French Navy. A stopping point for prestigious transatlantic liners in the first half of the 20th century, Cherbourg was the primary goal of US troops during the invasion of Normandy in 1944.

Along with its use as a military, fishing and yachting port, it is also a cross-Channel ferry port, with routes to the English ports of Poole and Portsmouth, the Irish ports of Rosslare Harbour and Dublin, and St Helier on Jersey. Limited by its geographical isolation from being a great commercial port, it is nonetheless an important shipbuilding centre, and a working-class city with a rural hinterland." - (en.wikipedia.org 22.09.2020)
Latitude
49.638889312744
Longitude
-1.625
Population
26,655
Time zone
Europe/Paris
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  • Brief an Ingeborg Range von Theodor Siebert aus der Gefangenschaft, 8. Dezember 1947

    Brief an Ingeborg Range von Theodor Siebert aus der Gefangenschaft, 8. Dezember 1947

    Brief und Umschlag in/auf...

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    Image: Museum Wolmirstedt - RR-F

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